[Eric500]

Or I'm stupid.

Playing with the numbers in a lease, has anyone asked a dealer to keep your negotiated cap cost the same but raise the msrp of the car?

It makes the payments decrease based on how the lease is calculated... Unless I'm doing it wrong

[James550i6spd]

that's a different way of viewing it. Ofcourse it comes down..your residual amount becomes higher , and since your cap cost remains the same..you have less depreciation to pay, which is the basis of your lease payment. (Less depreciation = smaller lease payment)

But you come out a little better if you had the dealer increase their cap. cost reduction instead of raising the MSRP by the same amount.

That and i'm not sure they are allowed to increase the MSRP that easily. Residual rates are tied into the MSRP so a dealer raising the MSRP will mean BMWNA would have to also recalculate a whole new residual factor

[dc503]

MSRP is not a variable number on a specific car, it is constant when calculating residual.