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Re: [bmw] "corporate lease vehicle" on CarFax



Nope,

I worked for a .com for a while and one of our perks was a 3 series convertible. If you did something "for the good of the company" you got the keys for a while. The car was a lease and I got it several times begging for service on the digital display. To be honest with you I did things in that car that I would NEVER do in one of my personal cars. And to be honest I think I was probably one of the nicer people to the car. If the company had offered me a "great deal" on the car I probably would have really had to think about it because I knew the people who drove it and how it was driven.

Do some research and find out who owned it. It could have been a "high end rental" from someone like Hertz or it could have been a company lease for one person. Just because its a corperate vehicle does not mean it was mistreated. Call the BMW dealerships in the local area and track its service records. Cars that are thrashed usually have a lot of oddball things break for "no reason".
Robert Chase


Greg Steinke wrote:


All,
I am looking into an M Coupe. I found a couple on autotrader that look
promising. But when I ran the VIN on Carfax, one of them showed that in
its history it was a "corporate lease vehicle". And it showed 3 owners
in its first 11k miles. (after which it was sold as a CPO to the
gentleman who is selling it now with 35k mi).

This fact concerns me. It seems to me that this kind of car would not be
well taken care of, particularly during the break in period. After all,
the car is not only lease, but even worse is leased to a company and not
to an individual.

Another M coupe showed as a "fleet vehicle" which also troubles me.
Also, this one's first registration was at 2500 miles, which tells me
that it was probably a demo at first.

Am I overreacting to these? Obviously the best case would be someone who
bought it for personal use, or even a two owner car with this scenario.
What kind of scenarios would lead to an M coupe being a corporate lease?
Not the usual fleet car, like a Chevy Malibu. Would be a sweet company
car though!

Thanks for any thoughts.

Greg
gregs@domain.elided
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