I entirely agree with Glos Guy. For once.
I wouldn’t even go as far as Glos would – i’d simply ask MB to offer an additional package. This doesn’t even need to be done at the dealership level, that can just be done entirely through the webpage where you can access your lease information.
Go there, press “buy this package”, transfer £1100 to MB, and within however many weeks it takes, they revert the insurance back to the 20k miles per annum limit, plus an additional set of tyres or whatever.
This isn’t hard to do or track.
That all said.. They do mention that there will be solutions for exceptional issues. I’d assume that if you’re in work and can prove that you NEED to drive 15k miles per annum, they’ll be able to accommodate that one way or another.
Customers take out a contract knowing they only have 30k miles and need to budget accordingly for any extra. Or realise the scheme no longer meets their needs and look elsewhere. Even if that means an older or cheaper form of transport via other means.
This is the one point where i agree with Mike as well. While i do think, as mentioned, that there should be the choice to pay extra upfront for “the old mileage allowance”, if they’re hell bent to not do that, then yeah, 30k miles is 30k miles.
This isn’t a weird concept either, if you’re at the pump and get fuel for 150 miles, you don’t go on a 400 mile journey. If you only have 30k miles to play with, then you don’t look at the mile-o-meter and gasp at the accidental 35k you did in 18 months.
He’s inarguably correct there: it’s not a surprise cost. You know the deal.
My argument would be, that there should be an option to change the deal, beneficial to both parties.
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