Blazed

My new 3RS is currently on the Southern Highway heading for the Port of Benicia (Northern California) and is scheduled to arrive between 1/11 and 1/13. When my SA and I looked at my expected delivery date, which was initially projected to be the end of January, it has now been moved to April 5th. Nearly three months after it arrives at port! We checked several other vehicles heading to their dealership on the same ship and all of the expected delivery dates have remained unchanged and are on schedule. Mine is the only one to be delayed and it's the only GT car of theirs on board. Why would my car be delayed at port this long? Or is this just inaccurate info? CARB and EPA has been completed on these cars so it must be something else. The SA thinks it may be a glitch and they just put a far off date since they don't have the correct type of truck scheduled to load an RS vehicle at this point in time. All of their other vehicles being delivered are non-GT cars and don't require a specific truck with hydraulic lift. Obviously I'm very concerned that the vehicle may have been damaged being loaded in Emden and they plan on "fixing" it at port. He said we can reach out to regional once the car arrives to see if that updated schedule is indeed correct or if it will update again to a more reasonable time frame. Any input and advice is much appreciated. Thank you everyone!

pitt911

I think most likely this is a Glitch in the system
I think the chance of damage is an over concern... there is no way they can predict the amount of time needed to repair if damage occur , so just delaying by 3 months is most likely a glitch
also to ease your mind, my understanding that car companies have to disclose damage repair for a new car if it is above a certain percentage of MSRP
not sure on details , hope someone can come in

Chris88

I know for a fact that numerous GT3 RS's and GT2RS's have been delivered thru Benicia, so they can definitely handle those cars. Have you contacted PCNA? They usually aren't very helpful with port info, but worth a try. Sure sounds like it's bad info.

Blazed

We will be contacting PCNA once the car arrives, at this point he feels they won't be able to do anything until the car is actually there and we really see what the status is. But the interesting thing is the delivery date changed from 1/28 to 4/5 once the car was loaded in Emden but all of their other vehicles on the same ship had no changes, it was specifically my car and nothing else. Just a very strange situation.

Craig

My 2RS was delivered to Benicia in early November. Port arrival was about 1 month earlier than expected (my SA previously told me that the shipping times are always conservative). Once in port, it took about 5 business days to get the car to the dealership. The 3 month delay at Port is very strange; can't believe that there would be damage w/out a prior disclosure of some sort -- doesn't make sense w/ cars/values like these. Bbased on my experience, I'd say it was a glitch, tho I'd certainly push PSNA on this.

sgroer

Can we merge these two threads?

https://rennlist.com/forums/991-gt3-...l-april-3.html

Blazed

SmokinGTS

My 15 GT3 was delayed in Jan 2015 when there were no enclosed delivery trucks to pick up the cars. All of the trucks were being used for the Barrett Jackson auction cars which I guess pay a higher premium than Porsche pays.

HEAT'N'COOL

Update, mine is also on the Southern Highway with port entry 1/11 and has changed from exiting Benicia on 2/8 to 3/29... weird...

TRAKCAR

Dot23RS

ajgrs