re: Sell, Ship or Store vehicle?

Are you sure they're still covering auto storage costs? This is a few months old,

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WASHINGTON — The Army is replacing a years-old policy that allowed soldiers who are sent on deployment to store personal items — such as vehicles — at no cost while they’re gone, the service said.

The decision was made by Army personnel officials in recent months and the move took effect on the first day of fiscal 2024.

“Effective 1 October, 2023 … activities are therefore no longer authorized to fund [household goods] or [privately owned vehicles] storage requests for deploying soldiers,” Army Sustainment Command wrote in a memo outlining the change. “There is no authority to grant exception to this policy, however, unit commanders may use their designated motor pool or a designated fenced area to store [vehicles] for soldiers on [temporary deployments] at no additional cost.”

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The buy in DE, ship to US after driving in Europe for a few weeks is a good deal, but it may take 6-8 weeks for your vehicle to show up when you drop it off at the port in the EU. I don't think you can buy a car from BMW/MB and drive it for 2 years, and then ship it tariff free to the US.

While not vehicle related, I signed a 12+ month plus contract to store my conventional shite, and got a rent increase after six months, and another notification of another rent increase a year after that. They know you are caught by the short and curlies when you're out of the country.

In Japan in the 80s, we just bought whatever shitbox could make it the 20km to base, apparently.

I'm not sure if your Tuscon is a regenerative hybrid or one that needs to be plugged in, but F no. I'm assuming you've been stationed in the EU before, it feels like NAV systems there were designed to tell you the one fuel stop you could get gas every 45 miles. Electric/Hybrid feels like a fark up waiting to happen.