Recent content by socaluser

Hello, Has anyone successfully negotiated the $395 end of lease fee when returning the car. I must have agreed to this when I started the lease, but not sure if it's something that NMAC Finance will reduce? Thanks.

Thanks for the reply SageBrush. Good point about the lease being a sunk cost. Also, that's an interesting way to look at the 3 year old Leaf being equivalent to 18KWh for 9K. I hadn't thought about it that way. Is the battery degradation curve relatively linear? That Utah deal you...

Thanks for the reply LeftieBiker. What you say is true. However, if I had a 30/40 KWH battery, we could eliminate more weekend ICE trips on our primary car, so if the price is right, that might be a good way to go. Would you agree that keeping the car isn't too much of a risk since my...

Hello everyone, I am located in Orange County and currently have a 24 KWh 2016 S with QC option. My lease ends in early Sept and I haven't exceeded 36K and my residual is only 9000. I've read about the last 20 pages of this thread and am trying to come up with a strategy. I currently have...

Location: Orange County, CA Model: 2016 Leaf S with QC 36 month Lease, 12K miles Downpayment: $0 Monthly Payment: $160+13 in tax Total Payments: $6055 This was the last Leaf on the lot, and I think it had been there a while. Thanks everyone at this forum for all the information. Love the car...

Thanks for the replies. I should have mentioned in my earlier post that we live in Southern California relatively close to the coast, so not too many hot days. Interesting about the ECO mode, I figured there was something, but the salesman wasn't exactly the most informed (the first salesman...

Hello, I've been lurking for a bit and almost no experience with EVs in general much less the Leaf! Took the family to try our a 2016 S with QC. Told the dealer we were just looking and not interested in walking out with a car today but as expected, they threw an offer at me. I told them...