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Sure, but while this is TECHNICALLY true, I will personally vouch for the significant part of my life over the 10 days that my Turbo S Cab took to travel from Emden to Baltimore that I spent obsessively refreshing the ship tracking app every 30 minutes to watch is slowly head west. My employer was thrilled with the plummeting level of productively at work and my wife was always happy to hear my regular updates on the ship’s progress .
Someone posted this a while back:
”Unless you have an unresponsive SA, none of this is really necessary (though have to admit, fun and very cool way to dig in). As soon as you are on a ship and your TYD completes step 8, your SA will have the ship info in their system and can send you a vessel finder tracking link.” (This is a copy-paste from the original post that I had in my personal notes. Don’t remember who was the original poster)
Definitely have not been impressed by my SA. There's always an undertone of "we are doing you a favor" by giving you an allocation (after a 1.5 year wait by the way). Not sure if others have had a similar experience. I let things slide due to the current market conditions but once the car's is picked up, they will not see me again (assuming I can go other dealers for warranty issues, service, etc).
Sure, but while this is TECHNICALLY true, I will personally vouch for the significant part of my life over the 10 days that my Turbo S Cab took to travel from Emden to Baltimore that I spent obsessively refreshing the ship tracking app every 30 minutes to watch is slowly head west. My employer was thrilled with the plummeting level of productively at work and my wife was always happy to hear my regular updates on the ship’s progress [img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img].
It's the new TYD drug.
I agree TYD is like a drug! I'm on the eve of step-10 and I think I'm having some withdrawal symptoms now that it's coming to an end.
Makes me want to order something else that takes months/years to arrive, doesn't have all the options you wanted, and then pay an obscene MSRP with a little extra ... because the "dealer" is kind enough to let you buy it!
OK I may need some type of detox
I think there are 3 distinct categories - all with their frustrations in the Porsche buying and receiving process. Category 1 is people just wanting a “firm allocation”. Months and years can pass (depending on which car) until this is accomplished. Then there is the “scheduling and building” - category 2. This period is full of fits and starts and delays and excuses and often misinformation which frankly is rather pathetic considering how highly an engineered product a Porsche is. If you are going to have TYD with pics and all - just do it right and be accurate or don’t even do it at all and frustrate your customer. Then there is category 3 which is “transport and delivery”. This should be rather straightforward and easy on the “tasks scale” which ranges from ‘design and raw material fabrication to customer delivery’. For some reason Porsche struggles with this too. Cars sit for weeks and months at Emden, at ports, en route all the while there is no (or inaccurate) information provided. Technology should make this category so easy, but it is not embraced. One can only hope the “owning and driving experience” makes up for the short falls in categories 1, 2 and 3.
Finally made it to the dealer after coming off the RCC Compass in SD on 5/1.
For those interested...5 weeks from placing order until freeze date, and 12 weeks from order freeze until west coast delivery; 2 weeks behind schedule...one waiting for a ship in Emden, and one waiting for a truck from the port of SD. Otherwise TYD has been accurate +/- a day or two at each step.
Only got two TYD photos; one coming out of paint, and the completed shot.
Best of luck to you all that are still here...
Last edited by Alan Smithee; 05-12-2023 at 08:18 PM.
Got C4GTS allocation last minute on day of order lock and was able to specify preferred options (although a bunch of options were still on stop sale) on 4/21.
Was supposed to start production yesterday on 5/11 but no updates at all.
Hopefully will not be too delayed from tentative 6/22 delivery...
Finally made it to the dealer after coming off the RCC Compass in SD on 5/1.
For those interested...5 weeks from placing order until freeze date, and 12 weeks from order freeze until west coast delivery; 2 weeks behind schedule...one waiting for a ship in Emden, and one waiting for a truck from the port of SD. Otherwise TYD has been accurate +/- a day or two at each step.
Only got two TYD photos; one coming out of paint, and the completed shot.
Sure, but while this is TECHNICALLY true, I will personally vouch for the significant part of my life over the 10 days that my Turbo S Cab took to travel from Emden to Baltimore that I spent obsessively refreshing the ship tracking app every 30 minutes to watch is slowly head west. My employer was thrilled with the plummeting level of productively at work and my wife was always happy to hear my regular updates on the ship’s progress .
Thanks for sharing. Seems like a standard response as much as they tried to make it seem personalized and as if they care. I feel like I get better customer service when a $20 package is delayed from Amazon than buying a $200k 911…
05-12-2023, 06:07 PM
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