BMW Build Delays

[nyxtopouli]

Hello,
I placed the order with my dealer on 12/19.
YMB, M3, CCB, Carbon Fiber roof, Cloth Interior, 6MT

Yesterday i received a notice of my production no.
My Build sheet says - 111- order Accepted at AG
Priority 1 - Customer sold

I do not have a production date. But my dealer received there allocation and bumped me to the top of the list.

[drjoe66]

Ordered 12/23, status 111. No CF roof.

[freezey]

Yeah strange no CF roof for me either.

[3er]

Originally Posted by nyxtopouli

Hello,
I placed the order with my dealer on 12/19.
YMB, M3, CCB, Carbon Fiber roof, Cloth Interior, 6MT

Yesterday i received a notice of my production no.
My Build sheet says - 111- order Accepted at AG
Priority 1 - Customer sold

I do not have a production date. But my dealer received there allocation and bumped me to the top of the list.

That likely means that the dealership just submitted the order to BMW yesterday (perhaps they just received an allocation). For reference, I received the same information (prod #, etc.) the day I place my order back in November.

[rebirth24]

Are you saying that you should receive your Prod # immediately after placing the order? (It is attached to the order?)

[dim635csi]

Originally Posted by rebirth24

Are you saying that you should receive your Prod # immediately after placing the order? (It is attached to the order?)

Yes, at least many of us did. Like in my Vehicle Inquiry report:

VIN:
Prod. No.: #####
Order Status: 111 - Order Accepted at
Act. Prod. Date:
Model: 154H M4 Coupe
In-Service Date:

[afadeev]

Originally Posted by jawwadh

I'm so glad I did ED.. Since from what I hear ED cars dont get delayed .. I ordered 11/6 for a 2/28 Ed. I'm scheduled week 6.. But I wonder what happens if mine does get delayed?

It wont - ED cars get top priority.

I ordered mine in Sep'14 in the midst of all CF delay rumors (CF roof on mine), got week 49 production slot with 12/15 ED pickup.

Car went into production as originally scheduled, picked her up as planned.

You will be fine.
Do not forget to book the tickets before your preferred dates get sold out.

a

[drjoe66]

Originally Posted by rebirth24

Are you saying that you should receive your Prod # immediately after placing the order? (It is attached to the order?)

I did.

[rebirth24]

Originally Posted by drjoe66

I did.

Cool! Thanks gents just confirming.

[MaX PL]

Ive already mentioned it in a few threads but i guess i'll repeat it again...

Ordered October 4th with a week 46 production. Not only did my date get pushed back to week 5, BMW also swapped my production # with someone else. I was tracking someone elses car for 2 months as that was the production # I was initially given. Not until I tracked that car to its arrival in the USA did I find out that it wasn't even my car, and that BMW had swapped production #s due to a delay in Full Leather and possibly CF as well.

I don't mind too much but what annoys me is that I bought $4k worth of winter wheels and tires in early December in preparation of the car I thought I was getting, only to find out its not mine. Now I likely won't even get a chance to use the winter setup this year. So lame.

Other thing that bugs me is that despite not being the only one with this delay issue as evidenced by some of the posts in this thread, I did see a few people in other threads order cars a month after me who have already gotten them; and they're cars with CF roofs as well.
I really feel like there are dealers with friends at BMWNA who are moving orders around to get certain customers their cars first. They know a production problem exists so someone at BMWNA is giving preferential treatment to certain dealers requests.

[JustChris]

Ordered 19th November collecting tomorrow. Sunroof car. Was expecting around mid Feb!

[Jaymax85]

Originally Posted by afadeev

It wont - ED cars get top priority.

I ordered mine in Sep'14 in the midst of all CF delay rumors (CF roof on mine), got week 49 production slot with 12/15 ED pickup.

Car went into production as originally scheduled, picked her up as planned.

You will be fine.
Do not forget to book the tickets before your preferred dates get sold out.

a

tickets already booked, hotel booked. Just gotta book the tour and my snow tires

[mul1gan]

Originally Posted by jawwadh

I'm an ED picking up feb 28th, my build day is 2/6/15

congrats, i'm 10 days before you.


what number are you guys calling to check status? I keep logging into bmwusa and all it says is 01 ordered.

