mileage on a new car

[Lima]

With our GTI I know it did about 40-50km on a round trip from Phillip to Queanbeyan to go to the panel beater where we got the colour coding done prior to registration and delivery. I even drove the car to Queanbeyan on the outward trip using trade plates, which was nice of them to offer.

As I said earlier, I was still a bit surprised at the other 50km, but c'est la vie. Can't say I worried about it too much after the initial thought.

The S3 I picked up last week only had 35km. And, IIRC, my MINI had 25km when I drive it out of the showroom.

[breezerboy]

It's just like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" when they take Cameron's Dad's car out and the carpark attendants take it for a spin and clock up a lot of miles. Just be glad the VW dealer didn't try to wind the clock back like they did in the movie and "kill the car"!

[ox518]

After reading all of your posts, I don't have any concern now. Thank you very much!!!

[soogs]

Look at this way. 100 less ks for you to run in before you thrash the sh*t out of the car, oops I mean before you enjoy the car. LOL.

[sillygogo]

When we signed the contract , they sales guy promised no more than 20ks, but it was 45k when we picked it up. I think they might use it for a demo vehicle.

[spacegirl]

If it makes you feel any better our Mk5 GTI had close to 100km when we picked it up from Lennock too. It seemed a bit high at the time, and I was a bit perplexed, but didn't really think about it much after driving out of the showroom.

I just had the same experience from Lennock - our new Golf had 93km on it, and the only explanation from them was that cars can have 20 to 100km on the clock depending on where they have come from. It must have been parked a loooong way from the truck that brought it to Canberra.