Car delivered with 1750 more miles on clock than when bought

legionare64

Flyboy152 wrote: »

The mileage equates to two hundred and fifty miles a day, every day for a week. I would say that was close to "thrashing it."

Define thrashing ... I could thrash a car or I could drive lots of miles .. big difference. I could kill your car in an hour or I could do lots of miles in it.. Unless you have witness to how the car was driven you cannot make assumptions.
You are making a lot of assumptions without hearing what the dealers explanation is.
Why do you think the dealer will not give a plausible explanation.
Why dont you wait to find out. If the chap who bought the car doesnt post up the explanation the dealer gives him I feel it would cast doubt over his milage claim.

matthewp81

wow, this is really stirring up some debate! I'm currently waiting for a manager at the dealership to ring me back with an explanation. As soon as he gets in touch, I'll post his reply.

pendulum

Flyboy152 wrote: »

You also have no idea what has been done to the car during those miles either. I would also get them to pay for an inspection of the car and a full service.

Making unrealistic and stupid demands like that is a sure way to end up with nothing.

Joe_Horner

pendulum wrote: »

I think a 1750 mile test drive is being very cheeky, but at least they can honestly say they gave the car a good road test to make sure everything was OK before handing it over to you.

Or they found LOTS of faults and had to keep re-testing it? Or maybe they were trying to trace a squeak like in the old VW advert and no-one thought to oil the mechanic's nose ring (times move on...)

More seriously, that does seem like a bit of an excessive jump between acceptance and delivery. Complementary service should really be on the cards as a minimum (and probably the least painful option for the dealer)

abacab

Agree.
I once made the mistake of hiring a 1.2 corsa(current model) for a trip to Cornwall.
1500 miles in a short period of time.
On a long journey it was gutless,bounced all over the place and drank petrol from its small tank.
Lesson learnt.

Strider590 wrote: »

You could also walk it in a pair of traditional clogs, you'd have serious problems with your feet, your legs and your knee's in 10years time, but you could do it.

The point being made is that everything is designed for a purpose, a small 1.2 was not designed to cruise the motorways, it was for low speeds, designed to be small, economical, good for nipping in/out of traffic and easy to park in small spaces.

Your Mondeo, Vectra, 3 series, etc etc etc, were designed to be at home on the long distance journeys. To get you there in relative comfort and without any mechanical wear.

The suspension geometry of both types of car are different, the larger cars are more stable at high speeds, they shrug off bumps at 70mph like there was nothing there, but bring them into a town centre and they can be a real pain.

Small vehicles at high speed, they ride higher up (unless sports versions which will just feel crashy at motorway speed), they hop about over every bump, they feel unstable, they're much more noisy.....
You could not possibly understand this without driving both types over the same roads.

maninthestreet

250 miles a day = 91250 miles per year!

Flyboy152

pendulum wrote: »

Making unrealistic and stupid demands like that is a sure way to end up with nothing.

It is not unreasonable at all. If someone had taken your car, without your permission, driven one thousand seven hundred and fifty miles in it, wouldn't you be worried what they did with it?

Wig

For what it's worth I agree with OP it is unacceptable to have a "sold -deposit paid- car" do 1750 miles in a week before it is picked up.

AFAIC it's "goods not as described" the goods were described partly by the initial sales invoice 14,000miles

How much was the car?

Whilst you may threaten to reject it, if it was over £5000 you are outside of the small claims courts and will have to pay other sides costs if you lose - which could be substantial.

If it were me I wouldn't want it, I would hopefully have spotted this before settling and so would only be fighting for my deposit back, but, you just don't expect this sort of thing until you have read about it happening to some poor sod on the internet. So I sympathise with you.

You could go a free 30 mins advice with a local solicitor....?

What did the manager say...I bet he didn't phone.

Flyboy152

Of course he didn't, this is Evans Halshaw we are talking about.

pendulum

Flyboy152 wrote: »

It is not unreasonable at all. If someone had taken your car, without your permission, driven one thousand seven hundred and fifty miles in it, wouldn't you be worried what they did with it?

If someone had taken my car without my permission, then my car would have been stolen by a thief and obviously I'd be concerned.

This situation is not the same because the car hasn't been stolen, it was supposed to be in the dealers possession, and it was reasonable to expect them to drive it (test drive, drive to the paintshop, etc). The only issue is the miles driven is more than anticipated.

Why would I be "worried what they have done to it"?
It's obvious they've put some motorway miles on it, but that wouldn't worry me by itself, no.

As you've suggested the OP gets the car inspected Flyboy, I think you should state which items you think the OP should have inspected and why.