How long's the Holiday Break at the Factory?

Rustler · 01-07-2010, 03:39 PM

The week before Christmas I placed an order (accepted on 12/23/09). I've seen a few posts from past years mentioning that the factory is closed during the holidays. Does anyone know how long the factory is actually closed? Any idea if this will cause a delay in production of my car? I know they take some pretty serious holiday breaks over in Europe, hopefully they've awakened from their schnaps induced stoopers and are back at production. Thanks.

2kaccordocoupe · 01-07-2010, 03:48 PM

I was in the same situation as you last year with my build. The start back up a week after new years.

So that should have been this past Monday or even possibly this coming Monday.

Rustler · 01-07-2010, 04:15 PM

That's painful. The wait is killing me.

av8tor86 · 01-09-2010, 11:41 PM

I ordered on the 7th of Dec., finally went into production on the 15 and has been "in the body shop" since then. Expected completion date of 12 Jan.....

2010 328i xdrive, Crimson Red, Dark Burl, Black Dakota, Premium, value, sat radio, comfort access, AT, fold down rear seat, PDC.

mercury26 · 01-10-2010, 12:58 AM

Factory re-opens January 11th, at last the Munich factory does. See bottom right about factory tours.

http://www.bmw-plant-munich.com/lowb.../en/index.html

Rustler · 01-13-2010, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by mercury26

Factory re-opens January 11th, at last the Munich factory does. See bottom right about factory tours.

http://www.bmw-plant-munich.com/lowb.../en/index.html

That makes sense because on Monday (the 11th) I got a confirmed production date of the 18th. That was exciting for about 5 minutes until I quickly returned to my prior state of painful anticipation.

av8tor86 · 01-13-2010, 12:31 PM

Body shop on the 11th, complete and released to the carrier for transport to the port of exit on the 12th. Can't wait to track the ship, haha.

M3PGH · 01-13-2010, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by av8tor86

Body shop on the 11th, complete and released to the carrier for transport to the port of exit on the 12th. Can't wait to track the ship, haha.

i placed mine the 5th of december and it still says "on order"

mercury26 · 01-13-2010, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by M3PGH

i placed mine the 5th of december and it still says "on order"

I ordered the exact same day and I am still stuck at Status 112. My CA told me the production week is Jan 18th. I confirmed this when I called BMW for my status. They told me to call back next week to confirm the Production Date. The waiting is testing my patience.

Cheers,

Chuck

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2kaccordocoupe Brigadier General 1274 Rep 4,703 Posts Drives: Former ///M Driver Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: The 6ix iTrader: (2)	I was in the same situation as you last year with my build. The start back up a week after new years. So that should have been this past Monday or even possibly this coming Monday.
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av8tor86 New Member 0 Rep 15 Posts Drives: 08 328XI Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Coal Township, PA iTrader: (0) Garage List 2008 328XI [0.00]	Killing me too I ordered on the 7th of Dec., finally went into production on the 15 and has been "in the body shop" since then. Expected completion date of 12 Jan..... 2010 328i xdrive, Crimson Red, Dark Burl, Black Dakota, Premium, value, sat radio, comfort access, AT, fold down rear seat, PDC. __________________ 08 328XI Titanium silver, Xenon, Premium, Cold Wx, Comfort Access, Sirius, Back up assist Inbound 2010 328 X Idrive, Crimson Red, AT, Premium, Value, Comfort Access, Sirius, PDC, Black Dakota, Dark Burl, Split Rear Seat.
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