oops, never mind it looks like the Don Pasquale has not reported in since 2/15

 

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...3&postcount=86

 

I figured as the boats approach the US we should start a roster.

In order of posting. Add anyone I missed

1. SCIFF
2. Rhawth99 (not sure if he was just posting advice)
3. Cube17576
4. ThompsonR53
5. Dwfrank (?)
6. Jibeho
7. Pjschaffer
8. Hong
9. Herby74
10. Curv872
11. Bolus
12. QueenB
13. Muggy
14. Ermini1

 

I am week 5, Started Jan 28th finished Feb. 4. Where is she? Just like a woman....late.

 

I don't mind being put into a wk6 list, there will alway be lots of crossover due to ship schedule, delivery location, god knows what, etc, etc, let's all celebrate

 

Cube is supposed to hit land Thursday. My MA says I should have it next week. If it makes it out of the Vehicle Distribution center before Tuesday I might be able to go in and pay for it early to beat the $300 price increase.

 

My MINI has a stop in NY, Baltimore then Charleston, SC. From there a short truck ride to FL. I'm guessing March 6-7. Dealer is a nice hike so I need to plan on a weekend pickup. Also they need to get the pinstripes on.

 

Gah! You guys are making me so jealous since I still have ~20 more days on the boat and whatever else to go through the VPC plus a truck ride to Portland.

please post some pictures when they arrive so I have something to drool over.

Any one else besides Pjschaffer going to the west coast?

 

Similar to my dates, I just liked the company here in week SIX

Timeline so far..

• Ordered MINI (Jan 20)
• Received Order number (Jan 20)
• Human at Ask Mini says car is scheduled for production (Jan 27)
• Automated Ask Mini says car is in production (Jan 28)
• Human ant ask Mini says car has not started production but will on Feb 3 (Feb 2)
• Automated Ask Mini says car is in the paint shop (Feb 3)
• Automated Ask Mini says released to carrier (Feb 7)
• WW site states my MINI is booked on the Freedom and received at terminal (Feb7)
• MV Freedom departs Southampton, UK (Feb 13)

 

so ordering it doesn't lock in your price? i've got a copy of my order with the price including dealer mark up. am i still gonna get nabbed?

 

Mine is comming to the west coast.... however I am flying to Ill. march 8th to pick her up and drive her home that way i get her much faster and a great road trip

 

Doh! Everyone is going to get their mini before me :( I am going to go browse the week 10 thread just to make myself feel better

 

Bolus, don't worry you'll get your MINI.

Ok guys here's the scoop today. I talked with my MA this afternoon and the FREEDOM is still scheduled for arriving Thursday 2/23 into the port of NY. He most likely thinks that it should clear though VPC and get up to Keeler MINI on the 28 or the 1st. Then, they have to fit the aero front end, swap over the a/s tires to my extra BBS R90s and fit the JCW air intake

We discussed Friday 3rd as earliest for pickup and possibly making it the 6th-7th. Whew. I'm a total nutso about a car I haven't even seen yet, as most of you guys are also. We all must suffer from autophycosis or something like that.

"La Roux" (our "russet-red one"...) was was produced on either 2/3/06 or 2/4 and made it to Southampton on 2/6/06 Mon LATE 11:56pm, just missing the Jingu Maru, then having to wait (what's that ?) until 2/13 to load. Top it off the FREEDOM hasn't been on sailtrak (might be due to US gov carrier..? or just not VOS offering or both) and late by two days due to the storm in the Atlantic according to what WW shows. I hope all is well with this little bugger and received properly on Thursday.

Couple 'o thoughts...
Last minute, I'm thinking about the Aux input. Could I use this for my Palm T3 (I got it for free). I know, I know, I'm a diehard Mac person and figured out that since this T3 was free, I'll max it out. I can stuff a 1GB card in it, watch things on it , play mp3s, and keep my daughter happy with games. Good move? Can I install, or the dealer?

While I've been waiting, I made a few pages, you'll be intrigued.
http://www.thompsonsmithdesign.com/?page_id=3
http://www.thompsonsmithdesign.com/?page_id=6
enjoy!

 

Thompson, Thanks for posting the pictures. Very cool seeing the Southampton port that I've only seen from Google Earth.

Here's a DIY on the aux input:
http://mini.uglydoris.com/archives/000028.html
From here:
http://www.motoringfile.com/diy/
(lots of good information)

I went for the ipod connector. Already have my playlist for the first drive ready. I'm pretty sure I'll have a seizure before it arrives at this rate

 

Personally I think that if you have a contract. They have to Honor that price.If not it would fall under the Bait and Switch laws. Check the fine print at the bottom and on the back. Does it have a clause about price increases?

I think if it is done correctly BMW should say Any sales written after March 1 will reflect the increase not when they trickle into port. I see this as hard to force on the consumer.

 

Nice! Playlist already... funny! Thanks for the kudos on the port of Southampton photos. Thanks to a fellow NAM'er I was able to find them on here somewhere - although I forget the actual thread. The MINI Challenge page will grow mucho larger. //ASC330i is donating all his race photos to the cause. Those little race cars are awesome - totally set-up as well.

Great DIY link for the Aux input! I'll do it myself, looks easy.

 

Officially the price increase is supposed to take effect based on when you take delivery of the car. When I sat down to order my car my MA flat out told me I would have to pay the increase because we thought I would get my car mid March. Since it is running early I may be able to beat it. So they are not trying to bait and switch in my case.

 

Just heard from my MA that the Phoenix Leader should make Port Hueneme on 11Mar06 give or take a day. He also estimated about 4 -7 days from the VDC to dealer in Santa Ana, CA. That means about 3 1/2 - 4 weeks to go.

So far I've purchased the following for the Mini.

 

Previous message posted three times by mistake.

 

Previous message posteed three times by mistake.

 

I have already bought:

Rubber floor mats
Dension Ice Link Ipod adapter
Euro Parcel shelf

And I keep shoping every day.

 

Got my MA to toss in the mats and the MINI pinstripes!

 

mine's coming to the west coast, althrough through mini of the hamptons.


My MA (Jerry Halloran) hasn't even mentioned the price increase to me, and i actually got moved up a lot during the production / shipping process (I am a scheduled week 7). I guess he assumed it would be here or simply forgot to mention. Hopefully it never even gets brought up.

 

I got confirmation from my MA today that I'm on the Phoenix Leader with pjschaffer due at Port Hueneme on 3/11 or so. Since I have nothing else to obsess about, I tried to track down some more information about the ship.

Boy, there's not much info out there.

Here's a picture of the ship:
http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200508/14...0_22553055.jpg

Using a website I found on one of the BMW boards ( http://www.dbh.de/index.php?id=151 ) I found out it loaded up a bunch of BMW's on 2/16/06 in Bremerhaven, Germany, stopped in Southampton to pick up our Mini's and is currently due in Port Hueneme on 3/12/06
http://img159.imageshack.us/my.php?i...eenshot1ae.jpg

It is about a day ahead of the Falstaff. I cant find it on any of the tracking sites so i estimated that it is currently somewhere around here:
http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pl2lw.jpg

Since the Falstaff is due in Panama on 3/4/06 I'm going to try and catch the Phoenix leader on the 3rd on AISLive
http://aisfree.aislive.com/Influx.as...ama%20Overview

 

looks like i'm on(in?) the same boat. not to mention just as sad*... erm enthusiastic as you... i've been tracking falstaff and plotting the coordinates in to google earth.


*no insult intended all in good fun