How to deal with the excruciating waiting period after booking a car

I have recently booked a Tata Safari facelift and I am getting very impatient. I have browsed through everything on YouTube related to my car.

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People who have booked the Safari but are now waiting for delivery. How are you guys navigating this period?

Personally, I am very impatient and these days all that I think about is cars and their colours on the road. My better half noticed this the other day when we were on our usual evening walk after work and I would be staring at all the cars in our society's basement parking, evaluating whether a certain colour looks better than a certain other colour and bugging her about this.

I would also browse through EVERYTHING in terms of content related to my car on YouTube in my free time. I have watched drive, ownership, service experience, pros and cons, PDI etc all the different videos related to Safari on YouTube (including the pre-facelift version + Harrier). Now, I am close to running out of quality content to watch and my SA still says the car is "in transit". I booked the car around a week back and expect to get the delivery in July 1st weekend (fingers crossed).

What are you guys doing during this time? How are you dealing with the excitement (and soon enough, boredom) of watching every single content related to your car online before the delivery and after booking? Any suggestions on stuff to read/watch would be much appreciated.

Here's what BHPian Sphere had to say about the matter:

I can completely relate to the feeling and situation you are going through. I was in exactly the same spot and literally watched all the videos on YouTube about the Safari and Harrier posted in the last 2 years (I had quite a lot of time, exams were just over.)

Long story short, I could have got the car earlier if I just didn't care about feelings and rather would have been practical.

Test drove and booked the car with dealer 1. Inquired with dealer 2 (on T-Bhp suggestion) and he promised delivery in 1 week because he had the car in stock along with a discount (all on the phone). Told this to dealer 1 and he promised the same (chose to trust him because he was a nice guy and had been a great experience till date, also he was closer to my house).

Then dealer 1 makes us wait for 2 weeks without informing us. I get frustrated, book with dealer 2, do the PDI and take delivery all within 1 week. Surprising thing is I saw the showroom for the first time when I went to take delivery. After a month dealer 1 calls me saying he has stock available, and now I happily ignore him like he did 2 weeks ago.

During that period I couldn't sleep at night and had dreams about the car when I would.

Here's what BHPian HRTK had to say about the matter:

The plan is all set to get one in white this Diwali. A couple of reasons:

• Festive offers as Tata comes with such offers every year.
• All the main issues from the previous batches are most likely to be filtered out. Not completely but yes, to some extent.
• It's an auspicious occasion.

Now the delivery is planned on Dhanteras so the sales person advised to book one during August last week or September first week.

All this was discussed during May including all the test drives of Safari and vehicles of other segments also which include: Scorpio N and Xuv 700

The family gave a green flag for Safari. Did I mention that the entire family was present during TD of all the 3 vehicles mentioned before?

I now have to wait till November and though being a patient person (thanks to years of training), I still sometimes tell the family members "Why wait till November, let's get one now" and they simply deny it.

So I can completely relate with you on the waiting period.

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