Has anyone shiped a car across country?

[xxx-Lost-Soul-xxx]

hey, im new here,just joined cause my sis has a E30,and im looking to just see whats up. But anyways i was seeing if anyone here has shipped a car across the US.

Ok, DAS offered me a good rate,and ive seen them on the road before so i know there legit, The quote includes insurance.

what is all involved?

i did a google earth on the phoenix location, and it looks like a Salvage yard Not a good feeling. The CT location looks like a small trucking company, but still no auto racks in sight.


Can someone just tell me, how there experience was?
what can i expect,and what do i do when everything is here? thanks

[Erik j]

DAS will get you your car.... but it will take 3 months longer than they said it will. My car was shipped from Washington to Minnesota. Took 4 months to get it, rock chips all over too. There really are not many options when it comes to shipping a car though. if you go with DAS try to get a cover that can be tightened down really well. Also the drivers they use are morons... I know of a couple people that have had cars shipped by them only to have some jack ass try to pull a car with no brakes onto the trailer and smash their cars, then they will take it to a cheap body shop to try and fix it.

[VacMan]

I was looking into shipping a car but ended up flying in and driving it back. I wouldn't use anyone but Intercity if I was shipping a car. They're all enclosed, and they're the official shipper for Barrett-Jackson auto auctions. If they're allowed to ship multi-million dollar cars around the country, they can ship my new car any day. They're also a forum sponsor over at bf.c, so mention the forum and you get a bit of a discount.

DAS quoted me roughly $890 shipped from KC to socal enclosed, Intercity was $1300. For the peace of mind of using the best, I would pay the extra $400 in a heartbeat. You can go cheaper, but once you do some research and hear the horror stories, you'll probably feel like I do.

Tim

http://www.intercitylines.com/

[z31maniac]

I used aaat.com movers, really they are a broker who finds a trucker for you, for a cost.

Be careful about cheap quotes, the broker will give you a low quote to get your business and their commission and then your car will sit somewhere for weeks because no trucker will move it for that amount.

It cost me $800 to get my E30 to Stillwater from Vero Beach, FL. I would recommend the carrier I used, an awesome husband and wife couple, but they only run between Florida and Oklahoma and mostly run for dealerships. OK Fine Auto Transport or something like that.

[TDE30]

We used Gold Rush (http://www.goldrushmotorsports.com) to ship my father's E34 M5 from Sacremento, California to Hickory, North Carolina at a cost of ~$1900. Our experience went very well. It was an enclosed carrier, which I highly recommend for any distance longer than 1000 miles. If you've been searching around for a shipping quote, prepare to have your phone lines raped for the next month and a half. These guys are worse than lawyers sending junk mail after a speeding ticket. Good luck.

[///M0F01SD]

hey, im new here,just joined cause my sis has a E30,and im looking to just see whats up. But anyways i was seeing if anyone here has shipped a car across the US.

Ok, DAS offered me a good rate,and ive seen them on the road before so i know there legit, The quote includes insurance.

what is all involved?

i did a google earth on the phoenix location, and it looks like a Salvage yard Not a good feeling. The CT location looks like a small trucking company, but still no auto racks in sight.


Can someone just tell me, how there experience was?
what can i expect,and what do i do when everything is here? thanks

These places are the pickup/drop off points. I believe the way DAS does it is that the cars are collected at these points and once they have enough cars to fill up a trailer/rack then they will proceed with the haul. So that is why they may take a little longer for deliveries.

I used Intercity in Dec. '06 to ship a car from Michigan to San Diego. The way they do it is they will pick up the car at its location and then drop it off at the buyer's specified location. Like Vacman said they are not the cheapest around but they are very professional and really good to deal with. HTH.

[Funkmasta]

How nice is the car?

[xxx-Lost-Soul-xxx]

that picture is nicer than it really looks lol, it has a primered hood,and the price i got included full insurance.

[BenM]

How nice is the car?

It's meh. :)

[Justin B]

+1 for Intercity lines. My dad had his race car brought out here from Ohio or something with them.

[Larry e30]

I got my car from Newman International enclosed carrier from Pheonix to Miami for 1480, they mostly transport Ferraris and other high end cars so they can handle your car if its dropped. It took about a week for the car to get here

[Massive Lee]

Why not simply fly to the location where the car is, and simply drive it back? You can easily cross half the US in two days. And that makes a very nice long road trip.

[z31maniac]

Why not simply fly to the location where the car is, and simply drive it back? You can easily cross half the US in two days. And that makes a very nice long road trip.

Because it costs more and you run the risk of having a problem on the road. Not to mention if you're doing 600-700 miles a day, its not like you are getting a chance to "see the sights."

I ran the numbers for driving my car back from Florida vs having it shipped. Once you include flight, gas, food, hotel, incidentals, lost time from work (I'm contract labor so no vacation or sick days), it would have cost about $300-350 more to drive it back than to have it shipped.

That doesn't take into account having a flat, battery dies, starter goes out, any of the numerous things that can happen on a very long road trip. Even a new car could have something fail on a 1000+ mile road trip.

[blunttech]

these trips are the most fun youll have. not knowing if youll even make it alive is half the fun. avi and me took this RHD saab V6 powered mini from gods country to CT with no gas gauge, no lights,no spare, no map and no gauges. we had this thing up over 100MPH most of the way and drove non stop. i still laugh thinking about that trip. the lights went out the first night so we rigged headlights and tail lights by ripping the harness apart and stopping for electrical tape.
people loved the cock n balls theme too. this felt like one of the fastest cars ive ever driven but i think much of that was sitting on the ground in a go kart like car