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      01-08-2012, 10:23 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by haspi View Post
My lease is coming up in a month. Going back and forth with the idea of purchasing it.

Today I went to carmax to get an idea how much the car is worth. It's a loaded (all options other than park sensor and pass through) 35i with 11K miles. Carmax offered only 32K! which is 12K short of the residual!

Back to the drawing board...not sure what to do! Would love to keep the car for 2-3 more years but 12K more than market, c'mon... I would have expected z to keep the value a bit better.
BMW FS frequently stimulates sales through artificially high residuals, and that seems to be your case.

As others suggested, get used values from edmunds etc. I like checking out autotrader.com for local market used car values and supply.
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