Time of year for factory pick up.

[cyure]

All this crazy weather we have been having lately got me thinking about my factory pick up. I want to get my Scout as soon as possible (with the caveat that there are a few features that are nonnegotiable). Right now in the Midwest we are having days of terrible storms and tornados and I would not want to be driving my brand new beautiful Traveler through that weather. I don’t want my first paint ding to occur on the way home.

So I was thinking we need a few options. If our Scout is ready in the dead of winter, or during tornado season or hurricane season deliver our Scout and let us schedule our factory experience for another time. That way we could take a roadtrip out to the factory and back in our Scouts.

Or if someone just doesn’t want to drive their Scout home from the factory, do a factory “pick up” where you go to the factory and get to enjoy all the fun stuff, but you fly home while your Scout is being delivered to your home.

Any other ideas?

 

[mrgold35]

Too far for me to drive +1600 miles fresh off the production line Traveler EREV home to New Mexico without knowing the dealership network in between. I had minor issues with new vehicles with tires out of balance, alignment issues, or fit/finish that needed to be fixed after a few days of driving. I'm not even sure of the break-in procedure for an EREV? I follow the "ol skool" break-in procedures the first 500-1000 miles with I.C.E. w/ or w/o hybrid tech (braking system, no towing, gentle on trans, varied motor rpms, zero cruise control only hwy runs for hours, changing out fluids with any break-in additives).

I want to add paint protection film ASAP because road debris strikes down to the body at 75-80 mph posted speed limits on my side of Mississippi. Very hard to find vehicles in the southwest without faded UV damaged headlights & paint, cracked/stared/chipped windshields, or debris strikes on hood or fenders. Adding PPF really helps if you plan to keep +10 years.

I'm willing to travel to the Scout factory if they are having a monthly meet/greet session to hang out, tour the factory, and see/test drive other vehicles. I would want to see/touch/drive a demo Scout months or even in a year in advance before delivery (if possible). I just don't know enough about the Scout direct sale procedures? I still might need to travel to Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City, or Dallas to test drive if a direct sales office with delivery option isn't available in New Mexico.

 

[J Alynn]

I’m still back to Scout factory order experience then have it delivered to my driveway without the 700-ish miles added on. This way I see all colors in person on the truck, experience the drivability and know everything before I commit $1,000’s of dollars. Then when it’s ready I’ll t shows up at my door, they load mine and take it away. When your order time arrives, SM gives you a months notice to schedule your order-can do it online or in person with the experience. Best of all worlds. That said, I do expect a $1000 experience fee that is applied to purchase but if for some reason I hate it, then no different than the cost of something like BMW driving school

 

[maynard]

All this crazy weather we have been having lately got me thinking about my factory pick up. I want to get my Scout as soon as possible (with the caveat that there are a few features that are nonnegotiable). Right now in the Midwest we are having days of terrible storms and tornados and I would not want to be driving my brand new beautiful Traveler through that weather. I don’t want my first paint ding to occur on the way home.

So I was thinking we need a few options. If our Scout is ready in the dead of winter, or during tornado season or hurricane season deliver our Scout and let us schedule our factory experience for another time. That way we could take a roadtrip out to the factory and back in our Scouts.

Or if someone just doesn’t want to drive their Scout home from the factory, do a factory “pick up” where you go to the factory and get to enjoy all the fun stuff, but you fly home while your Scout is being delivered to your home.

Any other ideas?

Either sounds good to me...

 

[Scoutsie]

Winter would stink for the final destination of “home” in New England, but it’d be a great way to figure out if I made a good choice, and I remember doing a horrible summer drive through the south as a young teenager, so I know that’s potentially horrible, too. Spring is probably ideal because hopefully the worst I’d be doing is coughing and blowing my nose, just like I’ve been doing every spring since I was 11. Summer also now seems to be when I break something. Fall isn’t bad other than the threat of hurricanes and it’s a pretty foliage drive around here. People come here specifically to see the leaves turn colors, but I’d like to see what it looks like in some of the other 13 colonies.

 

[cyure]

Winter would stink for the final destination of “home” in New England, but it’d be a great way to figure out if I made a good choice, and I remember doing a horrible summer drive through the south as a young teenager, so I know that’s potentially horrible, too. Spring is probably ideal because hopefully the worst I’d be doing is coughing and blowing my nose, just like I’ve been doing every spring since I was 11. Summer also now seems to be when I break something. Fall isn’t bad other than the threat of hurricanes and it’s a pretty foliage drive around here. People come here specifically to see the leaves turn colors, but I’d like to see what it looks like in some of the other 13 colonies.

I’m hoping for a spring delivery too. Maybe fall.

 

[J Alynn]

Winter would stink for the final destination of “home” in New England, but it’d be a great way to figure out if I made a good choice, and I remember doing a horrible summer drive through the south as a young teenager, so I know that’s potentially horrible, too. Spring is probably ideal because hopefully the worst I’d be doing is coughing and blowing my nose, just like I’ve been doing every spring since I was 11. Summer also now seems to be when I break something. Fall isn’t bad other than the threat of hurricanes and it’s a pretty foliage drive around here. People come here specifically to see the leaves turn colors, but I’d like to see what it looks like in some of the other 13 colonies.

I think fall would be great for the NE crowd. Go home through the blue ridge mountains and as far inland as Blythewood is I don’t know that hurricanes would be too impactful but it’s something to plan for

 

[SrfnFly227]

I'd really like a factory pick up option where I can go and tour the facility and look over my Traveler. Hopefully drive one of their vehicles on the off road course. That said, I'm not positive I want to drive it home. Factory comes up as a 400 mile drive for me.

