Second fastest/most capable car after a rental!
I once was waiting for parts to come in on a Chevy I owned and was given a loaner to use in the meantime. However, the issue was I had a road trip planned, so I asked them if I could take it on the trip, telling them where we were going and the estimated mileage. Did it in an email and they gave me the green light.
They were not happy when I brought the car back with nearly 4,000 more miles on it. They tried to fuck me over with additional charges, but I had the rental agreement and proof of approval via email so tough luck for the SA who gave me the go-ahead I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Dealer for me says 100 miles a day. I commute 88 miles round trip for work. They just tell me the average is 100 a day and they understand if X happens. But I’m curious how long they had it for to do 10k miles.
We just got our Macan in Oct and it has 4200 miles already. We did a road trip the second week.
My father use to work at a Lexus dealership and circa 2009-2010 there was a guy that came in for some more extensive repairs on his car and as such got a nice RX350 loaner.
After all the repair work was done, about 3 days later, dealership informed the man his car was ready and able to be picked up. Owner said they’re too busy with work, unable rn, etc etc. Dealer calls back once a day for the rest of the week and is either ghosted or told the same thing as before. Well finally, on day 7 from taking the loaner the owner shows up and the loaner has 2,000+ more miles than before!!
Dude took his family on a road trip to Disney. Dealer banned him from loaner car access ever since
I can’t imagine the stones to pick up a loaner and just what? Load up the kids and take a coast-to-coast vacation? I asked how long the guy had kept the loaner, and the service rep said, “Not long enough for 10k miles.” I asked, “What did he say when he dropped it off?” Rep said, “Nothing. He just picked up his car and left.”
I put a few thousand miles on a loaner earlier this year. It was a 750i BMW gave me while they had my M4 for three weeks. I felt a little bad but it’s not like I was doing anything other than my normal day to day stuff.
You would not believe what customers have done to loaner cars at dealerships I have worked at. How about install a hitch on a Camry and tow a trailer from CT to Virginia and then have the balls to return the Camry with the hitch still installed? How about putting bumper stickers relating to their kid’s sports teams on one after having it for only two days? How about transferring all of their hoarded newspapers and trash from their car into the loaner? She actually came back after hours and did this because the condition of her car’s interior had been an issue before and she knew we would not have given her a loaner if we knew she was going to do that. She couldn’t live without her stuff, I guess.
That last one is literal insanity. How do people function like that
Absolutely. Classic hoarder behavior. Newspapers stacked up to dashboard. None of the techs wanted to work on it.
I mean, if the Dealership needs to work on my car for 1.5 Months, i will very well not hold back on the miles. I drive the Loaner like i drive my own, daily and everywhere i need to go, be that Business or Pleasure. I just had a Loaner and put 7000km on it inside that time.
I’m in a loaner since May and I’ve put over 12,000 on it. Granted that’s plenty of time to put that many miles… but still feels… off
10k miles is the average a person drives in a year.
No, it is actually 13,476 miles. Source
I wonder what the dealer did to him. I had an annoying experience with Lexus as they kept refusing to change a fuel pump under warranty even though I told them that was likely the issue from the beginning. so every time my car failed and towed to them they’d give me a loaner I put as many miles as I could. I made cottage trips for the hell of it. My rule was every loaner goes at least once I had 10 different ones lol.
I had the car towed there 6 times in 6 months. Every time they’d keep the car for a month. They told me it was fixed and give it back but it would die in 2-3 days.
But hey I have a new engine under warranty!
I travel a lot for work in field service. I’ve put 10k on a rental while my company car was in the shop. I can easily put 2-2.5k/wk on a car. I run about 40k/yr in mileage and that’s before counting flights.
But putting 10k on a loaner is wild. Maybe if it was a multi week long wait time on the repair I guess.
I mean, if you’d make that same trip in your car, why think twice about doing it in a loaner? That’s the whole point, to replace your car while it’s in for work.
Granted 10k miles is 8-9 months of driving for the average American and pretty tough to do in any reasonable repair time unless you are using the car commercially (which feels like it should be a separate type of loaner situation).
I’ve literally done exactly that. If it’s within the limit idk why it matters
Unless it’s explicitly stated in the loaner agreement…
Peel off sticker, enjoy 4,501 miles!
3,997 + 4,500 = 8,497. I’d take it right up to the limit.
I’d guess they want it under 4,500 on the odometer. Probably keeping it under 5,000 miles has psychological value in terms of being able to sell it as a “new” car.
Did he rent it out? Lmfao
If it’s not specifically instructed I’ll be using the loaner however I feel necessary. I’ll die on this hill.
Exactly. What if I had planned a long road trip then. Not my fault.
Only people I hear of logging crazy miles like that medical couriers who deliver transplants between hospitals.
There was a story (reposted somewhere on Reddit) where a medical courier put 236,000 miles on a Honda Civic in about a year.
There was along thread on a Subaru forum of a guy who did a million miles in a little over 4(?) years on his Crosstrek.
Very well documented too.
https://www.clubcrosstrek.com/threads/long-term-testing.3331/#replies
He never explicitly stated it, but based on his mileage and hours he was likely a medical courier.
Had some work done on my GT4 that took 30 days… They didn’t have any loaners the day I brought my car in so they have me a macan off the lot to use.
Guy probably decided to pick up a few Uber shifts after getting a loaner 😆
I’ve put 2k miles on a loaner before, they called me in to swap as the miles were getting too high (total 8k). Put me in a new Taycan.
Not the same but I had a loaner from Subaru after fighting them for 9 months for my motor rebuild. Put close to 60k miles on that car. Did a lot of traveling for work lol definitely understand why Porsche did this hahaha
Tempting as it may be I usually don’t exceed 70 miles per hour.