Does anyone know of a good way to get the dealer payoff for an AFS lease? I am trying to figure out how much, if any, negative equity I will be in. Dealer finance folks are acting dumb like it’s not a thing.
Call Audi directly and ask for a dealer payoff. If they say that can’t and that they need to speak to a dealer, hang up and call them back and say your name is Steve calling from AutoNation trying to get a dealer payoff for inventory. Or if you are able to see your personal buyout on the AFS website, it usually includes sales tax. Just subtract the sales % for your county/state and that should give you a ball park dealer buyout price since dealers don’t pay sales tax.
- Log into your AFS account to see your buyout amount.
Yes dealers usually have a lower pay off from what I understand including a market adjustment (downward)
How much time is left? If within 6 months, you may be able to throw them the keys and only be out remaining payments less rent charge (interest) plus disposition fee. If much longer, this won’t work.
Dealers can pull this information, but Audi brand is ice cold at the moment. Dealer will likely have little interest in buying it from you.
If this is an EV or PHEV and you have awhile left, it’s likely buried in negative equity and you’re stuck.
Your not going to get In-Network Audi Dealer Payoff. Unless anyone knows some special tricks, calling AFS will tell you they do not give dealer payoffs — you have to check http://payoffs.manheim.com, which ofc don’t have access too.
Edit: Notice you are same OP as other post, lol. I wouldn’t mind knowing dealer payoff also, I got a 2023 S3 lease with only 8500 miles on it. IIRC, Audi now charges buyout fees too. See Audi Buyout Change effective 3/1/2022
Edit2: Interesting, there is a recent post in the Audi Buyout Change 3/1/2022 thread that says "The only fee I was charged was the $100 buy fee.
• No disposition fee
• No segment fee
• No other charges"
So Audi has lower payoffs like BMW?
I am not sure what you mean. As someone else stated, one way is to check your buyout price and subtract the taxes. The problem with Audi is that there were buyout fees but now someone says there was none in the Audi Buyout Change thread I linked above.
Maybe someone with Audi dealer connects or etc. can clarify.
OP is implying that Audi Dealers get a ‘break’ over the normal price that a user gets on buyouts beyond saving sales tax.
BMW does offer this, if the car is resold to a person different than the original lessor.
I wasn’t aware any other branding especially Audi had this deal.
Ah … yeah no idea there if Audi does that.
Oh yes fuzzy brain. Didn’t come up in search. I need to get rid of a Q5 with 6+ months left. That time I had a dealer pay ball and take a vehicle off our hands. The person moved to another brand and now I have no dice
This is being made way too complicated.
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Call Audi FS and ask what your cost would be to ground the vehicle now.
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Ask an Audi dealer if they’ll buy out your lease. If so, how much negative equity? For reference, their buyout is not vastly different and some miracle Cinderella for Audi.
Compare options #1 against #2 and make a choice against those or keeping the vehicle.
If this is a Q5 PHEV (Q5e), then a dealer won’t want it.
FWIW I have access to this site. I would need a VIN and mileage (via DM please) to see if I can get a quote-
EDIT: It appears, for me, this portal returns the third-party Audi payoff.
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This is what an Audi dealer sees. The top option matches exactly what you see as your payoff online. When you see a payoff online, it will say “less charge rebate” and that net figure is what the dealer pays for residual value payoff. Again, Audi dealers don’t get a magic number.
They pay what you would pay to buy it out. 3rd party dealer payoff will be higher.
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In the past, Audi had a different (higher) payoff amount for dealers, not sure if that is still the case.
For non-Audi dealer, yes.
Not an e. Hopefully that want it
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Since the all new generation 2025.5 Q5s are here, the older ones are less desirable.
If VW did not have Porsche in their portfolio, we would be having interesting conversations about them.
No one wants an Audi right now generally speaking.
What’s new about the new Q5?