Mileage caps and excess fees, explained

Almost every lease-to-own contract includes an annual mileage cap — a limit on how many kilometres you can drive each year. It protects the car's resale value, and it's one of the easiest things to get wrong.

Typical UAE caps run from around 15,000 to 25,000 km per year. If you stay under, no problem. Go over, and you pay an excess fee for every additional kilometre — often somewhere between AED 0.25 and AED 0.50/km. That sounds tiny until you do the sum: 5,000 km over at AED 0.40 is AED 2,000.

The fix is to be honest about your driving before you sign. A Dubai-to-Abu-Dhabi commuter covers far more than someone using the car for weekend errands. Estimate your real annual distance and pick a cap with a little headroom.

A higher cap usually costs a little more per month, but it's almost always cheaper than paying excess at the end — and far less stressful. Some offers advertise uncapped or very high limits; if you're a heavy driver, those are worth seeking out.

On every LeaseHub listing we show the annual mileage cap and the exact excess fee per kilometre, so you can match the contract to your real-world driving instead of discovering the limit the hard way.