Hello all! My name is John Kleva and am newly registered. I am purchasing my sister in laws 2000 Land Cruiser. It is a dream specimen. She is currently sitting with about 75k miles. Always garaged, whether at home or work and has been dealer maintained its entire life. My sister in law recently had surgery and has decided that lc is a bit much for her. The lc will be coming from the Houston area and I am located in New York. I am on the fence of flying to Houston and driving her back or having a shipping company do it. The only issue is that the lc has not been driven much the past year and a half and am not sure if I should do a 1700 mile initial road trip with it because of that. What do you guys think? Looking forward to making her mine!
Should I drive it or have it shipped?
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If it has been taken care of and recently checked out by the dealer it should be safe to drive but you won't know for sure until you have a few miles/hours on it
So safest is have it shipped. Cost won't be much different than paying airfare one way to fly to Houston and drive back with fuel cost and a few hotel stays.
Make sure there is good insurance on the vehicle during transport.
On the other hand, the best for the vehicle is to not bring it to the Rust Capitol of the US, that is if you want to save it from disappearing into red dust cloud of Iron Oxide.
Whatever you do is to have the vehicle "Zeibarted" (or one of the other rust-protection services performed) on the whole vehicle BEFORE the first ice/snow/road salt event. ie: all the undercarriage, all body cavities and cross members, all boxed sections, fenders, quarter panel cavities, rocker panel cavities, doors, hood, tail/lift gates, frame rails, axles, engine bay, radiator support members, all body mount brackets, brake lines, etc, etc, etc.
OR, buy a kit (Eastwood etc) and do it yourself or find an individual who has a ton of experience and who knows how to complete the the job thoroughly That's the only way to save it from certain death.
IME if you take an older Southern vehicle to live in the Northeastern US the rust won't be far behind.
So safest is have it shipped. Cost won't be much different than paying airfare one way to fly to Houston and drive back with fuel cost and a few hotel stays.
Make sure there is good insurance on the vehicle during transport.
On the other hand, the best for the vehicle is to not bring it to the Rust Capitol of the US, that is if you want to save it from disappearing into red dust cloud of Iron Oxide.
Whatever you do is to have the vehicle "Zeibarted" (or one of the other rust-protection services performed) on the whole vehicle BEFORE the first ice/snow/road salt event. ie: all the undercarriage, all body cavities and cross members, all boxed sections, fenders, quarter panel cavities, rocker panel cavities, doors, hood, tail/lift gates, frame rails, axles, engine bay, radiator support members, all body mount brackets, brake lines, etc, etc, etc.
OR, buy a kit (Eastwood etc) and do it yourself or find an individual who has a ton of experience and who knows how to complete the the job thoroughly That's the only way to save it from certain death.
IME if you take an older Southern vehicle to live in the Northeastern US the rust won't be far behind.