i4 M50 lease is ending May 20th, and I’m planning to turn the car in and move to either Audi A6 e-tron or i5 eDrive 40. Been reading this forum and researching a ton so feeling a little overwhelmed.
I’ve seen some pre-neg deals from brokers on here that look great, and I’ve texted with the dealership I originally got the i4 from to see if they’d pull ahead but haven’t gotten details from them yet.
My question is this: if there’s a deal on the car I want from a broker available now, is there any issue with taking delivery on the new lease and closing out the existing lease next month as scheduled? I’d be overlapping the two cars but it would eliminate the risk of the car or deal I want not being available when my current lease actually ends. If there’s a better path forward here I’m all ears, but I wanted to just make a post before I go emailing lots of dealerships or pulling the trigger prematurely.
No issue per se, just double payments and insurance. We are overlapping now. I’m glad we moved when we did, because the programs have changed for the worse.
That does seem like the gamble. I have no idea how things’ll be next month and I’d hate to end up with a worse deal. Just curious, what are you overlapping and how long do you have both going?
Blazer EV due back in June with a LYRIQ leased in very early March (Feb program).
Besides getting a strong deal under favorable programs, it’s nice to have two cars for the interim. We’ve been sharing one car since I sold mine last summer and lost interest trying to decide on a replacement.
I did this the time before too, by about six weeks (e-tron GT / Wagoneer S). Side benefit there was the Audi tires were down to 4/32 plus two molecules by this time, so it mostly sat for the remaining time.
I’ve done this twice in the past, no more than 60 days out from disposition. Other than dup insurance and paying double in those months for utility you don’t need, it solved a timing problem and ended my shopping process/psychosis until the next go-round.
I had an overlap of 4 months. My RS eTron GT Project_513/2 was my daily driver. However, I knew once the Big Terrible Bill passed that $7500 EV incentive was going to end 9/30. I picked up a 2025 Audi q6 eTron Prestige at the end of July- there was already limited inventory in the LA/OC/SD corridor for Black Prestige with Warm Weather package + 20” wheels. I made a deal and the plan was keep the q6 parked until just before Thanksgiving.
Turned out- the q6 eTron ended up spending a lot of that overlap time at the dealer since the SW was/is not ready for Prime Time.
Yes, paying 2 insurances and 2 payments kind of sucked, but what can you do.
