In June of 2009, I bought a 2009 Lariat SCrew 4X4. At the time, I noticed that the truck had nearly 500 miles on it. I asked the sales person why it would have that many miles on the truck. He did not know. However, I later found a small printed certificate stating that the truck had been randomly selected by the factory for a test drive. It must have worked because it has been trouble free since I got it in June 2009.

I have bought a lot of new cars and trucks over my lifetime and this was a first for me.

BTW, my other car is also an F-150 XLT SCrew 5.4. I sold my '99 F-150 SCab Flareside XLT to buy the 2009.

Ford trucks and Texas- hard to beat.

 

Its good to know Ford actually takes some of their vehicles out for an extended test drive and makes sure they are really putting out quality vehicles.

 

I've never heard of that before. Very cool.

 

I've seen a number of those randomly selected and tested vehicles. They typically have a sticker on the window identifying that they were selected and the number of miles that we driven. Typically it's 30 to 50 miles. But maybe they did an extended test or something.

 

There have been several owners of the new Mustang GTs report that they had a few miles on the cars they ordered and they had the sticker indicating Ford tested them. The GTs were on "hold" for a month or so. It is good that Ford does this. They can test prototypese all day long and nothing compared testing actual production cars. Although, I'm glad both my F-150 and Mustang were not test subjects.

 

Yeah, my XLT had 4 miles on the odometer when I took delivery. It's been trouble free also.

 

With 500 miles, there are other possibilities:

1. It came into stock as the result of a dealer trade - it was driven from the original dealer to yours.
2. It was used quite a bit for dealer demo drives and/or salesmen taking it home at night.

What is the build date as compared to the date you bought it?