New 911 ordered

[BishBosh]

Just locked in my 991.2 order today with a build date of July 5th. Salesman at the dealer has actually been very good in keeping me informed.
He says that if there are no delays I could have the car in late July around 20th -25th, really looking forward to the purchase.
So any one know of any factory delays? I am in no rush and would prefer the car for 1st September but dealer is insisting I take it when its ready and to be honest I'm not going to make a fuss so will accept it when due.

Bought a Golf R last year and there was an online portal showing the cars build progress is there a Porsche one like it?

Cheers Bish

[neilf]

Unfortunately not.

Your OPC should keep you up to date though.

[Cheib]

I am quite surpised the dealer is not letting you delay delivery by six weeks....might be something about hitting targets. Our Cayenne was bilt in Jan and arrived at the dealer a good month before March 1st...we waited to get the new plate which the OPC actually suggested. It does tie money up for them obviously but yo cold offer to pay any money you are putting down for the car early ?

[BishBosh]

Cheib said:

I am quite surpised the dealer is not letting you delay delivery by six weeks....might be something about hitting targets. Our Cayenne was bilt in Jan and arrived at the dealer a good month before March 1st...we waited to get the new plate which the OPC actually suggested. It does tie money up for them obviously but yo cold offer to pay any money you are putting down for the car early ?

Good point which I may offer to do, they are quite adamant I take delivery with 2 weeks of the car being delivered to them. However I can't see it as just being the money more of also getting their target numbers in? I even spoke directly to the dealer principle who made this fairly clear (to take delivery asap) when I mentioned it.

Does it really make a difference being on a late 17 plate or on a early 67 plate? I may even put a private number on it anyway....

[Grantstown]

The dealers have some sort of tracking system as I was informed at intervals: factory, shipping, in Grimsby for 10 days! Then the OPC had it for a full 5 days. 30 mins before I was due to pick it up they called to say that they'd damaged a tyre and would need another day. A little disappointing having cancelled appointments and booked a childminder so I could go along with my wife.

[Cheib]

BishBosh said:

Cheib said:

I am quite surpised the dealer is not letting you delay delivery by six weeks....might be something about hitting targets. Our Cayenne was bilt in Jan and arrived at the dealer a good month before March 1st...we waited to get the new plate which the OPC actually suggested. It does tie money up for them obviously but yo cold offer to pay any money you are putting down for the car early ?

Good point which I may offer to do, they are quite adamant I take delivery with 2 weeks of the car being delivered to them. However I can't see it as just being the money more of also getting their target numbers in? I even spoke directly to the dealer principle who made this fairly clear (to take delivery asap) when I mentioned it.

Does it really make a difference being on a late 17 plate or on a early 67 plate? I may even put a private number on it anyway....

Two weeks might be the invoice period the OPC has from Porsche AG to pay for the car? That said I know that OPC's allocations do depend on how many cars they register in previous months so it might be something to do with that. You'd hope that the DP would have just explained why! Hardly a trade secret. I was in my OPC over Christmas last year...they had a brand new Carrera S in the showroom that was due to be delivered before 31st Dec and the buyer had dropped out....the sales manager wasn't a happy chap and demanding that the sales guys find a buyer to take the car in the next 24 hours! That was something to do with sales targets/allocations.

I did actually pay a decent chunk of cash for the Cayenne when it arrived at the OPC...they didn't ask but felt it was the right thing to do. Their service has been really good and it was earning me bugger all in my deposit account...I also don't think it hurts when it comes down to things like service and warranty claims if you have a good relationship with the sales team.

I don't think 67 or 17 makes much difference on a 911 personally....mileage/spec/no of owners much more important on these cars.

[AdamV12V]

Not sure what the problem is, I think you are confusing the dealer asking you to pay for it, with the need to register it.

Just pay for it a week or so after delivered as requested, then defer registration to 1st Sept and collect from them on that date.

I did exactly that with my current car - original delivery promised Aug, then slipped to Oct, arrived late Nov which was too close to Jan in my mind. So I paid for it straight away then registered the car on 1st Jan (and got them to deliver to my house a day or so early on trade plates as 1st Jan is a bank hol!)

Simples...

[BishBosh]

Adam and Cheib

[andyglos]

I have had a similar experience to others. Most recently I bough a Macan, it was delivered to the OPC around the middle of Jan 17 and they didnt insist that I pay for it until end of Feb for a 4 March pick up. They wanted to hit their Feb target so couldn't argue with that....

[marky999]

I'd get the thing and enjoy it as quickly as possible and for as much of the summer as possible! Who cares about a number plate (IMO). Got mine new mid-December, no way I was gonna wait.