Car maintenance and repair are important aspects you should give careful attention to when you opt for a car lease. Some leasing contracts offer car maintenance at a fee that is included in the overall payment scheme.

Regardless of whether you purchase a car or go for car leasing, you have to keep maintenance and repair costs in mind. If your car leasing agreement comes with a full-maintenance provision, then you should ensure that your dealer carries out the maintenance and servicing at the scheduled intervals. The servicing should follow the stipulated manufacturer guidelines. Also check to see if the car service record has been stamped following each service. Get the damages sustained by the vehicle during usage repaired immediately.

Make sure that tyre pressure, coolant and radiator levels, engine oil levels are checked at periodic intervals. Get scuffs and chips to the car’s paintwork repaired quickly. In most cases, a touch up job will suffice. The windshield is your car’s safety component- get chips, cracks and star-breaks in your leased car’s windshield fixed immediately. This will prevent the damage from extending to the entire windshield, in which case an entire windshield replacement may be required.