Originally Posted by Rob M
i'm not sure this is making sense (to me).
you started with a $299/mo. 39 mo. lease with 12K miles allowed per year, $0.15/mi. for extra miles. the service writer says the lease contract needs to be changed to $0.20/mi. for extra miles and offers you an oil change for your trouble. you are content to keep the original contract or want 3 oil changes in return for agreeing to the change. three crossfire oil changes would cost a consumer $250 or so.
you talk to a manager and now you have a lease for $299/mo., 39 mos., with 15K allowed per year and still $0.15 for additional miles. unless i'm missing something you gained 3K miles/year with no additional cost when you were content with your original contract. that's 9,750 extra miles ($1462 :shock: in depreciation at $0.15/mi.) that they are giving you. did anything else in the contract change such as the monthly payment? provided everything else is the same, i'm having a hard time understanding why they would do this.
It doesn't make sense to me either, but you got it exactly correct. I still have a copy of the old lease agreement, so if you'd like to look at it, you're more than welcome.
The monthly payment stayed the same. The only thing that changed was they lowered the price of the car a little bit and the residual value on it dropped. A couple other things changed by a dollar or two, but my payment with tax is $320.00/mo.
