Thread: How many Kms should a "new" car have?

Originally Posted by JamesB71

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.

Well, I guess that does put a slightly different light on things....if ya'd not "signed on the dotted line", I suppose, strictly speaking, he could've still bought the vehicle.
As far as "demos" are concerned, I wouldn't think there'd be many "Demo" 90s around. Sure there'd be a few, but not that many Defenders are in stock/sold any more...just 16000 sold worlwide last year, some Dealers wouldn't even have one in stock. Many sales, like ours, are "bought", then an order is sent to the U.K., and it goes on the build program?
I reckon that if your 90 is all spick & span with accessories fitted as you've specified, ya're gonna forget all this stuff "At the speed of a thousand Gazelles", and you are going to be super happy.
Cheers, Pickles.

If they were useing the car as a demo before you brought it then it's a demo rego or not no way I would pay new car price if they want new car price ask for a new car.
Dealer told you it was new but others had test drove it he seems to be playing on words and useing the law as an excuse all very dodgy to me would you trust him to service your car. new fuel filter just tryed it on my car last week same thing he is saying about car.

I had a new Freelander delivered to me by the dealer here in the UK which had 98 miles on the clock when it reached me. Not sure where it had been as the only accessories were dealer fit and it was only 8 miles from their dealership to my place.

Was not around when they turned up and no one would sign for it. The delivery driver was in a hurry and just left the keys with the receptionist. Now I have possession of a car without signing for it. Contacted finance company who said would not pay dealer until I signed off on possession. It was 2 months later before had a phone call from the dealer asking if I wanted to book the car in for a first running in service? Once I agreed they were very keen to fax over the paper work to sign for the car so they could be paid.

A new "car" I'm looking at has 890 'pre-delivery' km on it, but it dosent exactly fit on your regular car carrier

Back in the 1970s it wasn't unusual for new cars to be driven from the depot in Sydney to the dealer in small country towns. They weren't delivered by truck.

So if you bought a new car in Narrabri, it would have over 500km on it. I delivered one as a favour for a car dealer that I knew quite well. So it arrived in the showroom with over 500km on it.

However, that was 40 years ago. I guess things have changed since then.

Maybe hasn't changed that much. Some of the guys at work talk about delivering vehicles as a 2nd job for the local Toyota dealer. Doesn't happen as often now as apparently they bought a delivery truck.

They said it was great delivering new cars but not so great driving back in some pretty dodgy trade ins.

I had the same problem and only noticed the car had been driven (and damaged) as a demo on several ocasions after it was delivered to me by the LR dealer. They use dealer registration plates and claim the vehicle is still 'new' until the day it's registered. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do (I tried) as it's common practice and some dodgy LR dealers get away with it

Mine had 9.

In the end, it doesn't really matter. It's still under warranty, if something doesn't feel right you can add some more k's to get it sorted.