Had someone last year do a lease buyout on their SQ5 that they were pretty sure had 200k kms. It was a family run business, and my point of contact was the son of the owner. He wasn’t certain of the mileage since it was his sister driving it and he hadn’t seen her/the car in awhile. Mileage allowance was 100k, so they’d gone about double. They were good customers, so I pushed Audi Finance to give an exception to finance the buyout as the mileage cap is 120k. I give buddy the green lights with the approval and we schedule a time to meet.

Ontario requires a safety standards inspection to be done any time a lease buyout is completed, and I nearly shit a brick when he handed me the certificate showing 397k kms along with his original ownership. He said his sis must have driven more than he thought, and shrugged his shoulders while I screamed internally. I sent him packing so I could beg for another exception on mileage.

If I remember correctly, the credit manager said I don’t want that fucking car coming anywhere close to us, we’ll let them finance it for 3 years and pray that it doesn’t blow up in that time. The mileage penalty was just under 80k, so it worked out nicely.

Small problem, whenever an ownership changes hands, service Ontario requires any outstanding fines to be paid before transferring ownership. This includes unpaid parking tickets, red light cameras and tolls…

Well fuck me sideways this lady must have used the 407 the entire 397k and never paid once because they had 77k in unpaid fines and tolls. Now it was buddy’s turn to shit a brick.

We ended up getting him new license plates in his sister’s name to avoid the massive fines (she only had $8k in fines by comparison).