Loaners now speed limited?

[Mike K]

Is this a known thing? I picked up a loaner today, hopped on the expressway and it died at 80mph. It just stops right there. I called my SA and he said it was a new policy.

He said it's for their safety and mine however if I already have an identical car with no speed limiter I'm not sure how it's for my safety at all. In fact, if anything it's a bit dangerous. I just got back from Vegas and averaged 85 - 90mph the entire way out and back and that's not the least bit unreasonable considering a 75mph speed limit. Capping me at 80mph would have resulted in hugging the right lane the entire time. Not good.

Has anyone else experienced this?

 

[GoTslaGo]

We've been told that the loaners are speed limited to 80 mph. Honestly haven't tested it.

 

[mikeash]

I think they've been doing this for a while. I had a P85 loaner in February that was limited to 80MPH, and I remember reading about it last year too.

 

[Lump]

Its not new.

I also did LA-Vegas in a capped loaner & it was brutal..."cursing like a sailor" most of the time.

 

[Skotty]

You got Valet'd, Sucker! #notyourcar

If that's not funny, then I failed.

 

[brianman]

To be clear...
1. Valet mode is very different from the loaner-speed-limit setting.
2. They've been doing the loaner-speed-limit setting for a while now -- just not consistently across service centers or even within each service center.

 

[GoTslaGo]

I thought it was in a valet mode, but my wife checked on our most recent loaner and said that it wasn't reading out valet mode.

Like brianman said...

 

[Skotty]

Yeah, I was just trying to coin a phrase for getting feature limited on a loaner car.

 

[stevem]

I have a loaner car right now in NJ and it is not speed limited. It's a classic 85, for what it's worth. But I know it's not capped at 80mph.

 

[anxman]

All loaners and test drive cars have been limited to 80mph since at least early 2014.

 

[Lump]

All loaners and test drive cars have been limited to 80mph since at least early 2014.

Not all, sometimes they miss capping one.

 

[GoTslaGo]

I have a loaner car right now in NJ and it is not speed limited. It's a classic 85, for what it's worth. But I know it's not capped at 80mph.

Not going to ask how you know....

 

[brianman]

All loaners and test drive cars have been limited to 80mph since at least early 2014.

Incorrect.

Disclosure: I don't always drive below 81mph. Neither does much of the traffic on I-90 in some of the 70mph zones.

 

[K_style]

isn't 80mph fast enough??? haha

 

[Fusion]

I think it's a great idea considering what most people do to loaners. This will give their loaner cars better value when they are to be sold as a CPO vehicle.

 

[Paul Carter]

isn't 80mph fast enough??? haha

I thought the aim was to hit 88?

hmm... seems to be limited at 85. Huh.

 

[anxman]

I was certainly told by my sales rep that all loaners are at least intended to be speed limited. I could imagine that local locations forgot the process or didn't adhere to it.

I test drove my P85 in March 2014 and it was rate limited on that test drive and that's when my rep indicated the speed limiting.

 

[Joetnr1]

Totally sucks but I don't blame them.

 

[tenstringer009]

I had a loaner about 3 weeks back and it also wasn't speed limited.

 

[CHG-ON]

Personally, I think it is a very good idea. There are a lot of selfish people that love to abuse things that are not theirs. "oh it's a rental" mentality. Considering that we can be driving a "loaner" worth upwards of 100K and well over, as I have every time I have gotten one, it is in their best interest to do this.

I support it fully and would actually drop the max speed to the regional max limit. I can drive balls out in my own car at my own risk. Which, of course, I do.