I flew out to Richmond, VA expecting the 05' Ti-gray that's been on hold for me to have SOMETHING wrong with it (after all, it was listed @ $17k, by a dealer no less). It checked out and I drove it home.

I think I left Richmond around 4pm EST time, drove straight through until I was about 100m from Chicago, when I slept for 2 hours in a toll-road oasis. Around 12 noon CST today I was back home and showing off the new ride to co-workers, friends, family.

Now I'm going to sleep for 12 hours and go to work tomorrow.

A few side-notes - I'm waiting on my clay bar to arrive (Auto Geek has to have the slowest turnaround ever, UPS says 16th it'll be here - I ordered my Zaino the same night, the 9th, and it arrived 2pm on the 12th). So sometime after the 16th I'll post pix after I detail it.

Don't know what else to say, I'm really tired after driving 1k+miles but it was so worth it...I guess I should change my sig and forum title...eh tomorrow...

'night all...

 

Congrats!

 

Congrats also! Which dealer did you go to?

 

Pearson mazda in Richmond

 

I use Whitten on the other side of town.

Guess you won't be coming back to Pearson for service ...

 

Yeah i didn't get the feeling that their service dept was very nice - I tried to get them to courtesy install clear corners for me, after all I did travel halfway across the country to buy this car from them. First they said they wouldn't install the stealth bulbs because they are not Mazda OEM parts. I was like, fine...but then they said they were going to charge me for it...

I told them "screw it" and drove my car off into the horizon. So yeah, not a good impression of their service dept

 

Good deal. Welcome.

 

They probably were figuring that you would NOT be a return customer anyway.

 

Congrats on the car! Mods?

 

For now, all I'm doing is strakes & clear corners (installed).

Next year sometime I may supercharge, not really sure at this point.

 

Get yourself the AFE short shifter

 

No thanks. The stock shifter is already plenty short.

 

Congrats and welcome

 

Welcome to the club Wagz....good deal too it sounds.

 

I went to Pearson to test drive a MS3 awhile back...thought the salesman I dealt with was an a$$.

 

Eh, I thought the salespeople were OK. Granted, I dealt with them mostly over the phone, but Kaled Ali (sp?), my salesguy, didn't balk at picking me up at Richmond Airport and treated me pretty well. The only thing I didn't like is how he pressured me and my loan officer to send him the money before I had even seen the car.

Honestly, it gave me the feeling that he was trying to hide something from me, but the car is perfect, runs great & I'm loving it.

I Dawn-ed it tonight to prep for tomorrow's clay bar/Zaino treatment and put on the strakes. Hopefully tomorrow or Wednesday I'll have some time to take pics.

 

congrats. i got my car for bout the same price only i just had to drive for 15 min. welcome to the club.