Thread: Placed my order
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      05-04-2011, 09:52 AM   #58
Marmik
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Agreed on this. On April 23rd the BMW website switched my order status to "in production." The site stayed on "in production" until today, May 3, when it switched to "at preparation center" skipping right over "production finished" and "en route." Psychologically good however since this means my X3 is in town!
OK I was WRONG about this. I assumed the prep center was where the car arrived after shipment to the dealer region. For X3s "at the prep center" actually means in shipment to dealer. Sounds like they pretty much roll out of the factory into shipment. As you would expect I suppose. The website is confusing since "en-route" suggests shipment somewhere? Checking online, it seems that at Spartanburg "en-route" is really no step at all because "production finished", "en-route" and "at prep center" are all steps immediately adjacent to the factory and take no time at all. Apparently the steps used in the web design are more accurate for BMW's shipped from Europe.
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