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      11-10-2020, 05:17 PM   #45
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And, take it from me ... BMW is using other lines in addition to Wallenius. Keep that in mind as you stalk the Wallenius' site. Best of luck to all of you for a 2020 delivery!
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And it's in quality check. So close, but so so far.

Timeline so far:

111: Order accepted - 10/13
112: Order scheduled - 10/15
150: Production Begins - 10/30 (scheduled for week 45, or 11/2)
151: Exterior Assembly Begins - 11/6
152: In The Paint Booth - 11/7
153: Entered Assembly Line - 11/10
154: Assembly In Progress - 11/10 afternoon
154.5: Quality Check - 11/11 early AM
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I've also definitely gone off the deep end, and am pre-stalking the W&W shipping schedule from Bremerhaven to New York/Newark. Looking like there are a few options starting around 11/17 for my car to potentially make it on to, and still have a shot at pre-Christmas delivery....
hah you got me looking now too! My port should be Baltimore -- so it's a few days earlier on the schedule. If going with W&W -- that Nov 19 or Nov 21 departure looking pretty sweet!

Car went into Quality Check earlier in the evening. So we'll def be done with assembly today (Nov 11).
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Production has finished!

Timeline so far:

111: Order accepted - 10/13
112: Order scheduled - 10/15
150: Production Begins - 10/30 (scheduled for week 45, or 11/2)
151: Exterior Assembly Begins - 11/6
152: In The Paint Booth - 11/7
153: Entered Assembly Line - 11/10
154: Assembly In Progress - 11/10 afternoon
154.5: Quality Check - 11/11 early AM
155: Production Completed, awaiting carrier assignment - 11/11
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      11-11-2020, 02:55 PM   #49
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The track my bmw site has been jacked for the last couple days. Keeps messing up. I called my dealer and I am still at the port... been there for about a week. Hopefully catching a ship in the next few days. In the meantime... I ordered the IND color matched side reflectors and license plate holder, and the dragy gps performance meter!
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The track my bmw site has been jacked for the last couple days. Keeps messing up. I called my dealer and I am still at the port... been there for about a week. Hopefully catching a ship in the next few days. In the meantime... I ordered the IND color matched side reflectors and license plate holder, and the dragy gps performance meter!

Hah you've started doing what I've been doing. Shopping around for what else I need. When I get a new car the first thing I do is order WeatherTech floor mats. I'll probably get one for the trunk too if they make it. Then eventually it's time to tint the fronts to match the back.

Trying to figure out what tires I should order since it's coming with summer tires (run flats) in the winter... I did the Space Saver Spare so I can go RFT or non-RFT. Might copy your Dragy plan.
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The track my bmw site has been jacked for the last couple days. Keeps messing up. I called my dealer and I am still at the port... been there for about a week. Hopefully catching a ship in the next few days. In the meantime... I ordered the IND color matched side reflectors and license plate holder, and the dragy gps performance meter!

Hah you've started doing what I've been doing. Shopping around for what else I need. When I get a new car the first thing I do is order WeatherTech floor mats. I'll probably get one for the trunk too if they make it. Then eventually it's time to tint the fronts to match the back.

Trying to figure out what tires I should order since it's coming with summer tires (run flats) in the winter... I did the Space Saver Spare so I can go RFT or non-RFT. Might copy your Dragy plan.
I got the 20in bi-spokes with performance tires. I am in DFW, Texas and the weather and roads are generally good, so I should be fine on those for awhile. I will probably upgrade to the Michelin pilot sports - runflats or non run flats - at some point. Probably at about 15 or 20k miles. I am looking at the Dinan springs to lower it just a bit for a better stance. I also am getting tint installed once the car arrives - 25% on the sides and rear. That'll probably be it for the "first round" of mods lol. In the future, I want to do Remus exhaust and a bootmod3 tune once it is out. Those will come a bit later though.
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The track my bmw site has been jacked for the last couple days. Keeps messing up. I called my dealer and I am still at the port... been there for about a week. Hopefully catching a ship in the next few days. In the meantime... I ordered the IND color matched side reflectors and license plate holder, and the dragy gps performance meter!

Hah you've started doing what I've been doing. Shopping around for what else I need. When I get a new car the first thing I do is order WeatherTech floor mats. I'll probably get one for the trunk too if they make it. Then eventually it's time to tint the fronts to match the back.

Trying to figure out what tires I should order since it's coming with summer tires (run flats) in the winter... I did the Space Saver Spare so I can go RFT or non-RFT. Might copy your Dragy plan.
They do make the trunk liner, I've already got mine sitting here, waiting on the cabin liners. Just got a dragy myself too to test my 2018 440xi numbers to be able to compare to this new beast. Also have my fuse taps ready for my Uniden R7 to go in.

So many fun mods and little projects waiting for the car to arrive!
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      11-12-2020, 08:18 AM   #53
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Annnnnd she's made further progress!

Timeline so far:

111: Order accepted - 10/13
112: Order scheduled - 10/15
150: Production Begins - 10/30 (scheduled for week 45, or 11/2)
151: Exterior Assembly Begins - 11/6
152: In The Paint Booth - 11/7
153: Entered Assembly Line - 11/10
154: Assembly In Progress - 11/10 afternoon
154.5: Quality Check - 11/11 early AM
155: Production Completed, awaiting carrier assignment - 11/11
???: Dispatched from factory - 11/12
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Annnnnd she's made further progress!

