Is anyone else overly cautious when it comes to driving their leased car?
Like on my first ever lease I got a 12k mile per year lease on the volvo but ended up doing barely 8k (2.5k miles came from a long road trip so I technically did 5.5k miles) in about 16-17 months
On my current lease I got 10k miles but I’m about 9 months I’ve gotten only 2500 miles but I’m scared of taking the car any where over a 100 mile round trip. This is only a 24 month lease so it goes back in 11/25
How do you guys get the fear out of your minds?? (I’ve legitimately spent the last hour debating if I should take my car tomorrow or not )
It’s a car, not a garage queen. Drive it the way it’s meant to be driven you’re already paying for it anyway. If you go over, you go over. There are ways to deal with it down the road.
Why? If your trip is 20 miles each way it’s not like 1000 miles are magically going to appear. Would figure out a miles/day average that you can do for remaining term and it should be plainly obvious what you can and cannot do.
What is the point of having the car you are scared to drive.
It’s a Volvo, so he’s locked in…unless he gets another Volvo.
I’ve been there - I went down to 7,500 from 12,000 since I started working from home, and I really debated since it was a larger difference on the monthly on a 24-month lease. But, since the car’s a lemon and I kept the S60, I barely have 2,200 miles on it after 10 months, so similar situation. I’m trying to drive it when I can on the longer drives, albeit annoying, to save mileage on the car I own, since I’m paying for both of them.
When I was 17 I had a s2000 and a gsxr I use to walk to school at least once a week so I wouldn’t put miles on em
Now IDGAF drive it YOLO
Money comes and goes bro
I kept the mileage low on my Volt lease until I moved out of state and started a much longer commute. I would rent for the times I was driving hundreds of miles in short periods, but otherwise just used it normally. Eventually added a car and drove the Volt until I turned it in three months early at exactly 30K miles.
Would have been better if I’d done 12K miles, but given what I had I thought getting full use out of it and turning in early was better than turning it in under miles.
My dad is in same boat, kind of. My mom passed away in Feb and it was her car. They are over miles by like 10K on pace if we ended the lease in October 2024. I told him that I would get a new XC90 and throw his negative equity into the deal with 6 months pull ahead. If he is willing to pay half of the car note, I will help. I don’t need it but I guess would be nice to have an extra car laying around cause my wife doesn’t believe in charging her EQS.
Right now car as it sits is worth 40k-42k but buyout is 51K.
you’re already paying for it anyway. If you go over, you go over. There are ways to deal with it down the road.
. I can drive 3 others cars lol. It just feels wrong to drive the leased car idk why