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      09-19-2018, 08:10 PM   #1
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Anyone recently place an order? (build time estimate)

My dealer is giving me a 12 week estimation for delivery on a car with no individual options. Said it would begin week 41 and then possibly delivered towards the end of Dec or early Jan. I've been seeing some people getting theirs after around 8 weeks. Are the holidays going to cause delays?


Also, any recommendations for dealers in the Tampa/mid-Florida area?

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Mine will be about 10 weeks. I think the dealers estimate longer times, that way you're not disappointed when it's delivered a little early.
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I placed my order on 24th August, without an allocation. Individual paint.
Secured allocation first week of Sept for PW45.
All things look on track so far, and dealer is estimating arrival just before or just after Thanksgiving (Atlanta area).
I may actually take delivery closer to early December due to PCD scheduling.
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my order placed 9/17. Dealer had an allocation so I have build week 42. No individual stuff
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Placed an order last week, has already entered production with a 11/26 delivery to PCD.

Would have been like 2 weeks sooner with out the PCD
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      09-25-2018, 01:26 PM   #6
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Placed an order last week, has already entered production with a 11/26 delivery to PCD.

Would have been like 2 weeks sooner with out the PCD
Nice! I'm assuming no individual options? What PW do you have?
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      09-25-2018, 02:02 PM   #7
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Placed an order last week, has already entered production with a 11/26 delivery to PCD.

Would have been like 2 weeks sooner with out the PCD
Nice. That's pretty fast.

My order was placed last week, I had a production number the next day with a build slot for the week of Oct 8. Probably looking at December for delivery to California.

No individual options at all.
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Custom build confirmation 9/12 with IND paint. PW42.

This is my second build with BMW, first one arrived 2 weeks after estimated arrival.
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Nice! I'm assuming no individual options? What PW do you have?
PW40 I believe. No individual options.
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      09-25-2018, 03:42 PM   #10
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PW40 I believe. No individual options.
Interesting. I have PW45 and my CA is telling me I could potentially take PCD late November/early December. That seemed like a pretty quick boat ride...so based on your timeline from PW to PCD it seems like I might be more looking at a late Christmas present.
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Interesting. I have PW45 and my CA is telling me I could potentially take PCD late November/early December. That seemed like a pretty quick boat ride...so based on your timeline from PW to PCD it seems like I might be more looking at a late Christmas present.
Week 45 has you starting production in early November, your car won't be on a boat until close to the end of November, I would say PCD late December/early Jan
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Week 45 has you starting production in early November, your car won't be on a boat until close to the end of November, I would say PCD late December/early Jan
That sounds about right. Sigh.
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My Expereience with Order

This is my experience with a 530e Atlas Ceder Metallic with Cognac interiors
Order Placed with BMW (No Allocation for dealer) : Jul second half
Dealer managed to snag an allocation : Jul 25
Car moved into "Scheduled for Production" : Jul 27, Build week 35

Aug is the typical time when BMW production shuts down for 2 weeks and so the car was in the status " Scheduled for production till the start of the build week.

In Production begins : 20 Aug
In Quality check : 28 Aug
Ready for Transport : 02 Sep
At the port : 05 Sep
Loaded on to ship : 13 Sep
Ship Arrival (Gavelston) : 23 Sep
Vehicle dispatched by truck : 26 Sep
At the dealership and possession : 29 Sep

Total time from order placement to vehicle delivery : 71 days
Vehicle at dealer
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Ok 71 days to delivery and there are 89 days left in the year.

I ordered a 540i on 10/1 and was told i have a tentative build date of 3rd week in November. Dealer says it should be here around Xmas.

I did get Indv Merino seats but regular paint.

Possibly?
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Ok 71 days to delivery and there are 89 days left in the year.

I ordered a 540i on 10/1 and was told i have a tentative build date of 3rd week in November. Dealer says it should be here around Xmas.

I did get Indv Merino seats but regular paint.

Possibly?
If that build week holds and you're on the east coast US, perhaps. Based on the timeline above it looks like 4 weeks from production to delivery?

My dealer told me he'd expect delivery in the last week of November or first week of December based on a week 45 build, then added a big fat "maybe" to that when I asked for PCD.
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I ordered back in August and was told I will have an allocation which would make the delivery in October . But then I asked again and they said my car will be in production this month (October) hahaha now I have no idea when the car will be ready. Guess they did not give me the allocation.
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Ok 71 days to delivery and there are 89 days left in the year.

I ordered a 540i on 10/1 and was told i have a tentative build date of 3rd week in November. Dealer says it should be here around Xmas.

I did get Indv Merino seats but regular paint.

Possibly?
If that build week holds and you're on the east coast US, perhaps. Based on the timeline above it looks like 4 weeks from production to delivery?

My dealer told me he'd expect delivery in the last week of November or first week of December based on a week 45 build, then added a big fat "maybe" to that when I asked for PCD.
I ordered on 10/1 and had a production number the next day. I was told they had allocations. In fact the CA said that they had cars on order for them that they could reconfigure with my options. Don't know if that's what they did. I'm in DC area only a hour drive from the port.

Sorry new to this, what does PCD stand for?
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I ordered my 540 at end of August. Was initially given week 41 build slot. Then out the blue it was put back 4 weeks so my sales guy phoned head office and they pulled it back to week 41. Currently sat at status 5500 and due to be built next week. Fingers crossed.

Wish we had more visibility of build process. I'm sure BMW Genius must be getting fed up with the requests.
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I ordered on 10/1 and had a production number the next day. I was told they had allocations. In fact the CA said that they had cars on order for them that they could reconfigure with my options. Don't know if that's what they did. I'm in DC area only a hour drive from the port.

Sorry new to this, what does PCD stand for?
I ordered in late August and didn't get a prod # until the first week of Sept, but had a confirmed prod week with the prod #. The dealer was very upfront that they didn't have an allocation when I ordered but expected to get one which I could have during the first week of the next month, which they did.

I've been told that my prod week was partially due to having to wait for a week associated with individual paint.

PCD = Performance Center Delivery. Typically adds 2-4 weeks to delivery timeframe from what I've gathered.
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Placed the order just now with a week 46 allocation, keeping my fingers crossed it gets accelerated.
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Where do you guys get the production number and all the details to be able to check which week your car is being built? I just called my dealer and asked for a number and he said there no such thing.
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Looks like the dealer is trying to pull a fast one on you. This can happen when he does not have any allocation and was not able to swap an allocation from any other dealer. Otherwise when he places the order in BMW system against an allocation the build week, production number and even the VIN is available almost immediately. Once you have that info you can track it in the My BMW site or through BMW genius
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