mango626

Anyone know something about the random "quality check" from Mercedes Benz? I pick up a 08 C350 from the dealer and it has about 150 miles on it (highway testing). Is that too much? I am afraid that the sale person lie to me. Anyone
can help?

cvx5832

150 sounds like a lot. I got mine at 15 and I understand even that was high. Then again if it was just driven from another dealer, or a lot where they keep their inventory, it may not be too bad.

Beyond that I don't have any more educated guesses.

Enjoy the car.

Paolo

lx Raven xl

never heard such thing. Mine had only 5KM on the clock.

FrankW

sorry to say, but you have probably bought a dealer demo used for customer test drives. there's no such thing as random QC testing.

dealer trading inventory between each other are less likely these days due to slow economy and most dealers hate each other. plus when dealers do trade with one another it's usually flat bedded never driven.

Untertürkheim

150 is completely out of the league of testing. Sounds like a dealer demo to me, unless they transferred it from another dealer. In Germany, the maximum a car can have and still be new is 50km ~ 30 miles.

Ron Jr

When I purchased my Sebring convertable 6 years ago I was told the same and I wrote Chrysler corp about it with my cars VIN. I got a reply back about 3 weeks later stating that my car had been used for a random QC check and all of the miles (other than transport) was done on a test track they even supplied a copy of the QC check list. The car was great till I hit 70,000 m then it started to act up. I can't remember the exact miles mine had but it was around 100.

RickP330

My car had 9 miles on it when I picked it up. And I know it was used for test drives as well.

FrankW

9-15 miles on the odom are normal. doesn't mean it's used for test drive. sometimes the factory couldn't make the transport and had to drive the car to port to get it onto the ship. mine had 15 miles on it with all the protective plastic still on the car when I made the deal.

jrct9454

Well, MB DOES occasionally pull a production car for a longer test, off the factory floor.

However, that test adds maybe 10-15 miles, certainly no more than 25, to the odo. They do a couple of loops around the factory test track....and there may be a bit more depending on what they find.

Any car in dealer stock with more than 50 miles on the odo has been out on the road, probably as a test vehicle for new car sales. That doesn't mean you shouldn't buy it - but it does mean you should demand some appropriate price adjustment or other small compensation.

I never take delivery of a new car without an acceptance drive - I take the car out, and test it at freeway speeds for 10-15 miles, feeling and listening. If a car passes that test, the presence of a few extra miles at the start wouldn't bother me much; if it doesn't pass, the problem is irrelevant - I won't take delivery of anything less than a perfect car, whether the odo reads 25 or 250.

maninblack

150 miles is quite alot , i think it consider a "used-car" in Canada for anything over 100 km , but dont quote me on that