[ULR74]

I don't want to spoil the party, but just because the car is built doesn't necesarily mean that it will be delivered any time soon. Yesterday it was exactly 1 year since I ordered a 545e. According to the VIN my car was built on Nov 15th last year, but so far still stuck in Germany with status code 180.
The car has been speced with almost all options, and as far as I can see only the M-Sport brakes have been removed from final specs. My dealer either can't find out or will not tell me what is holding up the delivery...
I'm curious to hear if there are anywone else experiencing such delays after the car has been built. Or have been told that options have been removed from spec in order to advance delivery?

[SonD]

There is no way BMW would just have your car sit for 5+ months finished and ready for export (Code 180)
I would be going above the dealer / speaking to the online 'genius' to find out the real story.
That is costing BMW money to have it sat there, finished and unpaid for (if that is what is occurring)

[ULR74]

Originally Posted by SonD

There is no way BMW would just have your car sit for 5+ months finished and ready for export (Code 180)
I would be going above the dealer / speaking to the online 'genius' to find out the real story.
That is costing BMW money to have it sat there, finished and unpaid for (if that is what is occurring)

I would love to go above the dealer, but here in Denmark I believe there is only BMW HQ 'above' the dealerships, and I have read elsewhere that they do not communicate directly with their customers. So I'm sitting with the frustrating feeling, that there isn't more I can do to get furhter information...

[CA-MA]

Originally Posted by ULR74

I don't want to spoil the party, but just because the car is built doesn't necesarily mean that it will be delivered any time soon. Yesterday it was exactly 1 year since I ordered a 545e. According to the VIN my car was built on Nov 15th last year, but so far still stuck in Germany with status code 180.
The car has been speced with almost all options, and as far as I can see only the M-Sport brakes have been removed from final specs. My dealer either can't find out or will not tell me what is holding up the delivery...
I'm curious to hear if there are anywone else experiencing such delays after the car has been built. Or have been told that options have been removed from spec in order to advance delivery?

Ordered my M550i early Jan 2022. Car was built mid Feb. Since been waiting for carrier assignment for 2 months. Not sure I can wait much longer.

[igelkotten82]

Originally Posted by ULR74

I would love to go above the dealer, but here in Denmark I believe there is only BMW HQ 'above' the dealerships, and I have read elsewhere that they do not communicate directly with their customers. So I'm sitting with the frustrating feeling, that there isn't more I can do to get furhter information...

I think it is worth a try to contact them. Or contact Bmw in Germany and tell that you wonder what the f*ck is going on when you do not get any information about why your car is not delivered. When I have written to Bmw in Germany I sometimes get a call back from them giving me information or I get an E-mail from the Swedish HQ giving me information.

[SonD]

Three weeks before build date, and after having been assured only two weeks ago that all options would be fitted - a call to ask if I would accept without the B&W system.
One of the main reasons I went with the 545.
Basically Im given take it or leave it, after having it on order since November 4th
Rock and a hard place. 1st world problems.
It does not make me any happier though.

[CaboM4]

Originally Posted by SonD

Three weeks before build date, and after having been assured only two weeks ago that all options would be fitted - a call to ask if I would accept without the B&W system.
One of the main reasons I went with the 545.
Basically Im given take it or leave it, after having it on order since November 4th
Rock and a hard place. 1st world problems.
It does not make me any happier though.

complete bullshit ... i'll take it, without the B&W with a steep discount as compensation, or stuff it

[rlowy]

Originally Posted by SonD

Three weeks before build date, and after having been assured only two weeks ago that all options would be fitted - a call to ask if I would accept without the B&W system.
One of the main reasons I went with the 545.
Basically Im given take it or leave it, after having it on order since November 4th
Rock and a hard place. 1st world problems.
It does not make me any happier though.

Just had the same call yesterday from the dealer on my M550i ordered 24/12/21. B&W now not available only H&K and a polite take it or leave it message. Production originally quoted as April 2022, pushed back to May is now June. I remain at Status 112 and have been there since 08/04/22. It’s a pity as I have B&W on my present 540i so I feel a down grade on my upgraded new car!

[SonD]

Yet still available to order online in the configurator.
After such a long wait I am utterly disgusted being honest.
Feels not unlike being conned into something.
One of THE main reasons for opting for this 5 was the availability of this setup.
Im waiting another week to decide just what to do.
Never going to be really happy with the car without it, so rock/hard place it is.
I retail B&W here in the UK, and have just completed a new demonstration room and installed the new range 801 D4 into it.
The rest of the 800 range + the 700 series are in other rooms here.
So to not have this set available to me is particularly galling.
I would like to know if it is the speakers that are N/A (I believe they are) or more likely the amp / other components that are short.

[rlowy]

I can understand your disappointment even more given your profession. Interestingly as I pointed out to my garage several new cars are available immediately in the UK with B&W fitted some appeared as recently as this week so made within the last month or so I assume. This is one (attached link). I cannot get a definitive reply if the problem is chips or Ukraine. The later is more understandable. If it is B&W themselves then they need rapidly to get their business in order as many of us did during and after covid. I have little patience with those still using that excuse now. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-det...0Series&page=1

[rlowy]

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-det...0Series&page=1

[SonD]

Checked again - now B&W gone from all 5 series on UK configurator.
Not looking hopeful.
Also been pushed back another 6 weeks in build slot.
Apparently it is still showing on 'build sheet' but that can change on production day the advisor stated.
Something of a shambles on stock allocation there I think.
that will be 9 month delivery - if it stays at that, again, I am doubtful.
Wait time less of an issue for me, as I have a car to drive, but would like some sort of real idea just what is happening.

