Let's try to clear up the confusion on Saddle Brown in the US

[rodybmw]

There are still some conflicting/confusing information from the members here on the availability of Saddle Brown for the 2008 MY in the US. So I am starting this thread and hoping that anyone who knows anything one way or the other would participate here and try to clear things up.

One thing to note is that I am only concerned with everyone's input in trying to order Saddle Brown in the last few weeks since the 2008 MY price release. I know there is someone on bimmerfest that succeeded in ordering SB on a 2007 a few months ago where his CA was able to convince someone at BMW NA to allow it, but for the purpose of this thread I am only asking about recent experiences with the MY 2008 X5.

Many of us (including me) have been to the BMW dealers and have seen that there is no Saddle Brown selection available in the interior section of the dealer's ordering system. They can only click on options that are shown, they can't type in anything that is not shown on the list.

Yet in some other threads there have been posts by members that imply different things. Member brian5 has said that as far as he knows SB has "limited availability" and can be ordered but will delay the car's production. Then member Investor responded to him by saying "It doesn't delay your order".

So.....brian5, Investor, or anyone else for that matter, if you know anything more about this please respond in this thread with more details.

brian5......can you find out from your dealer (who I presume was the person who told you that SB is "available on a limited basis" exactly what he means and how does one go about ordering one. Assuming he was correct about the availability of SB on a limited basis I would assume that he would know how to process that order or who to contact at BMW NA to get it done. Would he be willing to provide that info to you so that you can share it with the rest of us. We are all spread out around the country and can't all buy our E70's from him, so if he can share the knowledge many of us would greatly appreciate it.

Investor.....you implied that ordering SB does not delay an order. I assume that if you know for a fact that it will not delay an order then you may also know more information that you may have learned from your dealer. It would be greatly appreciated if you could share anything you know with the other board members here.

Again, if anyone has more info on ordering SB please share it in this thread from now on so that all the info is in the same thread instead of being buried in multiple threads.

Thanks in advance to all who participate....