Delivery mileage ???

ukjoel

re previous point about test drives on trade plates.

In my experience its not common practice. (although I speak for volume dealers in group situations where a demo car was almost always available and if not used car stock would certainly have one)

What I do see a lot of is dealers identifying a vehicle as one they will put on as a demo but not wanting to register it for a week or two due to plate change month, tax costs, manufacturer targets for following quarter.

This car or often cars will be used as demos.

Using unregistered stock as demos was done but was frowned upon.
Usually only done if that car was the one the customer was looking to buy and we had only spec and colour match in the country (so he couldnt go elsewhere to buy)

lincroft1710

In the 1960s my uncle worked for a Ford dealer in Cumbria. When a customer bought a brand new car he would travel down to Dagenham on the train to collect the car and drive it 300 miles back to Cumbria.

Lemonade_Pockets

Ian_W wrote: »

Don't understand this comment, I have never asked for or been offered a test drive of a new unregistered car. Isn't that what dealers have demonstrators for?
Wouldn't be happy to accept as "new" a car that had potentially had several folks test driving it before I bought it. I suppose technically if you're the first registered keeper it would be new - but I can't reconcile that with it being a demo car.

Reasonably common if a demo isn't available, its pretty much impossible financially for most dealers to have every engine available to drive. If they think your likely to buy the car why not? Better than giving u a irrelevant test drive in something else.

I was once told that legally (for advertising purposes) in this country it was whatever the distance from John O groates to landsend is. Never bothered to verify that but it makes sense as you wouldn't get a car delivered further than that.

More realistically if its a factory order most marques come with 5-10 miles on. I think bugatti's have 400km as they are tested first - i want that job. Any more than that i'd want the dealership to have cleared it with me first, whatever the reason.

I heard of a customer that came to watch his new car being unloaded of the transporter and then proceeded to draw chalk marks on the tyres and ground to mark where it was parked. When asked why he was doing this he explained that he wanted to be sure no one had driven it between then and him coming back the next day to pick it up. However when he couldnt eaplain how to valet, fuel and pdi it without driving it he agreed that he was maybe being a bit over zealous.

One of my customer expected it to be zero miles - i realise some mfr's reset the clock. But when i said it would have about 5miles on he wasn't happy. Who's the hells going to be driving it around for 5 miles???? Q lengthy explanation about production lines, compounds, ferries, transported etc. I didn't tell him the five miles would probably all be done in 1st gear at 90mph.

vikingaero

Lemonade_Pockets wrote: »

I heard of a customer that came to watch his new car being unloaded of the transporter and then proceeded to draw chalk marks on the tyres and ground to mark where it was parked. When asked why he was doing this he explained that he wanted to be sure no one had driven it between then and him coming back the next day to pick it up. However when he couldnt eaplain how to valet, fuel and pdi it without driving it he agreed that he was maybe being a bit over zealous.

The dealer could have valeted the car on the spot, filled it up from jerry cans and pdi'ed it on the spot and run it on jacks!:rolleyes::D

One of my customer expected it to be zero miles - i realise some mfr's reset the clock. But when i said it would have about 5miles on he wasn't happy. Who's the hells going to be driving it around for 5 miles???? Q lengthy explanation about production lines, compounds, ferries, transported etc. I didn't tell him the five miles would probably all be done in 1st gear at 90mph.

BMW had an "issue" with their stevedores at Immingham Docks, where the cars where driven to the compound on public roads using trade plates at very high speeds. The person who complained reported being overtaken by a convoy of trade plated brand new cars at over 90 mph.

kinguzzy

Hi every1, sorry for bumping an old thread. But I did a Google and found this thread.

My problem is relating to delivery mileage. My dad had an insurance replacement Brand New Nissan Micra delivered. I'm not happy because its got close to 500miles on.. This is way too high I feel.

Sunderland is 200miles from Luton, + 50 'in case', so where has the extra mileage come from.

Can I return the car for it having unreasonable mileage?. I think it takes the micky, 500miles brand new indeed.

forgotmyname

You should have started your own thread.

Probably been to several dealers as a swap for some reason or other, Test drive car. Used to collect parts or
pickup a customer or curtesy car.

What did the original car have on it? More i guess? You could have rejected it when it was delivered i guess but sounds
like you have already accepted it.

Kilty_2

Pre-registered cars advertised as "Delivery Mileage" tend to have < 500 miles on the clock as far as I can tell - but they are obviously used for test drives etc.

My brand new car had 9 miles on the clock when I picked it up, not bad since I know it'd been stored for a few months (it was built in Oct 2010 and registered Mar 2011). It had never been used for test drives either, I saw it with all of it's protective wrapping on - I assume it'd accumulated those miles when being PDIed and then filled with fuel at a station around the corner.

Flyboy152

steveo3002 wrote: »

most of the new cars ive seen at work have under 10 miles on them

some new cars can have the speedo wiped back to 0000 once only at the pdi

Really, which cars?

Flyboy152

albalad wrote: »

what is deemed to be acceptable delivery mileage ?

is there a recognised maximum ?


i'm curious of peoples views on this , as i have a new car ordered which i have asked the garage to hold onto until sept to get a 59 Reg rather than an 09. which started me thinking about the mileage on it when i actually get it .
Not that i'm suggesting my friendly car saleman will be joy riding about in my new pride and joy , more that by the time i get my grubby hands on it probably at least 5 people will have driven it before me .

what do you think would be a reasonable maximum ?

can you refuse your car if it has an unacceptable delivery mileage ?

The SMMT consider anything below five hundred miles to be "delivery mileage."


ETA:

I really should look at thread dates more closely.

keith1950

Hi, with reputable dealers 'new cars' are not used for test drives.

Salesmen and senior staff members are given 'demos' which are used to give test drives and then after 3-4 months or when they have done 3000-5000 miles they are sold as 'ex-demo' cars.
It is a way of providing a supply of 'secondhand' newer models.