Over mileage

dannyd2026

I have a lease through Audi financial and looking to turn my lease in for another vehicle. The dealer stated they can’t work with me on over mileage but only work on the selling price on the new car. Is this correct or are they trying to scam me into putting more money down on my new lease?

kyfdx

dannyd2026 said:

I apologize, I wasn’t completely clear, what I mean is I have 49k miles on my current car and was supposed to be at 36k.  At .25 a mile, that’s a couple thousand dollars to turn the car back in.  I’m ok with paying the over mileage, I just want to make sure the dealer isn’t trying to rip me off when they say they can’t absorb the mileage when I’m getting another car from them. Instead of putting $2500 out of pocket, this is turning into $5750 because of the mileage I went over.  

What im asking is can they absorb some of that mileage so I don’t have to put as much out of pocket or is it a scam so I pull more money out of my pocket.  I remember companies would forgive overages or some at least if you got another car. Not sure if this is the case any longer. 

No, the dealer can't alter your lease end charges for over-mileage.
It's possible they could roll some of the upfront charges for the new car into the lease payment (which will be higher, of course, as a result), but they can't add your end of lease charges to the current deal. You'll get a bill from AFS a few weeks later for that.

Mr_Shiftright

It's going to be tough with that much overage. Besides, the car belongs to the financing institution, not the dealer. so he can't "forgive" anything. Your lease might even state quite explicitly that even if you trade in the car, you still owe the overage to the leasing company.

If it's a really popular car you are leasing, and in high demand, maybe it would pay for you to buy it out and re-sell it. This presumes of course that you can sell it for more than current buy-out.

Mr_Shiftright

You mean you want more than 15,000 miles a year on the lease?

dannyd2026

I apologize, I wasn’t completely clear, what I mean is I have 49k miles on my current car and was supposed to be at 36k.  At .25 a mile, that’s a couple thousand dollars to turn the car back in.  I’m ok with paying the over mileage, I just want to make sure the dealer isn’t trying to rip me off when they say they can’t absorb the mileage when I’m getting another car from them. Instead of putting $2500 out of pocket, this is turning into $5750 because of the mileage I went over.  

What im asking is can they absorb some of that mileage so I don’t have to put as much out of pocket or is it a scam so I pull more money out of my pocket.  I remember companies would forgive overages or some at least if you got another car. Not sure if this is the case any longer. 

dannyd2026

Thank you for your response. 

dannyd2026

Thank you Mr shiftright.  Makes sense and certainly helps. I just wanted to make sure they weren’t trying to rip me off. 

Thanks again,
Dan