Usually buyers ship themselves via one way plane ticket to buy out of state these days for these cars.
Dealerships willing to ship si's
Hey,
Does anyone know of any dealerships that are willing to ship new si's out of state? I'm from Denver, CO area and they're impossible to find out here. The few that do exist in CO are either presold or have 10k+ fees. Most dealerships refuse to ship because of how rare they are.
Thanks!
Does anyone know of any dealerships that are willing to ship new si's out of state? I'm from Denver, CO area and they're impossible to find out here. The few that do exist in CO are either presold or have 10k+ fees. Most dealerships refuse to ship because of how rare they are.
Thanks!
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If you can't manage that, but do find an out-of-state dealer who will sell to you remotely (like, you pay electronically or by sending them a cashier's check) - have them FedEx you the bill of sale and all other docs for you to register/title the car, and then find/arrange a car transport service yourself (the dealer won't do it for you).Usually buyers ship themselves via one way plane ticket to buy out of state these days for these cars.
I've used car shipping services twice, to ship cars from California or Nevada to me in NYC. It took about 7-10 days. Just Google for car shipping; you can post your from/to locations and get multiple bids and timeframes.
It'll cost on the order of $1000-1500, depending how far you're shipping the car. Not shipping cross-country should be faster/cheaper.
I would never let a trucker put his hands on my new car before I get to touch it. No way. I would fly and drive it back making a trip out of it.
How do you think the cars are delivered from the factory to the dealerships, or between dealerships?I would never let a trucker put his hands on my new car before I get to touch it. No way. I would fly and drive it back making a trip out of it.
You'd be lucky if there isn't a freight train and/or cargo ship in between as well as trucks!
Let me explain, then. I thought it was clear. I know all cars are delivered to the dealers the same way. Yet, there are notions such as "avoidable" vs "unavoidable". No one can avoid their car being delivered by a truck which was most likely loaded at the factory in OH and made only 1 or no stop until arrival at the dealership. Transfer is however avoidable if you do the work. Now someone will say I make 700 an hour, I can't spare 2 days of my life for this. Then, you should not buy a Honda.
Transferring one vehicle from one dealer to another is an extra step. So, your car waits at the dealer until Joe the trucker stops by. He picks us Ms. Schovenitz's SUV first from her home and then stops by the dealer. Puts your car on the truck and goes to get Mr. Albenitz's car from the parking lot at his work.
After he completes all 7 pickups, he hits the road. During the delivery, he probably brings your car down 3 times at least to get it out of the way in total.
If you are lazy enough to watch this happening and not fly there to get your car, you deserve 3 wheel scuffs and 17 bird poops baking for 6 days on your paint.
Transferring one vehicle from one dealer to another is an extra step. So, your car waits at the dealer until Joe the trucker stops by. He picks us Ms. Schovenitz's SUV first from her home and then stops by the dealer. Puts your car on the truck and goes to get Mr. Albenitz's car from the parking lot at his work.
After he completes all 7 pickups, he hits the road. During the delivery, he probably brings your car down 3 times at least to get it out of the way in total.
If you are lazy enough to watch this happening and not fly there to get your car, you deserve 3 wheel scuffs and 17 bird poops baking for 6 days on your paint.
Well it all depends on how far away the car is coming from.Let me explain, then. I thought it was clear. I know all cars are delivered to the dealers the same way. Yet, there are notions such as "avoidable" vs "unavoidable". No one can avoid their car being delivered by a truck which was most likely loaded at the factory in OH and made only 1 or no stop until arrival at the dealership. Transfer is however avoidable if you do the work. Now someone will say I make 700 an hour, I can't spare 2 days of my life for this. Then, you should not buy a Honda.
Transferring one vehicle from one dealer to another is an extra step. So, your car waits at the dealer until Joe the trucker stops by. He picks us Ms. Schovenitz's SUV first from her home and then stops by the dealer. Puts your car on the truck and goes to get Mr. Albenitz's car from the parking lot at his work.
After he completes all 7 pickups, he hits the road. During the delivery, he probably brings your car down 3 times at least to get it out of the way in total.
If you are lazy enough to watch this happening and not fly there to get your car, you deserve 3 wheel scuffs and 17 bird poops baking for 6 days on your paint.
Living in NYC, if I were buying an out-of-state car from say Pittsburgh (one day away), I'd fly out there, pick it up, and drive it home.
Or even Cincinnati or Charlotte, NC (two days away), sure - I could fly out on say a Friday, and be back home with my car by the end of Sunday. And it'd be broken in by the time I got home!
But the two times I shipped a car it was coming from clear across the country - 2500 miles.
Including from where I bought my own new 2022 Civic ST 6MT - at MSRP, in my preferred color, for a car on the lot (no waiting - and I had no car at the time), with dealer add-ons "already installed" but most of which I wanted like the HPD package, window tinting, paint protection film, etc.
...But the dealership was in Henderson, NV (outside Las Vegas).
Yes, I considered flying out to get it. But shipping it to me cost around $1000 (I think $1150 after I tipped the driver).
Now compare that to this worksheet:
- Cab fare to airport ($40)
- One-way plane ticket ($250)
- Cab fare from airport to dealership ($40?)
- Leaving dealership likely around noon...
- Driving about 400 miles a day = 6 more days to get home.
- If I pushed it to say 500 miles a day, ... still, 5 days to get home.
- Multiply that by cost of hotel rooms, three meals a day while on the road, plus fuel:
- 6 nights cheap but not "roach motel" room @ $125 net = $750
- $50 a day for food = $300
- 75 gallons of fuel @ $4/gallon = $300
- And the vacation days I'd have had to take off from work
- I'd also be completely by myself, no friends/family, and little to no sightseeing
I could have brought that figure down to around $1500 with an el-cheapo flight (super early with a transfer somewhere, instead of a direct flight), driving longer per day, and doing it in 5 days...
