What's your limit on mileage for a new car?

[oiprocs]

Most of time that you buy a new car, it'll have a mileage reading of anywhere between 3-15 miles. Or so I think.

Anyway, what is your upper limit? How many miles it is going to take for you to say "it's a nice car, but I want one that has fewer miles".

Edited with help from BeauJangles

Edited again for pollage reasons

 

[ViviTheMage]

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[Vehemence]

I want to watch it be delivered there so I can be certain I'm taking her fresh.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: oiprocs
Most of time that you buy a new car, it'll have a mileage reading of anywhere between 3-15 miles. Or so I think.

Anyway, what is your upper limit? How many miles it is going to take for you to say "it's a nice car, but I want one that has less miles".

Fewer miles.

Doesn't really matter to me. I always plan on putting 80k+ on my cars, so what's a few miles here and there?

 

[hanoverphist]

ive never bought a car with less than 65k on it... =/

 

[Tiamat]

Econobox: don't really care

Sporty car: 0 miles

 

[oiprocs]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
Econobox: don't really care

Sporty car: 0 miles

0 miles? So if six people test drive the same car within the same month, and it now has 8 miles on it, what happens to it if no one wants it?

 

[JulesMaximus]

I was the first one to drive my car on city streets and the only person to test drive it. It had 3 miles on it and still had the plastic sheets they use to protect the paint during shipping when I test drove it.

My wife's car had something like 15 or 20 miles on it after our test drive.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

There are many small car companies that either can't afford a transporter or, can't wait for another company with a few cars to transport so as to share the cost. Enter drivers like me when I was young and restless. Pick up a new car from the docks and drive it to the car company. If it's less than 100 miles, it's still new.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
Econobox: don't really care

Sporty car: 0 miles

It's almost impossible to manufacture a car and deliver it to a customer without putting at least a couple miles on it especially if it was manufactured in a foreign country. They have to drive it out of the factory, drive it onto and off of trucks, in and out of containers if the vehicle is being shipped by rail or over water, in and out of holding lots, and last but not least, off the truck at the dealer and then around the dealer lot for prep.

 

[oiprocs]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
There are many small car companies that either can't afford a transporter or, can't wait for another company with a few cars to transport so as to share the cost. Enter drivers like me when I was young and restless. Pick up a new car from the docks and drive it to the car company. If it's less than 100 miles, it's still new.

Dang, I voted 10 as my upper limit, but I feel spoiled now.

 

[KentState]

I think the poll should include under 100 miles. It takes just a couple test drives for the miles to add up and I know I've taken vehicles for a 30 miles round trip.

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: oiprocs

Originally posted by: Tiamat
Econobox: don't really care

Sporty car: 0 miles

0 miles? So if six people test drive the same car within the same month, and it now has 8 miles on it, what happens to it if no one wants it?

My reasoning is that if I were to get a sports car, I'd have to wait for the dealer to special order it for me, thus less than 0.5 miles on the car. I haven't been to a dealer where the nicer cars (>20k) were spec'd out to my liking afterall... I just wouldn't want any random person test driving "my" car -- whatever the factory minimum miles are, that's what I would expect. Be it 0 miles or 2 miles on the odometer....

*My post originally meant "0 miles by other test drivers" and didn't include the necessary mileage required to get the car to the dealer's lot.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Errrr, you can't divide zero by zero.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

there is no such thing as a new car....

 

[Kirby]

Never had a new car.

 

[amdhunter]

My Civic had 0 on it when I bought it. When I got home it had 6.

My VW had 4 when I test drove it, but VW had to run it for 28 miles before handing me the keys...lol

I'd feel uncomfortable taking a manual car with more than 50 miles on it. An automatic, I'd accept up to 75 or so.

 

[Tsaico]

Originally posted by: KentState
I think the poll should include under 100 miles. It takes just a couple test drives for the miles to add up and I know I've taken vehicles for a 30 miles round trip.

Also there are times cars are picked randomly for QA. In those cases they are driven much farther, but still are able to be sold as new. Add a few test drives, and I can see the odometer going over even 100. I would agree with the statement of anything less then 100 miles is new.

Even if the test drive was over rough road, poor conditions whatever, I would rather have a car that was driven around a little, so that I know all the misc. are bolted right and the cars still runs fine. With 0 miles on it, or even 1, then it was just loaded and unloaded, with me becoming the first and only person to really test it.

 

[TallBill]

Never bought a new car. The way cars are these days I doubt that I ever will.

 

[Drakkon]

If a dealer showed me a car with 100 miles on i already I'd say he better be giving me one helluva discount for it being 'used' - anything less than 15-30 is fine with me but if i'm going to pay new car price i expect it to be a NEW car.

 

[ed21x]

dealerships have the means to reset the odometer. This was in a Car And Driver undercover investigation a long time ago.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: ed21x
dealerships have the means to reset the odometer. This was in a Car And Driver undercover investigation a long time ago.

haha, you better link that crap now.

 

[imported_Imp]

Never had a new car, but I'd expect something under 50Km (35-ish miles). I'd start checking for signs of a joy ride after that. If it's clearly disclosed that it was a test-rider, then the price should match.

 

[zerocool84]

I bought my car new with 4 miles on it. I'd say anything more than 20 is too much for new to me.

 

[Pariah]

Depends on the car. The more expensive it is and closer to model year release date, the lower the miles should be. I picked up my current car with 88 miles on the clock, but it had been discontinued and models were getting so scarce that I had a local NC dealership truck one in for me from Maryland. They asked me if it would be OK to drive it back if there was a delay getting the truck up there, which I declined. Under 100 miles is fine by me, 400+ would not be. I had looked at 3 other "new" ones and they all had more miles than the one I got.