Printable View
If they've used "your" car for a demo, that is B.S.
I would not be happy. Before you've bought it, yes, that's OK, but after it's yours, No Way.
I'd reckon maximum no of ks should be no more than 30/40, but just on factory test/shipping/ moving around Dealer, pre delivery etc. I understand that "New" cars are demo'd with trade plates on 'em etc, but IMHO if a car is sold, then it should be "put out the back", until the new owner picks it up.
Cheers, Pickles.
What Garry said.Quote:
Originally Posted by garrycol
I'd be talking to your consumer watch people about this. In this country, there are laws about misrepresentation.
Also, if you ordered this vehicle and it was shipped for you, then your contract exists from the time they accepted your order. It was yours when it left the factory and has been since.
Wonder what they would have said if he'd pranged it.
Years ago a case came out about dealers disconnecting speedo cables and driving new cars from Sydney to Melbourne.
Turns out Voltron drove it while I was negotiating accessories and price and it wasnt quite sold when he drove it. At least according to the dealer.
I would have thought they would keep the new ones new and have a demo to test drive. Seems I was wrong and this is normal.
We bought my wifes car as a demo, with 26kms. The dealer told us they have to sell a vehicle before (as a demo), 500kms or 6months in yard, whichever comes 1st.
I was happy to get 12K off at those kms..
Dealers usually get a 'special' price for registering a vehicle as a demonstrator, hence they can sell it on at a special price (and still make a profit). It's basically a marketing cost that the car company 'helps out with'.
If it 'wasn't quite sold' when someone else drove it, was it registered or being driven on trade plates ? If already registered then they must have had it on the fleet as a demonstrator.
Colin
I worked for a truck dealer many years ago and we delivered them with a few of thousand km's still as new. The K's where put on because they were driven from the factory to the port in the US, off loaded in Melbourne and drive to Brisbane.
A couple of thousand K's in the life of a truck that would do a few million wasn't much concern.
As mentioned earlier the terms "new" and "demo" relate to the vehicles registration status not the mileage on the vehicle. In saying that once sold and the contract signed, it cannot be made available to others to test drive and should only be driven for the purposes of preparing it for delivery.
Mines already got more than that and I haven't seen it yet! Lol. Seeing as how mine was the only 90 on the lot I'm guessing they sold their demo, of they ever had one and just used this one and asked people to keep it short so they could still sell it as new.Quote:
Originally Posted by WingsOfToa
Mine had 1,000 k's on it when I first saw it and test drove it (it was a demo, already registered). I signed the paperwork to buy it at the same time and picked it up a week later - no additional k's had been recorded during that time.
Sounds like they put the dealer plates on the vehicle.
To be officially a demonstrator it has to have been registered to the dealer and so is sold to you as second hand. It would still be worthwhile talking to your motoring association or the Office of Fair Trading in your state.