End-of-Lease Pre-Return Inspection — Know Before They Bill
Lease and novated-lease returns get billed for “damage” at the lessor’s prices — unless you know the car’s condition first. Our $395 pre-return inspection reads the car the way the return assessor will: what’s chargeable, what’s fair wear and tear under your lease schedule, and what’s cheaper fixed now at workshop prices.
Buying a car? Pre-Purchase Inspection Cranbourne West — $395
The return assessor is not on your side
End-of-lease charges are priced by the lessor, at the lessor’s rates, after you’ve handed back the keys and the leverage. The counter-move is simple: know the car’s condition six weeks early, with a written report in hand, and decide item by item — fix it cheaply now, dispute it with evidence, or accept it knowingly.
What we inspect, through the lease lens
The $395 inspection covers the full vehicle — panels, glass, wheels, tyres, interior, mechanical condition, service history completeness — annotated against the fair-wear-and-tear standards lease schedules actually use. Tyres under the return-tread threshold, a windscreen chip that becomes a “replacement”, kerbed alloys, the missing service stamp: the classics, priced two ways so you can see the saving.
Novated drivers: this one’s personal
A novated return bills you, not a company. The same six-weeks-early inspection, the same written report, the same arithmetic — except every dollar defended is your own. Pair it with the final logbook service and the history is complete on the day the car goes back.
Book the pre-return inspection — 60 seconds
Pick the service, pick a day, done — confirmed by SMS. Need a loan car? Tap the chip on the details step.
Lease Returns — FAQ
The $395 workshop inspection read through a lease-return lens: the wear items the return assessor will price, what is genuinely chargeable versus fair wear and tear per your lease’s own schedule, and which repairs are cheaper fixed by us now than billed by the lessor later.
Six to eight weeks before return — enough time to fix what’s worth fixing at workshop prices instead of end-of-lease prices, without paying for repairs the assessor wouldn’t have charged.
Yes — each one quoted in writing so you can compare against your lease’s fair-wear-and-tear schedule and only fix what the maths supports.
Especially — novated returns hit your own pocket. The same inspection tells you what to fix, what to argue, and what to leave.