Supply chain shortage for professional sat nav

[TimewarpUK]

Awaiting news on my M135i order, just got a call off the dealer, apparently it is delayed awaiting a component and all new cars are affected worldwide that have professional sat nav specced.

There's a supply chain issue (they speculated that it was the larger screen that is affecting orders) meaning that if you're waiting on a new car and have specified pro nav, you can either downgrade to business nav or wait an unspecified amount of time. Only 5 series are unaffected as they have different screens.

Edited by TimewarpUK on Monday 25th April 14:13

[TimewarpUK]

aeropilot said:

You maybe lucky in that, if it gets delayed a few more weeks after that, you might end up with a M140i instead.....aren't they swapping over to the B58 engine from July production....?

Yes, I'm awaiting an M135i too. Wonder if they will upgrade us to M140i's? There's rumours of an announcement on Tuesday.

[TimewarpUK]

aeropilot said:

Looks like changeover to M140i is going to be somewhere between build week 30 and week 34.

Which dates are those?

[TimewarpUK]

aeropilot said:

Counting week numbers would indicate, week 30 commences first week in Aug, which does tend to match what most European manufacturers do when changing over production on models, the month of Aug is usually the time they do it, as it's holiday month.

Thanks, was just double checking that you were actually saying August.

I'm wondering what the outcome will be from this - play the old waiting game. I'm thinking they will either:

• They give me an M135i as ordered.
• They give me the deposit back and I'll have to reorder for M140i if I want that.
• They upgrade me to M140i at same price/at additional cost.

[TimewarpUK]

There's still no update from BMW on this.