New Car - Transporting vs Driving

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Durzel

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Looking at buying a car tomorrow and since it's 230+ miles away from me (getting the train up) I've been debating actually paying for it to get transported to me instead of driving it back. I've had quotes of £180-£200+ to transport it.

I don't do an awful lot of miles, 230 miles would be roughly two weeks worth of driving for me on a average month. Driving it back would also probably cost about 1-1.5 tanks of petrol I think (£50-£75 at a total guess)

Is this incredibly pretentious or something you lot would consider?

(Don't want to get bogged down in what the car is suffice to say its a low-mileage prestige car)
 
what car are you travelling 230 miles to buy ? surely its got to be something special to travel that far ?

I would have thought the drive back would be half the fun.

Unless you're picking up a 1.6 focus or something. But then why travel 230 miles for a 1.6 focus ?
 
I've done it with a couple of motorbikes before, mainly because I couldn't be bothered to ride for hundreds of miles. If it's only £100 difference to get it transported then go for it, then you can spend your day doing something else instead.
 
Indeed, what car is it that has such a small tank yet is prestige that would need 1.5 tanks to do 230 miles?
 
Ok maybe it's just a tank full then, not 100% sure. I mainly can't be arsed to drive for like 4 hours and end up with a previously valeted car covered in flies and new stonechips.
 
[TW]Fox;19279236 said:
Only if you have already seen it. Don't trust the dealers opinion of its cosmetic condition.
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I'm going up to look at it tomorrow. If everything checks out will be buying it then and there. The plan was then to either a) drive it back or b) get train back (train ticket is return anyway, just in case sale falls through) and get car transported same day or ASAP.

I'm probably being a little over fussy and definitely lazy, but was just curious if anyone had done likewise in the past - i.e. had their car transported when they couldn't be bothered (or plain couldn't) to drive it.
 
I don't think you'll pick up too many stone chips in 230 miles :p

Just drive it back IMO. I've driven further than that for a few hour meeting and then the same distance back again before, it is hardly the end of the world.
 
230 miles is nothing. I've driven double that bringing a car home. It's part of the fun, you get to familiarise yourself with the car and all the toys.

Cars are made to be driven and they will pickup stonechips, you can't stop this.

As long as you don't drive the 230 miles on someone's bumper, you shouldn't pickup any marks you will notice.
 
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