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05-14-2023, 09:26 AM
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05-14-2023, 11:30 AM
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I’ll take a toy 911 while I wait! That looks like a pretty solid model. Can you share more pictures?
05-14-2023, 11:39 AM
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.
Sometimes - cars are shipped incomplete with final installs happening at the port. The car companies don’t want you to know that. Even more often - cars get damaged in transit. Significantly damaged…. Like major bodywork damaged. These repairs happen at the port and the manufacturers absolutely do not want you to know when it happens…. How many of you would try and negotiate the pricing or more likely outright refuse delivery if you knew that the front end was replaced at the port due to damage? Delays are very often due to damage in transit - and the manufacturer will not disclose tnat damage and isn’t required to.
when stuff like that happens, you better believe that Porsche knows the timeline for how long the delay will be and when the car can start moving - and they’ll never share that info with their customers….
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05-14-2023, 11:43 AM
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05-14-2023, 11:50 AM
Years ago when I still active in the MINI community I had a chat with folks at MINI AG and MINI USA about tracking accuracy. The truth is, the manufactures know to the minute where a car will be at the factory. Just like they know why cars are held up along the way…. But they also know that it’s not in their best interest to tell you why, or to get too specific on the timelines.
Sometimes - cars are shipped incomplete with final installs happening at the port. The car companies don’t want you to know that. Even more often - cars get damaged in transit. Significantly damaged…. Like major bodywork damaged. These repairs happen at the port and the manufacturers absolutely do not want you to know when it happens…. How many of you would try and negotiate the pricing or more likely outright refuse delivery if you knew that the front end was replaced at the port due to damage? Delays are very often due to damage in transit - and the manufacturer will not disclose tnat damage and isn’t required to.
when stuff like that happens, you better believe that Porsche knows the timeline for how long the delay will be and when the car can start moving - and they’ll never share that info with their customers….
Sometimes - cars are shipped incomplete with final installs happening at the port. The car companies don’t want you to know that. Even more often - cars get damaged in transit. Significantly damaged…. Like major bodywork damaged. These repairs happen at the port and the manufacturers absolutely do not want you to know when it happens…. How many of you would try and negotiate the pricing or more likely outright refuse delivery if you knew that the front end was replaced at the port due to damage? Delays are very often due to damage in transit - and the manufacturer will not disclose tnat damage and isn’t required to.
when stuff like that happens, you better believe that Porsche knows the timeline for how long the delay will be and when the car can start moving - and they’ll never share that info with their customers….
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05-14-2023, 09:06 PM
Even tho my delivery date was delayed a month (original manuf completion date was 5/6 but was delayed to 6/5) I could not stop checking my TYD, hoping for some better news. Well today is a good day, my car was completed today and the delivery date was pulled back into June, 6/17, only 8 days later than the original delivery date. Of course we all know that this schedule is an estimate, and we must wait and see, hoping for the best but planning for the worst. My car is sch to head done to Emden tomorrow, I will obviously hope my ship comes in soon!
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05-14-2023, 09:25 PM
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Even tho my delivery date was delayed a month (original manuf completion date was 5/6 but was delayed to 6/5) I could not stop checking my TYD, hoping for some better news. Well today is a good day, my car was completed today and the delivery date was pulled back into June, 6/17, only 8 days later than the original delivery date. Of course we all know that this schedule is an estimate, and we must wait and see, hoping for the best but planning for the worst. My car is sch to head done to Emden tomorrow, I will obviously hope my ship comes in soon!
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