R56 Production Week 45 Support Group
#276
K-Line site
Here's some info I cut & pasted from the week 42 thread:
see their PDF schedule file at:
http://www.kline.com/KAMCarCarrier/S...g_Schedule.pdf
website: http://www.port-of-charleston.com/vessel_schedule.asp
Don't know if this will work for VIN's, but worth trying:
http://app2.kline.com/GctApp/search?id=tracker
see their PDF schedule file at:
http://www.kline.com/KAMCarCarrier/S...g_Schedule.pdf
website: http://www.port-of-charleston.com/vessel_schedule.asp
Don't know if this will work for VIN's, but worth trying:
http://app2.kline.com/GctApp/search?id=tracker
#278
Here's some info I cut & pasted from the week 42 thread:
see their PDF schedule file at:
http://www.kline.com/KAMCarCarrier/S...g_Schedule.pdf
website: http://www.port-of-charleston.com/vessel_schedule.asp
Don't know if this will work for VIN's, but worth trying:
http://app2.kline.com/GctApp/search?id=tracker
see their PDF schedule file at:
http://www.kline.com/KAMCarCarrier/S...g_Schedule.pdf
website: http://www.port-of-charleston.com/vessel_schedule.asp
Don't know if this will work for VIN's, but worth trying:
http://app2.kline.com/GctApp/search?id=tracker
Thanks for the link though.
#279
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#281
I've gone to the Owner's Lounge 5 times or so, to "review order details" and my VIN is the same as on the little piece of paper I have here on my desk. WMWMF.....blah blah....31486. I'll go check again. Maybe I will show up on in the morning. I so hope. This is very discouraging. You'd think that since Brits are so keen on no one breaking into a que my car would have been right at the first to get on, before some of the others from wk 46.
#282
I've gone to the Owner's Lounge 5 times or so, to "review order details" and my VIN is the same as on the little piece of paper I have here on my desk. WMWMF.....blah blah....31486. I'll go check again. Maybe I will show up on in the morning. I so hope. This is very discouraging. You'd think that since Brits are so keen on no one breaking into a que my car would have been right at the first to get on, before some of the others from wk 46.
#284
On a ship
Aka at mini of the woodlands told me tonight that my car is on K-line and shipped on the 9th!! He told me the name of the boat but he was on speaker so I did not hear the name....He said the boat should be here on the 23rd and to expect the car December 1!!!!!!
#285
Frisia is a K-Line and comes into Charleston on 11/22 (left Southampton 11/9 - this could be your boat! Still hoping for you )
Western Highway is a K-Line and comes in on 11/29 (leaves on 11/16)
The next one is the Caribbean Highway and comes in on 12/6
#286
Does your OL indicate "en route"???
Last edited by DoubleOh7; 11-13-2007 at 09:02 PM.
#288
#290
Obscurity, it is verrrrrrry - comforting is not exactly the right word here, but close - that your MA still says at the dock and OL says awaiting transport. Because you have a much better grasp that she IS on the Patriot and the Patriot IS most of the way across the pond. This of course means that my own MA can think she is still at the port and OL can say awaiting and MY car can also be halfway across the pond, just like yours.
I've always said I'd like her by Christmas, but now I found out I have a function to attend and we are carpooling on the 8th of Dec. and it would be really cool to be able to drive the MINI. Maybe I can have her by then after all.... But I am not going to get my hopes up too high. Just by Christmas oh please oh please!!!
I've always said I'd like her by Christmas, but now I found out I have a function to attend and we are carpooling on the 8th of Dec. and it would be really cool to be able to drive the MINI. Maybe I can have her by then after all.... But I am not going to get my hopes up too high. Just by Christmas oh please oh please!!!
#291
This whole process has had me going crazy. I've been :impatient and that really doesn't quite cover it!
However, very very very clever on MINI's part. Because after all this, will you not value your car all the more? You have so much invested by the time you get the car- not just $$ but emotionally as well.
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Truer words have never been spoken!!!!
This whole process has had me going crazy. I've been :impatient and that really doesn't quite cover it!
However, very very very clever on MINI's part. Because after all this, will you not value your car all the more? You have so much invested by the time you get the car- not just $$ but emotionally as well.
This whole process has had me going crazy. I've been :impatient and that really doesn't quite cover it!
However, very very very clever on MINI's part. Because after all this, will you not value your car all the more? You have so much invested by the time you get the car- not just $$ but emotionally as well.
When you think about it, even 2 or even 3 months is not a long wait in my opinion having a car built from scratch and custom made for you in another country, shipped across the ocean and for many through the canal to the west coast, than shipped to the dealer, and for many into the middle of the country and than have additional accessories put on. I would say they are being pretty efficient even for the cars that are taking a little longer.
#294
Then on Monday I went bonkers. :impatient
There is all kinds of cool stuff happening and I don't have my MINI to participate. And it was looking like I had no hope of participating, either. Now I'm back to maybe and I'm ok again.
#295
I think that you keeping track of it day by day is eating you up. Its like watching water boil. Just step away a week at a time and maybe it will go faster. I'll call once a week and thats it. I don't want to get emotionally tied into a car.
When you think about it, even 2 or even 3 months is not a long wait in my opinion having a car built from scratch and custom made for you in another country, shipped across the ocean and for many through the canal to the west coast, than shipped to the dealer, and for many into the middle of the country and than have additional accessories put on. I would say they are being pretty efficient even for the cars that are taking a little longer.
When you think about it, even 2 or even 3 months is not a long wait in my opinion having a car built from scratch and custom made for you in another country, shipped across the ocean and for many through the canal to the west coast, than shipped to the dealer, and for many into the middle of the country and than have additional accessories put on. I would say they are being pretty efficient even for the cars that are taking a little longer.
I Agree that is is amazing to get a "custom built" car as quickly as you do but to mentally buy the car and then wait a month is a foriegn experience to me and to most first time MINI buyers. You really don't experience this with any other car in the same price range. Sure you can special order just about any car but it is not the norm outside of MINI and the really high end cars.
I guess this process is really just a test of who has patience and who is an active player in the instant gratification experience. I am definitely the latter.
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I Agree that is is amazing to get a "custom built" car as quickly as you do but to mentally buy the car and then wait a month is a foriegn experience to me and to most first time MINI buyers. You really don't experience this with any other car in the same price range. Sure you can special order just about any car but it is not the norm outside of MINI and the really high end cars.
I guess this process is really just a test of who has patience and who is an active player in the instant gratification experience. I am definitely the latter.
I guess this process is really just a test of who has patience and who is an active player in the instant gratification experience. I am definitely the latter.
I'm often a "got to have now" person.
Last edited by sancochojoe; 11-14-2007 at 10:38 AM.
#297
When we were shopping for my wife's car, we looked at Hondas, Toyotas, Scions, Hundais, Ford (Yuck), and a few others. I asked each dealer "can I order the car the way that I want it". Without fail each dealer said "No, but we can try to locate a car close to what you want". I assumed that I would be able to order a custom car and have the same great no haggle buying experience, but I was way off! We ended up buying a Honda Element from the dealership that a good friend of mine was the parts manager for and were treated fairly, but only because we knew someone. That said, I think that we are all really lucky that MINI offers this service!