Rolling road test in the factory is normally a couple of miles IIRC - and it could have also been driven to/from a holding area in the plant/dock etc.  As Estate Man says, some cars might have an extra test (random check/corrective work etc).  Anything under 30 is nothing to worry about IMHO.

 

I've seen cars advertised with "Delivery miles only" with almost 100 miles on the clock which might be stretching it a little - but what if its one that has been delivered on the road (i.e. between 2 dealers in the same group and no transporter available) on trade plates?  It's still delivery miles..

 

I used to be a plater, still do occassionally. "Delivery milage" is normally taken to be 100 miles or less. I think the furthest I've taken a new car is Leicester to Wolverhampton.

 

There's a fair few garages that have their storage and PDI in one place, and their showroom across town, or one yard serving a few showrooms in an area.

 

Storage compounds also tend to be rather big places, quite often on old airfields. You can easily do a couple of miles taken a car off a truck, to a waiting are, to a space, then back out again. Bang "Grimsby Docks" into google maps and put it on satellite, for one that's not particularly big.

I'm an ex car salesman and as mentioned above by stevestruck, under 100 miles was the norm for new cars.

Bare in mind if you don't order a car and buy an unregistered car from dealer stock, other people may have test driven also. The big one for my garage was getting the cars picked up from the train depot to the garage, in a lot of cases cars were driven from depot to garage, somewhere in the region on 35 miles alone.

Also as mentioned on the first page, some car manufactures allow the odo to be reset if under a certain mileage, I don't know how many times it allows this though. I remember wiping about 38 miles off a brand new alfa spider by accident when fiddling about with the dash buttons. lol

Paul.

I believe the odometer can be reset a couple of times if under 100km.

 

It used to be the case. Was 3 times, as long as each reset was under 100miles or 100km (memory is a bit hazy) and that was the case up until around 2008/9 I think?

 

Anyway, in my experience most Skoda's get to the dealers with anywhere between 4 and 9miles on the clock usually. So once you factor in it being fuelled and roadtested it wouldn't be unreasonable to see 15miles (dependant upon where the fuel station is relative to the dealer and how good a roadtest it was) on a new vehicle ready for collection.

Glent

If you had the comments made to you face to face, you would be able to see the expressions & humour the other person puts into the reply.

Its not mocking its plain old banter one on one matey speech. 

 

Ps. I had 15 miles on my new car. Special order. Its just the shunting around they get.

So Please move on.

 

Have a nice day.

 

And that is said without sarcasm.  Nudge nudge/wink wink.

Years ago in the days of the start of cheap finance and before the manufacturers reducing the amount of Pre-Registered and Registered Demonstrators you used to get lots of 'used' Fords for a good price.

 

Cars from the Channel Isles. 'Used vehicles', funnily brand new, fresh  still in wrappers, and 3000 miles on the clock.

Clocked up in mileage not down.

 

Maybe someone that was buying these at the time could say want the Tax Dodge or Import story was on these supposed Ex Hire or Rental cars was.

I never bought one but my father did buy a Couple, A Diesel Granada that was in Taxi Spec and a Sierra Estate Diesel.

 

george

I Don't know why people are still commenting on this, the topic was started about 3 months ago he's probably into 4 or 5 figures on the odo and forgot all about the trivial initial post thrashing it round with a grin on his face.

Funny you are bothering to comment & add nothing to the thread..

 

I thought the OP had not yet got delivery of his new car.

Hoping for an update on it if he has.

 

george

 

 when i got it new, had 13 miles on it! i kind of think back and should of made a stink about it? 

 

 

Which bit of the above are you struggling with George?

Sorry i read the post 31st July from the OP, #60, includes,   "i cant wait for the new car".

 

So not sure regarding your quote, from original post #1 on 'his current Octavia',

but hey hoe, a reading and a posting we will go.

 

george

Which bit of the above are you struggling with George?

The OP relates to his Octavia, but he is imminently expecting the arrival of a new Monte estate, so I'm eagerly awaiting the delivery mileage figure

Years ago in the days of the start of cheap finance and before the manufacturers reducing the amount of Pre-Registered and Registered Demonstrators you used to get lots of 'used' Fords for a good price.

 

Cars from the Channel Isles. 'Used vehicles', funnily brand new, fresh  still in wrappers, and 3000 miles on the clock.

Clocked up in mileage not down.

 

Maybe someone that was buying these at the time could say want the Tax Dodge or Import story was on these supposed Ex Hire or Rental cars was.

I never bought one but my father did buy a Couple, A Diesel Granada that was in Taxi Spec and a Sierra Estate Diesel.

 

george

 

It's no coincidence that Europe's biggest vehicle remarketing company is also a rental company They buy a mass of cars, run them about for a few months, then aim to sell them for more than they bought them for.

 

Pretty awesome business model to be fair.

The OP relates to his Octavia, but he is imminently expecting the arrival of a new Monte estate, so I'm eagerly awaiting the delivery mileage figure

 

 

Monte was collected today - Delivery mileage of 8 miles!

The whole basis of this thread im not sure if you're joking or not, but i can certainly say that our collective IQ's decreased reading it

 

Europcar in the 1980s were getting rid of cars with as little as 4500 miles on the clock, that's 9 weeks old.  Mind you in the 1990s when there was a bit of a new car shortage, they bought 100 or so 1.6 Vectras from Alamo and ran them up to 40,000 miles, they were knackered when they were purchased and virtually scrap at 18 months old.

Monte was collected today - Delivery mileage of 8 miles!

 

Blimey...........it was only 6 in the other thread  

Blimey...........it was only 6 in the other thread  

6 or 8 it was still nice an low! its now on 38 miles.

6 or 8 it was still nice an low! its now on 38 miles.

 

I'm glad you have seen the light now go out an add some more with enthusiasm