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      11-20-2019, 01:12 PM   #1
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Delayed production of my M340i?

I recently ordered the M340 and the status hasn't moved from "Order Received". I called my sales associate and he said that the priority assigned in the order was the highest but I also called BMW NA and the representative told me that the car seems to be produced in second or third week of January. Also, the phone representative said that the status also can change at my given time from now.

Anyone have experienced this issue in the past?

Any hints?

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      11-20-2019, 01:51 PM   #2
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I placed my order, and my SA just told me there are no available allocations for the m340i right now. I'm also looking at a Jan if lucky delivery, but most likely Feb.
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      11-20-2019, 10:34 PM   #3
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Heard the same thing from BMW NA and my dealer. I placed an order on 11/16. Today BMW NA told me the production time would be around mid Jan. Don't know when will I get the car
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Heard the same thing from BMW NA and my dealer. I placed an order on 11/16. Today BMW NA told me the production time would be around mid Jan. Don't know when will I get the car
March? Maybe later if on west coast. Sucks but be patient, it is a fantastic car. I love mine. I live in California and it took about 10 weeks from order to delivery
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      11-21-2019, 01:38 PM   #5
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March? Maybe later if on west coast. Sucks but be patient, it is a fantastic car. I love mine. I live in California and it took about 10 weeks from order to delivery
Got scheduled for production second week of December, so maybe in the States around Mid January.

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      11-21-2019, 02:04 PM   #6
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Guess I got lucky. Ordered Monday and tracking says production begins. Picking up at the Performance Center.
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      11-21-2019, 02:15 PM   #7
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Guess I got lucky. Ordered Monday and tracking says production begins. Picking up at the Performance Center.
Wow... lucky bro... send me your connections. Lol

This is my first BMW and can't wait to start driving it.

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Guess I got lucky. Ordered Monday and tracking says production begins. Picking up at the Performance Center.
Wow... lucky bro... send me your connections. Lol

This is my first BMW and can't wait to start driving it.

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Hey Ed, when did you place the order? Seems yesterday your schedule was still mid Jan, how did you get it to move to Dec?
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      11-21-2019, 03:08 PM   #9
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Guess I got lucky. Ordered Monday and tracking says production begins. Picking up at the Performance Center.
Wow... lucky bro... send me your connections. Lol

This is my first BMW and can't wait to start driving it.

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Hey Ed, when did you place the order? Seems yesterday your schedule was still mid Jan, how did you get it to move to Dec?
Dude, to be honest... I called the dealer to do a change in my order and right after boom changed to schedule production.

I called BMW NA to check and there the one telling me about the production in December and arriving in the US mid January.

Finger crossed.
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      11-21-2019, 03:12 PM   #10
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Guess I got lucky. Ordered Monday and tracking says production begins. Picking up at the Performance Center.
Wow... lucky bro... send me your connections. Lol

This is my first BMW and can't wait to start driving it.

Ed
Hey Ed, when did you place the order? Seems yesterday your schedule was still mid Jan, how did you get it to move to Dec?
Dude, to be honest... I called the dealer to do a change in my order and right after boom changed to schedule production.

I called BMW NA to check and there the one telling me about the production in December and arriving in the US mid January.

Finger crossed.
Wow, that is quite interesting! Congrats man! What did you change if you don't mind?
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Guess I got lucky. Ordered Monday and tracking says production begins. Picking up at the Performance Center.
Wow... lucky bro... send me your connections. Lol

This is my first BMW and can't wait to start driving it.

Ed
Hey Ed, when did you place the order? Seems yesterday your schedule was still mid Jan, how did you get it to move to Dec?
Dude, to be honest... I called the dealer to do a change in my order and right after boom changed to schedule production.

I called BMW NA to check and there the one telling me about the production in December and arriving in the US mid January.

Finger crossed.
Wow, that is quite interesting! Congrats man! What did you change if you don't mind?
I completely forgot to add the H/K radio.🤦*♂️

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      11-21-2019, 07:36 PM   #13
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Funny thing is, I was hoping for a late January/early February delivery to coincide with the termination of my current lease. Oh well.
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Heard the same thing from BMW NA and my dealer. I placed an order on 11/16. Today BMW NA told me the production time would be around mid Jan. Don't know when will I get the car
I'm on a similar situation, ordered on 11/20/19. BMW NA said it is expected to get out of the factory by 1/12/20.

I'm on the West Coast.. Assuming weekly ships delay (~7 days) + 28 days at sea + trucking to NorCal (SF), looking at best last week of Feb.

Another Data point for delay...
BMW Welt Munich is shutdown from December 21, 2019 - January 7, 2020.

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Scheduled to pickup at performance Center on January 30, so about 10-11 weeks from order date. I’m sure the holidays wreak havoc on everything.
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      11-26-2019, 12:39 PM   #16
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Checked with BMW NA, seems like I still don't have a production date today. They are still gathering the parts
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      12-03-2019, 10:05 PM   #17
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checked today, finally got a production date, first week of 2020
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      12-04-2019, 05:27 AM   #18
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posted in my thread, but it seems like my car went into production a little earlier than quoted by bmw genius. They said week 50 but changed to "production begins" and got a vin week 49. Hopefully they ship it before the holidays.
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      12-04-2019, 05:34 AM   #19
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So do I, my status changed to "Production Begin" according to the system the car should b ready by December 10 and few days later in a cargo ship to the States. Hopefully beginning of January.

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Keep in mind that this isn't a first come, first serve type of ordering allocation. BMW can make X number a week, and they allocate those slots out to dealers for many weeks into the future. Not every dealer gets the same number of allocation slots either. If you order from a dealer who has no scheduled allocations left, you won't have a scheduled production date until they get more.

Some of us get/got lucky and our dealers had unclaimed allocations that they reconfigured for us so we got near immediate production.

I spoke with 2 dealers with my car, one could get me into production within a few days, and the other had an 8-10 week wait for their next available allocation since they didnt move nearly as many 3 series usually.
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      12-07-2019, 09:34 AM   #21
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Keep in mind that this isn't a first come, first serve type of ordering allocation. BMW can make X number a week, and they allocate those slots out to dealers for many weeks into the future. Not every dealer gets the same number of allocation slots either. If you order from a dealer who has no scheduled allocations left, you won't have a scheduled production date until they get more.

Some of us get/got lucky and our dealers had unclaimed allocations that they reconfigured for us so we got near immediate production.

I spoke with 2 dealers with my car, one could get me into production within a few days, and the other had an 8-10 week wait for their next available allocation since they didnt move nearly as many 3 series usually.
I heard something different from my dealer. The SA said ordered unit is considered sold unit and has a higher priority than their scheduled allocation.
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I heard something different from my dealer. The SA said ordered unit is considered sold unit and has a higher priority than their scheduled allocation.
There is a priority, but it doesnt push your car weeks into faster production. It means when it is your turn, your car goes first and will be less likely to be stuck in a holding spot than unclaimed cars destined for a dealers lot.

There are several spots where cars wait, for instance when changing transportation modes (factory to train, train to boat, boat to truck, etc). Higher priority cars move through these points faster on average.

Again, if your dealers allocation is 8 weeks out and someone (you) buys the car, it generally wont change to next week, it will however move through the process potentially faster once the production week arrives.
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