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As a former dealer... Be afraid. Be very afraid...
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Posted by Wes Miller (more from Wes Miller) on Sat, 28 Apr 2001 14:31:42 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Re: Don't be afraid of demos, rfellman, Sat, 28 Apr 2001 10:47:17
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I sold VW and Subaru. AFTER I bought my car ('95 GTI VR6 with 1200 miles), a fellow dealer I had befriened finally told me that he had driven my car at high speed onto an embankment... No body or wheel damage, but whacked the hell out of the oilpan (that was when I finally _looked_ at the oilpan). Also, I got to see the way that customers (when loaned a car), dealers, and (more importantly, since his was the long termer) the sales manager treated them.

Also, when I was young, my dad bought a 1983 280ZX Turbo. Supposedly only driven something like 8000 miles by the sales manager. Sold effectively "as new". After two years, the paint on the hood started peeling. Turns out, after the ACCIDENT that the dealer had gotten into, he had them repaint the hood - with the wrong kind of paint - so it peeled. Also, they had replaced the clutch with COMPLETELY the wrong model.

Sure - they consider the cars part of their salable inventory. Sure, they intend on selling them. But they also know that you'll, in general, never KNOW how they treated them. Also, you CAN harm the engine. If you drive it overly hard for the first 1000 miles, it _can_ adversely affect the car, IMHO.

YMMV, but I'll never buy a demo, and I'm exceedingly wary of lease returns as well...

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