Main dealer cars do short journey's daily, bad buy?
Main dealer cars do short journey's daily, bad buy?
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AlexNJ89

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3,202 posts

108 months

Sunday 26th May 2019
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Wish the title allowed more characters.

Basically, my Dad is thinking about buying a car from a BMW main dealer and the main dealer is situated in a smaller town outside the city centre. Some of the staff (possibly all of them) are allowed to take cars that are for sale home on evenings and weekends.

Which means that a brand new car has 150 miles worth of short journeys on the clock already. So imagine having 2x 3min drives per day on the car for the first 150 miles.

The reason I know is that I live in the same town and so do all of the staff so I see them on a daily basis driving the cars home and parking them on their drive at night and we saw the car we're interested in parked on a driveway.

Is this something I should be put off by or will the cars still be ok because they are new?


Olivergt

2,243 posts

110 months

Sunday 26th May 2019
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They will be fine.

AlexNJ89

Original Poster:

3,202 posts

108 months

Sunday 26th May 2019
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Olivergt said:
They will be fine.
Cool thanks

SCEtoAUX

4,119 posts

110 months

Sunday 26th May 2019
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AlexNJ89 said:
Wish the title allowed more characters.
You could have saved one by not putting an apostrophe in a simple plural.

Yes I'm a pedant and I hate myself for it.

AlexNJ89

Original Poster:

3,202 posts

108 months

Sunday 26th May 2019
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SCEtoAUX said:
You could have saved one by not putting an apostrophe in a simple plural.

Yes I'm a pedant and I hate myself for it.
Lol thanks, not normally such a grammar criminal but hey ho

Nickp82

3,943 posts

122 months

Sunday 26th May 2019
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The cars the staff drive will be demonstrators not brand new cars so if your father is buying brand new there is nothing to worry about.
I mean, there is nothing to worry about on the demonstrators doing short journeys either to be fair.

ATM

21,317 posts

248 months

Monday 27th May 2019
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AlexNJ89 said:
SCEtoAUX said:
You could have saved one by not putting an apostrophe in a simple plural.

Yes I'm a pedant and I hate myself for it.
Lol thanks, not normally such a grammar criminal but hey ho
Short trips daily