Falstaff is has unloaded and left. Took them most of the day to unload over 1200 cars. MA said about 10 days to get now as the VDC is slammed with year end. Sold cars have the priorty and fast track out the door. Wondering if the trucks only do Mini's or share with BMW.

 

Yes, saw that this morning. For some reason their site is down. They're probably updating schedules.

 

The Oberon is trackable once again and is now just south of Jones Beach heading towards the bay.

Anyone have webcam links for the NJ/NY auto cargo ports?

 

I looked the other day and couldn't find any cams.

 

About 7 mi to go at 3:22pm

 

The WW schedule still shows arrival on 1/2. Does the port operate today or will the Oberon just moor at a berth and unload tomorrow?

 

The Oberon is now moored at it's berth at the NY/NJ port. Finally.

 

Finally. Now if can be so lucky to have them start unloading tonight.

 

My guess is that the dock workers are Union and off today. Who knows.

 

OK - I can get to the site, but I see No field to enter my cargo ID. What am I missing?

 

Select "Customer Centre" and then "Track and Trace" from the drop down menus. The Cargo ID field will be on the right side of the page.

 

After entering the VIN - nothing happens. = nothing shipped? Is it unusual for a car completed on 12/14 to still be awaiting a boat at the dock?

 

FYI, I was never able to track mine by VIN it was only an email from my MA that told me what boat it was on.

Now, It got on a truck on Tuesday and still wasn't to Portland yesterday. Not sue how they make a 5 day trip out of what should be 2 or 3 but oh well. Hopefully Monday, just in time to drive it to the airport on Tuesday and leave it for a week.

 

Ours sat for 2 weeks in Austria and almost a full 2 weeks in Bremerhaven. Didn't see our VIN until later in the day after the RORO left Bremerhaven.
Where are you located? It may not be on a WW ship. It could be on an ARC and I'm not sure how you track on an ARC ship.

 

I'm in CT - dealer is in RI. My MA was placing a call to Mini as she has 2 All 4's that have been sitting for 2 weeks. I thought this 'track your baby' thing would be fun, but so far, not.

 

You do know about the vehicle axle weight limit sticker issue? That was the holdup.

 

You should check with your MA and/or the reps at ASK-MINI to find out what status your car is in. Though not out of the question, I would be very surprised if your car was already on a vessel if the completion date was 12/14. More than likely it is en route to the port or perhaps even at the port.

You need to know which port your car is being delivered to (it is stated on your order) and then consult shipping schedules to see which vessel makes most sense (though not all vessels from all line are listed). No matter, your MA sould be able to specifically tell you where your car is, you should not have to guess.

My car, and at least two others on this forum, sat in Austria for almost two weeks after completion waiting for transport to port. One at the port, sat again for over a week waiting for a vessel. Our cars are now being off-loaded in NY and with luck we should have them end of the week or sometime next week.

 

Have emailed MA. Says "still just sitting at port". ASKMINI says no info from them anymore must get all info from dealer. WW site doesn't have my VIN loaded. My VIN ends in 786 and the last VIN sequence like mine last posted is 741. Have now missed potentially 3 roros if it didn't make one to Baltimore this weekend. Pretty frustrating! Have another email to MA for tomorrow so hopefully he has some status change!? My completion date was 12/13. BTW the ARC lines roros are showing on the ww tracking site.

 

That is very frustrating! I would insist that your dealer contact MINI USA to have them investigate your order and provide you with an answer of why there has been such a long delay. Ask them if it is reasonable for a car to sit at the port in 193 status for 3 weeks. They can't possibly say yes, especially when other cars have been arriving.

 

Yeah, sometimes the shipping process feels like a sausage factory. Great stuff comes out but you don't want to see how this stuff is made.

It seems that at any particular point there is the option for the car to take from 1-15 days to move through a particular stage and while there may be some averages, there is nothing "normal".

For mine, when the car was seemingly produced in a single day (I suspect they started working on it a day earlier than planned), and then was at the port the very next day after production I was getting hopeful that I'd see the car in early December.

Then it sat at the port for a full two weeks before being loaded, then the boat arrived at the port a day late getting there Dec 19th. Then ended up sitting at the VDC for 8 or 9 days before getting loaded on the truck.

Now, what should be a day or two drive from Oxnard, CA to Portland has me still waiting for the car to arrive at the dealer 5 days later.

So while you can get general ideas from people, it seems like there is a wide rage or time that each stage in the process can take and the speed it went through the earlier stages has no bearing on what will happen next.

But yes, all very fun and frustrating at the same time!

 

I hope mine is on the same truck Tuna

 

That would be cool. Unless of course, all the horrible things I've been imagining to explain why it hasn't gotten here yet are true.

 

Huh? No, I don't. What's this all about?

 

I saw the OBERON (RORO) in port today.

 

Yes, it got in yesterday around 4:30-4:45pm