Having to put the FF in to the stealers shortly , enquired about a courtesy car as i think they will need it for a few days and was told i have to pay £18 + vat per day for the use of one , never had to do that before , so much for a courtesy car .........

£0 - I never pay.

Otherwise it's not a Courtesy Car. You are hiring it IMHO.

Say it's a standard family hatchback. £15,000.
£18 a day Mon-Fri for five years = £23,400.
They sell it for £5,000.

Maybe they don't want your business.

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Depends what the courtesy car is, an Aston would be nice!

Seat Altea or Landrover Handbag (freelander) ......

New rear Camera
New Thermostat replacing
New door cables
New rear wiper Pump
and something else i can't remember ......

bu er the loan car , just use your helicopter mick...

Land Rover handbag is much better than the Seat. Why not like Scarey says use your helicopter

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scarey wrote:

bu er the loan car , just use your helicopter mick...

Wife is using that just now ......

Only ever had 2 courtesy cars, one was a mundane Audi A4 diesel when mine went in for a service, not very memorable, but the other one was was when I put my Accord Type R in to Honda for a couple of bits, the guy went to look for a Civic Type R for me to have as I kind of gave him some waffle about maybe chopping in the Accord for one so would be an ideal chance to test drive one, (really I just wanted to kick it's head in for a giggle for a day or 2)

He was away for ages, came back and said,

"We haven't got a Civic's available, but we do have a Jazz, it's kind of like you Accord, it's red, but that's where the similarities end"

So for 2 days I rocked a 1.4 Jazz (Type R wannabe) absolutely loved it too Would rev to 7k rpm, hit 60 in 2nd and actually handled quite well. I think I had more fun in that than I would have had in a Civic  2006 Mercedes CLS
1991 Retro-style Mini
But really finding it hard to fight the urge for a S/C...

Always get a Freelander or sometimes a Disco - free of charge from Marshall Peterborough

I have had to pay previously for a loan car nice surprise when dropping the car off (Evans Halshaw). Then more recently a freelander (Lancaster LR @ Reading) while the FFRR was in. Ian

used to get Courtesy RR, then Discovery, then LR Handbag, now its a sh!tty eurobox - thats how stealers have gone over the last 25 years.

All the courtesy LR vehicles were either demo's or s/h stock

Never ever had a Sporty though

only good thing is they don't charge....

Most recent for me was a new Jag XJ. Damn nice it was too.

I once had the Aston in for some work - got a V8 Vantage for a week.

Free rental Mazda 3 in Canada along with the six free services, I'm gonna miss that coming back to the UK  2021 P400 Silicon Silver AB
Gone 2011 Bournville TDV8 VSE
Gone 2008 Black Canadian HSE LUX

Recent years...

Mundanos x2 when in for a service from Stradstone Stoke

Civic 2l Petrol when Mrs had a bump
206 When Mrs had another bump

Have to say neither bumps were the fault of the Mrs!

Standard Civic was like off a shovel

Never paid for any of them.

Years ago got offered a Maxi with no brakes (honestly!) when my Vdub Beetle was in for work.... I took the bus as I'd run out of flying hours  2010 Disco XS TDV6, 2009 Freelander 2 GS

Previous Landrover products -1990 110 TDI CSW, 2003 TD6 Vogue - RRC TD Vogue, RRC v8 Fleetline, Disco ES V8 LPG, 101 Ambulance "Morph", 1964 SIIa Auto Powered by Jag 4.2 Lump - "Percy".