Originally Posted by jadewombat

Prepare for a fight with them. We've leased our last two cars, the C300 and a 2007 VW GTI. Air conditioning went out on the GTI, the nearest dealership was 120 miles away roundtrip, would they adjust for the mileage when we were getting close to the limit for two years?? Nope.

Leasing fits us much better, too. Most people (+90%) are actually leasing and they don't know it. Less than 10% of the general public (at least in the U.S.) never pay off the loan before they trade it in on something else, stupid. The difference is at the end of the lease I've paid less because I'm not paying on the total amount of the car and not stuck with $$$$ of negative equity from the first day of driving it off the lot. We simply walk away from it. Mileage is not an issue for us (it was with the GTI, but only because we mis-estimated the first go-around).