a new car with mileage ?

Question

My mom just bought a new car it had 150 miles on it. the sales person said all cars have that much from driving them to thier destination. i bought a new car and it had 4 miles on it . something sounds fishy. what do you think. ?

Answer 1

the small mileage is also due to test drives as well

Answer 2

What, you think they've all been driven the same distance? It's not unusual though 150 miles would be on the high side. One time I bought a new car and the only one available that was the color and style with options I wanted was at a dealership 120 miles away. Sure enough when I took possession it had 128 miles on it.

Dealerships move cars around and not always on trucks. DealerA may find he has too many Camaros, so he makes a deal with DealerB to take them in exchange for Suburbans.

Answer 3

Cars are test driven and moved around the lot quite a bit. It sounds like this car may have been traded from one dealer to another, this is a common practice amongst dealers. Nothing wrong with 150 miles the warranty assumes it has zero and does not include the mileage, double check your purchase order contract it should list the mileage.

Answer 4

It could have miles from people test driving it also. My car had 31 miles on it when I bought it, but it had only been on the lot for a few days, so I guess how long it was on the lot must be taken into account.

As for destination miles, I am not sure.

Answer 5

Actually this is a very good question, and it all depends on how thew car lot buys its new cars. Many car lots buy their cars new from Auction accounts with companies such as Manheim, this is particularly prevelent with Dodge and Crysler cars, these cars get moved constantly around a very large car lot for various sales stages such as detailing and final cleaning and this can easily put quite a few miles on a car before a dealer buys it and oftenly the auction company hires porter fleets to transport the cars by driving them, this distance usually doesn't exceed 60 miles but this all adds up. GM and Ford do this far less because they have particularly strict requirements on how their cars are parked in the Auction environment.

Answer 6

no theres nothing fishy about that. 150 miles can add up really fast... 4 or 5 test drives or driving to destination can be 150 miles easily.

Answer 7

The salesman could be right. I used to work for a dealership and we would go on dealer trades. Drive 1 or more cars to and bring 1 or more cars back. Also could be from test drives from consumers or even sales peoples.

Answer 8

Depends on how the car was delivered.

When we bought our last car, the dealer didn't have one stock - but there was one in stock at a dealer 50 miles away. He had it driven over so we could take delivery of it. It was faster than waiting to get it loaded onto a truck, or ordering one from the factory directly.

Answer 9

It vaires depending on how much the car was test driven and where the dealer bought it from. For example the dealer that your mom bought the car from could have brought it from another lot.

Answer 10

150 miles sounds about right, sometimes they do test drives or stuff on them that can put a few miles on them, i wouldnt worry too much about it.. some times just a couple test drives can rack up a few hundred miles

Answer 11

These miles came from the fact the car was traded to the dealer where bought.This is called dealer trade.It allows you to get cars from other dealers for sale.