JCW New order, how long now?
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New order, how long now?
After two years of waffling I finally ordered a new JCW, my sixth MINI and third JCW after two R56 versions. My timing was perfect, went in just a couple of days before dealer's allocation was locked in two weeks ago and car was built last week. It's been five years since I've waited on an order, how long should I expect for it to be delivered. I live in Houston and our cars now come into Galveston just 45 miles away.
MA is suggesting end of January, I'm hoping for a Christmas present. Who's right?
MA is suggesting end of January, I'm hoping for a Christmas present. Who's right?
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After two years of waffling I finally ordered a new JCW, my sixth MINI and third JCW after two R56 versions. My timing was perfect, went in just a couple of days before dealer's allocation was locked in two weeks ago and car was built last week. It's been five years since I've waited on an order, how long should I expect for it to be delivered. I live in Houston and our cars now come into Galveston just 45 miles away.
MA is suggesting end of January, I'm hoping for a Christmas present. Who's right?
MA is suggesting end of January, I'm hoping for a Christmas present. Who's right?
So you may have to wait until January
I'm also NY first stop after Halifax
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Yep, here they are: 2006 R53, 2008 R56S, 2009 JCW, 2011 JCW, 2011 R56S, first four bought new, the current one bought used in 2013. I hope you're right about delivery by end of year. BTW, per ASKMINI, my car was updated today from "production completed" to "waiting for transport."
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Nice, we are on our second JCW, the F 56 JCW is by far their best offering yet, but it loses some luster due to the snout and a few other items. But, it is the best performing one by far with some tweaks it is a little beast and the torque is very impressive. I ordered an early one and have really enjoyed it. I wish we could order them without the crappy runflat Dunlops, ripped an inner sidewall during the MOTD and resorted to having Michelin onsite install a new set of shoes during the event. I only missed 1/2 a day of the event thankfully. I ordered ours in April, but didn't receive it until the end of October, but we still had our R JCW to drive until we received the new one, so it wasn't too bad.
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I got the VIN today but dealer says it's still waiting for a boat in thrir system. I'm still optimistic that I'll see it by the end of the year.
I wasn't enamoured with the F series at first but they've grown on me. I think it's a more "grown up" car thsn the previous generations and that fits perfectly with what I want now. I only test drove an automatic JCW when they first came out, mine will be manual. There are three MINI dealers in my town and none of them regularly have JCW's on hand.
I wasn't enamoured with the F series at first but they've grown on me. I think it's a more "grown up" car thsn the previous generations and that fits perfectly with what I want now. I only test drove an automatic JCW when they first came out, mine will be manual. There are three MINI dealers in my town and none of them regularly have JCW's on hand.
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I got the VIN today but dealer says it's still waiting for a boat in thrir system. I'm still optimistic that I'll see it by the end of the year.
I wasn't enamoured with the F series at first but they've grown on me. I think it's a more "grown up" car thsn the previous generations and that fits perfectly with what I want now. I only test drove an automatic JCW when they first came out, mine will be manual. There are three MINI dealers in my town and none of them regularly have JCW's on hand.
I wasn't enamoured with the F series at first but they've grown on me. I think it's a more "grown up" car thsn the previous generations and that fits perfectly with what I want now. I only test drove an automatic JCW when they first came out, mine will be manual. There are three MINI dealers in my town and none of them regularly have JCW's on hand.
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They were in 2015, I don't know if they switched or not. They may have due to the carping by owners about how lousy the Dunlops were.
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Either way good luck.
Not sure what is harder waiting for that car to arrive or waiting to hit 1200miles
9 weeks the whole wait from. The day was ordered.
About the tires I have 17inch wheels and Hankook tires.
Picked the all season once as we do get some snow here and I will be getting different set of wheels and tires for summer.
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My guess is early/mid-January, but hopefully I am wrong. I ordered mine on 10/29 and am hoping for delivery in ~2 weeks as my transport ship is due to dock in Baltimore tonight. Funny thing is, mine went on to the ship in Southampton, went over to Germany, to Belgium, back to Southampton, then finally out to the Atlantic...nothing like a quick Euro tour before heading over, eh??
Follow the tracking tips in the 1st Gear thread for the most up to date info. I just discovered that 'vesselfinder.com' site has better shipping tracking info than the one suggested here. Good luck!
Follow the tracking tips in the 1st Gear thread for the most up to date info. I just discovered that 'vesselfinder.com' site has better shipping tracking info than the one suggested here. Good luck!
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Once on the boat, you can view the bill of lading at the shipping company web site and, using your VIN, track it.
The waiting is worth it.
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Hope you get yours soon....waiting sucks!
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I got the VIN today but dealer says it's still waiting for a boat in thrir system. I'm still optimistic that I'll see it by the end of the year.
I wasn't enamoured with the F series at first but they've grown on me. I think it's a more "grown up" car thsn the previous generations and that fits perfectly with what I want now. I only test drove an automatic JCW when they first came out, mine will be manual. There are three MINI dealers in my town and none of them regularly have JCW's on hand.
I wasn't enamoured with the F series at first but they've grown on me. I think it's a more "grown up" car thsn the previous generations and that fits perfectly with what I want now. I only test drove an automatic JCW when they first came out, mine will be manual. There are three MINI dealers in my town and none of them regularly have JCW's on hand.
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I have to agree with Shark52 on the timeframe, as of today mine arrived at the Baltimore port or 5 weeks from my order entry date. Add to that 1-2 weeks to get through the VDC and transported here to Chicago and that puts me right in the 7-8 weeks. Still better than the dealer's original 12 week estimate!
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I'm now very curious and only finding bits and pieces of information on the interwebz. My car is on the Athens Highway per my MA, it left Southhampton on 12-7 and the typical route for BMW/MINI boats "used to be" New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia, then Galveston.
According to two different maritime tracking pages, my boat is heading straight to Jacksonville, FL and is handled by AMPORT Logistics. There is definitely a large auto processing area in JAX but I've just never seen it mentioned before. It would also make sense logistically for it to come straight to Galveston after that stop. It's estimated to arrive in FL in seven days, I would think another seven to TX would be about right, so that might bring it here in around two weeks.
Anyone ever heard of that route?
According to two different maritime tracking pages, my boat is heading straight to Jacksonville, FL and is handled by AMPORT Logistics. There is definitely a large auto processing area in JAX but I've just never seen it mentioned before. It would also make sense logistically for it to come straight to Galveston after that stop. It's estimated to arrive in FL in seven days, I would think another seven to TX would be about right, so that might bring it here in around two weeks.
Anyone ever heard of that route?
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The k-line schedule says it should be in Galveston on the 21st. It goes from Barcelona to Galveston.
http://www.kline.com/CarCarrier-Sche...g_Schedule.pdf
http://www.kline.com/CarCarrier-Sche...g_Schedule.pdf
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The k-line schedule says it should be in Galveston on the 21st. It goes from Barcelona to Galveston.
http://www.kline.com/CarCarrier-Sche...g_Schedule.pdf
http://www.kline.com/CarCarrier-Sche...g_Schedule.pdf
There's one small fly in the ointment. It was late leaving Southhampton and did appear to stop in Barcelona but might have left a day late there, maybe it wasn't too much of a delay.
This makes sense though, dropping off a load of BMW's and MINI's at Galveston, then heading to Veracruz and Jacksonville to pick up cars made in Mexico. This is at least a week earlier than predicted though so I will almost surely have it this year!
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