Or, I pay $1150 to get the car dropped off literally at my door in 7 days with 5 miles on the odometer while living my normal life.
If you want to call that lazy, fine, I was lazy. LOL
IMO shipping a car in the US is kind of the worst. If you decide to go this route, vet the CRAP out of the company you use for shipping and find out exactly how the process works. I'm sure everyone has had a different experience, but for what it's worth, here is mine: I had one shipped overseas from Amsterdam to Baltimore and believe it or not, that part of the journey was no issue. They picked up the car in Beesd, drove it to the port in Amsterdam, put it on the boat and it arrived in Baltimore exactly when they said it would. I had the import documentation ready to go (fairly simple under the 25 year rule) and then I just had to have the US trucker pick it up and bring it to my house in PA... It's a long story but it was a nightmare and I had to grease the driver with $500 cash to get him to bring me the car after I paid a broker $1500 for the delivery service. The car arrived on a super sketchy truck and damaged.
These trucking companies are often just brokers who put the shipping jobs up for other trucking companies/individuals to pick up. Separately a friend of mine had a motorcycle shipped, he received it undamaged but there was bad/no communication from the shipping company and at the end of it all he spent more time messing around with it than it was worth.
Maybe try to find a consultant in your area. I had a similar situation last year when I bought my Civic Si. Places wanted anywhere from 6-12k over sticker, no test drives etc... I called a consultant and got a sticker deal with $1000 in mandatory dealer add ons, half of which I was able to wiggle out of at the table. I had to put down a deposit and wait a month but it was a lot easier than calling around and getting the same answer from every dealer.
These trucking companies are often just brokers who put the shipping jobs up for other trucking companies/individuals to pick up. Separately a friend of mine had a motorcycle shipped, he received it undamaged but there was bad/no communication from the shipping company and at the end of it all he spent more time messing around with it than it was worth.
Maybe try to find a consultant in your area. I had a similar situation last year when I bought my Civic Si. Places wanted anywhere from 6-12k over sticker, no test drives etc... I called a consultant and got a sticker deal with $1000 in mandatory dealer add ons, half of which I was able to wiggle out of at the table. I had to put down a deposit and wait a month but it was a lot easier than calling around and getting the same answer from every dealer.
Well the math does not lie but can be flawed. I drove 2350 miles coast to coast 4 times and they all took 3 days. I can drive 800 a day easily so that makes 2 hotel stays on the road rather than paying a monkey with a wrench over thousand dollars to abuse my new car, hard pass.Well it all depends on how far away the car is coming from.
Living in NYC, if I were buying an out-of-state car from say Pittsburgh (one day away), I'd fly out there, pick it up, and drive it home.
Or even Cincinnati or Charlotte, NC (two days away), sure - I could fly out on say a Friday, and be back home with my car by the end of Sunday. And it'd be broken in by the time I got home!
But the two times I shipped a car it was coming from clear across the country - 2500 miles.
Including from where I bought my own new 2022 Civic ST 6MT - at MSRP, in my preferred color, for a car on the lot (no waiting - and I had no car at the time), with dealer add-ons "already installed" but most of which I wanted like the HPD package, window tinting, paint protection film, etc.
...But the dealership was in Henderson, NV (outside Las Vegas).
Yes, I considered flying out to get it. But shipping it to me cost around $1000 (I think $1150 after I tipped the driver).
Now compare that to this worksheet:
So there you are: with some rounding, it'd have cost me about $1650, plus a week away from my family on my own, plus 5 vacation days from work, to exhaust myself to get my new car home with 2500 miles on it after 6 days.
- Cab fare to airport ($40)
- One-way plane ticket ($250)
- Cab fare from airport to dealership ($40?)
- Leaving dealership likely around noon...
- Driving about 400 miles a day = 6 more days to get home.
- If I pushed it to say 500 miles a day, ... still, 5 days to get home.
- Multiply that by cost of hotel rooms, three meals a day while on the road, plus fuel:
- 6 nights cheap but not "roach motel" room @ $125 net = $750
- $50 a day for food = $300
- 75 gallons of fuel @ $4/gallon = $300
- And the vacation days I'd have had to take off from work
- I'd also be completely by myself, no friends/family, and little to no sightseeing
I could have brought that figure down to around $1500 with an el-cheapo flight (super early with a transfer somewhere, instead of a direct flight), driving longer per day, and doing it in 5 days...
Or, I pay $1150 to get the car dropped off literally at my door in 7 days with 5 miles on the odometer while living my normal life.
If you want to call that lazy, fine, I was lazy. LOL
You can do Friday through Sunday. No big deal.
lol driving 12 hours a day for 3 days straight. I’m with robardin. I’m shipping all day from that distance. Even having had a previous bad experience.
Priorities, priorities.lol driving 12 hours a day for 3 days straight. I’m with robardin. I’m shipping all day from that distance. Even having had a previous bad experience.
To make the point he chooses the longest distance between dealers, paltry 400mi per day leisure driving, all possible expenses.
To each his own. I don't want my new cars unnecessarily manhandled by truckers.
Have you considered exploring the option of shipping the SI from another location? It might open up more possibilities for you. While some dealerships may be hesitant to ship rare models, there are certainly those who are willing to accommodate such requests.
Remember to thoroughly research any dealership or shipping service you consider, read reviews, and ensure they have a good track record in terms of reliability and customer satisfaction.
Remember to thoroughly research any dealership or shipping service you consider, read reviews, and ensure they have a good track record in terms of reliability and customer satisfaction.
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