Girlfriend bought new car

shamco

My girlfriend bought and paid for a new car but when she collected it there was 20km on the odometre. Is this normal

hi5

Yes.

superbluedub

yes,car has to be checked.

corktina

"delivery mileage"

tossy

Do you expect them to carry it around the dealership/factory/docks ? perfectly normal and low enough really.

biko

It's mileage from transporting the car around.

dar83

Refund!!!

Good will gesture!!!

MuppetCheck

Mine had 7km when I went to see it, I look it for a spin and it had 26 after than and 27 when I picked it up. Perfectly normal.

Seen some unregistered cars with a couple of hundred on them which to me would be a problem but anything under 50 is acceptable.

Pov06

On the topic of new car with a small mileage driven, I was walking past Harris Hino in Kylemore and noticed one of their trucks driving past without registration plates.

It was so clean it managed to catch my attention. I don't think I've ever seen a clean truck driving past :eek:

thomas anderson.

No.

I'd take it back and ask for a new one, still in the box

vibe666

thomas anderson. wrote: »

No.

I'd take it back and ask for a new one, still in the box

and make sure that the sticky tape on the box hasn't been tampered with!

_Kaiser_

thomas anderson. wrote: »

No.

I'd take it back and ask for a new one, still in the box

vibe666 wrote: »

and make sure that the sticky tape on the box hasn't been tampered with!

Ah come on lads.. the OP asked a fair question. OK most of us would know the answer, but there's no need for the slagging/mocking - it's what puts people off this forum as happened in another thread the other day.

SleeperService

dar83 wrote: »

Refund!!!

Good will gesture!!!

New seat at the very least. Euuuwwww.

Cabaal

chap I know got a new car last week and it had 50km on it, all normal

Comhrá

I got a new Audi A3 Saloon last month. It came with 67km on the odometer.
Car was pristine inside and out. Could have come off the assembly line that morning. I went over it with a fine-tooth comb.

Salesman told me the Main Audi dealer was unable to deliver it for a few days because they were very stretched, so one of the sales staff where I bought it had to collect it at the main dealer and drive it to the garage for my collection.

I had no problem with that. Otherwise it would have been the following week before I got it and I was anxious to have the new wheels.

Delighted with the car by the way.

yop

No way, they must have been joyriding it. Like getting new jox and the store worker had them on for 5 days before u bought them!

godtabh

I got a new car awhile ago and it had 67,000km on it

whomitconcerns

i have an image of the two guys from the garage in Ferris Buellers day off out driving your car!! but yes it is normal

godtabh

whomitconcerns wrote: »

i have an image of the two guys from the garage in Ferris Buellers day off out driving your car!! but yes it is normal

In my youth I worked in a fairly well known Dublin car park that had a nice race track marked out. Any nice cars that came in were rallied about. One or two accidents!

Mc Love

godtabh wrote: »

In my youth I worked in a fairly well known Dublin car park that had a nice race track marked out. Any nice cars that came in were rallied about. One or two accidents!

You have got to be kidding?

120_Minutes

whomitconcerns wrote: »

i have an image of the two guys from the garage in Ferris Buellers day off out driving your car!! but yes it is normal

Was about to post this.

"Do you speak English?"

"Ehhhh....what country do you think this is?"

biko

Some posts removed. If someone posts what is in your opinion a silly question it does not give you licence to ridicule them or stray off-topic.

This forum is as much a forum for newbs as it is for petrolheads, and every single petrolhead was a newb once.

R.O.R

Lowest I've ever had in was 4km, but most come with between 10-20km on the clock.

They are generally driven off the production line, to the train or transporter. They'll be driven off the train/transporter at port of exit, then on to the boat. Off the boat at Dublin/Cork docks, and on to a transporter. Off the transporter at the compound. Back on to a transporter in the compound, and off at the dealership.

Little bit of shunting around at the dealership, possibly up to the fuel station and back again, so it all adds up eventually.

