How many k's on delivery ?
 

Just wondering what sort of variation there is with the amount of kilometres showing on your odometer when picking up your car @ delivery. How many k's did your car have before you drove off in it?

I'm guessing there should be little variation since all cars come off the same line, into the boat, off boat to a holding yard before transport to dealer.

Lets also see if there is any variation from state to state.

14 on mine

11 on mine.

7 on mine

8 on mine.

9 on mine.

7 on mine

22 on mine !!!!!!!!!!!!!

mine got thrashed...

i checked the average fuel consumption and it was at 20-25L /100

After about 100km ... it dropped to 10-11 L

so yes, mine got thrashed for the 1st 20km before i took delivery... FKN bAstards

is that a bad thing?

By the customer who has purchased it & is handing the 40K chq over for it, agreed ?

Brand new cars are transported to dealers, not driven !

Read my first post. You know, the one you thanked. My Clio had 28kms at delivery. I dint care if someone took it for a run first. I've done 350kms now.

What if the dealer doesn't have a fuel pump and the nearest one is 4kms away. Would you want them to give you a car with an empty tank instead?

And which dealers have you worked at to be this authority on the industry?

that's definitely not the case all the time.

I used to work for Toyota ! If a dealer uses trade plates to drive a vehicle they run the risk of damaging it.

6km on the ODO when it arrived at the dealer.

Dealer said it will likely be 9 or 10km when I pick the car up. Will let you know the actual reading when I do pick the car up.

Most car's arrive at the dealer with sub 10km. If the dealer takes it for a pre purchase inspection and notices something, they may have to put on an extra few km.

I used to worry about this same thing, but honestly, if they thrash it, and they brake it, I would rather it happens before I take delivery than have a CEL issue pop up a week later. I will be checking the paint with a magnifying glass before driving off. :)

Anything under 20km I wouldn't bother questioning, but if you are paranoid like I was, ask to see the car the moment it arrives at the dealer. As in, before they can do anything to it.

Sure thing buddy. Every dealer drives cars on trade plates. EVERY DEALER!

All is at the discretion of the dealer. The service dept will check the vehicle to make sure it all appears OK, they will test drive it if they wish although it isn't necessary. Test drives would be kept to a bare minimum.

I would expect a dealer to road test every new car before handover to customers. It is actually part of the pre-delivery inspection process. How is it fueled without being driven. Cars are registered on the day of delivery so they will be moved on trade plates until the day of collection.

Doesn't need to be, there's already fuel in it.

You have no idea. None, nudda, zip, zero, zilch. You get the idea. All cars from all brands are delivered running on fumes. You clearly were not at Toyota for long because everyone in the industry knows this.

I may be coming across as rude, but misinformation like you're giving here is misleading and foolish. Someone will believe it and it all snowballs from there.

so some dealers deliver their cars with full tank of fuel while some don't.

please let me know how the discrepency happen?

by your statement above, if cars don't get filled up locally, shouldn't all cars be delivered with the same fuel level (unless the factory fill up random amounts in diff cars).

If there's 5 litres in the tank it would average 50k, agreed?

does that mean my first tank of gas is JDM100octane!

but my car was delivered with full tank of fuel, not 5L. and you said they don't get fueled up by the dealer.....

lol at this thread... =P

In the grand scheme of things 20kms is nothing. Most of you probably did more than 20kms in your first day of driving! I know I did. I bet if your car had 2kms when you drove away and then it broke down down the road you'd be exclaiming that this is an outrage and that the dealer should have test driven. Well... You can't have it both ways.

If it's damaged during this process, then it's a completely different story. But we're not talking about that.

Just fyi. I had something in the low 20s on the dial when I received mine.

If it doesn't you should cancel your order.

Actually, this raises a valid point, something I've been thinking about. Do we know if dealers typically put povvo petrol in for pickup (to save a few bucks) or do they put the premium stuff in? I've read it should be premium all the way with the 86, anyone had any experience of this?

