Molthoff Fleetmanagement
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Having your lease contract checked

Am I overpaying? An independent check gives certainty

A lease contract is full of components that can drift over time: rates, recalculations, mileages, interest and charges. Molthoff Fleetmanagement checks your lease contracts and invoices independently, tests them against the agreements and the market, and brings overpaid costs to light. That way you know whether you pay what you should.

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5–15%
savings with independent advice
98%
coverage with the Price Monitor
100%
independent, no leasing interest

Key takeaways

  • Lease contracts leak costs through wrong recalculations, excess and shortfall mileage, interest assumptions and charges.
  • An independent check tests your contract and invoices against the agreements and the market.
  • Overpaid costs can often be reclaimed retroactively through Cost Recovery.
  • We have no leasing interest and earn nothing from a particular outcome.

When is a check worthwhile?

Not every contract needs reviewing annually, but there are moments when a check almost always pays off. Often it concerns contracts that have run for a while or situations where no one has the details clearly in view anymore.

  • The framework agreement has not been critically reviewed in years.
  • You doubt whether the recalculations are correct after changes in duration or mileage.
  • The invoices seem higher than expected, without a clear reason.
  • After a merger or acquisition, several contracts run side by side.
  • There is no internal capacity to fully understand the contracts.

What do we check?

The components under scrutiny

  • The rates, tested against the contract and the market.
  • Recalculations after changes in duration, mileage or early return.
  • The settlement of excess and shortfall mileage.
  • Interest and residual value assumptions in the rate.
  • Charges, surcharges and management fees.
  • Damage handling and excess.

Overpaid? Reclaim with Cost Recovery

If the check shows that you have structurally overpaid, that can often be reclaimed retroactively. That is what a Cost Recovery engagement does.

How the check works

  • You provide the contracts, framework agreement and invoices.
  • We analyse them with Fleet Audits, tested against agreements and market.
  • You receive the findings in euros, substantiated per point.
  • Next step of your choice: correct, reclaim or safeguard with the Price Monitor.
How Molthoff helps

The services that fit this

Fleet Audits

In-depth checks of invoices, contracts and charges. Overpaid amounts are reclaimed.

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Price Monitor

Quarterly verification that your lease rates remain as sharp as at the start, with >98% of orders matched.

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QuickScan

Fast, integral fleet analysis with savings expressed in euros, backed by a savings guarantee.

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Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions about Check lease contract

By having your contract and invoices independently tested against the agreements and the market. With Fleet Audits we detect deviations in rates, recalculations, mileage settlement and charges, and express the findings in euros.

This check concerns the running contract: the rates, recalculations and charges during the term. The end-of-lease settlement concerns the return moment: damage, mileage and residual value. There is a separate page for that moment.

Often, yes. With a Cost Recovery engagement we analyse the costs over the past five years and reclaim unjustified charges, by default on a no cure, no pay basis. This falls under our custom solutions.

You first do the check for yourself, based on your own contracts and invoices. Only if deviations emerge do we discuss how best to raise them with your leasing company. We support that conversation if you wish.

Yes. Molthoff has no ties to leasing companies and earns nothing from a particular outcome. We work exclusively in your interest.

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