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re: Anybody ever buy a new car and have it shipped?

Posted by doublecutter on 3/6/26 at 6:33 am to VooDude

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Depends on the car too. If a sports car, you want to be mindful of break in period and highway miles is the worst thing you could possibly do.

Yeah, the manufacturer of the car I’m considering does recommend a break in protocol that does not include driving 400 miles at highway speeds from Texas to NOLA.

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re: Anybody ever buy a new car and have it shipped?

Posted by doublecutter on 3/5/26 at 4:21 pm to forkedintheroad

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When do you actually sign the paperwork for the car? Before or after delivery?

Before delivery. The paperwork signing would take place online, but I don’t know the exact details of how.

From my understanding, after I sign the paperwork, the car would be picked up by the transporter, be at my driveway within 48 hours.

I’m not worried about not getting right color or wrong trim level because the VIN would be on the paperwork, and I could look up the VIN and it would tell me the color, trim level, etc.

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Anybody ever buy a new car and have it shipped?

Posted by doublecutter on 3/5/26 at 3:51 pm

I’m communicating with a new car dealer in Texas and he’s telling me that if I don’t want to travel to the dealership , he could have the car shipped to me for $399. I’m thinking about by the time I travel to the dealership from NOLA, it might be better to have it shipped. Uber to MSY, plane flight cost, Uber to dealership, and gas expense back to NOLA. And the time factor of wasting a whole day, it might be worth it.

But I have reservations about buying a car sight unseen till it is delivered to my driveway. And also if the car arrives with any damage.

I had a vehicle I owned shipped from San Diego to NOLA when I was working there and it went off without a hitch. But I still have some reservations about buying a new car sight unseen.

Any advice, comments, or rebuttals welcome.

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re: Just had a 4.9 earthquake in red river parish.

Posted by doublecutter on 3/5/26 at 5:58 am to thumperpait

Coushatta shaking.

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re: Finding a toilet when you think you can’t make it…

Posted by doublecutter on 3/4/26 at 5:53 pm to Athis

I have a buddy that is a factory rep that covers the state of Texas. His claim to fame is that he has taken a dump in every Buccees in Texas.

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re: My first experience with Carmax

Posted by doublecutter on 3/4/26 at 2:48 pm to Adajax

I sold a car to CarMax two weeks ago. The day before I downloaded all the documents (title, Drivers license, registration) on their portal. Made an appointment for the next morning at 10:30. Showed up, they checked the VIN on the car, I signed a bunch of papers, they handed me a check, called me a Lyft to get back home. Whole process took 15-20 minutes. Couldn’t have asked for an easier transaction.

Plus the girl that helped me was a part Hispanic chick that was very easy on the eyes.

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re: Someone crashed into Dorignac’s Food Center entrance this evening

Posted by doublecutter on 3/4/26 at 5:29 am to Demps

More news from Old Metairie, Gordon buying the office building and now a Dorignacs accident.

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re: Navy dudes: My son is considering the Navy as a “nuke.”

Posted by doublecutter on 3/3/26 at 6:26 pm to BOHICAMAN

No advice, but at my recent 50 year HS reunion, I talked to a guy I haven’t seen since school days and he told me he retired from the Navy after being COB of a nuclear sub.

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re: Matt Bauer Chevy

Posted by doublecutter on 2/28/26 at 12:55 pm to ConcreteBaw225

I went to Matt Bowers Hyundai in Metairie because I wanted to look and test drive a Palisade. There was a price sticker next to the manufacturer sticker that had the price of the vehicle and add ons like ceramic coating, stain resistant treatment, nitrogen, and etc BS, totaling $1300. Before even driving the vehicle I asked the salesman about it and he said that package was included in every sale, can’t take it off. I told him that I was not going to buy/negotiate with a dealer that had that BS hanging over the deal. I told him I didn’t want to waste his time test driving, I would go to Premier Hyundai on the Westbank.

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re: Witnessing cultcha buying guns at a local pawn shop.

Posted by doublecutter on 2/27/26 at 6:40 am to choupiquesushi

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I am in Security in metry

That’s a place I haven’t thought about in a long time. Spent a lot of money there through the years on fishing stuff.

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re: Just got my oil changed, and realized the reminder stickers are sneaky

Posted by doublecutter on 2/26/26 at 2:21 pm to AndyJ

I don’t trust Take 5. They might say it’s Mobile1 synthetic, but I bet they pour the cheapest oil they can find in the car. Who’s going to get a sample out of their car and send it to a lab to get analyzed?

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