kmslwsmrs - your lease

LaKi

Can you elaborate a little on your experience with the lease?

My lease isn't up until Oct, but I'm going to hit my mileage limit in a month or two.  We were planning on going over President's Day weekend to scope things out, but I'm worried about the miles thing.  How did it work for you? 

kmslwsmrs

The dealership/company that the lease was through wasn't helpful at all.  I called to see if I could get out of it early (since they USED to send things out all the time to get out of your lease less than 6 months early) since I knew the mileage was going to be way over (like at least 2k over) and I needed something bigger with 3 kids, but they said they don't do deals like that anymore and leases are hard to come by anymore.  So, I had to go hunting for a dealership that would buy it out (I only had like 1k left of payments) and luckily I found a dealership that would roll the payments into the new car I was buying.  So I basically negotiated the dealership wit hthe new car down 1k and had them roll in the 1k that I owed...so they didn't technically buy me out, they just rolled in my last three payments and took the car.

olsentobe

butting in: I turned in both our leases early but went back to the same dealership. with Ford it was only 3 months but we would have been over, so they ate those payments and we ended up financing a new Edge through them. I also turned in a crv with honda early for a pilot, again we ended up financing bc it was a better deal and a more expensive vehicle. good luck!

~LisaD~

Nicole - This is good to know!  My lease is up in November but I think by August or so we will be close to our mileage.  We do want another Ford from the same dealer so I am going to give it a try.  Was it from All-American?