Guides
Questions that come up when you are weighing up a car on a term, answered as straight as we can — including the ones where the answer is that you do not need us.
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What an initial payment is, and why ours is 2 + 5 or 3 + 11
An initial payment is the first rentals paid up front, not a deposit that comes back. What 2 + 5 means and why paying less up front raises the monthly.
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Is it cheaper to hire a car for a few months, or buy something cheap?
The honest arithmetic, including the costs people leave out of the buying side and the cases where buying genuinely wins.
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Eight questions to ask before you hire a car from anyone
The terms that decide what a hire actually costs you, which are rarely the headline price. Written to be useful whoever you hire from.
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What a DVLA check code is, and why a hire company wants one
How to generate one free on GOV.UK, what it shows, and the two things that catch people out — it lasts 21 days and it only works once.