Okay i have a question, say you find your car that you want like 5 hours away. you call them up and you talk to the dealership and you say okay i'll buy it. What can you do to make sure that they don't sell it during the duration of you making your way up there to pick the car up????
Has anybody here bought a car 300 miles away lets say and drove it home? How was your experience? How did you seal the deal etc... Did you make a down payment with your credit card to prove you wanted it etc...??? I'm just really worried that I say okay I'll by it and then fly all the way there and find out it's gone. Hopefully that wouldn't ever happen, but that would suck if it did!
I have bought 2 new cars that way in the past year.
The key to it is this. I put a $500 deposit down over the phone using my credit card. I fax them the number with my signed authorization under certain circumstances. I put that it is for a specific car, condition, XX miles on it, color, transmission, and serial number.
Once they have my deposit, they cannot sell the car until I get there. But if there is something I don't like, I can always fall back on what I wrote down for my deposit and walk out the door.
The other thing you need to do is to make sure you have financing done before going to the dealer. These days, you can do all financing phone or fax. Stop just short of signing the FINAL paper work if the dealer going to finance you, until you walk in the door. This way, they don't get you all down there and try to pull something. They know you came all the way down there to buy the car and don't want to leave empty handed. But the finance paper work is done and you know how much it is going to cost. If you don't like the car, walk out, because you haven't signed the final paper work yet.
All this doesn't mean they won't screw you when you walk in the door. But these things mentioned should reduce the risk. My last purchase, I did all of the above and they had someone there at the dealer when I walked in, going to buy the car. Some salesman wanted to sell it out from under neath me. I threw a big fit in the showroom and they called out the general manager to calm me down. He agreed it was BS and tossed the other customer out, literally walked in and told the other customer he wouldn't be buying that car. That customer won't be back, but HEY...I got my car!
Anyway, I hope this helps
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-1998 Black Cobra, Kenne Bell 2.1L Supercharged
-2005 Mustang GT, Premium, 5spd, Redfire, Mac Catback
-2007 Roush Nitemare Stage 3 Supercharged #48 of 100
Let me ask you this, since you talk about all the financing and all that. I will end up getting a loan from my bank to pay for the car and then i'll end up paying my bank back obviously. How does all that work? This is my first time doing all this as you can tell. Do I need to set all that up first hand with my bank before going to the dealership and picking up my car. Or do I just go to the dealership, work it all out on paper, tell them i'll be going through my bank etc.. drive home in my new car and then work out the bank stuff etc later....????
I bought 220 miles from home and financed with my credit union. I got pre-approved at the CU, called dealership and asked for a quote on the car (car was ordered and then turned down at delivery - wasn't yet on display for sale). I accepted the quoted price ($1K over invoice), told them I was on my way but I wouldn't be able to be there until about 30-45 mins before closing. They told me no problem and they would be waiting. Car was washed and sitting out front when I arrived, 1.9 miles on odometer. As far as delivery, they will still run your credit and should give the choice of either writing a check for the financed portion which they will hold until receiving the loan check and then mail yours back to you, or, let you sign financing papers which they will destroy once they receive the check from your lending institution. I opted for the latter. Picked car up on a Thursday, drove home, and went in to complete financing on Monday. Credit Union sent check to dealership and deal was complete. Now it is just finding any excuse to go drive . Good luck.
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'05 GT premium, satin silver w/ light graphite and painted 5-spokes, IUP, active anti-theft, side airbags, and wheel locks
Let me ask you this, since you talk about all the financing and all that. I will end up getting a loan from my bank to pay for the car and then i'll end up paying my bank back obviously. How does all that work? This is my first time doing all this as you can tell. Do I need to set all that up first hand with my bank before going to the dealership and picking up my car. Or do I just go to the dealership, work it all out on paper, tell them i'll be going through my bank etc.. drive home in my new car and then work out the bank stuff etc later....????
Every time I have done this I get preapproved, go buy the car and sign the paper work. The dealer makes me sign a paper saying they'll need payment in 3 days or they will exercise their own financing at a certain percentage. I then take the paperwork to the bank and they fedex a check to the dealer within a day.
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2005 GT Coupe Premium, Redfire, Dark Charcoal, IUP, Manual, Bullits, and active theft.
Ordered 2/21 - Serialized 4/21!
Build Week 5/16
Built 5/18
Shipped via rail car 5/21
Arrived at ramp 5/30
Arrived at dealer 5/31
Got the call 6/2
Picked up at dealer 6/4
Original Dealer Estimate 4/25
Updated Dealer Estimate last week in May first week in June
(Last GT dealer will receive)
I live in Hawaii and just purchased a GT in California over the phone, could not have been easier. Also the dealer took the car to have custom wheels put on and then down to Long Beach to ship it.
Question on purchasing car far away from home 
. Good luck.
