At long last...
 

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After 6 months of patiently waiting, my car finally officially goes into production this week. I can hardly believe it.

The wait (especially the last 2 months since the PO was submitted) has been exruciating, especially seeing all the 19's coming and going on this forum as of late. I passed on two closely-configured and available vehicles in December and then January to get the exact build I wanted.

Now, just hoping for no production delays or transport issues...

Here's my build:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mbw...26871d90a5.jpg

Hallelujah!. It must have been rough. I put my order in 1/29/19. My car is built and awaits a ship as of last week. As others have mentioned, the fact that we can't track this ourselves seems silly by today's standards.

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Congrats!!! Mine was produced feb 11th.. 15 mins ago my SA contacted me and said It's assigned a ship!!!!!!!! It has been a LONG road!!!!

UGH. it took yours another 1.5 months to ship? :wall:

Congrats though...can't wait to see the pics!

Congratulations, Mine has FINALLY arrived in the UK today.

Haha you guys are just trying to rub it in, eh? ;)

pics or it didn't happen! congrats

My wait has been UNREAL!!!!! It isn't even shipped it just got assigned a ship.. lol

soon. Vessel landed today. 😊

Does anyone know if the actual production is like clockwork or does the timeline vary for that as well? How long does it take, from start to finish?

mine went from:
b30 - 1/29/2019 - DCAGx - 10 Processed
b40 - 2/5/2019 - DCAG x - 2 processed
z63 - 2/5/2019 - Confirm Vin Update
b50 - 2/11/2019 - Produced Not Shipped
b60 - 3/21/2019 - Factory Invoiced
b70 - 3/22/2019 - At Port No Ship Assignment
b80 - 4/1/2019 - At Port Ship Assigned

Usually takes a few days to show the ships name which is c20

So it takes like 6 days to produce?

For mine it was... Though "b40 dcagx-2 processed" means 2 days to completion.. but it didn't say produced not shipped till 6 days after.

Congrats on getting your car produced. I'm not sure which status is considered the begin of production, but if the DCAG events are all production events than the whole thing takes more like a month. Status goes from B00,B10,B30,B40,Z63 and ultimately B50 signals production complete. Might wanna find out your exact current status from your SA. Here's the history of mine leading up to production complete. I'm pretty sure mine went into production on 1/15, but wasn't marked as complete until 2/18.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mbw...197c9ffd71.jpg

will it look like this???

Haha yes, to the T, DonC63! I think I've decided I'm going to add the additional rear flics as well since I like that look...

Congrats, you'll love it. I'll be curious if you find your inductive charging pad as finicky as I find mine - I have to have my phone in the perfect position for it to work properly.

Congrats! What is "524 Paint Protection"?

really!?!?! this simple feature i've been looking so forward to doesn't work seamlessly? i literally had to have it. ugh...it's so true that the most exciting time is prior to when the car arrives. haha

i have no idea, but i'm thinking it may automatically get added with magno paint (i.e. if nobody else has that in their build with regular paint)...?

Yup. I was using a Samsung Galaxy S9 and had to spend a bit of time trying different positions until I got it to work. The hard part is the little area is tucked back in and very short so seeing anything on the phone like a charging light is difficult. My wife's iPhone automatically enters Apple Pay when she tried, so maybe MB is trying to get another few bucks out of me!

I also am frustrated that there seems to be no remote start outside of the app, and the app doesn't always work.

Still, car is a 10 out of 10 so far.

Haha great, I have an iPhone too...so lame when manufacturers add features like these that are half-baked. Way to burst my bubble, bob_ham. LOL.

I've heard bad things about the app as well, mostly that the remote start only works like 50% of the time like you say.

Based on these things, the car is at 9 out of 10 for me already. Hahaha. (I know...I have unrealistic expectations)

I think the charging position issue is specific to certain phones that are more sensitive about placement. Also the Apple Pay issue bob_ham mentions is easy to fix. It's the NFC Bluetooth pairing that triggers Apple Pay if the phone happens to come too close to the NFC sensor in the dash. Just turn the sensor off in the car settings. The iPhone doesn't support NFC Bluetooth Pairing anyway. Regarding the app, the 2019s use an entirely new app called Mercedes Me Connect. The online platform has changed. The issues with the Mercedes Me app I've read about are with the old system/app up to MY2018.

AT LONG LAST...

I am now on the list of delayed vehicles, as production still has not started after a week already...way to uphold great customer service, MBZ! :mad:

Assuming this is not out of the norm, but a little disconcerting that they haven't even started building the car yet and have no updates...seems like others have delays much later in the cycle (like finishing production, waiting for a ship, getting held up at port, etc.)

Is this normal, or is something awry?