Hi all, Unfortunately, my mother recently lost her job last week and while it’s bad news, it only gave her every reason to jump start her retirement 2 years earlier. With that said, she entered into a new 36 month/12k VW Lease last June 2024 on a black on black 2024 Tiguan SE 4Motion with the Pano …

[image] jdauti: Dealer offered to take it back but at a $6500 loss. Recommended i wait a week or 2 and see whether the used car market increases due to upcoming vehicle tariffs. Do we believe this will happen immediately? You can sometimes find an outlier — someone who needs inventory and ove…

[image] jdauti: transfer but my mom could still be liable for default No personal experience, but, from what I’ve read here, yes, she is still liable for the car (not just in terms of defaulting on payments). And, no, there is no workaround. It is completely different from a BMW lease trans…

Have they really analyzed their retirement budget…income/expenses…and checked to see if it is truly financially feasible…especially in the ability to pay for bumps in the road that will come? Kind of shaky if it can’t withstand 400/mo.

They have. It’s a matter of assessing all their levers of “cost avoidance.”

Can you tolerate driving a Tiguan for 26 months? If you have a lease you can transfer it to someone else and take over hers. But definitely check all the buyers @max_g listed.

I would plan to wait until mid-May to see what happens with Used Car prices before doing anything. It will take that long for dealers to work through existing inventory and see if new car prices rise, making used cars more valuable. I believe the Tiguan is made in the US, so it may not be hit as ha…

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You can sometimes find an outlier — someone who needs inventory and overpays for trades. There’s almost no labor involved in getting these quotes or updating them if used car values actually do rise.