Here is the deal. My parents are getting ready to drive my car across country to Long Beach where it will be shipped to Hawaii. August 29th is when the car will be shipped, so you can guess how long it will take.

If any of you are looking to purchase a hardtop from the mainland, I can help with the shipping cost. Here is what I propose:

1) you purchase the hardtop from a location enroute from boston to los angeles. you pay the hardtop in full and tell them that you will pick it up to install it.
2) my parents will go pick up the hardtop and have the seller install it.
3) the car will be shipped to Hawaii. when it arrives, you can pick up the hardtop from sand island.

I will only charge $99 for shipping. If this is appealing to you, please PM me, and we'll work out the details.

the only problem I see is insurance. I hope the car shipper will cover the hardtop in their liabilities. Also, my car is an ap2.

 

Ok, I did some research. Looks like the cheapest place to buy hardtop, FYI, is from Flagstaff Honda. Originally, they were selling it for $2.7k SHIPPED, but has since increase he prices to $3k shipped. Also, I don't know if shipping to Hawaii is more expensive.

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showt...62&hl=flagstaff

So, unless you can negociate a good deal minus shipping, I would just go with them then.

Sorry to crap my own thread.

 

shipping to hawaii is gonna be way more expensive

 

Yeah shipping to Hawaii will be a lot more. Also, you do realize that in order to put a hardtop on your car, you have to install hardware, right? So that means when you get to Hawaii it's not just a matter of popping off the hardtop and putting it on the other car. You're going to have to uninstall the hardware that was just installed on your car.

Just making sure if you knew that.

 

also hardware between years are different

 

I got my OEM hardtop for $2700 shipped to Pfleuger Honda. That was the going rate for the past 4 years. Should be the same. It was like $2500 and $200 for shipping. It was also a 35 day wait.

Good luck.

 

didn't know that. I thought it was a one-touch button thing.