Mine was on the same boat. Arrived at the dealer March 3rd, 11:00 AM. I drove her home March 7th. My dealer told me that as soon as a car is loaded onto a truck the money is taken out from their bank acc. That would explain the fast track for sold cars.

 

More so now! I get to really put the wood to it now and it just keeps getting faster as I get more comfortable with the car. At this rate I think I will switch to PS2s as the fronts are about ready to be replaced as well. I am getting about 6500 miles out of the rears on 997s with PS2s and am hoping to get close to that with the 3. The roads arount here just tear'em up. Got a lot of summer driving planned this year! You're going to love it.

 

Oh hell, car still not on boat.

This is maddening. Car completed 2/26. It's been sitting at port since then During that time TWO boats have docked loaded and have come to the US, and car wasn't loaded onto either boat.

Looks like I'm going for the record for the longest delay. Tomorrow is 5 weeks and still no word on the next boat. Perfect driving weather here in TX and I'll miss a track weekend I had planned. Screw it, going mountain biking today.

 

I was told mine might make the boat on the 28th but no news. My dealer said the holdup from the march2 completion date was it was in custom shop. I didn't order flame paint job, completion does not mean completed in P-speak?

 

I don't know how you are dealing with it - I'd be going beserk. How is your car missing boats and being completed now for 5 weeks?!

 

You could have done a euro-delivery, driven it thru the Black Forest, come home, and still might have gotten it earlier here.

 

I smell a rat with all this. My car was completed the last week in Feb too. Porsche want to get the cash on these cars so why would they allow this delay? I assume profit is booked when they deliver to the dealer, and I assume some profit is made on the 3 (even though it is better value to the consumer than most of their cars this is still one of if not the worlds most profitable car company). P must want the profit to be booked, right? There must be a reason for the delay and I fear it's because our cars are missing some important bits or there are (heaven forbid) defects that need rectifying before shipping.....

 

I have no idea.

This is what another rennlister and I were discussing.

My understanding is that PCNA takes takes 'delivery' once on boat. The virtual money exchange at that point. Could be wrong though. Once through port in the US, cars ordered by the dealer (sold cars) are then the dealer's responsibility. This is why sold cars are fast tracked to the dealer. I may be wrong on some of the minutia though.

I've seen dealers get stressed when an ordered car isn't picked up right away. . . they want to put a stop to the daily interest charge they incur on a car from the day it hits port.

Anyway, I've really got to wonder WTF is happening. I too thought 'complete' meant 'complete'. Could there be some repairs going on in port? Waiting for some missing part that they don't want to ship seperately?

The least they could do is throw a set of harnesses in the boot.

 

Frayed....which dealer did you order your GT3 from?

 

FWIW, my RS was completed on March 26th and now shows on a vessel as of April 2nd.

 

Good for you.

I must have done something to anger the porsche gods. Got some bad juju or something.

From the dealer today: still no word.

 

That is ridiculous. Ship a $10 dollar package across the world and you can tell where it is at every step of the way, but buy a 100K + car and Porsche can't tell the dealer when it will be completed (they do, but the info. is usually wrong) or delivered.

My dealer told me last week (who also sells MB) Porsche is a joke in this respect. Told me that a custsomer inquired the status of his car and the system still showed it being in production. A truck showed up at the dealer a day or so after with the car

 

Oh hell, thats GOOD news. With any luck, it's at the dealer already!!

 

Probably those angry sunroof letters that did it.....

 

Dood, I never wrote a letter. . . I just bitched to y'all.

Oh wait. I did write once to Shwarzenbaruburger that it was ridiculous not to bring the -20mm option to the US. That probably did it.

-20mm option too close to the 997 GT3
sunroofless 997 GT3 too close to the RS