Hi, I will be returning my leased Mercedes benz C300 4 door sedan by the end of this month.
Car has no damages. Except under front bumper of car probably due to scrapes at parking spots.
Question: I want to know about any additional charges they would bill to me before I return my car. What happens normally? Do they tell only much after return?
I do have a lease end protection and I want to be able to fight with them, if need be. If they bill me much after return, just puts me in a weaker position.
You should get your autovin inspection as suggested by MBFS. Autovin will quickly advise as to what damages you may be responsible for and therefore what you may want to fix prior to return. In my recent experience with 2 MB lease returns, I’ve had no issue given a clean autovin inspection.
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You have a week? See if you can get an autovin.
Ex 1: I return the car without an autovin, the car is hailed on at the dealership. Autovin shows up and inspects. I am responsible for the damage to the car for the hail.
Ex 2: I return the car WITH an autovin. The car is hailed on at the dealership. I pay whatever was on the Autovin as the hail occured afterwards.
Very general (if you wreck the car after autovin, you still pay) but without an inspection your comment of [I want to be able to fight with them] will become [MB are a bunch of **** because they charged me for B/S fees that happened at the dealership!]
Or ask the dealership to buy it for payoff so you don’t have to pay disposition fee and lease end charges
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There have been posts where the dealership changes their mind and turns it in, incurring fees to the unsuspecting Lessee
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If your C300 is in good condition, you probably have some positive equity in it you could take advantage of if you’re looking to get into another MB.
Thanks. I already did AutoVin inspection few weeks back.
My buyoff price is 25K
(around 27K actually as above amount is after deductions because I have put in some security deposits too to reduce lease price initially)
To see market price I approached Carvana. They offered around 28k.
So my profit in the end I pocket (if i buyoff and sell to Carvana) will be around 1k - not worth the struggle IMO).
Thoughts?
Get more than one quote
Keep in mind it will also save any disposition fee that MB charges…that amount is also in your lease contract. Perhaps $350 + / -.
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You are set then, unless you crashed the car?
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Last I checked, MBFS disp was like $600 or something
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Yeah.
Anyway to avoid it, apart from buying out the car?
Can’t sell to Carvana etc directly since mercedes doesn’t allow now it seems.
Ummm…leasing another MB? But I don’t think that’s what you wanted. hehe
Dispo is hard to avoid in this market.
@wolfpack talk to a few MB dealers.
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