New M3 Frozen Silver Edition - waiting time
Discussion
Getting a bit frustrated.
I ordered a new M3 Frozen Silver Edition from my dealer at the start of June and was told that production was "most likely" to be some time in August with a first of Sep delivery date.
Since then I have lots of vague messages coming from the dealer saying, yes we have placed the order but we dont have a production date. Surely they would know by now if it was going to get built in August?
I have been waiting for well over six weeks, which appears to be the usual wait time from order to actual delivery. I appreciate that this is a special edition car and as such will probably be built in one big production run but surely someone, somewhere must have a vague idea when that production run is going to be??
Surely a company as big as BMW cant just be taking deposits and then just "making it up as they go along!"?!!
I ordered a new M3 Frozen Silver Edition from my dealer at the start of June and was told that production was "most likely" to be some time in August with a first of Sep delivery date.
Since then I have lots of vague messages coming from the dealer saying, yes we have placed the order but we dont have a production date. Surely they would know by now if it was going to get built in August?
I have been waiting for well over six weeks, which appears to be the usual wait time from order to actual delivery. I appreciate that this is a special edition car and as such will probably be built in one big production run but surely someone, somewhere must have a vague idea when that production run is going to be??
Surely a company as big as BMW cant just be taking deposits and then just "making it up as they go along!"?!!
benji90 said:
Getting a bit frustrated.
I ordered a new M3 Frozen Silver Edition from my dealer at the start of June and was told that production was "most likely" to be some time in August with a first of Sep delivery date.
Since then I have lots of vague messages coming from the dealer saying, yes we have placed the order but we dont have a production date. Surely they would know by now if it was going to get built in August?
Dealers know what they're allocated build slots are for regular cars and I don't see why it would be any different for a limited edition. If anything it should be more precise it needs some kind of special paint process. BMW make a million cars a year it's not a series of random events....it's all very planned!I ordered a new M3 Frozen Silver Edition from my dealer at the start of June and was told that production was "most likely" to be some time in August with a first of Sep delivery date.
Since then I have lots of vague messages coming from the dealer saying, yes we have placed the order but we dont have a production date. Surely they would know by now if it was going to get built in August?
Tell your dealer to pull their finger out or you will pull the order. You are well within your rights for refund of depsoit if they can't confirm the build week by now. Or ring BMW UK...given you are actually trying to spend some money rather than complain they may actually be helpful.
General rule of thumb is 8-10 weeks for a factory order on an M3, however I know there are a couple of cars physically in the country unsold for immediate delivery. Some of the limited editions can take a little longer and sometimes when orders are taken if there are no available slots the dealer will have to sit on the orders until they can be ordered
Greg
Greg
Rybrook in Warwick delivered one last week. From the look of it, and the stories about the upkeep and the Do's and Dont's, there's not a hope in hell that Frozen paint will look even remotely decent after a few months of being used. The Melbourne red car parked behind it looked considerably cooler.
MattOz said:
Rybrook in Warwick delivered one last week. From the look of it, and the stories about the upkeep and the Do's and Dont's, there's not a hope in hell that Frozen paint will look even remotely decent after a few months of being used. The Melbourne red car parked behind it looked considerably cooler.
I looked at the Melbourne Red car - i think sold last week - well it went from their website - it was a little bit over priced imo.And yes Guildford do have a frozen grey car in the show room.
MattOz said:
The Melbourne red car had the Comp pack IIRC. Was about £47k? Perhaps a little dear, considering the recent deals on NOS or pre-reg E9* M3's.
yes excatly I have just bought a June registered very similar comp spec car in better condition for less.the melbourne red car was nice but had quite a few stone chips considering the low miles that had been badly touched up.
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