Thread: What do you check on a new car?

Originally Posted by RoverLander

Hi Wilber,

Just to balance it up. I picked up my D4 one year ago. Walked in. The guys showed me around the car for an hour and were still going. I was so keen to get to drive it that I had to lie and tell them I had a dinner appointment and had to leave. I had to remind my guys that I wanted the iPod cable but that was all. The fuel tank was chocha full. Not one problem even after 25K and one long outback trip included.

Enjoy but take your time to satisfy yourself that all is ok. Good luck.

Peter

Very nice to get a good news story, I guess forums are often bad news places as people with problems seek help. I look forward to being another good newser! Errr... touch wood!

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Seems that a really good check on paintwork is the big one, but lots of other things to look at too.

Cheers all,

Paul

I know I'll be checking ours when we get it, although I can't see a real problem as it will be checked by a friend as well.

Our experience with a new car was back in 1998 when we took delivery of a new Falcon Wagon, we were going away that afternoon it was rainning and it was late and dark and I couldn't look at it properly, the dealer assured me it was all OK

Next day at our camping location we got to look at the car properly firstly the rear panels between the rear window and rear doors were not painted properly, there was water in the bottom of the rear panels (you could hear it sloshing around)and water leaking into the rear cargo area, the front windscreen was leaking quite badly (when checked it was leaking in 7 places) 2 of the door locks were faulty causing it to unlock for no reason apon inspection it had 4 different locks out of the 5 from 4 different model Falcons

So the only windows that didn't leak were the 4 passenger door windows so we had it for the weekend and it was back to the dealers for 2 weeks to be fixed, back a day, only to be back again to have the panels done(they forgot) and then again because they weren't done properly the rear door done again and again and again I love Ford dealers

Anyway that's the short story

Baz.

Originally Posted by petera

2. uneven panels (fixed)

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Originally Posted by Neil P

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Hi Neil,
the rear wheel arch passenger side did not meet evenly with it's neighbour. There was a step of about 5mm. Pretty small, but enough to send me round the twist every morning when i looked at it before driving to work.
Cheers,
Peter

Originally Posted by Graeme

My 600 kms trip home was from interstate on an unregistered vehicle permit, having been told by the salesman that I had 28 days to register the vehicle. A few days later after having driven around a bit, I read the permit: for use for 1 day using the most direct route but excluding freeways! It was a permit to move farm equipment etc. I then had to wait 2 weeks due to Christmas to get a blue-slip to get the vehicle registered.

YOU ARE KIDDING RIGHT !!!!!!