Find out the monthly maintenance cost for one VW Golf VIII Variant 1.5 TSI R-Line with tax, running costs, insurance and workshop costs.
If you are planning to lease a VW Golf VIII Variant 1.5 TSI R-Line, you may need to consider not only the monthly lease fee, but also the other costs incurred. For this offer, for example, transfer costs in the amount of 1250 €.
With a lease term of 42 months and a monthly lease payment of 199
€ with 10000 km mileage per year, there are fixed leasing costs of 9608 €. The insurance costs for the VW Golf VIII Variant 1.5 TSI R-Line
are on average high with approx. 88 € per month.
The monthly tax is only 8 due to the CO2 pricing introduced in 2021, which takes more account of environmentally harmful emissions. The average depreciation of the VW Golf VIII Variant 1.5 TSI R-Line over a useful life of 5 years is 355 € per month. On average, the VW Golf VIII Variant 1.5 TSI R-Line trades for 33550 €, the offered vehicle has a gross list price of 26900 €.
Did you know? Immediately available vehicles like this one are usually a bit more expensive than order vehicles, because here the dealer calculates a surcharge for the storage / display of the vehicle into the offer.
The leasing rate is 199 € per month with a term of 42 months, so the offer is basically cheap to begin with. But is this VW Golf a leasing deal? The decisive factor is the leasing factor, which is calculated by dividing the leasing rate by the gross list price.
To the monthly leasing rate must also be added the additional costs, such as transfer and registration. With 1250 €, the dealer makes here again a neat surcharge. Dividing the total costs (leasing costs + fixed costs = 9608 €) by the number of months (for this offer: 42 months) gives the monthly effective costs. If you then divide this amount by the gross list price of 26900 €, you get the leasing factor. With this VW Golf results in an effective leasing factor of 0.85, therefore it is a good value leasing vehicle and a good leasing deal.
However, since this is a year-old car, so in fact a used car, the calculation is based on the purchase price rather than the gross list price.
Leasing rates / 42 months
8.358,00 €
Transfer / Approval
1.250,00 €
Total cost
9.608,00 €
Total cost
9.608,00 €
Runtime
42 Months
Leasing rate
199,00 €
(167,23 € netto)
Effective leasing rate
228,76 €
(192,24 € netto)
Kaufpreis
26.900,00 €
Leasing factor
0.74
Effective leasing rate
0.85
The costs per kilometer are decisive in kilometer leasing, especially if they have to be borne privately. With a monthly leasing rate of 199 €, the VW Golf VIII Variant 1.5 TSI R-Line is an absolutely average value vehicle. When calculating the costs per kilometer, however, a distinction should still be made between a rather short leasing period (2 - 3 years) and a longer one (4 - 6 years). For simplicity, we ignore this difference in the following calculation example and assume a lease term of 42 months at the most favorable lease price . With the VW Golf, the monthly vehicle tax is very low at 8 €. The cost of operating the vehicle, a combustion engine, i.e. the cost of fuel (and for diesel additionally Adblue). amount only 119 € per month, because the vehicle simply does not need much energy either. Added to this are insurance costs of 88 € per month, which is basically a moderate cost considering the gross list price of 26900 €. In the transfer and registration, the dealer of this offer must apparently increased effort, the cost of which is 1250 €. The final assessment of this offer: this offer can be accepted with a clear conscience at a cost per kilometer of 0.27 € and the effective leasing factor of 0.85.
The previous costs are now summed and divided by the number of inclusive kilometers (10000 km multiplied by the term 42 months).
Costs p.a. (excl. leasing)
12.800,00 €
Fixed operating costs
12.800,00 €
Lease payments Total
8.358,00 €
Total cost
21.158,00 €
Total kilometers
35.000,00
Cost / Km (only leasing)
0,27 €
Cumulative total cost / Km
0,27 €
∅ Cost / km
0,23 €
Leasing factor
0.61
from153,51 €
∅ Cost / km
0,19 €
Leasing factor
0.78
from129,00 €
∅ Cost / km
0,22 €
Leasing factor
0.88
from159,00 €