Yes, never buy a lease. I just leased a new car the other day, a Jeep Wrangler 4-door soft top. The buy out price isn't all that bad, so I'm thinking I might buy it when the lease is up. If I decide to do that, I'll take relatively good care of it. Ten K oil changes in any event. And I'll look through the maintenance schedule to see what else is important. But I probably won't take it to the dealer. I can still save by cherry picking the list of scheduled maintenance and having it done elsewhere. Or, if it doesn't require me to crawl on the ground, doing it myself. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So, in essence, because you don't own the lease cars and pay the > dealer profits up front with the lease, you feel that servicing them > properly is no longer of any importance to you. > > That's fine as far as it goes, but it's why I hate to consider buying > second hand cars that have been leased. > > Godfrey > > On Jan 8, 2008, at 8:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I do all that and more on my 55 BelAir Convertible. I even wash the > > underside by hand with Fantastik and rags every 1000 miles or so. > > But my lease cars get the oil changed every 20,000 miles, whether > > they need it or not:-)/ Period. In truth, I don't do it myself. I > > go to quick-change oil place, which are still way cheaper than the > > dealer. About twenty dollars. The rest of the maintenance schedule > > is truly unnecessary for the first 50,000 miles, if you're not > > keeping the car. Much of it is unnecessary regardless. Today's cars > > are amazingly self sufficient. But service is a big part of dealer > > profits. Hence, the maintenance schedulse. (Changing ATF is the one > > that gets me chuckling the most. ) > > Paul > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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