cpiguy,
Spoke w/my sales rep again, got the VIN# for the car - sweeet. But also bounced some ideas off him about your predicament.
1st what appears to be happening lately is that a lot of dealers have been pushing back on their orders. Meaning that apparently everyone got as many allocations as possible in the beginning but now that they haven't sold enough cars to fill them they are delaying the production for unsold slots. This in turn results in shorter waiting times for production for the people who actualy want their cars. This would mean that your production date could possibly be closer than originally planned, thus speeding up delivery, thus resolving the problem w/eco credit.
2nd, he has confirmed yet again that the terms of an order (i.e. eco credit) is good for at least the lock in period (of 60 days) from the date of order/run through BMW FS (even if you pay cash). So that means that as long as you order the car by 1/3 or so you are locked in w/eco credit unless for some reason your car doesn't get delivered for a period of much longer than 60 days. That would put the delivery to be past the end of February for any shadyness to even be possible.
3rd... even if there is problem w/the eco credit due to the 60 day lock-in expiration, which as I said just sounds very fishy because they normally extend them to accomodate customers... how about this brainy idea - have them re-order the car now or in December...
so you effectively re-set the 60 day lock-in clock. Say you don't want this car, you want a new order w/the eco-credit delivered within 60 days. It will just happen to have the same options as your previous one...
my $0.02... either way this should not be an issue...
spacey
