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I have bought two vehicles sight unseen and paid for both with Escrow.com. The sellers were leery as well. The key is that you have to pay extra for the title service. The seller sends the title to escrow, sends the car to you, you receive the car, escrow releases payment and title.
Escrow stays man in the middle for the whole thing.
Quoted from lifefloat:This is kinda how I pictured this going. Interesting they offer title service. Good to know.
I'm probably going old school at this point though. Show up with funds. Leave with vehicle. In this case on a trailer.
I buy california cars and ship them to Wisconsin from time to time. My dream vacation would be to buy a beater from cali and drive it all the way back to Wisconsin. Nothing like wrenching on the fly.
Since reality plays a large part in this, escrow it is for me.
Quoted from lifefloat:I have done quite a few of those kinds of runs actually. They can be fun and miserable all in the same breath.
Like the time I had to find a Dana 44 in the middle of nowhere because the one I was towing failed to have oil in it and seized. In defense of the axle it made it 250 miles with no oil at highway speeds until it locked. Bad situation but found one and witnessed some truly interesting parts of the USA I would not have seen otherwise.
My bad for not checking the axle before towing that Jeep.
Awesome! My favorite so far… was driving a 67 beetle in college from Florida back to Illinois. Belt shredded (not that big of a deal) somewhere in southern Illinois. The problem was it blew apart and actually went into the fan in the rear of the doghouse. I had to wait for the engine to cool, remove the three bolts holding the engine to the tranny, drop the motor, and then clean out the fan assembly. Nothing like dropping a motor on the side of a freeway… lol
Quoted from lifefloat:At least that VW didn't burn on the side of the freeway............as so many have. And that magnesium when it gets going...........rrrrrrrr!
I have seen a fair share torch because people put the fuel filter inside the engine compartment… big no-no.
I do pucker up a bit when I do DP motor swaps into older gen VWs…. It requires shaving the inside of the bell housing on the tranny just a bit. Slow and steady with a rotary and grinding bit do the trick, but yeah, the extinguisher is near by.
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