2000 miles roundtrip to pick up a part instead of having it shipped.
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Nick1994
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Lots of nay-sayers on here 
I hope you enjoy your trip. Wouldn't be worth it to me but if it were through a more interesting part of the country and I added some more time to it, it might make for a fun trip.
I hope you enjoy your trip. Wouldn't be worth it to me but if it were through a more interesting part of the country and I added some more time to it, it might make for a fun trip.
I did 1644 miles non-stop (no hotels) in 24 hours & 15 minutes coming home from Yellowstone this past spring. Got up at 6:30 am Friday, I went ahead and stayed up all day Saturday til about 10pm, it was super disconcerting… it was like two days of my life were magically removed from my memory.
I wasn’t overly sore because the trip was in my F-150, but I literally didn’t even want to hear the word “car” for at least a week afterwards. I now have a personal rule of no more than 800 miles (~12 hours @ 67mph - which is harder than one thinks to maintain over such a long time and distance!!) unless that leaves me within an hour or so of the destination.
I did drive from Muncie, IN to Brevard, NC round trip in 15.5 hours, which is just over 1000 Miles, as a favor to transport two friends. That wasn’t quite as bad but it was boring seeing the same things twice in the same day.
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He said the "next nearest part" was in California. He didn't mention Iowa in the OP, but the teee-tiny screen capture he posted said it's in Iowa.
I drove from 40 miles south of Atlanta to about 15 miles east of Kansas City to buy a boat in August 2020. It was an adventure for me. I'd never driven that far west/that far in one trip. I had to drive through Nashville (left from the north side of Atlanta) and around St Louis. On the way back, I stopped west of St Louis, drove through Nashville during the next afternoon on Saturday and through Atlanta about 8:00 pm. I was in the middle of a police chase near Cartersville, GA Saturday night (chasing a 10-15 yo Ford Ranger, GSP pitted him about 10 miles down I-75 and he ended up in the woods) and was in the middle of GSP chasing two Chargers on I-285 on the west side of Atlanta about 8:20 pm, they came by me (towing a 6500# boat) doing over 125 MPH.
The OP's trip will take him through Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Toledo, Chicago. Good thing those are "no chase" cities, he won't have to worry about potential goings-on on the beautiful infrastructure in those areas.
Why not pay the $400 shipping fee and pass it on to your prospective Insight buyer?
Or Wheeling WV, Columbus, Indianapolis, etc.... That's the way we used to go when we had family to visit in D.C.
From Indy onwards he can go through Peoria, the Quad Cities, Cedar Rapids, etc. Traffic should be light.
People drive across the country all the time to pickup rare CRT´s. They are just hard to find low hour sets, and often get necked during transport.
Nothing like a good bright CRT on a recapped 1959 Pedestal Predicta.
Nothing like a good bright CRT on a recapped 1959 Pedestal Predicta.
There's a boarded up building across the street from that econo-lodge.
On to the other side of things, why is this particular battery cheaper than all the others on car-part.com? Many junkyards are organized and/or part of LKQ so they won't underprice themselves without reason.
And why not just buy the part on facebook marketplace from a private party? You've got all sorts of time. Your cars sit for years before you get to them, what's another month?
On to the other side of things, why is this particular battery cheaper than all the others on car-part.com? Many junkyards are organized and/or part of LKQ so they won't underprice themselves without reason.
And why not just buy the part on facebook marketplace from a private party? You've got all sorts of time. Your cars sit for years before you get to them, what's another month?
Is this better for $52?
https://www.expedia.com/Waterloo-Ho...searchId=5b3d6770-d3fb-4a32-bfdf-98fe8b5d4390
https://www.expedia.com/Waterloo-Ho...searchId=5b3d6770-d3fb-4a32-bfdf-98fe8b5d4390
Waterloo has it's rough areas.
GON
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Here ya go- Mosley Motel in Gary, Indiana. Two nights for $99. Rooms have a kitchenette so you can rebuild a transmission in your room. Stop in Gary one night, go to Iowa the next morning and return to Gary the same day.
https://www.google.com/travel/searc...d=0CAAQ5JsGahcKEwjQj5_Y9rmAAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQDw
How are you travelling 2,000 miles on $100 in gas?
What about buying the part a bus ticket. I used to do that for X-Ray machine parts. Quick and easy.
GON
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Greyhound quit accepting bumper covers for shipment a year or so ago. Not sure if Greyhound still does any parcels....
It's going to cost far more than anticipated, if nothing else just adding in tires and all the other expenses not included in the OP. And the risk of accident/injury over 2000 miles. I've got a dollar says the actual truthful cost winds up being more than the cost to ship. Not worth the hassles, wear and tear, risk of accident etc. going to get it.
I've made the trip from northern Virginia to suburban Chicago and back many times, and nothing exciting ever happened anywhere near those cities. EDIT: The interstate passes by on the outskirts of those cities, in the suburbs
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