New to leasing and been hanging out on here for the past month learning a bunch.
My plan is to reach out to a handful of dealers, get competing lease quotes and then try to work out a lease deal. Leasing has always been a black box to me but I feel much more informed and ready after studying this site.
Problem is I’ve started to reach out to a few dealers and I’m having a hec of a time getting any of them to give me a breakdown of a lease quote. Any tips, suggestions? What approach have you guys used to get folks to show you actual numbers of a lease deal? I’m trying to work by email but I think most dealerships want you to show up in person or call both of which I’d rather not do as I like dealing virtually.
Also does anyone have the latest/recent numbers on a 17/18 Ram 1500 4x4 Crew Cab Ecodiesel
they won’t lease you a 17, only an 18.
The 18s have about $10k in rebates made up of about 5 or 6 rebates. First you need to figure out what the rebates are in your area, otherwise you won’t know how much discount the dealer gives you.
That way even if the dealerships aren’t giving you those numbers, you can still do a rough calculation of your monthly based off the selling price they’re giving you.
just found this post: How to Get Actual Quotes Out of Dealers
and its money. Going to change my approach and draft my own deal and present numbers when I reach out to a dealership.
Next step is to dial in on a 2018 and find out what rebates and incentives I qualify for (I’m in CA) Going to do some digging online and see what I come up with. I’ll post my final numbers on my deal I come up with and run it by you all.
Ok leasehacker friends here is what I have so far. This is a real deal that I am interested in and its active right now. I want to dial in this offer and am getting lost in the “Due at signing part”.
Here is the deal right now as it stands in their site:;
And here is my spread sheet that I am looking to send to them as my “offer”.
Could you guys check this out and let me know a) if this is a good deal as it stands b) how can I better detail out the “Due at Signing” section in particular I am not sure what taxes are due at signing, and also how much reg and title fees are.
Got a question on MF. Here is a thread from Edmunds and I got a MF of .00015.
Does this seem right? According to my calculations this give me a monthly finance charge of $9.60?
I seriously doubt any salesperson would look at that spreadsheet. Most don’t understand how a lease works or how to calculate it.
On your spreadsheet, there are quite a bit of errors. The retail cash/incentives are for purchases, not leases. The acq fee and doc fee look wrong. And why are you putting a security deposit?
that’s funny because I just talked to them and they said that I do qualify for those rebates/ incentives. we walked through all of them and the only one I did not qualy for was the CACJA because my credit score is too high.
still learning about fees as this is pretty nebulous. followed this guys advice and this is why i included sec dep.
Acq fee depends on which bank you with (Chrysler Capital, Ally, US Bank, etc). In CA, the doc fee is $80, but there are other fees like electronic filing fee too.
Use the LH calculator. My guess is they are leasing through a 3rd party (thus why you qualify for retail rebates on a lease) and they are using a different MF than is published on Edmunds.
Not that into the F150, its a nice truck for sure but just not what I’m after. I’m really focusing on the RAM and having fun getting out there with dealers and trying to work deals.
By the way when I sent the dealer my calculations and asked why their numbers were not matching mine this is what he said and never responded again lol.
“We have computer programs to do that, sorry I cant help there.”
