wgreg2011

Just wanted to know if anyone has experienced this. Salesman called to say my mustang is in but when they unloaded from truck it already had 49 miles on it. Can't wait to see it but not to thrilled
with the 49 miles. Explanation was probably testing by Ford.

Have to work tonight but will pick up tomorrow after work. Will try to post pics.
Race red Gt premium with Brembo package.

Ltngdrvr

Joy rides...

IT_Guru

I was told new cars from Ford are guaranteed to have less than 25 miles. but my dealer could be wrong. That does seem to be a lot for just Ford testing, my guess is they did some "testing" themselves at the dealer.

Mine had 7 miles on it off the truck.

PTRocks

Normally if the factory chooses to do some extended testing there will be an additional window sticker indicating the mileage driven.

Genot

24 for me. I test drove one that had 80 miles on it. Dealer told me that particular car was used as a test car at Ford. There was a sticker in the upper corner of the drivers side windshield attesting to that.

Lancel

Ouch. Yeah, sadly it was probably selected by Ford for thorough QA. I think it'll have one of those QA stickers. I remember when I got my V6 back in '04 I think it had... 0.7 miles? 1.7 miles? Something ridiculous like that. It was a late model year production V6.

I feel your pain though. I know I wouldn't want to take an order and get a new car with any more than 10 miles on it, and I'm hoping for an odometer reading not unlike what I got on my old V6, but who can say when the dealer has it in their inventory for a few hours and it's the first '11 GT they get.

wannabe

Wife's '08 Escape had a card hanging from the dash that said it was a QA vehicle and driven X miles before being released. I can't remember, but it seems like it was either 11 or 17 miles.

Bigjohns97

Mine had 8 miles on it.

wannabe

Mine had 64 miles or something like that on it when I bought it... and 30 was probably me test driving it two or three times. Rest was from dealer swap miles. If I was ordering one, I'd be pissed if they let somebody drive it... but buying off the lot, you almost have to expect it. Watching some of the videos people have put up about "I got to drive a GT today", I don't think I'd wanna buy one that was used as a test driver. I know my salesman pretty well invited me to wear it out. When I was looking at Challengers, the salesman that took me out drove it harder than I ever would. EVER.

Lancel

Good for those rings! But yeah, I hear ya, this is why I haven't run to a Ford dealership to test drive a 5.0 or a V6 or a Shelby. I'm not going to buy one when I already have one on order, and it would just be ringing up more miles on someone's future car.

eci

If you are worried that someone could ruin your car in 49 miles, then the car is a POS and you shouldn't buy it.

stangfoeva

This.

But it does kinda suck that you weren't the first one to take her for a spin...

eci

People worry about things like " Oh my god what if someone floored it? "

Like that wasn't the first thing I did when I drove off the lot!

stangfoeva

lol true.

I guess people should just inspect the car to make sure it didn't get ding'd up in transportation/storage, and if its in good shape take it and let her rip!

David Young

I think mine had 14 miles on it. I felt the tread on the rear tires and they still had the little long things from the mold on them, so i knew 'no burn outs were done'. LOL!!!

Adam

Forget about it.

ManEHawke

or the first to powershift it

The Reverend

Not a Virgin, sacrifice her now. Just kidding. It should not be a problem.

Lancel

I'd actually be more worried if someone ran up 49 miles on the car and didn't floor it.

My only concern would be if someone mangled up and beat down the clutch, but I expect the warranty will cover that if it breaks any time soon. And like they say, there is the obligatory ding/dent/scratch inspection, but that goes for any car, 49 miles or 4.9 miles or even 0.0 miles, the car should be inspected before purchase.

ireallycare

That's besides the point. HE bought the car for HIM. Unless there was a valid reason (like Ford extensive testing), why shouldn't be bummed about it?

Huh, and you guys would want someone flooring your new car when it has less than 50 miles? OKAY.