4xe Lease - Would you walk away?

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Is this a deal you’d walk away from? Let me start from the beginning…

Back in December I placed an order for a new Wrangler 4xe with Hermiston CDJR for which we had agreed on a price and payment. Upon it’s arrival last week I was shocked when they wouldn’t honor the agreed sales price and the payment was over $100 off from estimated. Check out the docs in my link.

Sure residuals and interest rates change, but they added $4,000 to the selling price, as well as almost another $3,000 in unexplained costs. I nearly fell out of my seat!

From when I ordered in December:

From when I went to pick up in March:

  • Here is their lease sheet https://i.imgur.com/2Q6Q977.jpg
  • I asked for residual, money factor, etc but didn’t receive a copy of anything else
    • It should be 63% residual and 0.00144 (base mf) - 0.00217 is almost 1% APR more.

Doing the math, it seems like they tried to charge me $6,400 more for the lease after it arrived. https://i.imgur.com/7Zb1h9I.png

End of the day, lesson learned. I think I’ll just find a new dealership, or I should try one of the brokers here.

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Id run, not walk

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For $500 and even shipping it has always been a no-brainer to go with a broker on 4xe.

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That sucks. I can imagine your frustration.

Broker is probably the safest way to go imo. There are a few here that offer solid 4XE deals. I got one myself with @AutoCompanion and could not be happier.

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What approach did they use when they said they were not going to honor the discount?

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I dealt with them mostly over email and text so I can quote them:

Unfortunately I’m this situation we are not able to meet or exceed your expectations.
I also stated that any prices or payments sent would not be set in stone and subject to change. Currently or best offer payment is $595.

So with that last message from them, my take is they got greedy and they have a new car.

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Mine was robbed from me and dealer wanted $13,500 more than agreed, case is with my attorney general. My 4XE broker general @Clutch got me one.

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I assume you do not have a copy of the initial purchase agreement signed by the Dealer. If you did, then you might be in a better position.

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I do but is the time and expense of going through a legal process worth it? :frowning: Probably not.

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Contact the GM and lay it to him straight, let him know how you feel and what the situation is and ask that they honor their agreement. Don’t threaten consequences.

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What would you expect their reaction to be though?

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They will tell you to kick rocks

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I don’t think this is going to go in your favor. I would use the sales price that was disclosed when you placed the order and use current CCAP numbers without markup. I would not budge from there. I don’t know what recourse you have but I think the dealer should be penalized if they have too many sold orders that do not end up in the customers possession. Sorry about your luck but I would cut bait if they start playing games and use a broker on this forum or one of the dealers that do not play these games. I assume you did not place a deposit on this order?

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Leave a review everywhere detailing the bait and switch. I wouldn’t let a dealer get away with a free car they are getting outside of allocation.

Go with @Clutch asap, great experience with their services and their dealer.

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@senwia Thank you for the opportunity brother. Happy to have helped and we truly value the business. @ReyTK3 humbled by the kind words thank you for the opportunity. @eeeev if youre flexible with timing wed love to help out. Email us your build and zip to clutchautodeals@gmail.com

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I second this, got a 4xe through @Clutch and the Southern dealer was great to work with, everything happened as stated from the beginning.

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I’d walk on the basis of it being a Wrangler plain and simple, but yeah…If they’re trying to screw around on a previously agreed upon deal go tell them to pound sand.

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