[X2Board]

Originally Posted by mul1gan

congrats, i'm 10 days before you.


I keep logging into bmwusa and all it says is 01 ordered.

Get used to seeing that. Mine didn't change status until 10 days before I left for Munich.

[3er]

Originally Posted by ChesterM2

Ordered 19th November collecting tomorrow. Sunroof car. Was expecting around mid Feb!

Party time! Post some pics when you can.

[freezey]

Originally Posted by MaX PL

Ive already mentioned it in a few threads but i guess i'll repeat it again...

Ordered October 4th with a week 46 production. Not only did my date get pushed back to week 5, BMW also swapped my production # with someone else. I was tracking someone elses car for 2 months as that was the production # I was initially given. Not until I tracked that car to its arrival in the USA did I find out that it wasn't even my car, and that BMW had swapped production #s due to a delay in Full Leather and possibly CF as well.

I don't mind too much but what annoys me is that I bought $4k worth of winter wheels and tires in early December in preparation of the car I thought I was getting, only to find out its not mine. Now I likely won't even get a chance to use the winter setup this year. So lame.

Other thing that bugs me is that despite not being the only one with this delay issue as evidenced by some of the posts in this thread, I did see a few people in other threads order cars a month after me who have already gotten them; and they're cars with CF roofs as well.
I really feel like there are dealers with friends at BMWNA who are moving orders around to get certain customers their cars first. They know a production problem exists so someone at BMWNA is giving preferential treatment to certain dealers requests.

Quite possible that people just have friends at bmwna. The situation kind of sucks and is a giant waste of time. I found one recently that's in the Midwest somewhere with my exact build specs but the dealer keeps saying that the manual transmission M3's are rare and hard to find so this is causing him to not give a good deal on the car.

[Jaymax85]

Originally Posted by mul1gan

congrats, i'm 10 days before you.


what number are you guys calling to check status? I keep logging into bmwusa and all it says is 01 ordered.

i asked my CA

[Falafel Combo]

Originally Posted by mul1gan

what number are you guys calling to check status? I keep logging into bmwusa and all it says is 01 ordered.

Originally Posted by jawwadh

i asked my CA

Here's a great post on that from 1addicts

Originally Posted by sonus

Maybe everybody already knew this, and if you did, please disregard this post :P

When you're calling to check your production status (800-831-1117), the voice prompts can be really annoying, and the system is pretty bad at figuring out what you said. Fortunately you can still use those old-fashioned buttons on your phone

1. Call 800-831-1117
2. Press 2 for "Vehicle Production Status"
3. Enter your production number or partial VIN
4. Then:
   • Press 1 if you entered a production number
   • Press 2 if you entered a partial VIN

Great success! And no more "I'm sorry, I didn't understand that" from the uppity lady on the phone

[drjochen]

Originally Posted by mul1gan

congrats, i'm 10 days before you.


what number are you guys calling to check status? I keep logging into bmwusa and all it says is 01 ordered.

Better than what I get in their web page: "Ajax Error. Please contact administrator."

[Jaymax85]

Originally Posted by Falafel Combo

Here's a great post on that from 1addicts

I find the 800 number useless. I call them and they couldn't even tell me what weeks I was to be produced... My CA showed me a screen shot of order tracking that shows more info.. It had my build date on it

[dngo]

Originally Posted by freezey

Quite possible that people just have friends at bmwna. The situation kind of sucks and is a giant waste of time. I found one recently that's in the Midwest somewhere with my exact build specs but the dealer keeps saying that the manual transmission M3's are rare and hard to find so this is causing him to not give a good deal on the car.

It's very, very hard in my experience to find a 6MT M3, virtually impossible if you want a CF roof.

I think what is happening is that some dealers placed orders far in advance with no customer name - as customers come in, they put names on orders already in process that would have just gone into dealer stock otherwise. That's what happened with me.

Dave

[Falafel Combo]

Originally Posted by jawwadh

I find the 800 number useless. I call them and they couldn't even tell me what weeks I was to be produced... My CA showed me a screen shot of order tracking that shows more info.. It had my build date on it

I would certainly hope that dealers have a better way of tracking the car progress than us. But in my own experience, both the website and 800 worked pretty flawlessly, with a 1 week status lag on the website.