We returned our Frontier lease (18/10, $160/month - the deal that got me addicted to hacking!) earlier this month. The car had 7k of miles on it relative to a 17.5k allowance (we extended lease 3 months).
I recently received a bill from NMAC (sent to the wrong address no less), asking me to pay the $395 disposition charge.
The dealer when we returned checked the car (was in pristine condition) and mentioned there would be no fees/damage charges due for us (no mention of disposition fee), and that we were all set. I could have talked about any remaining equity, but given the 99% residual and me wanting to get out of there, did not bring up.
What would happen if I were to just not pay the disposition fee? I could claim ignorance as it was sent to the wrong address, and frankly given the condition in which I returned the car and the little mileage used, the extra fee just doesn’t sit right with me. Will this get sent to collections and potentially hurt credit score? Will NMAC keep coming back?
I really do not care about what is right or wrong here, if you could get out of paying something with no risk, I think most would take it, so spare your sanctimonious opinions.
I returned my Frontier lease back over this past summer. I leased an Altima last December too and I asked NMAC to waive the disposition fee on the Frontier citing that I had leased another Nissan recently and they didn’t want to hear it.
They said since you leased the other Nissan over 90 days ago, it wasn’t eligible for the disposition fee to be waived.
I paid the $422 (it’s $395 plus tax ) and I moved on with my life. I’ll have to also pay another disposition fee again when I return my Altima next spring. Such is life.
Be grateful you leased the car and don’t own it with the amount of negative equity these things have as soon as you drive them off the lot.
If you think you’re just not gonna pay them the dispo fee, then RIP to your credit score and good luck ever attempting to lease a car again in the near future. NMAC will immediately put you in collections and phuck your credit royally.
you are truly insufferable, it must be so tiring calling out random internet people on what they should/should not do.
I realize it’s in the contract. I thought they had no recourse since I put in no security deposit. I am asking if it just goes to collection or not. What is wrong with you people here treating as if everyone else they are the idiiot.
Just FYI, if it goes on your credit report, they are not required to take it off once you pay it. It stays on there for 7 years. It will take 100 to 150 points off your credit score, and slowly go back up every year for 7 years. I missed a $120 doctors bill when I moved because it didn’t get forwarded. I paid it late, but they refused to take it off the report. When I got my first mortgage, I had to pay a point higher than the best rates.