My C2 has been at Jacksonville port since 4/28 (maybe a day or two earlier than that date). My delivery date is scheduled for 5/26 at PEC Atl. It should have been left the port. Not sure whats up.....

 

Chip shortages affecting the availability of TPMS sensors wasn’t on anyone’s pandemic bingo card.

 

Guess not

 

I ordered a Boxster this winter. The car finished production out of Stuttgart on 3/30/21, then waited for 3 weeks to get boarded on a ship that just arrived in Baltimore last week. So, it was looking like the car would get to my dealer today or tomorrow. Today (5/10/21), my dealer called me to tell me the car wouldn’t arrive until June 4th. He mentioned that the arrival date changed over the weekend and that Porsche shipped the car to Baltimore without a control module and because of the chip shortage, it would be another 3-4 weeks with the car sitting in Baltimore waiting for the part before they could send it on. I didn’t make sense to me that Porsche would send a car over not completed. After reading some of the above posts, it sounds like this is exactly what happened.

 

Must be frustrating. It probably does make sense for them to send the car as far down the road to delivery as possible, though, to (partially) overlap the waits for transportation and chip availability.

Everybody even remotely connected to the business (car or chip) is feeling the pain right now. Everybody except Toyota, who trolled the rest of the auto industry into making a series of unforced errors.

 

Chip shortage may be more serious than initially thought. Got this letter today from local Ford dealer (test drove an F-150 5 years ago and they'll NEVER let me forget it). Bottom line...no more lot cars, custom order only. This might be Ford Canada only.

The reason for this email is to let you know that Ford has made the incredibly difficult decision to scale back production of vehicles for the 2021 Calendar year. Although they will still be producing vehicles, they will be prioritizing allocation to customers with Retail Orders, as opposed to vehicles for dealerships ‘on the lot’ inventory.

With this in mind, if you are thinking of replacing your current vehicle we recommend placing a Factory Order. Ordering is headache and hassle-free; take advantage of the price and rates when you order, or when your vehicle arrives, whichever payment is better!

Not only will you be given priority production, but you can order exactly what you want and need in a vehicle.

 

Ford, Porsche, and most other car makers and dealers have figured out that pre-sold cars mean less of their money and credit is tied up in profit sapping lot cars. During this shortage many auto makers have reported stopping production of cheaper models to prioritize the most profitable and loaded models. I expect that a 992 Turbo S order will get scarce chips before a base Cayman for example. Also most dealers are not offering discounts on scarce models, which is almost everything This is supercharging their profits after a tough twelve months. They will not forget this after the shortage is over, which could take two or more years per the latest WSJ reporting.

 

My C2S build locked on 4/28 on plan with a 7/23 delivery. The production start moved up a week 5/28 but production complete stayed the same. So I guess it’s going to take 14 days to assemble now vs original 7 days.

 

keep checking the tracking Your dream app I guarantee you the delivery date will Move up.
they will assemble the Car in less than one week. I had the same situation

 

My delivery date got moved back 35 days after my car was in enroute from Germany to US, from mid May to June 18th. There are many others on Rennlist who are in a similar situation. The ship my car is docked in port in Benicia on west coast of US last night.

YMMV

 

wannarun, another data point for you, my build locked on 4/26 with production start date on 5/28 and end date on 6/04. This is a C2.

 

Quick update on my car. It has left the port and its way to the PEC ATL... I'm past the chip crisis bring on the gas crisis!!! lol

 

Where are you located? If your car is on the Siem Confucius it left Emden on 5/7 en route to it's first stop - Davisville. ETA for my vehicle in S. Florida is ~5/28. My car was built 4/29-5/3.

 

Im on the Rcc Classic.

 

Mine went into production early on May 4th (from May 7th) and was supposed to finish May 14th. Yesterday all heck broke loose and TYD now says it wont finish until June 11th! Over a month in production. Ugh. I spoke to my SA in Manhattan and he said the delays are very real. I do hope mine re-adjusts up, but not hopeful. But why push up production just to have it sit midway?