Delay again on X5. You will not be recieving your car anytime soon!

[z2g]

Originally Posted by BGM

I have a general question---what do y'all do for a car when production is delayed ? I know on a lease the dealer says keep your car until new one comes in. And if you are trading in they say the same thing. Anyone order their car, sell their current car on like Autotrader after that and try to time it that the new one comes in and you aren't carless ?

I've never leased. I've always owned. So, when I purchase a new car, I don't sell the current car until I have already brought home the new car.

For those who lease, I would think it should be the same--that is, you should buy before your lease is up. If it's a special order car, I would give a minimum of 3-4 months. Yeah, you'll have the potential of having both cars overlap where you may already have the new car and still have a month or two on the lease. But, that's better than the OP's potential situation where the lease is up and he doesn't have a car yet.

By the way, didn't the 2011 go into production in March?

[rans09vert]

darwin 316 if that is correct, I just do not understand BMW. My car was a week 15 build, and is done except for the seat module that they are waiting on. Why would they put a seat module in a vehicle built after all of the week 15, 16 builds? If BMW did, that makes no sense, is plain STUPID. Do they not have any loyalty to the buyers who plucked down money and ordered their cars first?

[8ball]

Originally Posted by darwin316

Just heard from my dealer, my wife's x5 35i was released to Fleet Car Carriers today (4/29/10).

It will ship on 5/1/10 and has an estimated arrival of 5/3/10 at the dealer.

We have a week 17 build and located in Northern Virginia.

Cant wait for next week (knock on wood)!

What date did they actually give you at first?

[BGM]

Originally Posted by z2g

I've never leased. I've always owned. So, when I purchase a new car, I don't sell the current car until I have already brought home the new car.

For those who lease, I would think it should be the same--that is, you should buy before your lease is up. If it's a special order car, I would give a minimum of 3-4 months. Yeah, you'll have the potential of having both cars overlap where you may already have the new car and still have a month or two on the lease. But, that's better than the OP's potential situation where the lease is up and he doesn't have a car yet.

By the way, didn't the 2011 go into production in March?

But if you are using the proceeds from selling the current car to go as a down payment on the new then it's a huge timing issue.

[darwin316]

Originally Posted by rans09vert

darwin 316 if that is correct, I just do not understand BMW. My car was a week 15 build, and is done except for the seat module that they are waiting on. Why would they put a seat module in a vehicle built after all of the week 15, 16 builds? If BMW did, that makes no sense, is plain STUPID. Do they not have any loyalty to the buyers who plucked down money and ordered their cars first?

Sorry... maybe the seat module is normally already assembled with the seats? If so, I doubt BMW would think it would be efficient to strip the seat module from the assembly to put it in the already produced vehicles.

I actually had two x5s ordered and configured through the dealer. The first was a 35i sports activity with m-sport package and a week 16 build. My wife found out that it would come with silver roof rails and she wanted a blacked out car so we switched the order to a 35i sports activity without the M package. The first one with the M package is delayed, while the second one, produced a week later, is arriving first. I guess it worked out for us!

Originally Posted by 8ball

What date did they actually give you at first?

I was told a week 17 build, but it went from status 112 to 150 last week. This week is week 17.

[DSE]

This is the downside to just-in-time manufacturing. You would think, however, that BMW would have at least two suppliers for most parts, so that the other could ramp if one supplier went bankrupt, had a factory outage/fire etc. Of course, the more parts order you give one supplier, the better the per unit price, but you have to balance that with reliability if supply.

I assure you BMW is not happy about this. They are spending the money manufacuring cars they cannot sell and losing millions of dollars in delayed sales while they wait for the necessary part.