How many miles can a 'New' van have on the clock?

[Chris-n-Leeka]

Yep, agreed, but it seems some dealers are just struggling to sell their stock. We've heard of a few good news stories about people buying vans at the NEC but some dealers are definitely feeling the pinch.

For me, the biggest turn off to buying a discounted MY19 rather than a MY20 is the comfortmatic rather than the new full automatic box on the Fiat.

 

[Deneb]

You can reset an odometer to any figure you like of any age and mileage...
Doing it legally is another matter entirely

Which is why I said "The H disappears once 200km has been exceeded or the mileage has been reset prior to that point, and it can't be reset again (without illegal manipulation)."

 

[gus-lopez]

My mate delivers new cars for Mercedes. The company not a dealer. All internet sales/pcp's. They average around 40/day all over UK and Ireland. 95% are driven. No one complains.

 

[Scotch mist]

450 miles may seem a lot but Once it’s done over 1000 miles nobody notices the extra 450 miles
so no big deal

 

[Coolcats]

Morning Funsters,

There's a dealership up in Scotland that is struggling to sell some of its MY19 stock so, therefore, to help it along a bit, it has transferred one or two of its vans to a sister dealership 450-miles away to help reduce its stock levels.

The van I saw in Scotland had 2-miles on the clock but following its inter-dealer transfer it now has 450 registered miles. I'm assuming that it was driven under trade plates since the vehicle in question has not been pre-registered.

If someone were to buy said vehicle then would it still be considered as new or should a potential purchaser expect a few quid off the asking price because of its higher odometer reading.

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

I suspect a savvy dealer would just get a transporter to move the vehicles rather than rack up milage, that way they can give less discount and keep the vehicle in 'new' status.

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