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Delivery mileage?

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Having taken delivery of my new Boxster GTS in Riviera Blue, of which I'm delighted with, when I got home I was a little surprised to see that the car had 54 miles already on it.
Not including my journey home of course. It seems a little excessive to me. Has anyone had something similar?
Shaun
 
Not common but happens from time to time. Porsche themselves pull at random cars from the productin line for extededed quality control checks which inlcludes some test track miles. (not race track!).


 
Sounds a lot, apparently the ground crew at the docks have a tendency to race the cars around the dock area when they are unloading them from the ships, particularly if its a high end sports car.
 
All new Porsches are put into 'limp' mode after leaving the factory to prevent abuse. This is switched off by the dealership prior to delivery.
 
Does sound excessive,when I picked up my 987 spyder it had 4 miles on the clock yet my gt4 had 14 miles as always check when picking up a new car and other new cars for sale on opc site seem to have similar. Why not ring the dealers and ask them to explain the extra 40-50 miles on the clock or better still ring Porsche customer services.
 
11.8m on my GT4

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I actually think it was driven up from Reading to Hatfield. But was told...I saw it come off a Transporter :)
I've asked my contact twice and have been fobbed off...
 
What I've done in the past is just ask the dealer how many miles is normal on delivery prior to the cars arrival, and to explain where the figure comes from exactly. If nothing else it lets them know you're interested in monitoring this.
In my experience and from others I know, around 10-12 miles seems to be the norm at my OPC on a new car, I think you're quite entitled to know why yours is higher than this for a start, I can't imagine the petrol station is that far away ??
 
Congrats on the new purchase.
I work in the motor industry and as has been previously mentioned random cars are chosen for quality checks, this is nothing to worry about and I have seen far higher mileage after these checks.
Have fun
Dave
 
I'd guess the mileage would have been logged when it left the Porsche plant, when it arrived at Porsche GB or when it arrived at the dealership? Maybe even all 3.

Maybe a chat to Porsche Customer Services to check if any of the data exists? I'd be curious to learn whether the miles were added by the dealer.
 
Thanks for the comments. I'm not concerned or worried, just a little puzzled and miffed as I think after handing over a cheque for 65K they should have told me. The mileage is no big deal, not mentioning it when I collected it, is annoying.
 
Mine had 32 miles post PDI whilst another GT4 from the same dealer at the same time had 11 miles.

No big deal but I wish I'd checked the mileage when I saw it being taken off the transporter.
 
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