2024 Audi Q8 e-tron Premium Plus, White, Black interior
36/7.5K
Monthly - $721.01
MSRP - $82185
Purchase Price - $74,966 (~9% off)
MF - 0.0025
Rebate - $15000 ($7500 Audi EV Lease Incentive + $1500 Costco + $5000 Audi Cash + $1000 CA Regional Incentive)
No MSDs
Residual - 57% (Audi Care increases 1% - $999 for 3 years)
Additional Add-On: Lease-End Protection $999
Thoughts on this deal? Biggest part I was unsure about it was the lease-end protection. Car for the wife who is known to add dings here and there so did it for piece of mind but worth it?
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Leasehackr calculator: Note the numbers aren’t accurate don’t include audicare or lease end protection
Bad: lease end protection makes the deal worse than it really is, because you shelled out $1000 for something that is essentially insurance - you’ll find out in 3 years if it was worth it; discount is kinda weak - not bad, but could’ve been 10-12% with more shopping around
I’m looking into the Q8 and it’ll be my first Audi lease. I’ve had other brands with no major issues at lease end. Is Audi strict when it comes down to rock chips/dings/light scratches etc…?
I haven’t found them to be unreasonable - if it’s small dings that are normal west and tear, they don’t call it out. Huge gashes obviously they will.
i returned my older Audi at the same time i bot the new etron. had 2 tires that needed replacement, a bunch of small dings and wheel rash. no issues at all
But BMW gave me a whole bunch of problems to nitpick when I returned my M5 few a years back, so I liked the Audi experience a lot better
That’s good to hear. I’m about to lease for the first time and i worry about being taken advantage of when returning it. I already hate it enough negotiating in a dealership.
No they didnt, one i could understand, but the other one i was pretty sure they would ask for a replacement since it didn’t pass the home test i did based on what i read from audi instructions. I was only glad ofc.
It really depends - if you are leasing another car from the same brand, they usually forgive a lot of things they otherwise wouldn’t. I had previously returned a 7 series where the front air dam mesh was damaged from a chipped stone from a truck on a highway, but since I was leasing a new M5 into quarter end, that was ignored too
Depending on how much the protection costs it can be a good deal or not - my experience is getting small touch ups done using mobile repair shops is much cheaper - i used them for a bumper rash that was pretty obvious on the Q5e and cost me like 200 bucks and looked as good as new.
It all depends on what you find convenient - the more “hacking” you put into figuring out what repairs will pass muster and which wont and which can be taken care of easily, can save you some money.
Of course if you want total peace of mind, shell out for coverage. But then the whole point of this forum is trying to save money (within reason).
People have their opinions and are resistant to hearing info different from their biases, so do whatever works for you
