What is your last six digits in your VIN? I’m not sure but I just got my VIN and it ends in the 95,000 range and I compared it with some cars that just came out that are in the 90,000 to 92,000 ranges. It would make sense that my 350 will get built soon but I have learn not much makes sense when ordering a MB.
I assume a lot of the cars sitting in the parking lots had lower VIN numbers but not sure again!

 

Did you get a VIN yet. I got my VIN about three weeks after B3 status/ready for production. After getting VIN my Dealer said another month but they were just guessing.

 

020000 last 6 digits. Fully loaded 450 without stereo option.

 

200,000 or 20,000? Not sure they have built 200,000 450’s already but I really don’t know if they have or if the sequence means anything. You would think it would. Maybe some more experienced folks on this forum might know. Good luck,

 

Yes 0205XX last 4 digit , order date 2018 Dec

 

Same situation, showed up at dealer yesterday. Ordered in Nov 18, Prod date 3-13-19

 

Did you get more info on you 1st and 2nd order ?

 

This is 1st. Dealer is making service loaner, and giving to me until 2nd shows. Currently build date decade 1, sept

 

This whole thing is so messed up now.

 

Some explanations about the production delays and some goods news from Germany according to a German newspapers (article released yesterday). Here are some interesting extracts with translation:

"In the USA, several crisis units have been struggling for months against difficulties in ramping up the production of important models such as the next generation of the high-yield SUV GLE or the new van bestseller Sprinter. Yet they barely made any progress.

One of the reasons: Many specialists did not make it at all or only with a delay to the front. The US initially denied them the necessary visas, it says from group circles: "That has limited us".

Missing or delayed issued work permits, as measured by the many other construction sites at Daimler, may represent only a small problem. But the example shows by way of example how many places it has caught on the Swabians in the past nine months. Daimler declined to comment on internal events.

In the meantime, visa worries are no longer an issue anyway.

(...)

Internally it is said that the massive supplier problems, which gave it in the American mammoth work in Tuscaloosa with the production start-up of the new version of the GLE, are largely solved. If this finding is true, three revised derivatives of the model in Alabama should roll off the production line this year: GLE Coupé, GLS and GLS Maybach should provide additional growth impulses."

 

At the moment seems like they have no plan to bring back the cars sitting out in the parking lot back to production. Why would they encourage dealers to re order ? What will happen to all the car sitting out in the lot.

 

Really good question!! I don’t want one of those!!!

 

Anyone else waiting for a GLE350? I was told that there were delays for certain parts. It’s been over 10 weeks.

 

I just took delivery of my GLE450 (pretty much loaded except the e-abc) which was ordered late April with a forecasted production date of July 11th. Around the 3rd week of July my salesman called me and said the order was coded as suspended (can’t remember the status code, I think it was B4 or something similar) due to the mystery missing part. Well 3 weeks later I’ve taken delivery of the vehicle so I figured it couldn’t have been sitting there too long.

Well after taking delivery I opened the hood and came across a dried up leave which really surprised me given where we are in the seasons and when I believed this car was produced. The VIN ends with 81336, anyone else with a GLE450 care to share when their car was produced and their VIN sequence? Does a VIN in the 81,000 for a July production date make sense?

 

Ours was built first week of June and delivered mid-June - VIN ended in 64XXX.

 

GLE 450 delivered in April is 36XXX..

 

When did you all get the VIN ? I was told I wouldn’t have it until after production. I’m curious bc I’m not exactly sure where it is the the process.

 

They know the VIN before it is produced, not sure how long prior to production.

 

So my dealer should know? I was told they don’t have it until production is finished.

 

Thanks, mmmm, does 17,000 produced in a month make sense? At least I have a higher number so I guess I can assume it’s not one of the units produced earlier in the year that has been sitting around in the hot Alabama sun.

 

Just had an email from the National Corporate Operations Manager at Inchcape UK. The latest estimate for my GLE450 is now the last week in September which is 3 months sooner than the last date I was given. Things MAY be moving on at last.

 

It was pretty much the same scenario for me. I sugest you to ask your dealer that he confirms the vehicle has completed production. I guess he would not have sent this email if it was not the case but who knows...

 

Given the date of last week in September that has been quoted, will it even be in production yet? I'm not very well up on the production/delivery time schedule.

 

I was informed that the vehicle has completed production about 7 weeks before the (supposed) delivery date (first week of September) and I got the information only because I asked the dealer so maybe the information was available one or two weeks before. So I guess, for you, the production should be done or nearly be done. And I don't think they would have taken the risk to give you a delivery date if the vehicle was not already built.

 

The thing that bugs me is that in today's day and age we still have to ask the SR for the status, where you can only call them so often without irking them or SR only shares a part of the status update verbally while missing something important in the process.
While all the supplier / production issues were going on the thing that was driving customer service to the worst levels is "not knowing or having visibility into status of our orders". Where was MB IT department and CIO office in this whole fiasco?
At the very least they could have worked on opening up limited netstar access to consumers so we the consumers have somewhat of a real time view into the status of our cars. Was that too difficult of a decision for MB Corporate or CIO office when driving consumer experience is one of the core tenets of business today. I am sure that could have been done in few weeks let alone almost the year this problem has been going on.