Why can’t my brand new car have a 0 mileage when buying the car at the dealer shop?
By Cars & Motorcycles on Mar 25, 2009 with Comments 9
dynastywarrior asked: Instead it’s already use up more than 20 miles.
Filed Under: Buying New Car
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test drives by prospective buyers, driven between dealerships on dealer trades, first time fill up by dealership, etc.
i think they test drive them first before they sell them.
its from people test driving the car at the dealer. also they have drive the car on and off the train, truck or boat.
also some dealers drive new cars home.
Cars that sit on the lot get test driven by prospective buyers. The longer a more desirable car is on the dealers lot the more miles it will acquire.
I know ford & GM drive cars at least 5 miles just to make sure nothing catastropic happens soon as u start it up. Maybee they can calibrate you’re car to read 000000 if u order it that way from the factory. Then they probably wont give u a warranty if u dont want it road tested before delivery! Most people want to know their car is safe to drive though. Mistakes DO happen (even at Toyota) on the assembly line!
It has to be tested to make sure everything works right.
All the little things ad up.
The car gets driven of the production line and taken for a short drive around the factory complex to make sure it functions.
it gets driven into a storage facility, driven onto a truck, driven off the truck, driven onto a boat, driven off the boat, into a storage facility, onto a truck, transported to a dealers pre-delivery centre (if they have one, most do), driven off the truck into the pre-d centre. when the dealer decides to bring it onto the yard, it has to be driven out of the pre-d centre onto a truck, off again, around the yard. It may sit in the yard, where it gets moved around as stock comes and goes (particularly if a customer wants “that one” behind all the others).
All that ads up.
if it was test drives that made up the mystery 20 miles on the Odometer, finding a car with that amount on it would be rare. Dealers dont like to let customers test drive cars on the lot, they generally have a Demonstrator that accumulates the miles. Easier/more profitable to sell one car at a loss than to sell many cars with a smaller loss that ads up when mulitplied (plus, they get tax exemptions on demos)
What puts that mystery mileage on your “brand new” car is simply the logistics of getting it from the factory to you.
What are you worried about? 20 miles is absolutely nothing!!
You do know that cars can easily go for well over 100000 miles now right?
they half to drive it on and off trains and parking lots to get it to you.