09-20-2014, 08:29 PM | #1 |
Drives: 2015 Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: United States
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Mileage upon arrival at dealership
When your stingray arrives at the dealership, do they (salesman, mechanic, janitor , etc.) test drive it before you get there? How many miles were on your Stingray when you picked it up at the dealership?
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09-20-2014, 08:57 PM | #2 |
Drives: 2014 CRT C7 Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: North Carolina
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Mine had 11 miles on it. The salesman said one of the mechanics at the dealership took it out for a test run. I didn't much like that but what can you do.
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09-20-2014, 09:22 PM | #3 |
Drives: 1974 & 2014 Corvette Stingrays Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Troy, Mo
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Mine had 60 miles on it upon R8C Museum Delivery, but that's with slightly unusual circumstances. As it was one of the very first Stingrays built, it was held over 4 weeks for very thorough QC inspections. Part of that included test drives. Extensive test driving is actually part of the QC process and a car is randomly selected periodically for such a drive.
Its common for a 3-4 miles to be on a new car depending on shipping procedures too. In my case, the warranty takes the miles into account and expiration is stated at 36060. My car at 23650 miles has also been virtually trouble-free, so a few extra miles up front doesn't bother me.
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09-21-2014, 10:08 AM | #4 |
Drives: 2014 Corvette Coupe Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Ohio
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Mine had 3 miles on it.
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09-23-2014, 10:06 AM | #5 |
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Drives: 18 HW, 16 Vette, 09 G8 GT, 02 Formu Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Rockin' Rowland PA
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Mine had 6 miles total including a trip to the gas station by the dealer to fill the tank with premium.
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09-24-2014, 08:37 PM | #6 |
Drives: 2014 Stingray 1LT Coupe Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Cumming, Georgia
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Mine had 23 miles on it when it came off the car hauler. I was told that this was due to a factory QC check ride in Bowling Green.
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09-25-2014, 05:27 PM | #7 |
5Th Gen (Craig)
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We did the R8C Museum delivery and it had 4 miles on it when we picked it up.
674 miles and 10 hours later we made it home
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09-25-2014, 06:40 PM | #8 |
Drives: 2014 Stingray 1LT/Z51 Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Mine had a grand total of 4 miles on it (and that included the dealer driving it to gas station for her first fill-up).
8 months later she just turned 1800 miles.
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02-06-2015, 09:48 AM | #9 |
ckwhite
Drives: 1989 Red Coupe, 2015 Shark Gray Z51 Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Seabeck, WA
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Keeripes - just putting the thing on the dyno at the factory must put some miles on it....!
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02-06-2015, 10:23 AM | #10 |
just can't get enough
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2 miles on my Z when it arrived at the dealership...
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02-07-2015, 04:59 PM | #11 |
Drives: 2014 AW Corvette Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 26
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10 miles.
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02-20-2015, 10:35 AM | #12 |
Drives: 2015 C7 Z51 Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 61
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Mine had 3 Miles on it.
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03-09-2015, 07:31 PM | #13 |
Drives: 2017 Corvette Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Texas
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Any more than about 5 miles and you can bet the dealership mechanic has had it out having fun. I would not take delivery if the car had more than 5 miles showing.
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03-10-2015, 07:00 AM | #14 |
Drives: 1974 & 2014 Corvette Stingrays Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Troy, Mo
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Not necessarily true. The assembly plant does random tests on some cars that includes several miles of road driving as part of the quality control process. Also, if a particular car gets shipped to the holding lot in Nashville, it will have more than 5 miles on the odometer. The big thing is make sure your dealer has that extra mileage added to your warranty term. As I mentioned, my dealer filled out the paperwork listing my warranty good through 36060 miles.
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