I live in Northern California and went to a dealership yesterday and leased an Audi Q6 quattro. I was initially offered a lease term of around $590 plus taxes (around $650 total) after 5000 drive off amount. We then we went to finance guy and at one point after signing a lot of paperwork, the finance guy told me that we must get Audi Care and Audi Lease end protection otherwise I will have huge maintainence costs or end up paying huge bills at the end of lease and the price to get this was to add another 90 per month on lease monthly causing our monthly to increase to 740. The final customer purchase price for Audi Care as per the contract for etron seems to be 1049. Additionally, the Audi Lease end protection is mentioned as 2675.
I missed to see these exact prices at the showroom that the total additional cost was around 3724 additional.
They just quoted me 741 with these additional options and after signing so many documents, it felt like I had to get these to avoid incurring huge costs at the end of lease. So I just decided to go for additional options.
Does audi care and lease end protection add this much to the lease? And did I really need it for an Electric car?
I felt kind of ripped off after quoting me 650 and then getting told that you kind of have to pay 90 more monthly after signing 90% of the documents.
You got really ripped off. It’s not necessary, and maintenance on this is just filter checks and maybe a proactive fluid change or so depending on term.
AudiCare may be worth it, the price is $1049 but it increases your RV by 1% so you only end up paying for roughly half of it over the lease. I’ll defer to the Audi experts on whether it makes sense on an EV or not.
But $2675 for lease end protection is definitely a rip off, you would have to completely trash your car and return it with bald tires etc. to rack up $2500+ in lease end damage charges.
Luckily in CA you can get that removed/refunded after the fact AFAIK.
Hey @max_g ,
Thank you for responding.
I was worried that tariffs will cause prices to increase as the inventory for all deals were drying up and took a haste decision. I should have consulted the group.
I was going based on the pre negotiated deal mentioned on the website which had an Audi Q6 Premium Plus for 581 (pre tax) with costco membership (7500 miles) and when initially got a quote for Audi Q6 Premium Plus Quattro which was around $6000 higher in MSRP for 590 (pre tax) with Costco membership (10000 miles), it felt like a good deal.
What would have been a good deal for a 73k MSRP Q6?
@HersheySweet Thank you for responding. I was told that Q6 has a virtual cockpit and there might be maintainence required for that which might incur huge costs. Being new to the luxury cars or Audi left me clueless and at that point I had signed almost everything and this was the last document.
No, virtual cockpit is a screen that’s covered under warranty for four years and most mileage on lease terms.
They threw buzzwords and vague threats in your face to scare you into buying it I’m sorry to say.
You might be able to cancel the lease and protection if you do it promptly and get a pro rated refund check cut to you or towards your payment. This depends on what you signed and local law.
Unfortunately, you are getting severely ripped off.
I just negotiated a q8 etron sportback lease for my mother for a term of 24 months. Audicare for 24m/20k on etron models is 899, but it added 1% to the RV, so its a wash. The finance manager offered the Audi lease end protection (with a total of 10k in coverage…see link below) for ~$1800. I countered back at $750 and he agreed to it. At $1800 it made no sense, but at $750 it did, primarily because the tires may need replacing at lease end.
The two polices increased the payment by $38 per month, which is a total of $912 for 24 months.
Here is the link to the lease end protection policy.
The first thing to understand is that not all leases are created equal. At any given point in time something will lease much better than others.
Over the last N months we’ve seen people get good deals on Audi Q4, BMW iX, Mercedes EQ*, Cadillac lyric and Acura ZDX etc etc.
With that insight, knowing that they’re charging way more than comparable cars, there really wouldn’t have been a reason to look at a Q6 in the first place.
You can cancel the lease-end protection and get a refund on that. Since your deal is so new they will probably just adjust your payment accordingly.
The audi maintenance requirements on the etron are scamy imo (I have one). But if you figure the residual bump and the fact that you’re only paying for half of it, it’s an okay add-on. I have it on my etron as well.
Your deal is not atrocious. A good deal would have been about $60/mo less.
