Considering flipping my hacked C300 loaner to make my wife happy. Right payment, wrong car, happy wife/happy life etc etc. I know this is nuts and that’s why I’m gauging interest. Vehicle is located in Seattle suburbs, and I’d prefer to do a local transaction without shipping.
This is a loaded car - Black/Black MB Tex, P3, Sport Package, 19" AMG Wheels, Automatic Rear Sunshade, Heated Steering Wheel, Door Logo Projectors, etc.
The reason I want $500 on top of the MSD and Transfer fee is because I’ve already paid 1 year of tabs in WA. On lease transfers, they’ll credit most of that to your registration during the lease transfer. So you’ll only owe 4 months of tabs when you register the car in WA.
Year, Make, Model, and Trim: 2017 Mercedes C300 4Matic Sport
MSRP: $54,150
Monthly Payment: $291 (including Shoreline WA Tax at 10.3% on the monthly payment)
Drive-Off Amount: $4000 + Transfer Fee of $595 or $695 ($3500 will be refunded as MSD)
Months: 20 months remaining - Lease Matures January 2020
Annual Mileage: 10k/year (currently has just under 7100 miles, total allowed is 25,640)
MF: .00129 (before MSD)
Residual: $35,211
Available Incentives: N/A
Location: Seattle, WA
UPDATE: I’ve also posted this locally on Craigslist. Willing to use Escrow.com to facilitate the transfer of the $4000 to be paid to me, for everyone’s comfort.
I’ll have you know only the finest gas was passed in this car.
She’d like me to get a new hobby. I believe. And preferably something less flashy. Basically she doesn’t like Mercedes for no good reason. To her Audi and BMW are less flashy.
I can post a link to the original terms. No wear and tear and no prepaid maintenance. Service A was done already by the dealer. Service B towards end of this year, so probably will be able to avoid another Service A.
I could understand if she said Acura, Lexus or Volvo are less flashy than MB, but I put Audi and BMW in the same class as MB.
I’m waiting for my wife to say the same thing about a different hobby. But the way to get around that is make your final vehicle an Infiniti or a Volvo and you are stuck with it for duration of lease.
Yeah. I’m using it as an opportunity, if I end up transferring it, to get something with a stick. Looking closely at an Accord Sport 2.0T.
It makes my soul cry a little to go from an MB to an Accord, but I can justify it because there aren’t many family size cars that will easily swallow a convertible car seat and allow me to row my own gears.
It’s ok. I’ve made far stupider decisions in my life. At least with this one I get the satisfaction of knowing I really stuck it to the dealer and that someone else will get to enjoy it who might not have otherwise.
I have to agree with his wife. Audi is not flashy at all but still feels very luxury, neither is 3 series. Just think about night star, and projected MB logos
Yeah but, IMO, the CLA is fake flash. At my local MB dealer, when I had an MB, you would see people think they were the hottest crap ever, and are driving a base CLA.
We get it… you went for the CLA instead of the mid-grade camry.
