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We bought a minivan many, many years ago, supposedly "new". When we took delivery, it had almost 1,000 miles on it!! We refused delivery, and the salesman tried to tell us they drove it all the way from a dealership 800 miles away. Bull. We started to weaken -- I mean, the car was right there -- and then I noticed a small ball of white paper under the driver's seat. IT WAS A DIRTY DIAPER!!!!! Apparently, they discovered that one of the salesmen had taken his family for a "test drive" one weekend to Grandma's house 425 miles away . . . we got a new one the next week. They can technically sell it as "new" if it has never been titled, but that was stretching the limits, for us.
We bought a minivan many, many years ago, supposedly "new". When we took delivery, it had almost 1,000 miles on it!! We refused delivery, and the salesman tried to tell us they drove it all the way from a dealership 800 miles away. Bull. We started to weaken -- I mean, the car was right there -- and then I noticed a small ball of white paper under the driver's seat. IT WAS A DIRTY DIAPER!!!!! Apparently, they discovered that one of the salesmen had taken his family for a "test drive" one weekend to Grandma's house 425 miles away . . . we got a new one the next week. They can technically sell it as "new" if it has never been titled, but that was stretching the limits, for us.
While I can understand a couple hundred miles between transport and test drives, 800+ miles is definitely stretching things a bit for me. Driving the car to transfer from a dealership within a hundred miles is fine but if the vehicle is traveling over a 800 miles I think its time to put it on a transport.
Dealer trading is a standard practice. So when your car wears out after 150k miles, you would have only lost 86 useable miles out of the 15k...
I just picked up my new car a week ago, it had 86 miles on it, as they drove it in from their other dealership..
You are concerning yourself over a complete non-issue...Even if they didn't dealer trade for it, they may have allowed a few people to test drive the car. The dealer gave me a new car to drive when I was trying to make up my mind which model to buy. They told me to have it back in two hours and let me go. I didn't buy that car, but somebody did...!
Your warranty will start based on delivery date and recorded miles. So if the basic warranty is 3 years or 36,000 miles and you bought it today the basic warranty would end 9/1/2017 or 36,086 miles. So...like every one else has said, 86 miles is nothing.
Especially not on a Corolla. On an Aventador? Yeah.
They should have told you so it wasn't a surprise.
This ^^^.
Normally the dealer will say they have done a locate and the car which you are looking for is at a dealer "X" miles away. If you would like to see it, they will bring it over. Usually this is driven, or trucked, over.
other option is to order a car which matches your expectations and wait for it to be built.
Some people prefer one; some prefer the other.
If the dealer was going to do a swap or purchase the car from another dealer and put 86 miles on it to bring it to their dealership, they should have informed you of this action.
Poor customer service, but in the overall scheme of things, not a big deal.
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