Cayman S Delivery Mileage

[OO02ERO]

I took delivery of my new CS on 08.05.17. There were 27 miles on the clock. The salesman told me that up to 50 miles were acceptable and that miles on the clock were due to 'testing'.

I am not altogether confident of what I have been told.

What are the thoughts and experiences of others?

[Twinfan]

Mine had 12 on the clock if I remember rightly. Along with testing there are the transportation miles between trains/ferries/delivery hubs/dealerships and these can add up.

Yours sounds a little higher than normal but I wouldn't be bothered. Maybe something needed tweaking at the factory and they had to re-test it.

[Prospective]

My 718 had 6 miles on the clock I think the motor trade allows 100 miles that was a long time ago tho. I also remember vw use to reset the clock to 0 on collection it allowed this to be done once only

[Tim bo]

Seem to remember mine had around 20-30 miles on the clock on collection.

Have no issues with that - kind of expect it - and is in line with collection mileage from other marques.

[OO02ERO]

Many thanks for your responses.
The 27 mile delivery mileage is perhaps not exceptional.

[LiamH66]

According to Connect my base Cayman had 32 miles on the clock yesterday, and still has 32 miles on the clock today. Hopefully in excess of 32 miles by tomorrow evening, but I still haven't seen the car yet.

I'm not concerned about it, might be the higher mileage ones got a little more testing, but not sure that means too much.

Liam

[Rockster]

OO02ERO said:

I took delivery of my new CS on 08.05.17. There were 27 miles on the clock. The salesman told me that up to 50 miles were acceptable and that miles on the clock were due to 'testing'.

I am not altogether confident of what I have been told.

What are the thoughts and experiences of others?

When I bought a new 2002 Boxster it had about 27 miles on it. A portion of those ( ~15? ) were put on there by the salesman then me during a test ride then drive as I checked out the car which I ended up buying.

When I bought a new 2008 Cayman S (in April 2009) it had around 80 miles on it. I didn't bother to test drive the car before purchase.

I know in some cases -- probably more common than one might actually suspect -- a dealer general manager or sales manager will drive a dealer car home. This is often when the new models come out these people like to experience the cars more than they did at the intro. But the overall miles added is small because a different car is chosen every night or whenever the bug to take a dealer car home strikes.

If the mileage gets higher, in the several hundred miles range or higher, the car could have been used as a short term loaner given out to a customer to use while his car was in the shop.

But there are worse things.

A few years ago parked outside my office I spotted a car carrier just full of new <blanks> and <blanks>. While the load of competing brands of new cars initially caught my eye what I quickly noticed was the brake rotors. They were all discolored like they had been overheated.

Curious I walked up to the car carrier driver and started talking to him and he told me he just picked up the cars at an area race track where some automakers had been holding a press event a day or two prior and letting press people "track" the cars. He was on his way to drop the cars off at a place that specialized in addressing minor issues like worn or damaged tires, overheated brakes, rock chips in windshields, rock paint chips, and such. Once through this "reconditioning" he would pick up the cars and deliver them back to the dealers from where they had come where they would be put back on the lot and sold.

As an aside, a few years ago I had an occasion to have an automaker authorize a dealer some miles from me deliver a new car to me as I was working on something of interest to the automaker. The car was delivered. While in my possession I didn't drive the car but did run the engine some. When I was through I called up the dealer to pick up the car. I didn't want to drive the car. A shuttle driver delivered another dealer employee who drove the car back to the dealer. The car ended up with maybe 20 additional miles on it. But none of those miles were added by me.

Anyhow, if the miles are too big one might want to avoid the car but 27 miles is not that much.