[CaboM4]

Originally Posted by rlowy

Just had the same call yesterday from the dealer on my M550i ordered 24/12/21. B&W now not available only H&K and a polite take it or leave it message. Production originally quoted as April 2022, pushed back to May is now June. I remain at Status 112 and have been there since 08/04/22. It’s a pity as I have B&W on my present 540i so I feel a down grade on my upgraded new car!

do you own or lease the current G30? If the prior, you can swap the system components (albeit a major PIA!!) and re-code both cars to the opposite spec with ESYS.

[rlowy]

Originally Posted by SonD

Checked again - now B&W gone from all 5 series on UK configurator.
Not looking hopeful.
Also been pushed back another 6 weeks in build slot.
Apparently it is still showing on 'build sheet' but that can change on production day the advisor stated.
Something of a shambles on stock allocation there I think.
that will be 9 month delivery - if it stays at that, again, I am doubtful.
Wait time less of an issue for me, as I have a car to drive, but would like some sort of real idea just what is happening.

Still on BMW UK M550i as a configurable option.

[SonD]

Originally Posted by rlowy

Still on BMW UK M550i as a configurable option.

Yup, and as soon as you highlight that option and hit select, up pops this in red :-

"Due to product updates it is currently not possible to add the desired option to your configuration."

Looks like they are now purely for 7 / 8 series, but not even checked those.

[SonD]

Losing the will to live with this order / BMW being honest.
Pushed back and back, then no B&W, then a further 6 week push back.
Now on as 'Cannot schedule date' and all dealer can say is 'we should know by the end of the month'
My patience is now wafer thin on this, I am aware of the worldwide issues etc, but after 14/15 months of messing about with the brand I am asking myself "are they worth this much hassle"

[berninam550]

Week 13 -> 19 -> 21 -> 23 -> 25 -> 26

Went out of production on Friday 5/6. Just called this morning it got pushed to week 26, they removed hands free tailgate.

[YETIinFL]

Originally Posted by berninam550

Week 13 -> 19 -> 21 -> 23 -> 25 -> 26

Went out of production on Friday 5/6. Just called this morning it got pushed to week 26, they removed hands free tailgate.

By the time your car is built, they may have the parts available. During my build process I was told that wireless charging and hands free tailgate were not available.

When the build was complete, it then listed iDrive controller classic -- non touchpad.

So it looked like all three items had been removed or changed.

When the car arrived last week it actually had the hands free tailgate, even though it was not on the spec listing.

[CaboM4]

OMG ... BMW is killing me! Pushed again now to week 24 (was originally week 13)

I'm almost hoping to be pushed into week 27 so I get a 2023 model year

[2022M550i]

Originally Posted by SonD

Yet still available to order online in the configurator.
After such a long wait I am utterly disgusted being honest.
Feels not unlike being conned into something.
One of THE main reasons for opting for this 5 was the availability of this setup.
Im waiting another week to decide just what to do.
Never going to be really happy with the car without it, so rock/hard place it is.
I retail B&W here in the UK, and have just completed a new demonstration room and installed the new range 801 D4 into it.
The rest of the 800 range + the 700 series are in other rooms here.
So to not have this set available to me is particularly galling.
I would like to know if it is the speakers that are N/A (I believe they are) or more likely the amp / other components that are short.

The B&W Option has been gone from the US build site for months. I have the HK And I actually like it…. For me it depends on the quality audio going into it. I like it because I never heard the B&W…. And I don't want to hear it because I don't want to hate the HK

[SonD]

Originally Posted by 2022M550i

The B&W Option has been gone from the US build site for months. I have the HK And I actually like it…. For me it depends on the quality audio going into it. I like it because I never heard the B&W…. And I don't want to hear it because I don't want to hate the HK

Not so much a question of 'hating' HK, more the point that I retail B&W here, and listen via their speakers for many hours a day, so know precisely just what they can do.
That, and having waited so flipping long, only to have it taken away at the last moment, and then they start crowing about how great it is in the 7 / 8 series.
Seriously annoying.

Anyway, I am now back to a build slot at end of June - delivery july.
Do I dare think it will actually be that?

[smacky]

Originally Posted by SonD

Not so much a question of 'hating' HK, more the point that I retail B&W here, and listen via their speakers for many hours a day, so know precisely just what they can do.
That, and having waited so flipping long, only to have it taken away at the last moment, and then they start crowing about how great it is in the 7 / 8 series.
Seriously annoying.

Anyway, I am now back to a build slot at end of June - delivery july.
Do I dare think it will actually be that?

It might be a silver lining, if they switch you to the MY23. If they slap together a MY22 and kick it out the door after 9+ months of waiting, I'd be upset. I don't think 23s are produced until mid-July so it might be the case. But I'm also in the US so things might be different. But probably not since it's all coming from the same factory in Germany.

Just for perspective, I ordered on July 6 of last year and received the car by August 23rd. I may have gotten lucky and I think my dealer had already placed an order for an M550 and just let me change around options, so I didn't have to wait for an allocation. When I was calling dealers just a few weeks prior to July, they were telling me only MY21s were being produced at that time and that I'd have to place a custom order for a MY21 and take delivery in September.

So depending on how honest your dealer is, it can be as soon as August for a MY23 M550 or September for a MY22. I think there were people who ordered in April of 2021 for a MY21 and still didn't have their cars when I got my MY22 in August.