Poll of the Day > I'm trading up my car lease tomorrow.

(+) Yeah! (+)

bye bye Accord.
Hello Grand Cherokee.
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you trading it in at the dealer?
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Yeah the dealer at Jeep is more than happy to take the Honda and sell it on thier lot. It's nearly mint and only has 25k mi.
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What were the terms of your lease?
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For the Honda it was 10k mi a year for a 3 year lease. It came with a service plan so I never had to pay for an oil change. I had to put some money down up front on the lease because the trade in I had was a shit can.
For the jeep it's the same mileage limit and I'm only getting 2 free synthetic oil changes. But I am getting a wear and tear waver that covers interior/exterior and tires. It will be good to have since my kids will probably make a mess of it. I've only put a few hundred down up front, mostly for the registration fees.
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So they're not even asking you to put anything down on the new lease? I assume you must've been above ground on your Honda for that to work.

I'm considering dumping the lease on my Subaru, but I had a long commute for half the life of it, so the miles are pretty high even though they're not over the lease yet.
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I'd rather do a larger monthly payment then put thousands down up front. My reasoning being that if something happens half way through the lease and the car becomes a total loss, I still have money in the bank.

How much more time do you have on the lease? I had offers coming to me from dealers wanting to pay out the rest of my lease 6 months before it ended.
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