Typical Mileage on Custom Built Car Orders

[mtech8]

For those of you that order a custom built car.

What is the typical mileage that the car has when you take delivery?

Is 22 miles on it normal? Sounds kinda high. Sounds like the dealer's used it to give test drives / joy rides.

[deutsch100]

That does seem high. The few times I bought a car that had "just arrived" or special ordered a colour or option packages, the car had about 6 or 7 miles on it. One time, the mileage was even 3. 22 seems wrong. Sorry!

[mtech8]

Thanxs. Yeah. I did think 22 miles was alot.

One stupid reason why I went the custom built route vs one off the lot was because I wanted a car that wasn't abused during test drives (planning on keeping the car for a while). I know the manual often states that you don't want to go past a particular rpm during break-in period.

[mellow_sparky]

Our X5 (custom ordered) had 10 miles on it at delivery.

[wb488641]

I have 7 miles on my custom built X5 4.8

[Fastbuck]

My custom order had 6 miles on arrival. One of the influencing factors is how close the nearest gas station is to your dealer.

[The Big Easy]

Remember, with cleints requesting a tracker device, optional wheels and window tinting, the car will be driven to the various locations.

Cheers,

[soldmystang]

according to the documemtary on NGTV, all X5's are test driven at the plant. IIRC the mileage should be 8 or 9 miles upon leaving the factory.

it would be very unproffessional of the dealer to use your vehicle for test drives. my salesman mistakenly let me drive a 3.0 that had been sold and the sales manager called him on the phone within about 1.5 minutes. we promptly returned to the lot.

mine had 17 when i picked it up.

i hate to add to your paranoia, but maybe the Tech found something in the PDI and he needed to road test the vehicle.

call your salesman and ask him why the extra miles.

[motordavid]

I agree with 'Stang, though there is also the possiblity that an occasional car gets pulled and "test driven" further ...
this from memory of an info post long ago.

Either way, I would not blink an eye over it...22 miles? How hard could they have driven it, regardless of who it was.
No biggie, imo.
GL,mD

Originally Posted by soldmystang

according to the documemtary on NGTV, all X5's are test driven at the plant. IIRC the mileage should be 8 or 9 miles upon leaving the factory.

it would be very unproffessional of the dealer to use your vehicle for test drives. my salesman mistakenly let me drive a 3.0 that had been sold and the sales manager called him on the phone within about 1.5 minutes. we promptly returned to the lot.

mine had 17 when i picked it up.

i hate to add to your paranoia, but maybe the Tech found something in the PDI and he needed to road test the vehicle.

call your salesman and ask him why the extra miles.

[mtech8]

Thanxs everyone for the replies. Yeah. Under 10 sounds more reasonable to me (preferably around 5). All options and packages weren't third party. The factory tint that's included with the Rear Climate Package should be done at the factory, no?

Originally Posted by motordavid

Either way, I would not blink an eye over it...22 miles? How hard could they have driven it, regardless of who it was.
No biggie, imo.
GL,mD

Well. It takes only a few seconds to redline a car. That's my definition of driving a car hard. With this statement I'm contradicting myself because a 4 miles car could be "driven hard" too. I'm really too paranoid about this aspect though.

I'm curious as to how they actually drive/test the car during the PDI though.