Will your new car be used as a test drive mule while awaiting delivery?

[JellyCat]

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?

[gossa]

It's just you mate.

Would you accept a 'new' car with 100 miles on the clock?

[JellyCat]

lol

[percymon]

Dealers used to be able to re zero the odometers twice provided it didnt go over 100 miles. What does that tell you?

[p3asa]

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  

[JellyCat]

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.

[percymon]

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!!

[shrocco]

of course - all "brand new" cars get mashed on the delivery run at the very least.

[JellyCat]

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!)

[p3asa]

"Then you take it out for 30, floor it on a motorway and think hmm nice.
....
....
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.  
How many GTI's are actually going spare around the country?