Heated & Cooled front cup holders out of stock?
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Heated & Cooled front cup holders out of stock?
When ordering a 450 last week, I was told that heated and chilled front cup holders couldn’t be included in the order because they are out of stock due to a part unavailable. Anyone else been told this? Anyone else ordered and NOT had this problem?
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If you "ordered" last week - your dealer told you January factory build-date - right ? Or did your dealer already start "white lies" ?
Any options can be production limited for a specific "build decade" - frankly my customers have changed their opinion/need for heated/cooled front cup holders over the past year - as the use of "insulated" cups all sizes/shaped increases - the demand/need to heated/cooled cup holders has gone down in my area big time..
Any options can be production limited for a specific "build decade" - frankly my customers have changed their opinion/need for heated/cooled front cup holders over the past year - as the use of "insulated" cups all sizes/shaped increases - the demand/need to heated/cooled cup holders has gone down in my area big time..
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I ordered last week, Dealer said December production (estimated) but couldn't give me a firm decade. They contacted me a day later and said they may be able to get a late November production slot. But I told them I want to take delivery after January 27th (to take advantage of MBCA rebate) so I would take the December production slot if they can.
For some reason a few days later they said December production would be a March or April delivery while November would be a December to early January delivery. Not sure why the large discrepancy and they couldn't explain either. (more white lies?)
I asked they let me know once they have a firm production decade for my order.
As far as heated/cooled cup holder, they did not indicate there was any delay.
For some reason a few days later they said December production would be a March or April delivery while November would be a December to early January delivery. Not sure why the large discrepancy and they couldn't explain either. (more white lies?)
I asked they let me know once they have a firm production decade for my order.
As far as heated/cooled cup holder, they did not indicate there was any delay.
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Regarding the weird delivery date choices you were given... my guess is that they want you to order early so they get their money earlier, and maybe they have some 2019 targets to hit? Also if I understand how this stuff works properly, they probably have been given some build slots that they can use, with known dates, whereas waiting would mean waiting for that dealer to get another slot.. which may be unpredictability far away, causing them to give a conservative estimate.
just to be clear I am totally speculating. Have no inside knowledge myself
just to be clear I am totally speculating. Have no inside knowledge myself
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Regarding the weird delivery date choices you were given... my guess is that they want you to order early so they get their money earlier, and maybe they have some 2019 targets to hit? Also if I understand how this stuff works properly, they probably have been given some build slots that they can use, with known dates, whereas waiting would mean waiting for that dealer to get another slot.. which may be unpredictability far away, causing them to give a conservative estimate.
just to be clear I am totally speculating. Have no inside knowledge myself
just to be clear I am totally speculating. Have no inside knowledge myself
It's odd for them to tell me that a vehicle built in the USA in December will take 3 to 4 months to get shipped to the west coast. When we ordered my wife's BMW, it took less than 7 weeks from the date we placed the order to the date we took delivery (also built in USA) we were able to track status of it on the bmwusa web site and from build complete to arriving at dealer was 2 weeks transportation time (by train then truck). Alabama is closer to west coast than South Carolina so I'd expect a similar or slightly shorter transportation time (2 weeks or so).
So basically before putting down deposit for order, ETA was early January 2020 delivery. within 24 hours after putting down deposit, ETA now March to April at best with no explanation for the change.
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"Last week" all factory production thru December was already locked.
The "change" was this - to secure your deposit they quoted you "not-possible-delivery-soon" - knowing they will have to march you out to as late of a delivery as you will possibly accept.
Not good people - they are playing you like a "fish-on-the-line" - absolutely stupid of them - but without the forum it would work..
The "right way" would be to take your build specs - check to see what dealer in their region has the "closest" unsold rig on order - confirm that rig with you - and swap out one of their production slots with that dealer - more "work" to get you best rig at the delivery time you need..
The "change" was this - to secure your deposit they quoted you "not-possible-delivery-soon" - knowing they will have to march you out to as late of a delivery as you will possibly accept.
Not good people - they are playing you like a "fish-on-the-line" - absolutely stupid of them - but without the forum it would work..
The "right way" would be to take your build specs - check to see what dealer in their region has the "closest" unsold rig on order - confirm that rig with you - and swap out one of their production slots with that dealer - more "work" to get you best rig at the delivery time you need..
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"Last week" all factory production thru December was already locked.
The "change" was this - to secure your deposit they quoted you "not-possible-delivery-soon" - knowing they will have to march you out to as late of a delivery as you will possibly accept.
Not good people - they are playing you like a "fish-on-the-line" - absolutely stupid of them - but without the forum it would work..
The "right way" would be to take your build specs - check to see what dealer in their region has the "closest" unsold rig on order - confirm that rig with you - and swap out one of their production slots with that dealer - more "work" to get you best rig at the delivery time you need..
The "change" was this - to secure your deposit they quoted you "not-possible-delivery-soon" - knowing they will have to march you out to as late of a delivery as you will possibly accept.
Not good people - they are playing you like a "fish-on-the-line" - absolutely stupid of them - but without the forum it would work..
The "right way" would be to take your build specs - check to see what dealer in their region has the "closest" unsold rig on order - confirm that rig with you - and swap out one of their production slots with that dealer - more "work" to get you best rig at the delivery time you need..
I know they are playing games. All dealers do unfortunately. I'm not in a rush so if it's March, I'm not going to lose too much sleep over it. Just build me a quality vehicle as free of defects as humanly possible
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Just heard from the dealer. They could not secure a December production slot. They have my order in the system for a 3rd decade January production with a late February delivery.
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I picked some pretty unique combination of options. I highly doubt they will be able to find one in the pipeline with the same options and I don't want to accept anything other than what I have spec'ed unless they are throwing in extra options free of charge (fat chance).
