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

Had a call with the manager of the dealership and also with Mini/BMW. Manager repeated that car is just stuck waiting for assignment for shipping. Mini said with the “special ID” flag it means something is missing and the car isn’t actually finished.

 

@abrandt - so sorry. I had yet another message from my MA who basically said he heard from MINI and it is supply chain issues and impacting lots of vehicles. No news there. We should be in other threads showing off photos and asking about range and charging options. Depending on how you count it I think you have 3 days on me.....

 

34 days here.

The supply chain issue is they want to keep the line running and aren't sending teams out to rework the cars in quality hold.

 

My vehicle went into "production begins" status on 1 June, and based off what Mini has told me, and the F12 "secret" information, I have a production date of 22 June; however, my status on the tracker is still at "Production Begins". Is this normal?

 

of course as soon as I post this comment, my status would update to "exterior body assembly begins"...

 

I see your follow-up that the status changed, but that is normal. It matches my experience and others posted in the spreadsheet here: Delivery Spreadsheet - Let's Track These Inbound SEs

 

You're lucky. We thought MINI ignored this forum but it's good to know they not only read it, but actually pay attention to at least one of us. The true test will be if your SE can clear the onerous QC hurdle.

 

Last week when I called ASKMINI, I was told to wait another week and call back to get a case manager assigned. I did that just now.

I don't expect anything of it, but it's something.

The ASKMINI adviser was very nice, but doesn't have any access to factory data obviously.

 

I suggest you elevate this to BMW NA. The credit union that locked me in at 1.99% will go up to 3.74% if i dont close before the commitment expires. I at least have some control over this deadline. Perhaps, you can get an accomodation from the ivory tower, and lock in the lower current rate since the rates will spike while car has been in QC.

 

Exactly how do you suggest that happens?

 

Certified letter to the president of BMW and the president of Mini USA. Briefly describe the situation, and how the delay is adversely affecting you with financing while others with VINs close to yours that entered production after yours are being delivered as we type.

 

This entire thread was started right around the time my SE was being built and fortunately for me mine never got stuck in QC. But it makes me think, was there a problem my car might suffer but barely squeaked through or did I just get lucky and my car took the last part everyone here is waiting for? I'd be pissed if I was in this position and I feel for you guys!

 

so i tried titter again to see if that got any attention
https://twitter.com/wingram3/status/1540050474476478466?s=21&t=BWD4WreKKk2Zk5KXIAvzvA

 

So - here’s a dumb question I keep forgetting to ask - why are we so tied to our VINs? It seems too easy that MINI could simply assign us new VINS and get those vehicles through production pretty quickly while reassigning our VINs to the next buyer picking the same configuration. It’s not like we customized these in such a manner that they could not easily be snapped up by future buyers…