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Sat down with my sales associate yesterday at the dealership (Ontario). Executive summary is that MY2022 cars in Canada are also affected by the US EPA certification delays. An annual event. Canada piggy-backs off the US EPA since our Department of Transportation doesn't have its own ability to do so.
So that was the bad news. The good news is that even though my car's "on sale" date is 10 September, he says that his experience is that this is almost always the worst case. It came off the Ro-Ro 12 days ago. Meanwhile, it will be PDI'd at Halifax Autoport and be sipping Moosehead beer until it gets put on a truck sometime this month.
P.S. For those who want "proof" of the chip shortage, he showed me a hockey-sock fully of cars (Canada, eh!) sitting on the lot unsellable until the TPMS is installed, and a few with manual steering columns that are sellable but will have to be returned for retrofit of the motors, etc. when the memory-function chips finally arrive.
My car is one of those with manual steering wheel to be retrofitted later. All in all happy to get the car now rather than have to wait longer. FWP. ETA at dealer August 8 for my MY2021 BGTS.
My car is one of those with manual steering wheel to be retrofitted later. All in all happy to get the car now rather than have to wait longer. FWP. ETA at dealer August 8 for my MY2021 BGTS.
Absolutely, that would not hold me up from taking delivery. It’s great that Porsche is making serious effort to navigate through their supply chain issues.
My car is one of those with manual steering wheel to be retrofitted later. All in all happy to get the car now rather than have to wait longer. FWP. ETA at dealer August 8 for my MY2021 BGTS.
I really hope I get this option. If so, mine will -not- get retrofitted later.
P.S. For those who want "proof" of the chip shortage, he showed me a hockey-sock fully of cars (Canada, eh!) sitting on the lot unsellable until the TPMS is installed, and a few with manual steering columns that are sellable but will have to be returned for retrofit of the motors, etc. when the memory-function chips finally arrive.
Heh, enjoy the tpms and steering column chip shortages...our local P dealer said that one time they had a red seat and a black seat in the same car...and they would ship the proper red seat to them when they were back in stock of that color seat. The owner opted to leave the car the dealership in the meantime and not take delivery. There's some funky things going on for sure! I heard it will get even worse towards the end of the year and Porsche has been pretty lucky so far with how much they were able to create. Hopefully we have some resolutions or more chip inventory for those of us that are fall builds. Probably good timing with the August shutdown so they can restock some.
Best of luck to all who are in between July/Sept builds, and those of us entering in on the 3rd of Sept like myself!
Heh, enjoy the tpms and steering column chip shortages...our local P dealer said that one time they had a red seat and a black seat in the same car...and they would ship the proper red seat to them when they were back in stock of that color seat. The owner opted to leave the car the dealership in the meantime and not take delivery. There's some funky things going on for sure! I heard it will get even worse towards the end of the year and Porsche has been pretty lucky so far with how much they were able to create. Hopefully we have some resolutions or more chip inventory for those of us that are fall builds. Probably good timing with the August shutdown so they can restock some.
Best of luck to all who are in between July/Sept builds, and those of us entering in on the 3rd of Sept like myself!
Yeah, mine has been stuck in production for the August break... I assume they will have all the parts because of the extra month. I should say Hope not Assume probably.
Got word yesterday that my 2022 CGTS is on the Felicity Ace (link to ship tracker here), with an estimated arrival of August 10th at the Port of Baltimore.
My '22 Spyder is your CGTS's shipmate - also got the word that delivery date has slipped from 10 Sep to 01 Oct. We'll see what happens once the ship arrives in Baltimore. Maybe, with a little luck, the EPA certifications will get out ahead of that....
Yeah, mine has been stuck in production for the August break... I assume they will have all the parts because of the extra month. I should say Hope not Assume probably.
Mine starts production as soon as they get back from the break. I hope they are have a good vacation and come back in a happy mood. LOL
I saw in another thread that bucket seats are not available in the US market, is that only for new orders or are any of you folks affected or potentially affected by that?
I saw in another thread that bucket seats are not available in the US market, is that only for new orders or are any of you folks affected or potentially affected by that?
08-01-2021, 02:54 PM
