My Mini's VIN says it's an '08.

Here's a link to a Vin decoder page: http://www.sjbaker.org/telamom/vin.html

Larry

 

Make sure you are looking at the 5th number, not 5th character. Mine is scheduled for a 12/6 build and the 5th number is 8.

 

According to the VIN decoder page, my MC hardtop is a convertible. This is because the dealer modified a previously ordered convertible to fit my order. He did this in order to get my car here a little sooner. I know the 08 convertibles have been showing up in dealerships, so I wonder if my car is actually an 07 coupe. This could be one explanation as to how an 07 car could be showing as an 08 model.

The insurance company will surely need an explanation on why they shouldn't charge me for a convertible premium!

 

The VIN decoder page is all BS except for the first three characters WMW. Says the 4th char. should be R, mine is 'M'. Says gasoline char six should be 3 for gas, 1 for diesel, mine is 7, the inaccuracies continue.

That site is old I think and the VIN decoding is no longer accurate. I would go by the review order details on the tracking page.

 

A couple of things...

I think, as another poster pointed out, week 48 was the changeover as you don't see a 48 support group.

From this point on all completed MINIs will be 08s so if you are week 49 it will be an 08. MINI cannot sell an 07 as an 08 because the packages changed. There is just enough difference in the packages between the two model years that it will make a difference down the road when you look at resell value. For example in 07 the Xenon were part of a package but they are no longer in that package for 08. If someone was looking to purchase an 08 MINI with Xenon lights they would need to look for that option explicitly where if they looked at an 07 they could look for the package that Xenon came in as well as the stand-alone option.

From what I can tell I'm week 50 at this point.

Oh... and I've not heard of or read anywhere that the Oxford plant shuts down. Some of the German auto-makers shut their plants down for 4 weeks but that is because of the national 4 week holiday some countrys have. England is not one of them.

 

Good to see the VIN info is most likely outdated. That sooths my worries a bit. Now, let's just get that car on a boat...

 

Sorry to anyone I confused with the link...just the first from a google search and the prod year was all that I was looking at.

Larry

 

ASK-MINI says that my vehicle is complete and is waiting to be released to the carrier. Nothing shows up on the WW site yet. I wonder what ship it will get on.

 

Ditto here. Looks like were on the same boat (Pun Intended).

 

I'm on the east coast though, so I doubt we will get on the same boat.

 

How do you know the port that is holding your car? I've simply been told that it is at a port waiting to be loaded onto a boat. I've assumed it was going out from Southampton. I have also been unable to get my car to register on the WW tracking site.

 

Also, my dealer told me today that the refit was during the last week of November. Every MINI built during December is an 08 model.

 

Finally, my Mini has a voyage booked and is now at the dock. He's going to be on the FREEDOM scheduled to leave on the 8th and arrive in NY on the 17th. Anyone else on the FREEDOM?

 

My MINI is also scheduled for the FREEDOM, which arrives in Charleston on the 23rd and Brunswick, GA on the 24th for eventual delivery to Baton Rouge.

Anybody know how long it takes to go from eastern port to south-central US?

 

Maybe I'm doing something incorrectly, but I can't seem to get my car to show up on the WW tracking site. I've used the VIN number in their "auto cargo" section with no success. The owner's lounge information still shows me awaiting transport. To my knowledge, the car has been at the port since Monday. Any suggestions?

 

If it is not showing up, either you'll need to wait a day or two more, or it is using a different shipping carrier.

 

Plasma,

I'm in the same boat <pun intended> , my car has been done for at week and nothing is showing up. Are you west coast or east? I'm west, and am wondering if we get a different shipper...

 

You guys are probably on the K-Line.

 

And as my searches are telling me, that renders it untrackable , eh?

 

Check out this thread:
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...d.php?t=121708

 

My car should be shipped from the east coast. It is going to a dealership in Memphis.

 

Yes, it is either on K-Line, or it will ship on the Freedom, a WW ship that departs on the 8th of December.

 

It'd be cool if we could hitch a ride on the ship as well and check out all the MINIs. The FREEDOM must be a huge ship...anyone got any pics?

 

We are in production with our 2nd MINI as well and its an 08...I am just hoping that it hitches a ride across before Christmas. Would be awesome to take delivery this year but no matter what it wont be soon enough!

 

The next WW departure for Port Hueneme is the TASCO on 12/10 arriving 12/31. Sure hope mine makes it. The following WW departure for Port Hueneme is the Madame Butterfly on 12/17 arriving 1/7/08. I guess I will just keep trying my VIN hoping that it shows up. Production was to be completed today.