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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: JellyCat on 04 November 2009, 22:35
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Just a thought, based on nothing but my ponderings as I sat in a nice new GTI on a test dive to check out DSG if it's worth it.....
I did a couple of test drives in cars, and I started to wonder if they were for clients of the various dealers I went to see (i.e. dealer goes yes we have a 5 door manual and a DSG coming in next week if you want to try etc.)
Then you take it out for 30, floor it on a motorway and think hmm nice.
Then the next bloke does the same
Then the next block crunches the gears and does the same
Until there's about 100 miles on the clock
It's given a serious clean, check over and then delivered to you.
Where you drive lower than 4,000rpm or whatever it is for the next 1,000 miles or so thinking I've looked after the engine without knowing a couple of punters have taken the car out for a quick thrashing test drive.
Is your nice new car sat in the showroom as a “sold car†getting drooled over, don’t forget the amount of people having a sit in the car from the old git to the fat middle-aged middle lane hogging at 60mph git who will probably fart in the car, to the 5 year old with jam \ chocolate \ food of some description all over his \ her hands.
Also if the Golf R will not have any dealer test cars ordered, then I guess does that mean if we test drive one it's poor sod's car who’s waiting for it to be delivered?
Any thoughts or is it just me being cynical?
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It's just you mate.
Would you accept a 'new' car with 100 miles on the clock?
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lol
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Dealers used to be able to re zero the odometers twice provided it didnt go over 100 miles. What does that tell you?
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Its just you as the car you test drive would have to be at least pre registered so unless you were blind or extremely daft you might notice the registration is the same as the one you were tear arsing along the road :laugh:
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Don't know about being daft. I guess I'd have to have special powers like you must have as the car didn't have a registration number therefore I couldn't tell it it was pre-registered as it didn't have any number plates, they'd used trade plates, and it wasn't offered to me for sale even though it was almost an identical spec I was looking for.
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Over the years I'd say 30% of my test drives gave been in unplated cars carrying just trade plates. Onecar we even removed the cardoard packing from the interior for the test drive! Looking back it probably had the transit blocks in place too!!
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of course - all "brand new" cars get mashed on the delivery run at the very least.
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I never hammer a car on a test drive, more interested in the feeling \ comfort etc, I don't think most people do go out and thrash a car on a test drive (as it's a newish car to them and on a public road etc etc). For the mk5 test drive about 4 years back that was on a car that had been ordered for someone (was down for someone at the local council as a company car).
Does make you think (and hope that people treat with care if they do test you car!)
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"Then you take it out for 30, floor it on a motorway and think hmm nice.
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It's given a serious clean, check over and then delivered to you"
Not sure if I've understood you but are you saying "you" have test drove it, then it was then test driven by a couple of others before finally being offered to "you"?
I don't mean "you" as in "you personally" but the same person that originally test drove it.
That's what your OP reads to me.
If so, I think the person that was involved in the process must be extremely naive or silly.
You take a test drive in a white 3 door DSG with X extras then in a few weeks the garage offers you a white 3 door DSG with X extras. It doesn't take Sherlock to figure out it is the same car, even without a registration number. :grin:
How many GTI's are actually going spare around the country?
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I thought they get transported to the dealer (then depending on where you live you either pick it up or they drive it you (I recall on the last one I had an option for it to be transported and not driven (so I took up the offer, came with about 80 miles on the clock).
The dealer where I've ordered the Mk6 do have their cars transported (especially just before the plate changes in Sept \ March) Remember seeing them when dropped in for car to be serviced or seat runner fixing.
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I thought they get transported to the dealer (then depending on where you live you either pick it up or they drive it you (I recall on the last one I had an option for it to be transported and not driven (so I took up the offer, came with about 80 miles on the clock).
not always, depends how far away it is and what the transport costs are. a lot of the time the car will be driven halfway across the country (not gently)
where do you think your 80 miles came from?
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Yep, that's what I guessed. Fingers crossed it's not pushed that hard.
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Well, mine had 15 miles on the clock when I picked it up. I hope somebody had fun for that 15 miles!
Rolfe.
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8 miles on mine :smiley:
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I once showed up at Glasgow airport on the last plane from Gatwick, and was given the keys to the hire car I'd booked. I'd asked for a small runabout for the weekend, no need for lots of luggage space or more than one passenger.
I pushed my luggage trolley through the rain to the car park space indicated, to find a Focus with four (4) miles on the clock.
Rolfe.
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I once showed up at Glasgow airport on the last plane from Gatwick, and was given the keys to the hire car I'd booked. I'd asked for a small runabout for the weekend, no need for lots of luggage space or more than one passenger.
I pushed my luggage trolley through the rain to the car park space indicated, to find a Focus with four (4) miles on the clock.
Rolfe.
and....? perhaps it was a new car? hire companies do get new cars you know....
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Oh yes, it was brand new. I was just a bit shocked to get it! And that it had managed to get into the car hire company's parking spot, all ready for a customer, and acquire only 4 miles in the process.
Nice car, although the first thing that happened was that I got copped for doing about 42 in a 30 mile zone half an hour later, then when I finally got to my mother's house we had to clear a load of junk out of the garage at midnight to get the Focus in. It was longer than anything else I'd ever tried to get in there, and no way was I leaving a brand spanking new car out overnight in a driveway in Wishaw. Especially one that wasn't mine and had a £500 insurance excess!
Rolfe.
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we got a brand new octavia scout hire car when we went snowboarding. caned it to the mountain, caned it up the mountain and caned it down the mountain. it had 8 km on the clock when we picked it up :evil:
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In response to the original question, it wouldn't surprise me if the dealers took people out in cars already allocated to a new owner, but I'd guess that rather than upset a cash paying customer it would be more likely they used one of their fleet department lease cars as the company car driver that would be taking delivery would, I'm sure, be generally less fussy than a private owner. Mind you nothing would surprise me.
Also a lot of demo cars don't get that much of a thrashing necessarily. When I've been out in very low mileage cars the salesman has been at pains to make sure the car isn't thrashed. Not that I'd believe they gave a monkeys about the car, more likely they get fed up sitting next to nutters having to wonder whether the 5 star NCAP rating will save their bacon if the prospective customer launches the thing into a tree trunk.
As for hire cars, well yeah they get bought by the hire companies for peanuts, thrashed from the word go and are generally sold on after only about 1000 miles. The hire companies, in this country at least, make very little money from the actual hiring. Their profit comes when they sell the cars on again for more than they paid for them brand new.
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I would just be pleased you didnt get the car that i test drove... with only 5miles on the clock :wink: :lipsrsealed:
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I specced my car and it had 3 miles on the clock when i picked it up,i told the salesman "NO ONE IS TO DRIVE MY CAR BEFORE I PICK IT UP"i doubt they would let anyone test drive your car especially if its got a private plate on it.
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I specced my car and it had 3 miles on the clock when i picked it up,i told the salesman "NO ONE IS TO DRIVE MY CAR BEFORE I PICK IT UP"i doubt they would let anyone test drive your car especially if its got a private plate on it.
it would have had the arse wrung off it for 3 miles.
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I specced my car and it had 3 miles on the clock when i picked it up,i told the salesman "NO ONE IS TO DRIVE MY CAR BEFORE I PICK IT UP"i doubt they would let anyone test drive your car especially if its got a private plate on it.
it would have had the arse wrung off it for 3 miles.
Well we will never know and with 3 years warranty who cares :rolleyes: