Luxury Vehicle Transport in California

Modern performance and luxury cars carry a few features that are excellent on the road and actively unhelpful on a truck bed. Knowing about them in advance is the difference between a clean delivery and an irritating phone call.

Air and adaptive suspension. Many of these cars settle when they are switched off and locked, which can drop a front lip onto the deck or a ramp. Most have a documented way to raise the car or hold it at transport height, and several need the ignition live to do it. If you know your car's procedure, tell us. If you do not, we will work it out before it goes up the ramp rather than after.

Tilt and motion alarms. An interior or inclination sensor that is perfectly sensible in a parking garage will trigger repeatedly on a moving truck. Left armed it will sound the alarm most of the way and arrive with a flat battery. Most cars have a way to arm the locks without the motion sensor, usually a second press on the fob or a switch in the cabin.

Clearance and wheels. Carbon splitters, low front lips and twenty inch wheels wrapped in low profile tires are the things that get damaged, always on the ramp and never on the highway. Approach boards go down first.

Drivetrain. Most of these are all-wheel drive, which means a flatbed rather than a wheel lift, with all four wheels off the road.

Two sensible habits. Hand over a valet key rather than the full set where the car has one. And photograph the car in good light before it loads, including the wheel faces and the lower front, with the date visible.