What mileage would you expect when buying a brand new car?

[dave0010]

Speaking to a few people who have brought brand new cars and it seems to vary the mileage there "Brand new cars" come with. They appear to be anything up top a few hundred miles.

Personally If I was buying a brand new come car I would wont it to come with single digit mileage on it.

[Watchman]

A PDC shouldn't take more than single digit miles. Delivery should be on the back of a truck.

[monthefish]

dave0010 said:

Speaking to a few people who have brought brand new cars and it seems to vary the mileage there "Brand new cars" come with. They appear to be anything up top a few hundred miles.

Personally If I was buying a brand new come car I would wont it to come with single digit mileage on it.

Double figures is not unreasonable. Manufacturers often take the cars for test drives. (Jaguar do, or did, 100% of cars), but triple figures would be unreasonable.

[dave0010]

My friend got his new Astra from the dealer and It had 480 miles on the clock. I said he should question this but he just said they drove it from another branch.

[CooperD]

When I picked my last car bought brand new, there was 7 miles on the clock which I would assume to be the local dealership just taking it out for quick test as I know the car was delivered by truck.

[RB Will]

Having worked in the trade it varies. We used to have Elises come in that had less than 1 mile on where other cars would come in with 20 miles on which would then have a pre delivery inspection which would add further miles. Anything over 50 is a bit much though.

[Ari]

If I were buying a new car that was in stock within the group I'd be querying the mileage and then insisting that it came by truck (unless only a short distance). 480 miles (as above) is too much.

[bullitinhead]

Ive had several new cars, all the ones from renault two clio's and a scenic had less thn 30 miles on the clock
my recent( last week) slk had 490 on the clock ,but it was delivered to my door so that accounts for 200 or so the rest who knows, but it doesnt bother me really.



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[monthefish]

dave0010 said:

My friend got his new Astra from the dealer and It had 480 miles on the clock. I said he should question this but he just said they drove it from another branch.

That's not on. That's what they have car transporters for.

But if he didn't query it at the time, there's not much he can/should do now.

[Pwig]

Under 100 i'd say.

I worked at a dealership where our compound was 7 miles each way. If you had it there and back a couple of times it soon racked up the miles. Plus a PDI its easy to see 50

[Starfighter]

dave0010 said:

My friend got his new Astra from the dealer and It had 480 miles on the clock. I said he should question this but he just said they drove it from another branch.

This isn't another decimal point mis-read, is it?

[Chucklehead]

Having checked literally thousands of pdi'd cars off a transporter, by far and away the most common is 7 miles. Seen as high as 56. Seen as low as 1..

[Buster73]

I bought a pre reg 911 last year , only 13 mile on the clock but the I got them to deliver it which made it 30 miles OTC.

[Zwolf]

Depends if you mean before or after the odometer has been reset to 0 miles. Most cars have the facility to do this once or twice, so long as it is reset before 1-200 miles, so a "0 mile" car could well be a 399 mile car etc.

Miss it the first time and there's no chance for the second reset. Which is why dealers sourcing new cars from other dealers of the same franchise but out of area will tend to only source new physical stock from within 100-200 miles as sending a trade plate driver to collect it is a fraction of the cost of a transporter.

New cars that have been delivered to a dealer direct from the factory will tend to only have the mileage racked up driving off the production line and around the various storage compounds (which are huge) en route to their eventual dealership, plus a few miles for the PDI and to put some fuel in. Occasionally a few more where they get transferred between dealers in the same local group, but then the reset can be used.

[sunbeam alpine]

The last new car we had, they re-zeroed the milage at the garage. It had a few km's on (delivery/test driving).

When I asked how they did that they said it could only be done once!

[ChandlerBing]

Anything up to 50ish if brand new... 400 odd is taking the mick a bit though I think

[thinfourth2]

The wife has an ex demo panda which we picked up with 4 miles on the clock

Must of been a damn short demo

[nagsheadwarrior]

Dunno about cars but all our new Motorhomes at work come off the truck with about 15 miles or so,they come straight from the coachbuilders/converters who get the mechanical pdi done which probably explains that so surely most new cars unless they're demo stock should have only 1 or 2?

[Ozzie Osmond]

I've rented cars with lower mileages than some of you guys are buying them!

Picked up a renter in New York City with only 18 miles on it.

But get this - I collected a British registered rental car in Calais to bring back to UK with just 7 miles on the clock!

[Angelus]

CooperD said:

When I picked my last car bought brand new, there was 7 miles on the clock which I would assume to be the local dealership just taking it out for quick test as I know the car was delivered by truck.

Was it a Peugeot? The last one I picked up had 7 on it, and I was told this is how far it takes to get them out of the factory, on and off lorries/ships, in and out of the compounds used for customs and holding to the dealers. My last Vauhall had 14 miles on it. Got new one coming on the 12th, I'll be watching now.