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      10-20-2018, 01:55 PM   #89
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But mine is going to the west coast area in Canada hahaha. But I heard the car unloads on the east side and then train over.
Really!?!

That seems crazy to do it that way. They have ships going to Tacoma. You'd think they could offload there and truck (or train) them north from there.
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I ordered a G31 about a month ago and was told it would get delivered in the second week of December (in the U.K.). Individual silver paint, merino leather, piano black inlays. Just had a phone call from the Dealer Principal saying no individual options could be honoured this year and I either had to wait until January or order a car with no individual items.
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      10-20-2018, 03:33 PM   #91
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Really!?!

That seems crazy to do it that way. They have ships going to Tacoma. You'd think they could offload there and truck (or train) them north from there.
Yeah! I believe the cars get offloaded in Toronto area, and are then loaded onto a train which takes around a week or less to reach the west coast in Canada.

If only I could know which boat its on. I could atleast track the marinetraffic.

Speaking of not honouring the Individual options. I thought that was going to happen. But my dealer gave me an Allocation they had which was dated back in July. So I guess my dealer did give me an allocation which had the car completed by Oct10 with all my individual options built. Frozen artic grey, piano black trims, and I believe thats it.
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Really!?!

That seems crazy to do it that way. They have ships going to Tacoma. You'd think they could offload there and truck (or train) them north from there.
Yeah! I believe the cars get offloaded in Toronto area, and are then loaded onto a train which takes around a week or less to reach the west coast in Canada.

If only I could know which boat its on. I could atleast track the marinetraffic.

Speaking of not honouring the Individual options. I thought that was going to happen. But my dealer gave me an Allocation they had which was dated back in July. So I guess my dealer did give me an allocation which had the car completed by Oct10 with all my individual options built. Frozen artic grey, piano black trims, and I believe thats it.
Call BMW Genius. They'll tell you what boat it's on.
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Yeah! I believe the cars get offloaded in Toronto area, and are then loaded onto a train which takes around a week or less to reach the west coast in Canada.
In all reality, I suppose that is a faster process.

My ship, that left Bremerhaven on Sep 20th, is due into Tacoma on Oct 23rd. Then there would be a few days to truck or train it north. So that's a 5-week-plus process.

Whereas if you deduct the week to train it across from the east coast, it would arrive sooner. There's no way it would be on a ship for 4 weeks from Bremerhaven to anywhere on the east coast. Bremerhaven to Baltimore was 2 weeks on my ship.
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Nice! SF Bay Area. You?

My car is on the Undine 😎
My car left on 10/11 Be due in Oxnard around 11/7
I am San Diego but got the car in Irvine. Did a ED.
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Call BMW Genius. They'll tell you what boat it's on.
There no such thing as "Genius" in Canada. I tried BMW Genius US a couple times, they are more than happy to help me, but they can not see any non-us vehicles. But not so much in the BMW Canada customer service. Just told me they do not have access that those info and that is it.
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Call BMW Genius. They'll tell you what boat it's on.
There no such thing as "Genius" in Canada. I tried BMW Genius US a couple times, they are more than happy to help me, but they can not see any non-us vehicles. But not so much in the BMW Canada customer service. Just told me they do not have access that those info and that is it.
Wow. That's lame. 😜
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but got the car in Irvine
I'm truly sorry!
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