Anyone else been stuck in Quality Check for a week or more?

2 weeks today in QC

 

anyone want to start a pool on when we will be released? what're the odds we will get our cars in june?

 

I was 'under promising/over delivering' to myself and planning for July/August delivery, so at this point I'm still hopeful for late June which is a bonus compared to original expectations.

 

Joining the party! Ordered my SE sig trim in BRG and 16 victory spoke wheels 3/31. Have been in QC at least 2.5 weeks, called my MA today and he said no updates on his end, just slower due to supply chain issues ect

 

Welcome to the club. Everyone has been getting slightly different answers and some other's vehicles seem to glide through without a hitch, I ordered the same vehicle as you - same color, same wheels, added leather seats (cross carbon black or whatever it is called) on 3/7 and have been in QC since 5/16 (which was the date it was supposed to be completed). I have given up asking my MA or Mini themselves.....

 

Digging through the delivery spreadsheet a bit, there are people whose car entered body in white (exterior) the same day or after mine (and others on this thread) with varying builds which are now on ships headed for the east coast US. I'm hopeful they had a data issue and ours are on the way. We'll see in about 10 days or so. One of those is on Orion Highway in case you want to track.

 

Yep that’s what I was hoping for as well! Some glitch in the tracking tool and ours will magically update to in transit soon

 

LOL! Quarantine Cooper would echo MINI's acronym. I'm certain the QC delay is due to a part(s) shortage.

 

Yeah, I bet they ran out of the little, yellow “S” badges…

 

Started a twitter thread and 'tagged' @miniusa - we'll see if that gets any more attention

https://twitter.com/wingram3/status/1532369130409672704?s=20&t=ulZA73IlDGvZrBQ3VdU60Q

 

I expect we'll continue hearing crickets.

 

You are probably right but it certainly can't gurt. Also thanks to those who retweeted - the more it's out there, the better chance they will respond.

 

We got a response - pretty much the same boiler plate language used in their email response but hoping we got their attention....
https://twitter.com/MINIUSA/status/1532716820091883521?s=20&t=NlU4q4CQyLLPljh5XyzvkQ

 

I'll just throw this out there. I'm in the automotive industry as an IT manager for a Tier 1 supplier to one of the Big 3 in the US. I know how the build data flows, and how our customer runs their lines at the 2 plants we supply. Most auto factories are similar.

There is a chance they had an issue and built cars up to a point missing a component then parked them for completion later. It's low, but we've seen it happen in the past 2 years. Sometimes they'll let those cars sit and run the factory normally until a shutdown then have teams volunteer for extra hours to complete the partial cars.

I really don't think that's the case here due to data points on the spreadsheet showing cars moving through the process before/during/after our build dates so it seems like a small number of cars.

I'm leaning more toward a data issue, but even that we're just guessing. We'd literally have to talk to an IT person at Mini Oxford or BMW corporate to get a real answer.