Worth picking it up empty in my opinion so you can guarantee it has the top stuff for it's first full tank. Does it matter?

:thanks: to everyone on here, waiting for my March 2013 delivery!

To be frank, we're not c***s out to steal every last dollar. Nearly all dealers, if not all will put 98 octane into the car. Why would we jeopardize an engine for the sake of saving about $3 a tank?

My question exactly, but it does happen.
Every car i've bought has been on fumes when I bought it, if they put anything in it it'd be a step up.

Not all dealers are as pure as the driven snow either, any search on Allcars showing them selling ex-demo GTS manuals for 50K (plus on-road) will tell you that.

No probs with my own dealer though!

No, I said there's fuel in it. It is splashed at the factory . . . . . geeeee !

To whoever said 25L/100k, this shows that your car was probably mainly driven at LOW speeds, as your fuel consumption increases the slower you go. It's fuel used over distance, the slower you go, your engine uses less fuel due to lower load of drag, but you are still using more fuel to cross the distance.
And for km itself, depending on how it's loaded and held, if its the 1st on, it drives longest on and off yeah? Then it depends how they are parked, driven in the park, the PDI, if there was a minor problem that needed fixing, how far the petrol station is that takes the company fuel card from dealer, if the car got delivered at one dealer for bulk but needed to go to another branch for customer delivery etc. many little factors. I know everyone would love to have 0 km on the clock, but in the prospective 200k, what is 20?
And in retrospect, each GTR is trashed around a test "track" prior to leaving the plant, albeit by Nissan engineers and test drivers.
As long as I have warranty, I wouldn't care if the car had less than ~50km on it (over that I would be asking questions and reasons and for freebies)

did i say it isnt brand new ? Did i complain about it. NO ... is the KM's excessive ? yes , compared to the other 86's...

How about people check the average fuel consumption when they pick up their cars, so then i at least have something to compare to...

when you set it to actual fuel consumption and the car is idling it says 0.


What else explains the average fuel consumption to be that high monty. ?

Reset your trip computer and wait about 60 seconds. :D

I've given you multiple reasons why those kilometres are completely acceptable. Your belief that the car has been thrashed is completely misguided but "fuck the dealers" right?

hmmmm... additional 6-12 month wait to get a new order delivered or get over the fact the car has an extra couple of km's

we are LITERALLY talking about a trip to the shops and back.. jesus christ some people are whingers.

so long as the car is free from defects/dings/damage, i would take delivery. Hell these things are walking out the door dealers are selling demonstrators for more than RRP and theyre moving them.

Did i say the dealers thrashed it ? no. Do I know where most of those 22km's were put on? no... F*ck me, SOME of you dealers get so defensive.

I think Tint was done at the dealership (mobile tint guys), also there is a petrol station about 1km from the dealership. Just a bit bummed that most of the cars had about 10km and mine had double that. Someone somewhere down the line had a bit of a joyride on my 40k investment. Am i happy about that ? No. should i complain about it... I couldnt give a sh*t.

I don't care if it is thrashed. I just wanted to be the one to be the 1st to thrash it if it was in the end.

Got my car in for the 1 month check up. All good. I jumped into it and all the red stitching on the gear knob was black from greasy hands. Spoke to the service guy and all he said was sorry. We both Spent a bit of time cleaning it, still looks ok, well i just shrugged my shoulders and said, you need to tell them to wear gloves or wash their hands as im sure the next guy will complain to get it changed.

Not sure if your referring to me. I wouldn't give up the car for those extra km's

Car was free of defects, except for the swirl marks when it was detailed. I just ignored it.

Quoted because you forgot what you posted.

yeah ... and

Did i say dealer thrashed it or who thrashed it. Did I say who put the extra Km's on it ? I think you assumed I accused the dealer.

I rather be the one to thrash it, IF it was thrashed.

Well, we got it from the same dealer with about the same amount of KM's

@davey90 how many KM's did you have ?