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@Korbek
I just wanted to say I’m very happy for you and offer you a sincere congratulations!!!
You displayed some serious patience as I know your car was held in port for quite some time. Now it’s yours and it was certainly worth the wait. Your car looks beautiful!!! Have a safe and enjoyable journey back to Texas.
Found a GREAT couple with an air bnb that let me park her in their garage overnight where the wife normally keeps hers.
Of course, I had to get the road grime and tape residue off before I tucked her in. First bath for the baby!
Almost no residue of course. Clean release automotive masking tape, 3 inch wide 55 yard roll for the win. GLAD I did the tape because I passed a landfill and a swarm of black botflys or something plastered the bumper. Maybe dragonflies or kissing bugs not sure. Tape was GROSS! Will be taping her up again tomorrow for the next leg. Not sure if I'll do the full 1100 miles remaining to home tomorrow or stop someplace and finish Monday.
Originally Posted by ratchettt
The Quest is over at last. The Crusades' complete. It's a true special gorgeous beauty you ride to Texas together.
I'm sure a forum member or two will be glad to be done with my "what if" posts. I dont regret the 5k over sticker one bit. A dealer not far from me, the one that DOESNT honor MSRP gentleman's agreements like the one a little further away, sold their last LC for 20k over sticker last month.
Originally Posted by 400Mman
@Korbek I just wanted to say I’m very happy for you and offer you a sincere congratulations!!!You displayed some serious patience as I know your car was held in port for quite some time. Now it’s yours and it was certainly worth the wait. Your car looks beautiful!!! Have a safe and enjoyable journey back to Texas.
Thanks man! I was a hair's breadth away from buying a 2024 CPO from Sewell Lexus in Dallas last month while this one sat at port. The ONLY thing that stopped me was that it had the rear wing which I dont like but could live with, and lacked the dark chrome trim. It woulda saved me about 8k vs this one, but the 8k price delta is worth having one only I have broken in!! Appreciate all your supportive posts.
@Korbek
Get a good night sleep as you have some serious westward miles to tackle tomorrow. How have you found the comfort level while eating up the highways? Even with a very new engine I imagine that your steady speed highway MPG is pretty good given the transmission gearing.
@Korbek
Get a good night sleep as you have some serious westward miles to tackle tomorrow. How have you found the comfort level while eating up the highways? Even with a very new engine I imagine that your steady speed highway MPG is pretty good given the transmission gearing.
Taking surfface roads to vary speed and gears until I hit 500 mile break in. But shes VERY comfy!
More tape for the long leg today:
And a lengthy detour to hide in a parking garage in Tallahassee at the moment for a couple hours, as this storm has potentially dangerous winds and hail and a tornado warning in place. I tried to avoid it by staying in Ocala hoping it would lose some steam crossing TX and Louisiana, but unfortunately not. Talk about a quest to get her home!
Whelp finally got her home. I left Ocala, FL at 830am eastern. Pulled into my driveway in TX at 2:15am Central, almost an 18 hour drive due to waiting out that tornado warning for 2 hours and an hour detour due to I12 closure.
Promptly took all the tape off. Sadly after 18 hours, over half of it in direct sun, it left some adhesive. Luckily some ultra light polishing compound on a detailing cloth did the trick. 2 hours later shes de-taped, washed, de-residued, and ready to drop off at the PPF & tint shop in about 4 hours.
Guess I wont be sleeping till this evening unless I can manage a nap since I'm off work today. I'm gettin too old for this 24-36 hours awake nonsense lol. Home sweet home:
@Korbek “Whelp finally got her home. I left Ocala, FL at 830am eastern. Pulled into my driveway in TX at 2:15am Central, almost an 18 hour drive due to waiting out that tornado warning for 2 hours and an hour detour due to I12 closure”
Well, I’m glad you made it back home safely, that is one heck of a long day!
if nothing else this has certainly confirmed to you (I’d imagine) that the LC 500 is very capable of providing a high level of driving comfort over many miles/hours of cross country driving. There are many vehicles that in this scenario the fatigue factor would have been much higher.
