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When I purchased my one-and-only new car, I told the dealer I wanted to be the first person to drive it. They picked me up at work in a service vehicle, drove me to the dealer, and I drove the car off the lot with 7 miles on it.
The first person who drove that car had the 'pedal to the metal' for the first 1/4 mile in the Assembly Plant storage lot. The guys who drive the cars out of the plant get paid per vehicle rather than per hour, and many are college aged saving toward next semester's or next year's classes, so they are on a dead run whenever they aren't smoking the tires on a brand new car.
Do manufacturers take the cars for a short test drive to make sure everything is in working order before delivery? just curious...
No. Otherwise, once at the dealership a mechanic checks and fills up the fluids. Many cars will need to be driven off the lot in order to fill the tank up with gasoline. Most dealerships don't have fuel pumps on their lot.
Then certain models of cars and trucks are so desirable that a dealership might have only one or two of them on the lot at any given time. And who doesn't want to test drive the car (or truck) that they are planning to buy? Or there are inventory trades between dealerships when a customer wants a car in a particular colour that another dealership has... so there are many reasons why a new car can't be delivered with zero miles on its odometer.
Personally, I don't care about getting a car with zero miles on it. And with my '94 Civic Si, I was really hoping to put a million miles on her.
And getting a car with zero miles on the odometer is about as important as purchasing it for another $50 or $100 dollars off the price. It's too tiny a detail to sweat it out over.
I found this video years ago on how some unscrupulous individuals treat the cars after they came off the line.
Since the trains are long and connected to drive the car furthest into them, the drivers were speeding the cars through the train carriers while lining them up.
Im afraid to see what else they might do to the new cars.
Then the dealer is probably going to take it to fill up the tank before you take delivery.
Thanks for this! I needed a good laugh!
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Originally Posted by BostonMike7
For the hell of it, I took a drill to an old mechanical speedo cluster I had sitting on a bench. Even on the highest speed setting, it took a long time to just roll it back 1 mile. If you wanted to roll it back 10K miles you'd pretty much have to set it up and tape the drill trigger on and walk away for a few hours.
There are also little clickers on the tenth dial that prevent roll-back (at least as far back as a 1990 Jeep). So, you can run forever and roll back .1 mile.
However, for earlier units, the proper application is a Dremel Tool.
I’ll bet you anything that what they are doing is coming as a direct order from plant management.
Maybe, is it a union job.
From what I read in the comments from guys that worked the job, they got paid by the car in many cases.
But cars now come in "transport mode" where they dont go over 20mph until they get to the dealer.
A lot of cars take the speed readings from one of the wheel speed sensors there days.
For the hell of it, I took a drill to an old mechanical speedo cluster I had sitting on a bench. Even on the highest speed setting, it took a long time to just roll it back 1 mile. If you wanted to roll it back 10K miles you'd pretty much have to set it up and tape the drill trigger on and walk away for a few hours.
It used to be a real problem. Unsavory used car dealers would run the odometers back using drills. They would just lock the trigger on and leave it running (most drills have a trigger lock, you don't have to tape them). Back in the early 90's a bunch of used car dealers got busted for rolling back the odometers which is a federal felony offense and they went to prison for a few years.
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