Hi
Looking at a Demo car, 50k new, but with 7500km on the clock and a few scratches on the console, what discount should i be expecting? This is for a diesel wagon.
cheers
Demo Car, 7500km on Clock
jaylee88 on 27/05/2016 - 19:53
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Demo? .. looks more like a traditional "used" vehicle, I would expect a very good discount for that.
lol if you call a car with 7500km on it a "Demo" car, I must be the Queen of England.
Without knowing the make or model or year or any other details apart from "diesel wagon" i 'd say you could between 1 - 75% discount.
very well could have been a service departments loana` car. Details of said model could be needed.
Probably would be an ex-staff car, rather than a demo on the lot for that many k's. I bought a car once with about that many K's as a 1 year old "demo", almost got 50% off the RRP of a brand new one. This was for a petrol wagon ;)
Surely that'd be a second hand car, can't imagine any stealership calling a 7500km vehicle a "Demo"…
Well I also once took a 4wd offroading when I was doing some work for one of the car company. That car went on some decent trails during that trip and was used as a staff car for 6 months. Also got sold as a demo later AFAIK, and so did the rest of the staff cars that people had for 6-12 months.
In all reality though, they are second hand cars and not demos
Thanks for all the answer guys. I didn't want to put too much details but yes that's how I feel too. Mileage is a bit too much for a demo!
It's quite normal. Some salespeople drive demos home each night, they can clock the km up quick, especially if they're a fair distance from the dealership.
but that's almost 10 melbourne-to-sydney trips!! too many kms for driving to and fro work, especially if it's a 1 year demo. eeeek
I bought a "demo" with 7k on the clock.. Ex dealer car, I am the first owner according to the books.
Ah okay. Did you get a good deal???
Well I paid 23,100 for it.. Rrp is $26950, so I don't really feel I did well..I walked away at 22900 and they let me go the bastards! Went back at 23 even and they didn't blink.. I'm still having counselling over it lol. Its for wprk so at least I got the GST back and 20% deduction in the first year..
ah okay. its a bout 4k off a 27k car so ~15% i guess its substantial enough. i'm looking at 50k new. still waiting for an offer.
A car is a demo until it has been registered to someone other than the dealership.
4-5000km is the norm for a salesman's driven demo.
Generally speaking, the high km demo's are the less desirable cars that the dealer wants to put write-downs onto.
Also and those claiming huge discounts off RRP, they don't discount the cars that people actually want to buy :D :D :D
Working from incomplete information I would recommend staying away from a dealership trying to sell you a car that they think is a "Demonstrator" which you think is a used car.
Think about things in detail. An average car travels about 12,000km a year. That means you are buying a car that is more than half a year old.
Depending on the model of car it has already done its first log book servicing at 1000km as well as its 2nd servicing.
A real demonstrator car would have been taken for test drives. Lets say each test drive is 5km-15km. 7500km means about 750 people have sat in your "demo" car.
This all makes it hard to value such a car. Its whatever buyer is willing to accept a car that 750 people have farted in and still classified as a new car/demonstrator.
This is largely wrong. Australians travel on average at least 15,000km a year. A large majority travel over 20,000km. In the industry, anything less than 12,000km a year is low mileage.
A demo is a demo until it has been registered to its first owner. It is not a new car and it is not a used car. The salesman who has been driving that car will have taken care of it because it is to be used by customers for test drives as well as his personal transport. You will save money purely based on how long that car has been a demo for rather than its mileage. I've sold a number of demo's for exactly the RRP because stock was limited and the car was popular.
Quite simply really…
Few more details about the said vehicle wouldn't go astray.