BMW financial , leased car had minor damage at delivery, now it's time to return

Just piling on here but definitely schedule the inspection ASAP before you waste any time going to a body shop or doing anything else with this.

As mentioned that looks very minor and it’s highly unlikely an inspector would note it. They’re just looking for the big items like tire wear, curb rash, major scratches or body damage, etc.

Even if they did note it the charge would probably be minimal as they wouldn’t quite know how to classify it. “Minor Rear Fender Damage $125” or something of the like.

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I think there are good odds you won’t even have to get this fixed. It’s super minor. Lessors tend not to be pedantic in my experience because it soils the customers’ desire to repeat a purchase.

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It’s also more overhead to train people on subjective things and take more time for each inspection vs measuring quantifiable things on a quicker checklist.

And additional overhead in customer service when more customers call to argue about those subjective things.

Letting the non-measurables go is cheaper than overhead.

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