Unfortunately, not a single dealer will play nice with Nissan’s 18mo lease in SoCal. Only willing to deal if you buy all the additional crap they add in for $2k and their market adjustment fee. Went through their Nissan at home site, but not a single dealer would honor the $0 drive off $188 w/ tax payment quoted on the official Nissan buy at home site.
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I agree! Could you share your mailer?
I just got out of the military and looking to get into something very cheap like this and new to leasehacking.
Thank you
After seeing the original post about the crazy leaf deal, I called every Nissan dealer in a 200 mile radius, unfortunately the numbers only work out that good on SV or S trims with the smaller battery pack, and they were all spoken for except for 1 and the dealer wouldn’t budge on their $3000 ADM markup, which essentially screws the deal and makes it no longer worth it. The dealer closest to me was willing to do the deal but they couldn’t find a car to give me and the ones they have ordered don’t show up until end of April and who knows what the April lease programs will be. Alas, the unicorn deal was not to be found for me.
If you’re in a state where all deposits are refundable by law, put down a deposit for one of the incoming April units. Maybe the programs won’t change at all or by much.
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I got excited for a minute but no programs in GA. Nissan at home comes up with a crazy 600$+ on an SV+ 18/10k
Congrats on the deal - anything sub 300 feels like a unicorn these days!
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While that’s possible, given that March is the end of the fiscal year for Nissan, there’s sadly a high chance the deal will deflate quite a bit. But again, to your point as long as the deposit is refundable, no harm in going this route.
Im in the same boat. I reached out to a dozen dealers and got the same reply. Put a deposit for April / May but I fully believe Nissan is doing this for end of their fiscal year, next month would be worse. And AFAIK, Nissan doesn’t allow you to lock programs for future reservations like BMW.
Damn, I would jump at a deal like this but we live at an apartment building - there would be no where to charge the vehicle unfortunately.
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That’s what I did when I was told the deal in phone and I also live in Apt building. Finally bit the bullet and got it. Will be charging at public charging station down the block. And it’s free on top of that in my city sponsored by EVConnecticut state program
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I finally found a Nissan dealer that would lease SV at MSRP BUT I am having trouble to match your amount due at lease signing $8,700 -section 4. They kept asking me that’s how much do you want to put down…LOL… I said NO. That’s how you should record it in your systems, and I am only willing to pay 125 plus taxes.! I have to wait for the result tomorrow.
Good Luck with taking someone else’s deal sheet and asking a dealer to match. You have a lot of reading homework to understand how lease hacking works!
For those interested I was told the CT discount only for CT residents. Often goes by dealer state which why I was trying to find a CT dealer
So the dealer emailed me back.
$2,500 cash down with 1 month lease included.
It comes about $187.42 per month for 17 months. Increase my effective to $325/mo! Still too much for Leaf SV.
The finance guy isn’t sure if he could factor in the California rebates. He will call me tomorrow to finalize the number…again…
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Of course he can…trying the under-promise/over-deliver shtick.
You know… I don’t even know why my section 4 of the contract looks like that since it has nothing to do with reality of what actually happened.
The only thing I told the GSM is the use CT rebate of $2,250 as a Due at signing.
It isn’t going great for me in CA trying to find one of these.
MF and RV look great for 18 months, but once they add in the $2K markup and the aftermarket crap it doesn’t make sense any more.
My 2 quotes so far are both north of 500/m. I don’t even want to negotiate
I got 600+/month quote. 5K markup on MSRP and triple the MF.
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You know, I’d rather go get my Audi Q5e at sticker than pay 5k over for a Nissan.
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