I've fallen into this group and now hope the shipping channels open up for a smooth, straight-thru shipment with clear sailing at the VPC once she hits the port

 

Well, I have been moved from 11/11 to 11/12, so Welcome to me!

Funny how calm and subdued, even pessimistic week 46 is compared to 45. I think I'll like it here!

Chili Red MCSCa
#1,#2,#3 and a little extra for my trouble.

 

I called on Friday... I'm in production w/ 11/19 as my 'done' date. That puts me on the 11/24 ship to the states!

 

If I'm completed on the 15th should that put me on a boat by the end of the week?

 

[QUOTE=whÿsper]Well, I have been moved from 11/11 to 11/12, so Welcome to me!

Funny how calm and subdued, even pessimistic week 46 is compared to 45. I think I'll like it here! =QUOTE]

Welcome to our little group of calender watchers. There don't seem to be many week 46 MINI's. Maybe ours will be done early. With mine being done Monday the 14th our cars could well be ship mates.

Chuck

 

My mcs was started on 11/10 and I was told that it takes a week to build so, that should put me at the 17th. Maybe mine will be on the same ship as you two

 

My options are showing! Arrow must be almost done!

 

Sweet Lady Liberty

Of Thee I Sing.
Of Thee I Sing.

Yep, booked on Liberty, set to leave the UK on 11/17.

 

My options are finally showing in the OL too. Better yet they are all correct!!! It does show that I have an anthacite interior twice. Guess they felt so bad about screwing up my last car that they are giving me two cars worth of anthracite. One other anomoly, my car appears to have four mirrors, two chrome & two white.

I called my friends at ask-MINI & was told my car is done, been released for transport to the dock of the bay. I sure hope she makes it onto the Liberty before she sails.

Chuck

 

My options are showing today as well, must be getting close !

Now if the shipping Gods will smile on my Solar Red Spot we'll catch the next ship out !:impatient

 

Mine shows that too. I think white mirrors go automatically with the white roof. Ask Mini said I'm still in the paint shop earlier today but that I'm due for completion today.

 

I'm due for completion on Saturday! YEA!

They must have had a bug in the options reporting system... The other car that I had (dealer mis-ordered the roof color) that was done 2 weeks ago still doesn't have the options listed.

At least they got mine right this time!

Come home to me, Jango! Come HOME!

 

... does it take for the car to get from Oxford to Southampton? I'm in week 47, and ASK-MINI says that we're scheduled for completion on Nov. 23. Is there any way for our Mini to make the Nov. 24 shipment?

 

It's possible that your car will make the boat... the 'end of production' date that MINI gives is a 'the car is ready to ship' date... I'm not sure where the car is on that date, however.

It really isn't far from Oxford to Southampton and MINI has their own dedicated rail cars for shipping.

You might just get lucky. Since you are last there, however, you might not make it on since there seems to be a large gap between boats and all the slots might be full by the time your baby gets there.

Good luck!

 

My date was 11/15 and today my miniusa status changed to released to a carrier. So I'm on the way to the ship! I hope it makes it onto a boat this week.

 

I'm now booked on the Integrity, set to leave Southampton on the 24th and arrive in Charleston on the 8th.

 

Called ask-MINI & mine is listed today as at the port. Just checked the OL & it also lists it as awaiting transport. Sonic, how did you get the information about what ship you're on & it's destination?

Chuck

 

Check out the first page of the Week 45 Support Group. There are some links to sites for tracking which ship you're on by you VIN.

 

Thanks!!!

Here's the latest scoop. My car will be on the Liberty that sails on 11-17-05, Tomorrow!!! The Liberty arrives in Charleston 12-02-05. No Thanksgiving MCS, but I'll have it way before Christmas. Thanks again Sonic for pointing me in the direction of those links. Great stuff!

Any shipmates here?

Chuck

 

Damn, wish I were on that boat

 

OK, shipping company website shows booked and loaded on Liberty on 11-17. Shipping company website shows arrival in NY first, then Baltimore, then Charleston. Will vehicles offload in NY and Baltimore? Only info I've seen keeps pointing to Charleston. Won't gripe if Charleston is actual drop off point for "Malice" but would like to know since website shows arrival sked for Bawlmer on 11-28 and I'm south of Annapolis.

 

It depends on the dealer you ordered from. D&R here in Indy means South Carolina. Call you MA and ask where your MINI will be Off loaded

 

UncleFester, hope our cars get to have some fun on the voyage. Seems to me Baltimore would be logical, but you just never know. My last MINI landed in Charleston & I assume that this one....with the correct spec's will land there too. I wish our ship a safe & speedy passage.Chuck

 

Hey, I was just pleasantly surprised when I moved from week 47 to week 46. Then, "Malice" moved rom factory, to port, to ship, same day! If it's Charleston, then it's Charleston, at least it's not Southampton, right?

 

Production/Shipping/Receiving Update ~

Well, this is a "tat" strange, but here goes. . . My orginial production time frame was week of 4 October 2005 for my 2006 Space Blue, MCS~JCW. Then I received a notice from my sales agent that my production date was moved back 14-18 November 2005. OK, I can understand that. . . . not happy about it, but can understand !

So, here we are in my new production week as we speak (14-18 Nov 05) and I get an e-mail message with numerous messages attached from BMW, my dealer's home office, to my local dealer, so on and so on. . . You get the idea.

Bottom line, they are appologing for the 30 day delay in delivering my MCSJCW !What 30 day delay . . . . the last thing I heard it was due to go into production this week.It turns out that the local BMW dealership that was slated to receive and prep my car for delivery declaired "Bankruptcy" about 30 days ago and none of the invoces or MSO could be processed on any new cars that dealer received for dilivery "Bam" ! That means my MCSJCW has been setting at the dealer for almost a month waiting for someone to figuar out how to get all the paperwork processed.

Now folks, I currently live and work in Germany; laws, how comanies do business, and a lot of other things are done just a little different over here than back in the states ! Anyway, there is good news. . . . My Sales Agent sent me a note as well and asked it I could be at the showroom @ 12:30 Tuesday, 22 Novermber 2005 to receive my new MCS.

The only thing that really my *** is . . . . I could have been driving my car for at least two weeks if not longer if the BMW Dealership hadn't declared bankruptcy and tied up all the paperwork for so long. Now, I wasn't the only one in this boat. There were about 30 other new MINIs / new owners that were in the same situation.

Oh well, three more days and I should be setting behind the wheel. Sorry for being so long winded, but I thought someone might be interested.

Later,



of folks at the ue to difficulties getting the factory installed JCW assembly line setup at the factory