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    Jul 19, 2006 4:47:43 PM

    yemenmocha
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    Mileage on your 997 new?

    How many miles did your car have on it when new? What's the approximate range for miles if the car was NOT test driven?

    Thanks

    Jul 19, 2006 4:49:40 PM

    Oxonian
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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    mine had 20-something miles at delivery. u should not get high miles at delivery, even if test driven

    Jul 19, 2006 4:55:31 PM

    yemenmocha
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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    Yes but what is an "acceptable" range of miles to be on the car?

    Jul 19, 2006 5:03:37 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    i personally will not accept a car with more than 35 miles on it. otherwise, something could be out of place.

    Jul 19, 2006 5:22:42 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    Mine had 7 miles on it at time of delivery. Around 35 or so is probably fine -- more than that is certainly questionable.

    Jul 19, 2006 5:33:34 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    My new '06 (which I just took delivery of last night) had 96 miles on it (when I told my sales guy that I was interested). It was in the showroom, and probably had been test driven most of those miles. At delivery last night it had 104 miles. They sent it out for tint (clear bra was done on the premises).

    Jul 19, 2006 5:37:36 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

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    Mine had 7 miles on it at time of delivery. Around 35 or so is probably fine -- more than that is certainly questionable.



    Agreed. Mine had about 8-9. If it has more it could be Porsche detected something which needed tweeking, and additional test driving, before they shipped the car.

    However, I'm not sure how to differentiate if the extra mileage was accumulated because of Porsche tweeking the car OR if it was beaten to sh*t by a dealer test drive... .

    If I remember correctly in the 996 and 986 era *all* the cars had 30-50 miles on them because they all got longer test drives.

    Jul 19, 2006 5:39:04 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    997 tt - delivery to dealer 25

    Jul 19, 2006 5:42:48 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    7 miles at pick up on my 987S

    Jul 19, 2006 6:06:51 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    60 miles, bought it off the lot

    Jul 19, 2006 6:07:03 PM

    yemenmocha
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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    Ok thanks for the responses thusfar. I've been hunting for a car for several months and after several changes of mind I've settled on a 997S coupe. I'm seeking an 07 order but they keep hitting me with deals on 06's so I thought I should at least consider it. If so, I don't want one that has had the break-in procedure violated on several occasions.

    BTW is anyone else hunting for the same car? Best I'm finding is $6k off lot models, and 3% on 07 orders. I know I can do better!


    Thanks
    aaron

    Jul 19, 2006 6:11:59 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    4 miles. 20 is a good number I believe but how can you know even a car with 10 miles could have been test driven.

    Jul 19, 2006 6:24:46 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    Quote:
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    BTW is anyone else hunting for the same car? Best I'm finding is $6k off lot models, and 3% on 07 orders. I know I can do better!




    Denver seems to be a tight market. I was really interested in ordering an '07 to my specs yet the '06 I just bought was spec'ed pretty much as I liked. I got them to add Nav and Sport Shifter for almost no additional cost. I think that works out to be about a 4% discount.

    Jul 19, 2006 6:37:04 PM

    yemenmocha
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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    Sounds like a good deal. The funny thing is that most of the models left have "weird" options, such as sport shifter & exhaust but no Sport Chrono, or no performance features at all.

    Jul 19, 2006 7:40:25 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    4 miles (6 kms) upon delivery at Zuffenhausen.

    Dan

    Jul 19, 2006 8:31:13 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    Picked up mine in June; had 7 miles on it.

    Jul 19, 2006 8:52:16 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    nine

    Jul 19, 2006 9:13:16 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    7 miles

    Jul 19, 2006 10:14:26 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    4 Miles picked up at the factory. 4 more miles were put on it after it was shipped to the states.

    Jul 19, 2006 11:43:21 PM

    nicholas j
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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    4 on 911S

    Jul 20, 2006 12:56:30 AM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    6 on 997S

    Jul 20, 2006 1:08:07 AM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    14

    Jul 20, 2006 1:11:26 AM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    9 from the dealer

    Jul 20, 2006 2:12:20 AM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    Up to around 60-65 is normal. I'm on my third new Porsche.

    Jul 20, 2006 4:40:34 PM

    wangt1015
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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    11 miles on my 997 when i picked it up in march

    Jul 20, 2006 5:06:14 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    Quote:
    Puffy911 said:
    My new '06 (which I just took delivery of last night) had 96 miles on it (when I told my sales guy that I was interested). It was in the showroom, and probably had been test driven most of those miles. At delivery last night it had 104 miles. They sent it out for tint (clear bra was done on the premises).



    After looking more closely at the window sticker from my new C2 I can see why the car has as many miles on it as it does. It appears the car was a dealer swap/purchase. The original dealer of destination was Porsche of Lexington (Kentucky).

    Oddly, my local dealer must have bought about 10 cars from Lexington! I take it as my dealer was almost out of units, and hadn't planned well on their ordering, and Lexington is more then happy to sell (easily) a bunch of MY06 units as they are waiting (or even getting) their MY07 units.

    Ah, the car biz!

    Jul 20, 2006 6:25:38 PM

    sato
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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    4 miles on factory pick-up, and an additional 5 miles on dealer delivery.

    Jul 20, 2006 9:52:33 PM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    I had about 8 miles on mine when I picked it up.

    Jul 21, 2006 1:06:44 AM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    7 miles on it when I took delivery of my new 997S. I told the salesman I didn't want it used as a demo before I took delivery.

    I would probably have accepted it with up to 20 or 25 miles on it. If it had over 50, I would not have taken delivery.

    Jim

    Jul 21, 2006 10:46:55 AM

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    Re: Mileage on your 997 new?

    47 on 997s
     
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