Welcome to the thread, lets hope you have better luck getting out of the body shop

 

I talked to a friend at the plant and he assured me everything is running fine. He just mentioned to hope your car isn't built during the "Yellow shift" - the weekend shift where they work long hours. He also mentioned a couple production issues that hopefully were rectified over the last couple of weeks.

 

ugh! My car just moved into the body shop so it's being produced over the weekend Actually, it was the ASK-MINI recording that said it was in the body shop so that was probably yesterday.

 

still in production(ask mini recording)

 

Good luck getting out of the body and/or paint shops. They are a real pain in the bottom.

 

hi gabe... lucky you with an insider at the plant

this may be a stupid question , but why would it be a bad idea for a car to go through the yellow shift? is it because the employees are tired and want to go home because it's the weekend, so they don't do as detailed as a job? that's kinda scary... but yah... i wouldn't want to be in that shift either

so about these production issues that were rectified... any idea if that may be why some of us got pushed back in production?

 

as of today on ASK MINI call in line---I am in the paint shop. Hopefully some yellow shift guy is not painting the car with a can of Krylon. LOL...
estimated completion 6/5--will I catch the next boat--I think there is one 6/8 and 6/9??? who knows....

Seriously--why agonize over this stuff? You can not control it. Perhaps all this available info is not such a good thing. I had an M-3 that was built over the weekend and never had one problem with the car except for a minor sqeak from the conv't top that was adjusted out by the dealer. Don't diminish your excitement sweating the small stuff. When they hand you the key thingy, you'll forget all about it.

PS...don't call me when the door falls off.................

 

I think my tracking tag fell off. Still (in production June 5th) as of now

 

I just got an email from my MA. My car is status 152 (painting has started) but... she said that updates were less frequent over the weekend so it's possible my car is actually out of the paint shop. Less frequent updates... is that the previously mentioned Yellow Shift again?

I guess it's the MADAME BUTTERFLY on 6/11 for my car

 

I haven't had an update since Tuesday?

 

As of this am, In Paint

 

As of just now, ASK-MINI (real person) says my car is in "final assembly, QC". He said then it takes 2-3 days to get to the port. So I didn't just miss the boat. I missed it by about 3 days.

I guess I have a Yellow Shift car...

 

you mean the 6/2 ship or 6/9? I'd be very happy to catch the catch sailing.

 

Hopefully I'm asking this in the right place.

My wife ordered her MINI and we've been trying to track it, however nothing is showing the status of the order.

Today when my wife called ASK-MINI and talked to someone live, they said that they couldn't tell her when her car would go into production, however they were able to tell her that the scheduled completion date was 6/10.

How can they come up with a completion date when they can't even tell if the car is in production?

 

probably will start 6/5 or 6/6--call back tomorrow...they usually update after 8pm

 

emtrey,
For me on the West Coast, it's the 6/4 or the 6/11 ship. If something happens and I miss the 6/11 (MADAME BUTTERFLY), I'm going to get really annoyed.

So... it appears that I ended up in week 23 after all, at least my car will be shipping with the early week 23 production.

 

Rover- I would be east coast (in Midwest) and I doubt my car will catch the 6/9 ship..looks like 6/16 is more reasonable. I can wait BUT I won't like it.

I have an 04 Cooper CVT. The new car will be an S (even though its auto to appease my wife who loves MINIs but is not fond of driving stick shift) so the 07 will be a major upgrade. The Mini is my daily driver but I do have another high perf. car so it'll be a good summer even if the new Mini is delayed.

One of my good friends has an S with stick and LSD close behind me in the order pipeline. He is a few days behind and not yet "in production". Of course, he is not a die hard car guy and is not as cranked up.

 

I was actually in paint on Sunday, with the same completion date, maybe they work faster during the week

 

being assembeled a/o this morning--sould be completed today. yea baby

 

Going through QC check now, will be racing to catch the Integrity.
For the East people, the INTEGRITY sails on the 9th and the TOLEDO sails on the 12th, West people, MADAME BUTTERFLY sails on the 11th and MANON sails on the 25th, and maybe some of you made it onto the MAERSK WIND which sailed on the 4th.Go to this site and enter your vin under AUTO CARGO and see what happens.Good luck :impatient :impatient :impatient :impatient :impatient :impatient

 

ASK-MINI says my car was "released to carrier" (left factory) and on the way to the port.

 

I'm also in production now as well, with expected completion date of 6/8.

do you guys think it will make it onto the Integrity too?

 

What "site"???

 

Some cars don't go with this carrier but most do.

http://www.2wglobal.com/www/WEP/index.jsp

Select "Customer Care" menu and the "Cargo Tracking" item.

Select Track By "Auto cargo"

You can try this direct link.

http://schedule.2wglobal.com/AppTrac...trackType=Auto

 

I'm a Week 23 member also. When I logged onto the OL on 6/3, my car was listed as 'In Production' and my VIN number was listed for the first time.

I'm hoping the VIN number is an indication that the car is built and they are just adding accessories.

Fingers crossed!