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Lease buyout from dealer

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Following up on thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2146795

Well it looks like I ran into a bit of good luck. The dealer who I leased the car from called me up and wants to know if they can buy my car off of me. They received a call from an insurance company with a customer who wrecked their 2009 TDi. Apparently I have the exact one with specs that customer wants and the dealership wants to know if they can buy me out from the lease.

I have like 14 or so months remaining and this seems like a great thing since I am 6k miles away from my limit, something that has me worried.

I think I'm gonna do it and slip into a new Jetta TDi but next year get some cheap rims with snow tires. I never had a dealer terminate my lease and buy the car out from me. Any advice?
 
I was thinking a month or 2 back on whether or not I should buy some extra miles for it ( so I didn't hit the mileage limit prior to end of lease). Good thing I didnt...
 
Careful.
I had an offer to turn mine in early as well and was in the same mileage situation as you with about 6 months left on the lease. They took the current miles divided by how many months I had it then assumed I would put that many miles per month on it for the rest of the lease.
I would have been out a good chunk of change for the mileage.

I didn't turn it in early and ended up only being over by ~500 miles.
 
I'm a bit suspicious that anyone called a dealer looking for a car like yours. Sounds like a thinly disguised ploy to get you into the showroom to roll over your lease.

Its really a pretty old tactic in the dealer's sales arsenal.
 
Sluggo said:
I'm a bit suspicious that anyone called a dealer looking for a car like yours. Sounds like a thinly disguised ploy to get you into the showroom to roll over your lease.

Its really a pretty old tactic in the dealer's sales arsenal.
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That was my initial thought as well. "We have had a huge demand for cars like yours!"
 
Sluggo said:
I'm a bit suspicious that anyone called a dealer looking for a car like yours. Sounds like a thinly disguised ploy to get you into the showroom to roll over your lease.

Its really a pretty old tactic in the dealer's sales arsenal.
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Actually with a TDI it isn't all that uncommon. TDIs are hard to find in certain cases and as a result people have been known to pay a premium for them
 
So, it would take 16,600 for me to buy out the lease and Kelly blue book value for my car in excellent condition is 18500. Dealer would give me nearly 2 grand to walk away from my lease.
 
coxmaster said:
Actually with a TDI it isn't all that uncommon. TDIs are hard to find in certain cases and as a result people have been known to pay a premium for them
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I'll certainly admit that's a possibility, I'm not really familiar with the demand for TDIs.
 
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