getting quotes for new cars when leasing.

[blutopless2]

For those that have had/currently have leased cars what did you do when it came time to get quotes?
Did you get the leasing company to do it for you and accept theirs or did you get the quotes yourself and then hand the best in to the leasing company??

[mikinoz]

We are investigating this now actually and have sent our lease company off to get pricing on our options, but we have also gotten a quote ourselves to compare. I will be interested to see what the variation is.

[blutopless2]

reason i ask is that we have had a look at a tiguan in the last few weeks.
got one lease company to get me quotes... got the usual "wont do better elsewhere" "we have an influence over them and pricing" "they work really hard at doing the quote for you" "can't have the quote to take elsewhere" etc etc... that sort of crap from them..
We went to test drive the 125TSI manual and sat down with the saleswoman who drew up a quote for us in about 10 minutes. stated that she would beat any other quote.
So i pushed the lease company to tell me the option prices.... they are identical to the quote i got and she said that it was the "STARTING" price for negotiation!!
So am really annoyed at the leasing company (and i know the dealer that the quote came from) for the whole "wont do better than our quote" etc...
My argument is that if its so damn unbeatable why isn't it fully transparent???
I should be able to take their quote into any dealer and have them laugh at me and say no way can we beat it...

[Swallowtail]

I went into the dealer, told them it would be through <lease company name> and would need to be a corporate deal with the Corporate Discount applied. THey worked out a price, told me what it was, gave me the breakdown, and told me to tell the lease company to contact them. I did that, and also asked the lease company to get a quote from <another VW dealer> down the road.

The lease company contacted the dealer I went to, and was given the price that they told me (which was very good by the way) near as damn it, although there were a couple of ups and downs on some of the options prices. They also approached the other VW dealer as I had requested, and the price they got from them was $5000 dearer.

The written quote that I then received from the lease company was fullly transparent - full details of prices on all options, etc.

So you can have some involvement... push the dealer and get a corporate discount pricing, then compare with what the lease companies give you. And try a different lease company if your employer is prepared to use a different one. Don't forget any differences in the interest rate they charge could more than make up for discount variations.

[mikinoz]

You always have the choice to buy a car from any dealer and have the company do the sal sac deal. Who is the sal sac company?

[blutopless2]

my company has two lease companies that they deal with. Unfortunately they both use the same VW dealer as their "preferred dealer".
NLC and SGFleet.

Neither will give me a fully itemised list of costs on the quote. So its hard to compare their quotes with the ones i am getting.