Shipping car from Melbourne to Gold Coast

[stefcio007]

Never done this before.
Tips, suggestions, who to use?

Cheers.

[sn809]

Never done this before.
Tips, suggestions, who to use?

Cheers.

Umm why dont you just drive across, its a great drive,
Try shiply for a quote

[godzilr]

Prixcar have been great for me, on multiple cars.

[linchpin]

I used Prixcar as well, Brisbane to Melbourne
no complaints and had door to door servce.
Only thing with door to door was the vehicle arrived
in Melbourne on the Monday and sat there all week
until getting despatched on the Friday

[ian]

its only about 1,400km you could drive it in a good day
early start and a late finish

[Sunny43.5]

I agree with Ian the drive is so much better than the old days BUT in the old days you had less to worry about speed cameras etc . I left Melbourne central 9.30 pm on a Friday night drove until 12.30 am woke again 5 or 6 hours later and got back to Wooloongabba almost in central Brisbane arrived 8pm Saturday so whole trip on my own in around 17 hours including fuel and food . Oh weapon of choice was a VF Valiant 318 fireball V8 .

[Bryn23]

I've done the trip from Melbourne to Brisbane via the Newell more times than i can remember for work, its its closer to 1700km than 1400km

Its really is a two day trip to do it safe, even then 9-10 hours driving per day can be too much for people.

I have also driven it non stop before and its is around the 18-19 hour driving at the speed limit, but i wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Car transporter would be the better option after allowing for fuel accommodation and food

Sunny, that would have been a great drive in the Valiant, lucky there are servos every 200km on the Newell.

[Bora Sport]

I had a car that I bought from an auction in Sydney sent direct to my mechanics workshop in Nambour for just under $600.00 using Prixcar. I was quite happy with the service. It arrived on time and I was happy considering the car wasn't registered. If you factor in the cost of your time, fuel, food, possibly accomodation, airline tickets etc I thought it was good value plus 1,100 less kilometres on the car.
Depot to depot is heaps cheaper too.

[Sunny43.5]

[QUOTE=Bryn23;1236318]

Sunny, that would have been a great drive in the Valiant, lucky there are servos every 200km on the Newell.[/QUOTE
Ha Ha yes the old Fireball 318 was pretty thirsty but went like stink !! I loved that car so much it was pretty bullet proof and took every thing that an 18 year old could throw at it , not like today's princesses I am afraid . On the way down I blew a radiator hose doing 140kmh close to midnight in the middle of nowhere , pulled over shortened the hose where the clamp had caused a split and drove to a servo to top up the water . They just kept going and going [also helped having a temp gauge unlike todays Vdubs ] you could monitor temp and slow down to let it cool until I got the water .

[ian]

Back in 1977 i drove a V8 Torana Hatchback from Sydney to Canarvon WA
It took me 2 days to get to Perth with my son as a co piolet driving non stop ,Stayed over night in Perth and next day drove to Canarvon another 1,000km
Stayed 7 days and done the round trip 10,000km
we were pretty well buggered when we arrived back in Sydney and i spend nearly $500 on fuel

[gldgti]

and i spend nearly $500 on fuel

In 1977!!!!!! WOW!

By my calculations, my allroad costs $1,300 / 10,000km in fuel. My how things have changed.

[stefcio007]

Thanks for the responses. So Holden only offered us $4k for the Barina, thought we might just sell it instead but that's a bit too low.
Going to do the usual oil and filter change before we leave. We've got to nights and 3 days, don't want to rush it, making a trip of it.