Tennessee BMW Car Dealers

I confirmed it with a couple of dealers, the 1 series lease numbers are the same a s last month. Some of the 3 series numbers improved, in particular the sedan numbers.

My dealer tells me the numbers carried over unchanged from July. At least on the 135i coupe. The new deals are up at the BMW USA page, but they do not include net cap cost which makes it impossible to figure out the money factor. The residual you can get by knowing the end of lease buy out price and MSRP and both are shown in the listing. Note that the dealer can't change the residual. Is your dealer marking up the MF on your deal? Every one I talked to so far is adding nearly a full point to the buy rate.

Just make sure that the dealer is using BMW Financial Services' buy rate lease money factor to calculate your payment and you're in business. Maybe you or someone else could point to a BMW dealer that lets you have the buy rate, does not mark up the acquisition fee, and has a reasonable doc fee? I have leased BMWs before, but this time every dealer I talk with is doing about a point over buy rate, jacking up the bank fee (by as much as $300), and has a $400 or more doc fee. They offer discounts ranging from $800 to $2,400 off MSRP (so far), but when you factor in the inflated numbers this deals are really not that hot. This is for an ordered 135i coupe - on a loaded up car the inflated MF alone is $30 or more a month on the payment (tax included) or over $1k on the term of the lease. If I have to travel too far or have to the car hauled to me, then I might as well pay the rip off inflated rate...

If you get BMWFS to waive the security deposit on your lease, is it still a .00015 bump in the MF? The 135i buy rate is 0.00170 so would go to 0.00185 if they still use the same formula. They waive this for "free" for current and past BMWFS customers, but I am not sure how recent of a customer you need to be to qualify.

They key point is this is a 2010 and not a 2011 (which are available everywhere now). They have 0.9% for 72 on the left over convertibles plus $1,500 in dealer money as well. If you can find a left over coupe, I think you can do 0.9% for up to 60 and the dealer gets $1,500 as well. For 2011, the rates are 1.9% for 60 and no dealer money. I don't think BMW has a wheel and tire warranty, that is something the dealers foist on customers for extra profit. Depending on which tire blew and which tires came on the car, you could buy a replacement from TireRack for $275 to $340 - so a whole new set of 4 for less than you paid for the warranty. I would think a new tire with 2k on should not blow and the manufacturer should replace it under warranty as defective - unless you ran over something the blew the tire out. I wish BMW would give us the option of a spare and normal tires - the run flats are way too much of a compromise in comfort and performance compared to the best "air required" tires.