Extremely excited to have placed my deposit on one of my dream bikes. Looking forward to learning from everyone on this forum. I decided on Racing Red, premium and carbon package with forged wheels.
Congratulations. I ordered a white M package with forged wheels, premium package, bullet package, and TPM. Still waiting for it to get added to the production queue.
I live in Nj, my dealer told me 1 of 2 can happen. If they receive 111/112 orders i will be able to build the bike as per the website shows. Or they get a couple of bikes in with certain features and or fully loaded. Not sure what fully loaded would be. But if they get bikes in without orders they are saying January. Unless they are pulling my chain. But i will take a fully Loaded Red one
Ya I was pretty surprised to have it arrive so soon. My thoughts are that they're trying to sell as many as they can before the economy falls further and they have to discount them due to a lack of sales.
I've learned that unlike cars we can track a motorcycle by the container it is in. When you talk to BMW or the dealer ask for the container id.
I used https://www.apl.com/ebusiness/tracking/search to track the container and find the vessel name. The site shows when the empty container was delivered to BMW in Berlin and when it left for the port and it's final destination. The strange part is the vessel left port @14:45 UTC but this site shows it leaving @10PM local time, which didn't line up with CST (Germany) or EST (US)?
If you click on the Voyage Reference number, it displays another search screen. Delete the Voyage Reference and enter the Vessel Name (select the name returned in the DDL). Then search and peak a bit deeper into the logistics rabbit hole.
Yeah I'm west coast, I guess they put it on a train - dealer estimates 2.5 weeks once that happens. Going to try to ask the dealer to sell it to me as a demo too, they did for my single R, but this bike is clearly more desirable. We're almost there!
I want to know my container number but it’s tough communicating with my dealer unless I’m there in person.
I’m in TX. When I checked in roughly a week ago I was told it’s still on the ship.
Just called my dealer to get the info. Was just told that it just got there and they’ll make sure to put a sold sign on it so nobody sits on it. Way sooner than I was expecting.
Won’t be able to make it there for a few days
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the sales person was mistaken. It was missing the packages so it wasn’t my bike. Hopefully they can just give me the vin soon so I can track it.
Just called my dealer to get the info. Was just told that it just got there and they’ll make sure to put a sold sign on it so nobody sits on it. Way sooner than I was expecting.
Won’t be able to make it there for a few days
edit
the sales person was mistaken. It was missing the packages so it wasn’t my bike. Hopefully they can just give me the vin soon so I can track it.
For those on the Tampa Triumph. When you called BMW or asked your dealer was the ship name in the system or did you find it by using the container number? I ask b/c as of today BMW and my dealer say the ship name isn't in the system.
I also learned a bit more. I didn't understand why the bikes arrived in NYC when the VPC is in NJ. Turns out NYC is the port where the containers are unloaded. They can spend up to 10 days there clearing customs. Then they are transported to the VPC, that is down the road.
Seems like the COVID supply issues are starting to resolve but we're still seeing resourcing issues b/c people don't want to work the jobs on the docks, warehouses and transportation.
For those on the Tampa Triumph. When you called BMW or asked your dealer was the ship name in the system or did you find it by using the container number? I ask b/c as of today BMW and my dealer say the ship name isn't in the system.
I also learned a bit more. I didn't understand why the bikes arrived in NYC when the VPC is in NJ. Turns out NYC is the port where the containers are unloaded. They can spend up to 10 days there clearing customs. Then they are transported to the VPC, where if you're working w/a smaller dealer may take a while longer while BMW sources transportation to the dealer.
Seems like the COVID supply issues are starting to resolve but we're still resourcing issues b/c people don't want to work the jobs on the docks, warehouses and transportation.
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