100% agree with you. While my trucks will be scratched up in short order...it's ME causing the damage with use. If I'm paying for a brand new vehicle, it better be brand new! Zero blemishes. If/when I scratch the ladder, it'll be a story, or a "learning opportunity" . When someone else damages something, however, it's not ok...particularly when I'm paying them.To summarize:
I will of course wait until hand over. Except for the hitch issues: If they mount the hitch ball, the chiped power coating will not any more be visible, and chipped power coating is a source of infinite joy - even if invisible. These chips are absolutely not ok.
This is not the fault of the agent, but of INEOS. When a car is transported here and there, it's no wonder that the tracks add up. Tey should come out of the factory, be put on a transporter and then be brought directly to the agent.
And I don't think a BMW, for example, would ever be delivered like that either. If you look at the new cars there, they are absolutely without any blemish, even if you look with a magnifying glass.
And that's how I imagine it should be with a car costing 80k bucks.
Please share your opinions with me.
I'd say the agent has just deflowered it a little bit.
I mostly agree with you. As I've said, this is not the final state.Some of that doesn’t look great, however owners don’t usually get to see their cars pre delivery, it’s likely this stuff is quite common and is all rectified by the time they are handed over. But a few bits of that looks like the car has not been well handled at all in transport or storage. 29kms on the clock for pre delivery isn’t unusual, I think they get a road test at the factory, plus there is movements around the yard at the factory and onto and off trucks etc
That could be a choice. But it's clear that I don't want to snub my agent on the very first occasion.I suggest a phone call to IA Deutschland in Boblingen requesting an inspection?
About seven weeks, yes.it remained there for more than 6 weeks?
I would certainly be showing these photos to the dealer and suggesting that this is not what you are expecting, and the issues need to be fixed.
Some of that doesn’t look great, however owners don’t usually get to see their cars pre delivery, it’s likely this stuff is quite common and is all rectified by the time they are handed over. But a few bits of that looks like the car has not been well handled at all in transport or storage. 29kms on the clock for pre delivery isn’t unusual, I think they get a road test at the factory, plus there is movements around the yard at the factory and onto and off trucks etc