Mazda MX5 end-of-lease inspection. Scuffed wheels -- Gary advised leaving them. Recharge price = trade repair cost; threshold likely to cover it anyway. Inspection value is knowing what not to fix as much as knowing what to fix.
This Mazda MX5 was approaching the end of its lease. The main concern was the wheels, which had some scuffing. On this car, the lease company recharge for wheel damage is typically comparable to trade repair cost -- and with the other damage on the car within limits, our advice was to leave the wheels and let the threshold work in the customer's favour.
The point of an end-of-lease inspection is not always to fix things. Sometimes it is to confirm clearly that you should not. Repairing wheels at your own expense when the recharge would be the same price is not a saving -- it is a waste. Knowing what the threshold is, and knowing which items fall below it, is what the inspection provides.
The customer also now has a documented record of the car's condition at handback. If a charge arrives for something that should not have been there, that record is their evidence.
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