Anything's possible. But judging by my experience, they're pretty fast to update the system. In fact, I plugged in my VIN this morning and saw that the car was booked on the Boheme. Then a few hours later, when looking up the booking number, saw that it had a new entry: Loaded onto ship.

Sorry...not trying to make you jealous. Just telling you what I've been finding so that you know what to (or not to) expect. Maybe yours was loaded on a different, even faster ship...? (What can I say....I'm an optimist!)

 

LOL I WISH hey is there any way you can find out what VIN's are loaded on the ship?

 

So as of RIght Now All we know is that Lyrebard Mini was the only car that was shipped olol that is weird

any 1 else???

 

Hey and Also i wanted to get to know my fellow PW34 Members!!!!

Were are ya guys from and If your FROM NY LIKE me FROm where???
lets meet up after we get our minis?

I wish we can all meet up once we get our minis that would be HOT!!!

 

It looks like the next WW Ship is on 1 September. I also understand that from time to time they use an additional carrier as well. I guess all we can do at this point is wait.

 

Yep, still no change for me this morning. I think I have read in other support groups that the K-line is the other carrier that MINI's sometimes end up on. Unfortunately, I scoured their website yesterday and there is no way of finding out which VIN's are on their ships or even how to track their vessels. The schedules were also not quite as straightforward.

Today I sell my car. I'm kinda getting sentimental about it because it was my first car and I've had it since new (nine years). It's still got lots of miles left in it, but it's time for my MINI. It's making it harder since I really am not sure how long I will be without transportation until the MINI arrives :impatient .

 

My message just changed to "at the port awaiting a vessel". hopefully it will catch a ride out on the first...

 

Gee, it's quiet in here. I still haven't heard anything new, but was hoping that at least someone else in week 34 had some good news to report...anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

 

lol nothing yet... i called ma and said it wasn't shipped seems like there behind on schedule with shipping delays???

 

PW34 !! you guys are too quiet LOL comon TELL ME WHATS GOING ON!!!!

 

I just got back from selling my car - it was my first car and I've had it for 9 years. It was kind of sad handing over the keys to someone else . I hope they take good care of it.

Geez, if I'm this bad about a Pontiac, I'm going to have to go to grief therapy if I ever have to part with my MINI in the future (I don't plan on it!!).

Just thought I'd break the silence in here with my little sentimental story...I still do not have any shipping info for my MINI, but now I really need it since I don't have a car until it gets here - my boyfriend will have to chauffer me around (but it gives me a good excuse to practice driving stick in his truck until the mincoop arrives, which will be my first manual car).

 

Polly's in the paint shop so I guess you won't hear from me. Anyway, she'll be on the left coast boat....

 

awww how sad... dont worry once you get the mini youll feel much better
anyways good luck............
and btw I give you PROPS for getting MANUAL......
I wish i had a girl that would know how to drive a Maual...
thats HOT

 

WAH! Nothing new, my new baby is still sitting at the dock, waiting for that magic moment when his number is called...

Or, he could be on a stealth ship from a line other than WW... Anything is possible!



So - we watch and we wait and we hope...

 

Yeah, if I knew for a fact that my MINI was on a ship it would make things much easier!!

Almost everyone I know except one of my friends thinks I'm nuts for getting a manual, but I figure, you only live once, I don't deal with a lot of traffic, and if I could handle the test drive by myself in a 5-speed there's hope for me after all! Besides, I think it will be fun!

I am hoping too! I have read a few stories of people whose MINI's were already halfway across the pond and they still thought they were waiting on the docks. So there is still hope for us!

As long at the weather cooperates...

 

Manual all the way! you will be glad you got it.

and yes the "ghost" ship stories are true, one main reason ASK-MINI says they cannot track your car after it leaves the docks. But believe me i work at a port here in jacksonville and they do not like to keep the cars sitting at the docks for long. They will try to put your car on a ship asap. They get no $$$ if your car just sits. This is one of the main reasons cars get placed on different ships other then WW's. Alot of the shipping companies have deals with each other in reguards to shipping things for one another. Kinda like you scratch my back i'll scratch yours. when a ship gets filled, the over flow often goes to a competitors vessel.

Oh, UKhan24 i posted a reply about the courage and ernesto in week 33, i didnt want to double post the same thing in two treads.

 

dude you just made me feel so much better... now i have some hope that maybe a ghost ship is carrying the Cooper....
my friend had also ordered his car a week before me and his car is on Mannon and should be arriving tommrow lucky him !!

but i hope i get mine soon

 

Boneman,
Hey, my baby's in the body shop waiting for polly to stop eating crackers and get through the paint shop... hurry on now!!

 

I'm thinking of a snappy comeback but I think I'll just - nanana nana - Polly's in front and always will be

 

so right now i have no idea were my mini is awwww poor baby i hope there taking good care of it lol

 

So I am another PW 34, and Gertrude was completed on the 25th. She is showing up on the WW site as being aboard the Boheme. The OL hasn't been updated, still says "awaiting transport." Every hour brings her closer to me... soon I will have my hand wrapped around her gearshift and my foot to the floor!
Unfortunately I have to fly out to Boston and pick her up at the dealer, then drive on two-laners (break-in period, right?) all the way west to Washington. So sad...

 

omg lucky u I WAS completed on 25th also... i guess they didn't have room for my mini :(

 

Waaahhh,
I just checked WW again, and now it says Gertrude will be on Integrity. I guess thats what I get for being smug. I will perform acts of contrition tomorrow and hope for better car-ma.

 

 

I wholeheartedly agree. Just to chime in on the buying-a-manual topic: The first car I ever owned was a manual, which I bought without knowing how to drive. I figured, what better way to force myself to learn, eh? Had to get my mom to drive it home for me. LOL. I had a few scary days of learning, but haven't EVER looked back...yes, it's a PITA in heavy traffic, but I just think of it as a workout for my quads. And you have so much more control on the road. (I occasionally find myself grinning when I see the brakelights of AT cars flash on-and-off, on-and-off on twisty roads...and think to myself, "I'm having so much more fun than they are!")

So strange about the shipping delays...I wish my yet-to-be-named MINI had some company from this group on his voyage.