Acceptable Delivery Mileage on a new car?
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MBD7 said:
What is generally the acceptable mileage threshold on a new car?
Is 35 miles acceptable
Yep, may have had an extended test drive at the factory, it does happen, or dropped off at the dealer premises and moved to a compound a distance away. Typically cars arrive at dealers with between 5-10 miles already showing.Is 35 miles acceptable
Do dealers get a one-time-use-only chance to reset the odometer to 0 before handover anyway, to cover for 'transportation miles'? That might be urban myth.
To answer the question I've only ever had one brand new car and the delivery driver brought it from Southampton to bloody Kendal so it had nearly 300 miles on it before I even saw it. Company car though.
To answer the question I've only ever had one brand new car and the delivery driver brought it from Southampton to bloody Kendal so it had nearly 300 miles on it before I even saw it. Company car though.
bigandclever said:
Do dealers get a one-time-use-only chance to reset the odometer to 0 before handover anyway, to cover for 'transportation miles'? That might be urban myth.
To answer the question I've only ever had one brand new car and the delivery driver brought it from Southampton to bloody Kendal so it had nearly 300 miles on it before I even saw it. Company car though.
No.To answer the question I've only ever had one brand new car and the delivery driver brought it from Southampton to bloody Kendal so it had nearly 300 miles on it before I even saw it. Company car though.
bigandclever said:
Do dealers get a one-time-use-only chance to reset the odometer to 0 before handover anyway, to cover for 'transportation miles'? That might be urban myth.
To answer the question I've only ever had one brand new car and the delivery driver brought it from Southampton to bloody Kendal so it had nearly 300 miles on it before I even saw it. Company car though.
It used to be a thing on a new Mercedes. To answer the question I've only ever had one brand new car and the delivery driver brought it from Southampton to bloody Kendal so it had nearly 300 miles on it before I even saw it. Company car though.
From memory you could reset the odometer if it was <100 miles and you could do it two or three times. Only reason I remember it is that people would get their mileage reset a couple of times when they got cars on the Mercedes employee lease scheme.
Not sure if it’s still a thing though.
These are the only new cars that i have had delivered to me all have been company cars as below.
2009 Toyota avensis 19 miles
2012 Audi A4 32 miles
2016 Audi A6 9 miles
2020 BMW 330e 113 miles
2024 VW Tiguan 49 miles
All brand new delivered to me at my house or work on the back of a lorry or a car trailer.
2009 Toyota avensis 19 miles
2012 Audi A4 32 miles
2016 Audi A6 9 miles
2020 BMW 330e 113 miles
2024 VW Tiguan 49 miles
All brand new delivered to me at my house or work on the back of a lorry or a car trailer.
Of the 7 brand new cars i've taken custodianship of (all leases), they've all had 3-15 miles on them when I've collected from the dealership or they have rolled off a trailer at my house.
I'm expecting delivery of a new ID7 tomorrow, but that is subject to my first ever 'driven delivery' from Stockport, hence likely to have 200+ miles on it when it gets to me. Not ideal, but I simply don't have the time or inclination for a 7 hour round trip.
I'm expecting delivery of a new ID7 tomorrow, but that is subject to my first ever 'driven delivery' from Stockport, hence likely to have 200+ miles on it when it gets to me. Not ideal, but I simply don't have the time or inclination for a 7 hour round trip.
this may be of interest - when I was in automotive consultancy we had a contract to carry out drive-by noise testing on new BMW Minis. Every week half a dozen would arrive fresh from the production line to be tested and then returned to then go out to customers.
It was a requirement of the legislation that the noise levels achieved in homologation had to be demonstrated to still be met during production - Conformity of Production (COP) testing. 2 out of 3 cars had to be under the limits and the third had some margin of error. I think, from memory (20+ years ago), that we had to be careful to keep them under 100 miles.
I did used to feel sorry for the new owners as the testing involved driving them up to the proving ground, around the high speed circuit and then carrying out multiple full throttle acceleration tests! Presumably, there may be other areas of homologation that also require COP testing.
There are a few interesting stories about how compliance was achieved:
Mini Cooper S would always fail on our proving ground and had to go to Germany as their tarmac service was right at the limit of acceptability for the regs and was a bit quieter.
Jaguar XK8s would fail with 20" wheels so these were a dealer fit.
also Jaguar - the supercharged models were way too noisy as an automatic will kickdown during the test and rev much higher. They were programmed so if you drove at a constant 50 km/h (the entry speed of the test) and then gave it full throttle, the kickdown was delayed for a few seconds until after the end of the test.
Some years later the test standards were updated to try to avoid these "workarounds"
It was a requirement of the legislation that the noise levels achieved in homologation had to be demonstrated to still be met during production - Conformity of Production (COP) testing. 2 out of 3 cars had to be under the limits and the third had some margin of error. I think, from memory (20+ years ago), that we had to be careful to keep them under 100 miles.
I did used to feel sorry for the new owners as the testing involved driving them up to the proving ground, around the high speed circuit and then carrying out multiple full throttle acceleration tests! Presumably, there may be other areas of homologation that also require COP testing.
There are a few interesting stories about how compliance was achieved:
Mini Cooper S would always fail on our proving ground and had to go to Germany as their tarmac service was right at the limit of acceptability for the regs and was a bit quieter.
Jaguar XK8s would fail with 20" wheels so these were a dealer fit.
also Jaguar - the supercharged models were way too noisy as an automatic will kickdown during the test and rev much higher. They were programmed so if you drove at a constant 50 km/h (the entry speed of the test) and then gave it full throttle, the kickdown was delayed for a few seconds until after the end of the test.
Some years later the test standards were updated to try to avoid these "workarounds"
myvision said:
These are the only new cars that i have had delivered to me all have been company cars as below.
2009 Toyota avensis 19 miles
2012 Audi A4 32 miles
2016 Audi A6 9 miles
2020 BMW 330e 113 miles
2024 VW Tiguan 49 miles
All brand new delivered to me at my house or work on the back of a lorry or a car trailer.
Was the BMW driven to you? Otherwise all reasonable I think.2009 Toyota avensis 19 miles
2012 Audi A4 32 miles
2016 Audi A6 9 miles
2020 BMW 330e 113 miles
2024 VW Tiguan 49 miles
All brand new delivered to me at my house or work on the back of a lorry or a car trailer.
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