I just called, said still in paint shop with a completion date of today . How about yours G-force?

 

I just called them two minutes ago and got the same reply.
Step #2 of 4 (Body shop, paint shop, assembly & quality control)

 

The wife called ask-MINI on her way home from work about 6:30 waited for about 10 min to talk to a real live person. Whoo-Hoo car is done and was in quality assurance. Next it will be released to transportation. Hope all its brothers and sisters (meaninig your MINI's)pop out with it.
I called this morning and talked with ask-Mini and it was still in the paint shop. G-Force called about his or her car at 5:30 and it was still in the paint shop. My theory is that the turbo got wound up and they couldn't stop it......it just blew through the plant!

 

Just called again and am still in paint shop with finish today, but didn't speak to a human. Glad someone has a finished car! Let's hope we're all there with you.

 

Could anyone here summarize how long it took from entering the body shop to heading to the dock? I've heard as short as 3 to as long as 8 days. Seems like too large a range.

 

Well, my car was just released to the carrier today. It took about a week from entering the body shop to get to this point for me.

 

We are with you! Checked this morning (9:00am)and the nice young lady said your MINI is all done and is being released to the carrier. AWESOME

 

Just released also!

 

rover, no idea, but 3 days would be sweet cause there's a boat scheduled for the west coast on the 4th.

 

Boohoo! It seems my MCS is permanently stuck in the paint shop!
Any fellow week #21 LiB owners out here? The estimated completion date just got pushed back by 2 days.

 

Ouch. The good news is that you have a much quicker ship tha us west coasters.

 

Booked on the COURAGE! Just checked the carriers website, It should be leaving today!
Sorry to hear about yours G-force but I'm sure the wait will be worth it.
Thanks for the link Mgibrace.

 

No bloody way!!! (my combined state of emotion at the moment)

Anyway, I'm mighty glad for ya! Btw, where did you get this piece of info? OL/ASK-MINI/MA??

Mini4MinPin/mgibrace:
Are your MINIs at the docks?

 

We checked the link that Mgibrace gave us http://www.2wglobal.com/www/wep/index.jsp This is the shipping co.


Pull down the customer care column and click check cargo it will take you to another screen which you'll click auto cargo. On the next screen just pu ypur VIN # in for the cargo id #. Last night it wasn't there but this morning .

 

Any idea how I can get the courage ships ship # so I can track it. I looked it up on the sailwxinfo link but there is more than 1 courage?

 

Ah.. Courage was the ship who brought my baby to me a few weeks ago. Man she gets around! I had her call sign permanently burned in my memory
It's WDC6907 ....

You can also track her using this website until she leaves Southampton. http://www.southamptonvts.co.uk/shipping_movments.asp

You can explore some other features on this site as well like the live radar.


All the best, I know the wait is a killer - but believe me its worth it.

 

I checked just now and my baby is at the port booked on the Maersk Wind leaving on monday 6/4!! Hope yours gets through soon gforce23.

 

Thanks AndyCoop this info is awesome! I't should keep my OC disorder in check for a day or two. Come on G-force were all pullin for you!

 

Yeeehaaa!! ASK-MINI confirmed that my car checked out this morning and is on its way to the docks at Southampton! Now the hard part is trying to decide if I should give the go ahead to install the JCW Aero kit at the VDC or the dealership. Its awfully difficult to part with $2500 for what seems to be a simple bumper and side skirt upgrade.

Doesn't the COURAGE leave on 06/02? Come on truck driver, I have a ship to catch!

Edit:
@dogdal:
I believe this is what we'd be looking at:
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shi...l?call=WDC6907

Edit #2:
Production timeline:
Body shop - 3 days
Paint shop - 4 days!
Assembly and QC - 1 day!

 

Yeah 6/02 you should make it tell them to kick in the turbo!

 

Congrats, gforce23!

 

hey g-force did you check the shippers website and put in your vin to see if you are on the manifest?

 

Thanks! Hope your MCS gets loaded on the MAERSK WIND!

Checked that no less than 20 times in the past couple of minutes. There's no info and the MA doesn't have "sufficient info" to help me out.

 

Woohoo I'm on the Maersk Wind! ED722-MWI.

Gets to PORT HUENEME, CA on 6/25. That's just over 3 weeks away. Good stuff.

 

I just checked the shipping on my original car order and it's on the MAERSK WIND also but there's something curious. The dates show it was BOOKED on 5/15 and RECEIVED AT TERMINAL on 5/31. Do others have such a big difference between those dates?