Hi, wondering if this is a good deal on a BMW 2026 i4m60 (early upgrade). On target to be $3k over in miles at the end of my current lease.
MSRP ~76K with all features desired.
$3200 total due at signing; $799/month.
Thoughts?
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What are your terms? You told us $799/month with $3200 DAS.
Are you doing 24 or 36 month terms? 7.5k miles or 15k miles?
Assuming 36 months, a $900 effective monthly doesn’t seem all that hot. I’d likely keep searching as I’ve seen prior M50s transferred for a lot less on here.
So you’re paying an extra $10,000 to avoid paying $3,000 in 6 months? Take the money between your current payment and the proposed higher payment, save or invest it, and there’s your $3,000.
Just ride yours out and prepay overage the day of or the day before return when you know the exact number but get about 10% discount at about 22.5 cents a mile.
Then look at marketplace for something along those lines:
There is no free lunch. You’re either paying A) 3k of remaining payments + 3k of mileage overage = 6k or B) 10k of negative equity. Like others have said very likely the math works out best to ride it out.
Negative equity is 100% on you now, will simply fall off in 6 months. So why bother paying for someone else’s problem when you have an easy off ramp in 6 months?
Better yet, line up a credit card with some signing bonus and possibly 0% interest in about 5 months so you can pay your overage and possibly MSDs/DAS on the new car to hit the numbers for the bonus to offset the penalty partially.