My order locked 4/21 and am tentatively scheduled to take delivery in early to mid July which is ~3 weeks delayed from original timeline.

 

I'm going to stop by once there (I'll get there on Friday), but I think it has to be an order. Plus I want to order it, since I don't want a sun/moon-roof, plus don't want to pay for stuff I don't want, nor sacrifice options I want (he he). And don't really need it now anyway (want it once we move to the Hill Country in a few months). Anyway, I built it the least expensive way, but with the necessary luxury and performance options IMO. Here's my build: https://configurator.porsche.com/porsche-code/PRWLZ149 . Feel free to comment if you'd add or delete something, to consider it. There's one option that I really wanted from the 991.2s: Acoustic package, which included extra insulation to reduce road and wind noise, besides double-pane side front side glass. Now it's just 'acoustic glass', BUT, seems like it was meant to save weight, rather than reduce noise, as even the windshield is thinner... and I do NOT want that here. Ha ha. And no mention of extra insulation. Will start a thread on that subject to gather more information.

Thank you very much. So need to ask if dealer has an actual allocation, or I'd just be put on a waiting list. And if the latter, what kind of time frame to get the allocation. Thank you all for your great help.

 

It’s your car, you can’t go wrong with building one and waiting if you have the patience, totally worth it. Get the options that you want, it makes it that much more special. Assuming you have all the performance option you want on lockdown, I would recommend getting racing yellow seatbelts, clock, and central tachometer you will not regret spending few extra $ on it. Deviated seatbelts, especially in yellow, look very nice! People say they get dirty, but that was not my experience. I had chalk in my last Porsche and never had any issues.

I miss Hill Country, I used to live out in west Austin, taking those roads out by lake travis, Lakeway, and going down to Drip was a lot of fun!

Yes, make sure they actually have an allocation and you get a commission number, not just put in a demand order. They can try to estimate how long the wait would be based on their current list, but they can never know for sure.

 

Anyone else as crazy as me and watching the weather in North Atlantic? Siem Cicero having to deal with some rough water. I wonder how bad it needs to be to rock these carriers to any level of concern? I’m sure it needs to be pretty bad.

 

Flashback to when the Felicity Ace burned and sank, taking a bunch of VAG vehicles down with it, while at about the same time the SFL Composer crew was calling Mayday and preparing to abandon ship due to rough seas, during which at least one Porsche got loose and proceeded to bounce around the deck damaging a whole bunch of cars.

 

Here ya go.........

 

​​​​​​Are you looking at data about how the Siem Cicero is being affected, or are you just looking at a weather map?

My hunch is it would take a pretty crazy storm to have much impact.

Incidents are extremely rare. Only 8 in the last 20 years according to this article: https://www.autoweek.com/news/indust...-such-trouble/

Considering how many shipments there are every year, and the number of ships in the ocean at any given time, that's a pretty damn low number.

 

Just noticed this 992 order thread is on page 992. Hopefully good luck. Ha ha.

 

Yea I think Glovis Sunlight is the most likely ship but I’m just being (probably hopelessly) optimistic that we could get in an earlier ship.

 

Now I understand why the SFL Conductor went so far south before turning east to cross the Atlantic.

 

My last car was at the port and missed the Ace, then landed on Composer when this happened. They didn’t say anything to people for 4 weeks while they were inspecting cars for damage at the port. And there was no way to know for sure if the car was damaged and they fixed it, or if it was fine. Those 4 weeks of unknown were the worst!

 

Looking at the weather. Thx for the insight

 

My car is on its way yo the port in Germany what are the odds for a delay?

 

It was for me! My Targa GTS started production today!

 

My TYD just just got updated to a 6/28 departure with a 7/12 arrival in Davisville, looks like that would put me on the Supreme Ace, are these typically fairly accurate?