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wildcatman

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I have a question. When taking delivery of an ordered vehicle, I am picking up my Ex in a couple days, do you guys test drive it or does the dealer just expect that you show up and sign the paperwork? I know logically you should drive it first, I just was just curious what others are doing when they pick up their Ex.
 



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I have a question. When taking delivery of an ordered vehicle, I am picking up my Ex in a couple days, do you guys test drive it or does the dealer just expect that you show up and sign the paperwork? I know logically you should drive it first, I just was just curious what others are doing when they pick up their Ex.
My Limited is on a 48 month lease. I did not test drive it first. I drove it out of the dealership's garage where they had it all nicely cleaned up. The salesman then paired my phone and went over the various feature of the vehicle. He also had me use the 'Park Assist' feature as well as demonstrating the different alarms that are produced when Reverse Sensing is activated. Before the Explorer, I had leased 3 Highlanders over a period of 10 years. None of those were taken for test drives either.
 






Uh, you can and should test drive. I bought a new Pontiac Grand Am once that crapped the transmission on the test drive, with 64 miles on it. If you sign and drive, that's your baby. If it's a test drive, it's the dealers problem. I know that usually, a dealer will work with you if you decide to refuse an ordered vehicle if it's refused for cause. When I was younger, I worked at a nissan dealer and someone ordered a new Maxima. wasn't in stock, so we had to get one from another dealer. When it got to the dealer, the customer had found a better deal because they kept shopping, and wanted their deposit back ($1000). The manager refused, so they looked for other reasons, and finally settled on refusing it because it had equipment they didn't order (front license plate bracket) No charge option, btw. Manager still refused their refund, and they ended up losing their money. Still, dealer had to pay someone to drive 300 miles to another state to get the car, drive it back, prep it, and all...
 






My car was driven in from another dealer, not my desire, and had about 350 miles when I picked it up. I figured it was ok if they made it to my dealership. My dealer didn't want the added expense of transporting to and from another dealer. So I didn't test drive it. If there was a problem it was covered under warranty.
 






I would look it over and try the specific functions having issues as documented here, i.e. wind noise, MFT, peeling pillar appliques, etc... Have them resolved (if feasible) before taking delivery.
 






All the information in the forum didn't exist when I picked up my Explorer about 4 months ago. Having said that I test drove it, looked over the truck and didn't sign anything until I was happy.
 












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