Time of year makes no difference for me. Pluses and minuses to each season. Depending on exact timing, I could see making a family trip and actually driving it away from factory. My wife's extended family lives outside Greenville and it would be nice to make one big trip.

 

[6-ScoutFamily]

Factory delivery is good for me. The 900 miles back to home would be a good shakedown cruise.

 

[cyure]

This is the reason I want to make sure we have good weather driving back home from the factory.

Back in May of 2023 we took the Supra on a roadtrip. From Illinois to Southern California and back. Going we went through Colorado, Utah, Nevada to California. Coming back we did the Arizona, New Mexico, etc route.

In Oklahoma we were on the freeway and it started raining like I have never seen rain. It was like driving through a waterfall. The rain was so bad that people were driving with their hazards on and going 25 to 30 miles an hour. You could barely see a thing. We got ahead of the storm and the rest of the drive home was long but uneventful.

The next day I was looking at the car and there was a ding on the PPF in the hood. Then I started looking at the car closely and running my hand over the paint. There were all these little pits in the PPF and the paint in areas that didn’t have PPF. There were pits in the headlights and the carbon fiber mirror caps.

We put in a claim and took it to the body shop. He asked me if we went through hail or something. Nope, the roof and top of the car were fine.

He said it looked like the car has been sand blasted and all the damage started low on the bumper and the front of the hood and then went up to the mirrors. So the term they used was water blasted. All the dirt on the road came up in the water and damaged the paint, headlights and mirror caps.

It cost our insurance company $13,000 to replace the headlights, mirror caps, paint, replace the PPF and ceramic coat the car.

Now when we go on road trips I am very cautious about the weather.

I very much want to drive my Scout home from the factory, but also want the ability to pivot at the last minute and have it delivered if the weather takes a turn for the worse.

 

[R1TVT]

Please deliver my Scout truck in nastiest weather possible. I would like to jump a flooded 'crick while navigating around a hurricane that wandered onto my route, or outrun a tornado through a corn-field with some flying cows, or just plow through a raging blizzard in the dead of night up the side of a mountain with the Led Zeppelin cranked.

 

[speedrye]

Please deliver my Scout truck in nastiest weather possible. I would like to jump a flooded 'crick while navigating around a hurricane that wandered onto my route, or outrun a tornado through a corn-field with some flying cows, or just plow through a raging blizzard in the dead of night up the side of a mountain with the Led Zeppelin cranked.

This is how a Scout should be used!

 

[speedrye]

This is the reason I want to make sure we have good weather driving back home from the factory.

Back in May of 2023 we took the Supra on a roadtrip. From Illinois to Southern California and back. Going we went through Colorado, Utah, Nevada to California. Coming back we did the Arizona, New Mexico, etc route.

In Oklahoma we were on the freeway and it started raining like I have never seen rain. It was like driving through a waterfall. The rain was so bad that people were driving with their hazards on and going 25 to 30 miles an hour. You could barely see a thing. We got ahead of the storm and the rest of the drive home was long but uneventful.

The next day I was looking at the car and there was a ding on the PPF in the hood. Then I started looking at the car closely and running my hand over the paint. There were all these little pits in the PPF and the paint in areas that didn’t have PPF. There were pits in the headlights and the carbon fiber mirror caps.

We put in a claim and took it to the body shop. He asked me if we went through hail or something. Nope, the roof and top of the car were fine.

He said it looked like the car has been sand blasted and all the damage started low on the bumper and the front of the hood and then went up to the mirrors. So the term they used was water blasted. All the dirt on the road came up in the water and damaged the paint, headlights and mirror caps.

It cost our insurance company $13,000 to replace the headlights, mirror caps, paint, replace the PPF and ceramic coat the car.

Now when we go on road trips I am very cautious about the weather.

I very much want to drive my Scout home from the factory, but also want the ability to pivot at the last minute and have it delivered if the weather takes a turn for the worse.

So, that was a long way of saying you've decided you want 35's on your Scout? To get the truck up higher, out of harm's way?

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

The very first weekend we have a new-to-us truck, we take it to get its Arizona pinstriping.

I have no patience for protecting my truck from scratches and dings so I immediately get that concern out of the way by giving those dings to it. If they had a fork in the road: “turn right to stay safe, turn left to go on a true adventure and risk getting some scratches,” on the Scout Hill experience at the factory pickup, I’d choose left every time.

 

[cyure]

The very first weekend we have a new-to-us truck, we take it to get its Arizona pinstriping.

I have no patience for protecting my truck from scratches and dings so I immediately get that concern out of the way by giving those dings to it. If they had a fork in the road: “turn right to stay safe, turn left to go on a true adventure and risk getting some scratches,” on the Scout Hill experience at the factory pickup, I’d choose left every time.

Oh that first ding is gonna kill me.

 

[R1TVT]

Oh that first ding is gonna kill me.

But think of the upside! Once you get that first one out of the way, the next one is easier!

 

[cyure]

But think of the upside! Once you get that first one out of the way, the next one is easier!

Nooo, two dings.

 

[J Alynn]

But think of the upside! Once you get that first one out of the way, the next one is easier!

Just like giving birth-so I’ve been told, reminded of, argued during kidney stone, then argued again and still seem to lose

 

[cyure]

Just like giving birth-so I’ve been told, reminded of, argued during kidney stone, then argued again and still seem to lose

You should have lost.

 

[J Alynn]

You should have lost.

My female nurse practitioner said kidney stones are worse than birth so technically I feel I should win but I suppose if you are going to throw in emotions, months of lugging weight, blah,blah, blah-happy life-happy wife then I guess you are correct