Factory test miles?

The cars come from the factory with a very small amount on the Odometer. This is because the vehicles are factory tested, and the engines need to be run. They are also driven out of the plant to the factories parking lot, and again to transport. 30 Miles is high for a new car pickup. Sounds to me like they've test drove it a bit.

As for resetting the Odometer. Not likely, as it's a big deal, and requires the removal of the instrument cluster.

 

When I picked up my '01 Saturn it had 4 miles on it. I test drove it 6 miles before agreeing to the purchase. Pepper Bomb had 347 miles.

 

Are you sure you aren't confusing the trip odometers, with the actual odometer of the vehicle?

There are temporary trip odometers that can be easily reset. The main odometer for the vehicle, however, would not be trivial to reset, and is EXTREMELY unlikely that it would have been tampered with.

 

As long as you are reading the gauges correctly, there shouldn't be anything like what you are describing.

 

Really? Huh... all the cars my folks bought new had like 50-80 miles on them, so I figure that is typical.

Mine had 150 something because I had it delivered from out of state.

 

Mine had 360km on it at pickup from being driven in from a dealership 200 km away. Trivial as it might be, it's always bugged me a bit, being my first car, bought new, but some random guy got to take it on its first long-ish road trip, and likely 100km of test drives prior to that

Anyway, I know your situation is different (and a bit sketchy), but I totally sympathize with a little bit of new car mileage angst! Best of luck getting it sorted!

 

Absolutely. My last 3 Cars (2005 Corolla 2011 Prius Liftback and 2013 Price C) all had less than 20KM. 2 of them came from other dealerships, and they were transported on a flatbed. I wouldn't accept delivery of a car that had more than 50KM on it. Period. And I told that to the salesperson when I bought my Prius.

You want to sell it as new, then I expect it to be delivered as new.

 

o/p, this seems very odd, but i don't have a 'c', and i don't think the pip has a tank record screen. i would go back to the dealer and ask. i doubt they could reset the odometer, but i don't see how they could develop that record without actually driving it. maybe send your email to toyota and see what they have to say. all the best!

 

Exactly! Hmm.

 

Cars are driven from the exit of the production line (where a battery of readings are taken from the car to insure it runs OK) to the parking lot which often contains hundreds of cars; then to the loading docks to the boat or transporter, the unloading docks, to the parking lot where often several hundred cars are placed and then to the car carrier and off the carrier at the dealer. Its not unusual for any car to arrive at a dealer with even 20 miles on the odometer. If the car was driven on test rides with prospective buyers or to check dealer prep there can be more miles. If the car was obained from another daler on trading cars and driven, not hauled, there can be more, at much as a couple hundred miles. As your sales contract indicates, your warranty mileage starts at the delivered mileage, not zero. Make sure your sales contract states that mileage. Its unlikely the dealer mis-stated but there could be a unintended mistake.
No, dealers do not legally change odometer readings and almost none would even think of restting the odometer. Trip miieage, sure. But its a very unlikely possibility your car's odometer was reset especially since its not neccessary.
have a good time with your prius.

 

Perhaps thats it. Tell us which display you are getting this from and where on the display. I can easily see that the car was manufactured in April, and you can verify that on the label in the door jamb. And if the car was obtained in a dealer trade, that is when one dealer trades cars with another dealer to get desired models or to deliver a model one dealer hass sold based on another dealer inventory, there could be a 141 mile trip but I don't see how they could disguise that. If thats true, and they did disquise it there is a evere penalty from the feds and the state. Are ou sure your initial readsing was on trip A or B and not odometer? Check your sales agreement; the delivered odometer reading should be there.

 

To the OP. Everyone telling you the story of what mileage they had on their vehicle when they got theirs doesn't really help you. Nor does exclaiming what your new vehicle mileage philosophy and approach is with dealerships.
I wouldn't worry. I'm "guessing" your vehicle is indeed new, and does indeed reflect the mileage the odometer reads. The scenario you are worried about would constitute fraud on the behalf of whomever reset the odometer. Something dealerships and Toyota would avoid like the plague.

If you found some entered trip records and data that reflects a different reality, I'd suspect erroneous information being entered to test the computer system, before I would suspect your vehicle actually had 141+ miles put on it, and then someone tried to erase that information.

And listen, even if I'm wrong? Well, when you first get a new car, any hint of discovery that something might be different or wrong can be devastating. But after you put your own 5000, 10,000 and 15,000 miles on it, it will become real easy to not worry about 140+ miles, that showed up as pre-delivery miles on the trip computer. I'm assuming your purchase contract reflected the mileage at the time of purchase. So from everyones perspective the vehicle had 6 miles on it.

I'd take a picture of the display in question, in case you ever had any other problems or other "discoveries" ever arised. I suppose you could further go to the trouble of driving to the dealership and getting the display looked at and the fact that it existed documented. BUT...I think I'd reset everything and simply NOT worry about it.

Legally, it cannot be either Toyota's policy to misrepresent mileage on new vehicles, nor is it the policy of dealerships.

I'm not exactly sure HOW you somehow ended up with trip records reflective of more mileage than exists on your vehicle, and that pre-date the actual delivery of your vehicle, but I'd be much more suspicious that your computer system might of been run through some test, and records accidentally not erased, as opposed to believing 140+ miles were put on your vehicle and then Toyota or the dealership tried to cover this up.

 

I think posting the pics of the offending displays here is a much better idea. More than likely, we'll collectively figure it out.

 

When I purchased my 2012 Prius C 2 from Toyota of the Desert in Palm Desert CA. I informed then I did not want a car from their stock inventory on the dealer lot. Instead, I was willing to wait 6 weeks and get a new car right of the ship from Japan. This was my way of not getting a driven demo used by others test driving a Prius on the lot. It took 6 weeks but I got a car with 6 miles on the odometer and that all important new car smell! I am very happy with my moonglow that I call ROADRUNNER. I live in the desert..

 

have you checked the past records for any data?

 

I had this happen on my brand new PIP. Miles were inexplicably recorded on the "Monthly Fuel Consumption Record" for a month proir to delivery. I realized that the date/time setting was incorrect on the MFD and that had caused MY newly accumulated miles to record incorrectly for the wrong month. I'm not familiar with the C's dispaly, but you may want to check on the date/time setting. It all made sense once I corrected that.

 

Verrrry interesting. Could you have more detail on just where that data is found. I don't disagree, its educating.