I said “wrong” dealer on purpose 😉
For our GTE we went to two dealerships, the one we bought from in the end and one we intended to order from – which also made a good impression. The one we ordered from is 45 miles away, the other one 55 in the other direction. If both of those would’ve behaved like the one that’s only 20 miles away, we would’ve driven further.
And of course, you can’t actually know beforehand whether or not the guys will make an effort. They might as well do it, and stop once you ordered.
As for maximum distance, hard to say. Depends on how we’d get there. Via M4 we probably would’ve driven 100 miles, via A-roads and through city centres, .. not so much lol.
I made the suggestion before, we really need a pinned thread with experiences for particular dealerships, for others to have an indicator as to where to go.