TLDR - Paid well over msrp on the car at the time bc of the market, buyout is $38k, MMR is about $3k+ under buyout
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pay the $3k and wash your hands â
No wayâŚI will find someone. Also, I can Turo the car until I find a buyer.
Might want to look at your lease contract first. Thats usually not allowed.
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Ok, so basically I am screwed. Kia website says they donât allow loan transfers, but do allow lease transfers?
You need to call them and ask for details
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Will do!!!
just pay it - save your time â
No way! That seems like a huge waste.
leave the keys on the hood
Just trying to figure out if itâs worth eating that money just to get a Mercedes EQ. Is the car worth it? That much nicer?
are you married?
No lolâŚI am 24 yrs old.
A year from now you will try to get out of the EQS, but that will be even more painful. Just stick with KIA that you apparently wanted so much that you overpaid for it.
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No offense, but I think you need to be more realistic. You overpaid for your SUV and then decided you wanted a luxury EV. And then you want to get out of your lease w/o losing any money? The heart wants what it wants, but those kinds of decisions always cost something.
Posters have already told you repeatedly that you arenât going to offload the lease here. You found out about âcheapâ EQS leases on this site, right? So it would kind of make sense that the same crowd isnât going to be all that interested in your car (esp when you wonât even post a single picture).
I imagine you will be able to find someone to take over your lease⌠but not here. Perhaps it would helpful to follow the suggestions of the other posters and cross post on other forums?
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Appreciate it and will be posting pictures shortly. Just havenât had the time.
You have two real options.
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Keep the sportage and stop reading leasehackr till your next lease.
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Correct me if Iâm wrong, but you saw an EQS thatâs about the same payment as your Kia, you thought to yourself that you could have a nicer car for same monthly payment? If thatâs the case, get rid of the sportage and just eat the loss.
Why do you think you are able to get out unscathed? In almost all cases, selling a car within first few months of ownership results in negative equity. $3,000 to get out of a car you donât want is a fairly small price to pay. If you bought a $100k vehicle, youâd be much deeper in the red.
The last two years are not an accurate representation of what the actual car market looks like
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Rather than de-railing the other thread.
You havenât gotten the EQS then? Just keep the Kia. It seems that you cannot transfer the lease, anyway.
Yeah, but I am a car guy and really want this EQS. Itâs tough, but I also donât want to just waste money.
Car guys wouldnât get a Sportage or EQS.
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