tyres on a lease plan? do you need to buy OEM?

[mrsail]

Hi All,

Ive leased a car through a secondary lease company but the plan is with Volkswagen Financial Services.

Ive got 4mths to go on a lease plan and all 4 tyres are shot!... currently Pirelli Cinturato

As Ive got so little left do I need to get OEM tyres?... Ive searched agreement and cant find anything that say I do?
this is only paragraph from agreement that highlights tyres:

9 Maintenance
9.1 If you keep your side of this Agreement, until the Hiring Period
ends or we terminate the hiring we will provide:-
9.1.1 road fund licence(s) for the Vehicle (provided that if the
cost of the road fund licence goes up after the Agreement
is made, you will pay us the amount of the increase when
we ask); and
9.1.2 the Volkswagen recovery scheme or another vehicle
recovery scheme.
9.2 If this Agreement is stated to include maintenance, we will pay
for those of the items listed below which are specified as the
options to apply:
Service
All works of service arising from proper use of the Vehicle and
fair wear and tear excluding maintenance, tyres, accident
damage and negligence (for example excluding replacement of
windscreens, headlight glass and broken aerials and repair of
kerbing damage).
Maintenance
All works of maintenance arising from proper use of the Vehicle
and fair wear and tear excluding tyres, accident damage and
negligence (for example excluding replacement of windscreens,
headlight glass and broken aerials and repair of kerbing damage).
Replacement Tyres
Replacement tyres needed due to fair wear and tear only. ( You
must pay for replacement tyres where damage is due to other
causes such as accident, negligence, kerbing or punctures).

anybody dealt with VW leasing before?

[Mark V]

OEM tyres as such do not really exist as VW use a pool of different manufacturers. I suspect your obligation would be to fit legal treaded tryes of the correct size and performance rating...

EDIT: hang on - it states above they will pay for tyres when required due to fair wear and tear!

[trix935]

Mine is through Vw finance. If you have a maintainance lease just drive into a national tyres and they will put a new set of boots on if the tread is below 2mm. They will put the same tyres on or an equivalent premium brand

[Cuzza]

We've had a number of cars on non-maintenance leases over the last few years. Never had an issue regarding tyres.

As long as they're legal that's all that matters in my experience.

HTH

Jon

[mrsail]

unfortunatly dont have tyres included in plan...
but leasing company i went through today told me today tyres are like cd players... VW dont expect you to replace there CD player if it breaks with a cheap version!

[Cuzza]

In the lst 6 years, Mrs C and I have had three cars on personal, non-maintenance, leases:

2006 Saab 9-3 Convertible
2009 Jaguar XF
2009 Citroen C5

Every one of them has ended up on the cheapest rubber available from our local Wilco Motosave in the final year of the lease.

Lease cars are, more often than not, collected at the end of the term by a third party collection company who deliver them direct to car auction sites.
Collection staff simply complete a condition form in and check tread depth of tyres with a guage. None have ever recorded the brand of tyre fitted at the time of collection.

Never had any comeback from the finance company. Tyres are nothing like CD players! They're a consumable and as long as consumables are replaced with a part that is legal and fit for purpose then I can't see how they can have an issue with that.

I wouldn't believe a word that staff say on the end of a phone. My elderly parents now lease cars too and were told by Citroen last year that they would have to MOT their car prior to it being returned car at the end of the lease. I said that hadn't been necessary with any of my lease cars as they were all a few weeks under 3 years old at the point of return. Sure enough whoever had told them that was talking bollocks 'cos when I rang to check I was told that it wasn't necessary.

If they really insist on premium brand fitment, which I doubt they will, I'd be fitting part worns to save myself some money

Jon

[mrsail]

cheers Jon for help.

Its good to know that.

[wigit]

never understood putting cheap tyres on a relatively expensive car given these are the only 4 points of contact with the ground, the 235s on the 18s mean you get stung more than 225s and have slightly less choice

[Cuprabob]

never understood putting cheap tyres on a relatively expensive car given these are the only 4 points of contact with the ground, the 235s on the 18s mean you get stung more than 225s and have slightly less choice

I totally agree but he's not going to get the benefit as he's handing the car back shortly and correctly looking to minimise expense.