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Embarrassed to say
Jesus i once had a new ford that had 40 miles on it, they said it was okay for delivery mileage. My cup had 11 miles on it.
Mine had 36 because it was delivered to one dealership in the chain and because I didnt want to wait they had the cancelled ordered one driven up to the dealership I was buying it from. All of the new cars I have owned have had a mixture of 5-40 miles on the clock. A friend of mine is a salesman at another brand and he says that he has seen cars go out with 200 miles on the clock.
Cheers
Simon.
doesnt this apply to all new cars or are you just saying that because it is a sporty model that they get ragged about all over the place or taken home with the manager?
Anyway, mine had 9 miles on it but I know the saleman took it to the petrol station to fill it up so a couple or so miles will be from that.
200 cup (van blanc)
4 miles - and i know the salesman ! i only got half a tank of optimax tho!!
139 miles - delivery from Sheffield to my house.
Mercedes SLK350
6 miles
51miles. I questioned it with someone quite high up within Renault, apparently all the sport models now go through quite a regarous (sp) road test before delivery. I was old to expect anhing between 25-60 miles on a V6 255.
James if (or should that be when
) you buy a new V6 255, it will come with higher delivery milage than your Mk1.
You would be surprised by the number of people who drive the cars before they reach you as i load unload the cars from the boats at southampton docks including the renaults into CAT UK and in england alone from ship to dealer at least 6 different people would have driven a single car.
1 from ship to cat compound or 2 if car is in tight spot on ship and break out crue moved it while waiting for next driver.
1 road test for cat drives it to wash bay if room if not then gets parked up and someone else tkes it to wash later.
1 from wash to QC and valeting prodution line
1 from there to finished car holding area in CAT
1 from CAT to redbridge compound
1 transport driver loading unloading transporter.
Most Cars arrive in uk with about 4 miles on clock
BTW this dosnt apply to the v6 as only special staff are allowed any where near these cars even from boat to cat only trusted full time staff drive them.
[Edited by KillemHall on 24 September 2004 at 12:26pm]
ClioSport 182
7 kms and only two drops of petrol in the tank (not sure if it was 98 ron though!).
KnightAzul
Cheers everyone. Ill give the dealer a buzz tomorrow and this is not a question I have asked yet.
This is the first brand new car I have ever had and it would just feel a bit odd to step into it with 30+ miles on the clock. I would immeadiately start thinking "What the f**k have they been doing with my £20K motor"
