Very High Milage on New Car
machupichu
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Hello All -
Last week I purchased a new M6 in PA. I drove over 4 hours from NY to go to this particular dealership after we had negotiated a prices for a new car via email - and after I had poor experiences trying to buy the same car here.
They honored the price - and by the time the deal was almost finalized it was dark - and the weather was bad. It actually started hailing at one point. While my salesman was going over the display cluster - I noticed that 1700 + miles on one of the readings. I asked him "Does this car have 1700 miles on it?" He answered yes - and kept going. I let him keep talking - thinking I would address the issue later, but unfortunately, I forgot. It was getting late, I was tired and I had a long drive back home.
It took me over 6hours to get home as I ran into bad weather. I got back to upstate NY - at nearly 12 - am Sat night / Sun morning and parked the car where it was buried in snow until Tuesday when I finally had to go to work. I drove it just the 25 minutes each way - to and from work. On Wednesday - I got into my car and still learning the gauges - I wondered how I already had nearly 2000 miles on the car - and then I remembered that I was supposed to address this issue Saturday when I was buying it, but had forgotten.
I am going to call them today - but was wondering if anyone has any feedback on how to proceed. Yes, I bought it as new - paid new-car price for it. I have been trying to pull up the original listing of the car - to see how the mileage was listed, but it has already been taken down. All similar cars are listed as having just 2-3 miles on it.
Thanks for your feedback.
Last week I purchased a new M6 in PA. I drove over 4 hours from NY to go to this particular dealership after we had negotiated a prices for a new car via email - and after I had poor experiences trying to buy the same car here.
They honored the price - and by the time the deal was almost finalized it was dark - and the weather was bad. It actually started hailing at one point. While my salesman was going over the display cluster - I noticed that 1700 + miles on one of the readings. I asked him "Does this car have 1700 miles on it?" He answered yes - and kept going. I let him keep talking - thinking I would address the issue later, but unfortunately, I forgot. It was getting late, I was tired and I had a long drive back home.
It took me over 6hours to get home as I ran into bad weather. I got back to upstate NY - at nearly 12 - am Sat night / Sun morning and parked the car where it was buried in snow until Tuesday when I finally had to go to work. I drove it just the 25 minutes each way - to and from work. On Wednesday - I got into my car and still learning the gauges - I wondered how I already had nearly 2000 miles on the car - and then I remembered that I was supposed to address this issue Saturday when I was buying it, but had forgotten.
I am going to call them today - but was wondering if anyone has any feedback on how to proceed. Yes, I bought it as new - paid new-car price for it. I have been trying to pull up the original listing of the car - to see how the mileage was listed, but it has already been taken down. All similar cars are listed as having just 2-3 miles on it.
Thanks for your feedback.
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If the dealer was local, I'd ask for some free or discounted services to compensate- but, since this dealer is so far away, not sure how practical that is for you.
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Now if for some strange reason you discovered that the car had been previously registered to another individual, then that would be a big fat legal problem. But dealers can keep cars in their new car inventory for limited internal use.
There were several things that were red flags - like the fact that the car just did not have that new car smell - nothing was wrapped in plastic at all - and I SAW the odometer reading - knew to ask - and just forgot.
I cannot and am not saying they were trying to cheat me. I hope that was not the case - How they had treated me, even via email, was why I drove so far to do business with them. And as far as I know - they did me a favor when they brought the price of the car down by applying a $500 coupon to the price to make it more manageable for me.
It was a tiring experience - 4 + hours driving there - about 5.5 hours there - and another 6 + hours drive home. By the end - I just wanted to be done and leave - They (as far as I felt then) had been really good to me. I would hate to think there was some other grimy thing going on behind the scenes
I am kicking myself though, for at least not addressing this issue at the time. It would have made a difference in how I negotiated for the car - and whether or not I would have just gone for a different color - since that was the only one they had in blue.
Thanks for your feedback @ Mr._Shiftright and Michaell