By the time you get your brand new car, you could be the 6th or 7th (or more) person to sit in the driver's seat.

whomitconcerns

BMJD

it was probably clocked from 50km

Anan1

It used to be possible to reset the odo on new VAG cars to zero a couple of times once it hadn't reached a certain figure - 100 miles or so.

Supergurrier

yop wrote: »

No way, they must have been joyriding it. Like getting new jox and the store worker had them on for 5 days before u bought them!

Time for some lunges !

jpb14

shamco wrote: »

My girlfriend bought and paid for a new car but when she collected it there was 20km on the odometre. Is this normal

Dont let the car valeters near it.They will only wreck it on her.:pac:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055509381

mickdw

Yes normal.
Mine had 14km on it and that was a factory order and wasnt hanging around the dealership more than the length it took to get it ready for delivery. I can imagine cars that are taken into stock could end up with a few more miles.

darragh o meara

I remember driving my bosses new car a few days after it was registered and it had 10k on the clock. Back then though there was plenty of dealers buying for themselves in October and driving on garage plates and registering in January, which btw is what he had done

In pretty sure you can't do that now though..

bkehoe

Got a new car last october with around 12km on it. Saw it the day it came off the transporter with all the protection still on it and it had 3km. One of the items the dealers has to do as part of the PDI is a road test to check everything is OK on the road which then explains the extra distance driven.

ironclaw

Anan1 wrote: »

It used to be possible to reset the odo on new VAG cars to zero a couple of times once it hadn't reached a certain figure - 100 miles or so.

Heard this as well. Its like Valet mode, think its termed 'Dealer Mode'

BigAl81

Hey,

I worked a summer in Audi in Ingolstadt near Munich and as cars come off the production line they were driven to a test area, similar to the NCT, and driven a bit on some rollers on the floor.

After that they were driven to a huge outdoor car park for a bit, then later driven on to a truck or train.

That would definitely explain a few kms anyway.

Go team!

martinr5232

thomas anderson. wrote: »

No.

I'd take it back and ask for a new one, still in the box

And make sure the spanner and allen key are in the box to put it together :-D

Seriously though you will never see a car with zero miles.

DaveJac

i worked in a ford dealership had too pick up a new focus in another dealership 30 kms away, i only found out then you can reset the mileage back too 0 3 times if you dont go over 19kms, so i got too 19k pulled in reset it, drove on again got back too the garage reset it again customer got there new car the day after with 0 on the clock when there really was nearly 60 so even if you get a new car might be more milage on it than there actually is, but woulndt worry about it

Bpmull

I've been with my parents when they have collected various new cars and vans. The vans would often have a few 100 km on them while the cars would normally have less although there might still be 100-200 km on them. The lowest I've ever seen on a car they got was the most recent one the octavia 2 km on the clock I wouldn't see it as an issue either way provided your only talking a few hundredh kms max.

lomb

One of the perks of being garage staff is driving new cars 'roadtesting' them.
I was in a main dealer and the sales man took it as a badge of honour that he drove them (Merc demo prereg 141 cars with 1000 miles on them)

The only way youll get a new seat and make sure your the first to sit in it is to order one at the parts counter and bolt it in.

Jesus.

tippman1 wrote: »

I got a new Audi A3 Saloon last month

Tipp, what do you make of them? What engine did you get?

H3llR4iser

shamco wrote: »

My girlfriend bought and paid for a new car but when she collected it there was 20km on the odometre. Is this normal

It is normal, and it's actually quite low. If I bought a new car and found the odometer saying "0", I'd be very worried - more or less in the "did they even check it stays together?" kind of way .

In 2001 I spend about four months on a course at the Alfa Romeo factory near Naples; All of the 147s and 156s coming out of the line would be driven for a few laps around the test track at the back of the facility - most of the times driven by a member of the staff at a "civilized pace"; Proper test drivers would randomly select a few and give them a more torough shakedown...let's say that if you saw them on track, you wouldn't have been keen on buying that particular 156 or 147