What is Delivery Miles? - The Unofficial BMW M5 Messageboard (m5board.com)

hal2000 · 22nd August 2005, 05:40

I was adamant with my salesman that I wanted to drive in my car properly.(eg no joyrides from the sales staff)I can imagine the sales guys wanting to do a bunch of lauch controls to see the limits of the car.

Those of you who received your M5 how many miles were on the odometer?

My last E36 had 6 miles when i took delivery.

Spiroman · 22nd August 2005, 06:02

Most dealers have one of their techs take the car for a pre-delivery "test drive". Insist on being in the passenger seat when they take the car out on the road to do their pre-delivery list of things to check and adjust.

Best regards,

chaos270 · 22nd August 2005, 06:16

The tech is not going to want a passenger. If you are a regular customer at the dealership however, you might want to ask to choose the tech for your car. This is not nearly as unreasonable as riding with the tech and creates a level of accountability.

Spiroman · 22nd August 2005, 06:26

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Originally Posted by chaos270

The tech is not going to want a passenger. If you are a regular customer at the dealership however, you might want to ask to choose the tech for your car. This is not nearly as unreasonable as riding with the tech and creates a level of accountability.

If you know the techs, riding shotgun shouldn't be a problem. Worked just fine for me when I took delivery of my M3.

Best regards,

Spiroman

tonach · 22nd August 2005, 09:25

9 miles when I took delivery.

virage1 · 22nd August 2005, 10:20

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Originally Posted by hal2000

I was adamant with my salesman that I wanted to drive in my car properly.(eg no joyrides from the sales staff)I can imagine the sales guys wanting to do a bunch of lauch controls to see the limits of the car.

Those of you who received your M5 how many miles were on the odometer?

My last E36 had 6 miles when i took delivery.

I had nine miles, including 4 miles for delivery from the dealer to my work

v10 kkb · 22nd August 2005, 12:06

Mine had 14 miles on it when I picked it up.

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Originally Posted by hal2000

I was adamant with my salesman that I wanted to drive in my car properly.(eg no joyrides from the sales staff)I can imagine the sales guys wanting to do a bunch of lauch controls to see the limits of the car.

Those of you who received your M5 how many miles were on the odometer?

My last E36 had 6 miles when i took delivery.

BradM5 · 22nd August 2005, 17:41

I had only 4 km's

MJ · 22nd August 2005, 17:53

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Originally Posted by chaos270

The tech is not going to want a passenger. If you are a regular customer at the dealership however, you might want to ask to choose the tech for your car. This is not nearly as unreasonable as riding with the tech and creates a level of accountability.

Never had an issue being in the car for the test drive. After owning four E39 M5's I know more than them anyway. It is completely reasonable to be there for any test drive. My M5's NEVER had more than 1.5 miles on the clock when it rolled off the truck. You will also be able to find out from the dealer when the car has been released from the VPC. You can then track the car and expected drop time from transporter. Also, I NEVER NEVER NEVER let the prep guys wash or wax the car.

MJ
'03 black/black
'06 E60 M5 silver-grey/black, week 37 build

desualt · 22nd August 2005, 17:54

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Originally Posted by BradM5

I had only 4 km's

there can be a lot of abuse in 4km (burnout, donuts and LC to name a few).

Too bad but there is not much we can do about it but hope for the best, my last experience with a salesman at my BMW dealer road testing a 645 was quite eye opening on that subject, to say the least..

I will demand my car not to be road tested by anyone other than the tech, but that alone is not a guaranty that it will not be abused.

desualt · 22nd August 2005, 17:57

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Originally Posted by MJ

Also, I NEVER NEVER NEVER let the prep guys wash or wax the car.

so when you take delivery of your car it is dirty??

MJ · 23rd August 2005, 03:11

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Originally Posted by desualt

so when you take delivery of your car it is dirty??

The car IS dirty at delivery. This guarantees that the car is unmolested by, with my experience, substandard dealer prep guys.

MJ

Digi · 23rd August 2005, 03:16

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Originally Posted by MJ

The car IS dirty at delivery. This guarantees that the car is unmolested by, with my experience, substandard dealer prep guys.

MJ

Interesting...how do you know about paint defects and scratches if it is dirty? Doesn't seem like one average wash would hurt.