I can understand the first 3 entries above. Dealer buys, dealer demonstrates, dealer sells at 8854.
The last four are easy enough to decipher. Between getting traded in at 99,513 Ks, on paper, the car was transferred between LMVD companies for a month before I bought it, plus it had 13,539 Kms put on the clock in that month. That's a dealer total of 23,378 Kms. Damn near a quarter of it's life.
I was a bit surprised and miffed to read that. What do you guys think?
franc123,
Jan 15, 5:08am
Worry about more important things. Whoever you sell it to won't really give a stuff about how many owners its had or whether they were RMVTs or not. They see what's in front of them, how cheap they can get it for and how much unused life it still has.
robotnik,
Jan 15, 5:27am
Perhaps it was the courtesy car for the workshop and loaned to a customer or maybe the Principal took it home for a while. Anyway someone seems to bave taken it on tour over Xmas.
nzmax,
Jan 15, 5:48am
My parents car did nearly 10,000km by the dealer in 1 month between them purchasing it in January 1975 and previous owner trading it just before Xmas 1974. Dealer did a trip round NZ over Xmas with it. Dealers putting a few km's on a car is nothing new. Incidentally my parents still own that car 40yrs on.
nzfatie,
Jan 15, 2:38pm
Looks like a holiday trip around NZ. no big deal. At least the dealer was honest. they could have wound it back to 99513. lol
pauldw,
Jan 15, 2:58pm
A month of roughly 500km days. Not my idea of a holiday.
lk104,
Jan 15, 5:30pm
Dont see what the problem is, you bought via aution, you knew how many kms were on the clock and yes its had one owner. Doesnt matter whether the dealer ran up the km's or a private owner.
tony461,
Jan 15, 5:52pm
My question was how many K's, on a vehicle, can a dealer reasonably put, before "dealership" stops and "ownership" starts? In particular as related to advertising as "one owner". 10k, 20k, 30k 40k. ?
tony461,
Jan 15, 5:59pm
For a slightly ludicrous example, say a dealer buys a car at 50k from a little old granny. He uses it till 99k on the clock. Can he reasonably advertise it as a "Only one, little old granny owner" vehicle?
supernova2,
Jan 15, 6:00pm
You have missed the obvious. The mileage recorded at change of ownership is that from the last wof inspection. Therefore the distance could actually be over 6 months.
tony461,
Jan 15, 6:03pm
If that's correct. I'd be a little relieved. 13k in 37 days seems extraordinary.
It still wouldn't answer the questions a couple of posts above.
skull,
Jan 15, 9:30pm
I think you are doing your best to make yourself unhappy with a car that you were initially well pleased with. Stop nit picking and enjoy it and stop looking at prices others are selling for as well.
tony461,
Jan 15, 9:41pm
My question got answered by Supernova, and I'm actually happy about the car. As far as the price for the C320 CDI (W204), I'm delighted with it, you're welcome to compare to others on the net. The only point I raised, (wrongly in this dealers case), was how many K's a dealer can put on a car and still exclude themselves from the number of advertised owners. It's now purely a question out of interest.
kevymtnz,
Jan 15, 9:47pm
this time of year and week ends look out for dealer plates using cars off the lot to cruise the country
gmphil,
Jan 15, 10:03pm
i take a stab 23,378? . I used to work at a yard as above we all had dealer plates and used cars from the lot gas supplied by boss but only got ten dollars a day was so we couldn't use excuse to get day of fcar broken no gas in shit
kazbanz,
Jan 16, 3:38am
Tony-arguably an owner is an owner regardless of dealer./private so k's aren't a moot point. I tried to post earlier that the milage would have been taken on last WOF when c of O was done between the dealers -so this isn't a reflection at all of milage driven by the dealer. If you look at the Carjam report I bet the K's line up with previous useage between wofs-with a slight dip for that month
tony461,
Jan 16, 4:00am
Thanks Kazbanz, I realised that when Supernova posted that the mileage noted on change of ownership is that from the last wof. It was only me misinterpreting the figures on the ownership papers. It's all good now.
It does make you think though that with 12 month wof's these days, the actual mileage at handover could be significantly different to what's written in the ownership papers, if the car is not sold with a new/recent wof.
vtecnet,
Jan 16, 9:50pm
The seller posted as an answer to a question "I have just had it serviced at 112,900 kms" on the 27th of December, so there was no way 13,000k was clocked up in 3 days. as previously said, it was a recorded reading at the last WOF, which was likely around April 2014, since the previous WOF expired April 2013.
tony461,
Jan 16, 9:58pm
I realise this now. The new wof was issued on the 5/1/15 and I took delivery the next day. Yay, no wof until 2016.
vtecnet,
Jan 16, 10:46pm
Yeah its nice only having to get that once a year. Looks like a nice vehicle, enjoy your purchase
tony461,
Jan 18, 4:09am
Thanks Vtecnet. It really was time to replace my '97 Volvo 850 (estate). Hopefully this car will see me out.
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