Timeline so far:

111: Order accepted - 10/13
112: Order scheduled - 10/15
150: Production Begins - 10/30 (scheduled for week 45, or 11/2)
151: Exterior Assembly Begins - 11/6
152: In The Paint Booth - 11/7
153: Entered Assembly Line - 11/10
154: Assembly In Progress - 11/10 afternoon
154.5: Quality Check - 11/11 early AM
155: Production Completed, awaiting carrier assignment - 11/11
???: Dispatched from factory - 11/12

Our timeline has now diverged! I'm still awaiting dispatch.
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      11-12-2020, 09:42 AM   #55
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Our timeline has now diverged! I'm still awaiting dispatch.
Nooooooo, I was so entertained by our cars being production and shipping buddies.

Just spoke to the Genius line and they said it's at the port (though I have to think they meant on a train to the port, otherwise they're realllllly going lightning fast with mine) and that it should hopefully show up as on a ship or assigned to one in a few days.

When I called in, I was lightly bantering with the rep, and they must be able to see the records of my calls because they chuckled and said "yeah, you really must be excited for this car" Guilty as charged...

Also Jas387 - I've fully gone round the bend, and managed to look up and replicate the Tanzanite II Blue paint in my Forza Horizon game. Have now painted a 2018 M5 in my colors and am "driving" it to fill the time.
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I've been "at the port" for about a week. Anyway to tell what ship I may be getting on?
Are you still at the port? Mine just arrived there, curious if we're riding over the big lake in style.
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I've been "at the port" for about a week. Anyway to tell what ship I may be getting on?
Are you still at the port? Mine just arrived there, curious if we're riding over the big lake in style.
Yup, still there, as of yesterday, with no ship assignment. No update yet.
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Also Jas387 - I've fully gone round the bend, and managed to look up and replicate the Tanzanite II Blue paint in my Forza Horizon game. Have now painted a 2018 M5 in my colors and am "driving" it to fill the time.
Shame I can’t get a touring model on Forza!

Gave mine a wash today, and was quite mesmerised by the shifting colour of it when viewed from different angles and light sources. If you’re anything like me, I think you’ll be very pleased with it.
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Do updates seem to come in at any particular time of day? Wondering if they're done in batch daily or if they happen at any time throughout the day.

Mine still at status 111 since 10/26
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I think it just took me posting about it enough. Literally just went 112!

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I think it just took me posting about it enough. Literally just went 112!

Amazing news! I believe the updates are truly tied to your car, and are semi-real time (obviously with some delay). I was at one stage at dinner and by 3am I was at another, then in less than 24 hours was moved along again.

Must just have been a delay for your car due to either the actual production slot your dealer got for your car, or it looks like from your picture you selected Aventurime Red. That's an individual color and they say that always adds time on, so might have been waiting around until they'd scheduled a batch of your color cars to paint together?
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Amazing news! I believe the updates are truly tied to your car, and are semi-real time (obviously with some delay). I was at one stage at dinner and by 3am I was at another, then in less than 24 hours was moved along again.

Must just have been a delay for your car due to either the actual production slot your dealer got for your car, or it looks like from your picture you selected Aventurime Red. That's an individual color and they say that always adds time on, so might have been waiting around until they'd scheduled a batch of your color cars to paint together?
Yeah, I'm sure that must be it. Some other weirdness -- although my status moved, a couple of addons I had got booted off. I'm now missing CF diffuser and M rear trim from my build. Hope it's just a glitch.
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Amazing news! I believe the updates are truly tied to your car, and are semi-real time (obviously with some delay). I was at one stage at dinner and by 3am I was at another, then in less than 24 hours was moved along again.

Must just have been a delay for your car due to either the actual production slot your dealer got for your car, or it looks like from your picture you selected Aventurime Red. That's an individual color and they say that always adds time on, so might have been waiting around until they'd scheduled a batch of your color cars to paint together?
Yeah, I'm sure that must be it. Some other weirdness -- although my status moved, a couple of addons I had got booted off. I'm now missing CF diffuser and M rear trim from my build. Hope it's just a glitch.
Are those parts the M Performance ones? Those usually are port installed options, and don't get done in Germany but actually at the VPC in the ports. I know my black kidney grills on my 2018 440xi were port-installed.

Not sure how bmw handles the m performance stuff on 2021 model years, but might be a port or dealer installed option. Porsche does that too with diffusers and front splitters etc. keep them off for shipping snd install once it reaches the destination so they don't get damaged.

But definitely ask your client advisor, they'll know more for sure.
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The track my bmw site has been jacked for the last couple days. Keeps messing up. I called my dealer and I am still at the port... been there for about a week. Hopefully catching a ship in the next few days. In the meantime... I ordered the IND color matched side reflectors and license plate holder, and the dragy gps performance meter!
Ok... I have now also ordered a Dragy. I'll get some sweet 0-60 info on my F150 (lol) while I wait for the M550i to come and until it's broken in properly.
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The track my bmw site has been jacked for the last couple days. Keeps messing up. I called my dealer and I am still at the port... been there for about a week. Hopefully catching a ship in the next few days. In the meantime... I ordered the IND color matched side reflectors and license plate holder, and the dragy gps performance meter!
Ok... I have now also ordered a Dragy. I'll get some sweet 0-60 info on my F150 (lol) while I wait for the M550i to come and until it's broken in properly.
Nice! I am still debating whether to buy the dinan lowering springs, or wait to break in the far a bit first.
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The progress continues!

Timeline so far:

111: Order accepted - 10/13
112: Order scheduled - 10/15
150: Production Begins - 10/30 (scheduled for week 45, or 11/2)
151: Exterior Assembly Begins - 11/6
152: In The Paint Booth - 11/7
153: Entered Assembly Line - 11/10
154: Assembly In Progress - 11/10 afternoon
154.5: Quality Check - 11/11 early AM
155: Production Completed, awaiting carrier assignment - 11/11
193: At the port - 11/13
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