Are a lot of you still waiting for your Z?
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Future plans??
I feel like Sisyphus. Every day I get an update on my Z the delivery date it pushed out 1 day. It was supposed to arrive Monday then Wednesday and so on. Yesterday it was monday and today it's Tuesday. Feels like I'm stuck in an never ending loop of it being 1 day away
No I mean I bought the car Feb 26th it's mine. I'm literally just waiting for it. It's 4 hours away from the dealer at a shipping yard it's just stuck there for like the last 10 days
bpeckham
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Oh! Man, so even once the cars land in the US, there are still problems getting them actually delivered.
Is it always like this but dealer inventory is a buffer (so you don't see it), or is this just exceptionally bad?
yeah see I happened to buy my car right after the dealer got their allocation so ive had to go through the entire wait and all that goes with it. if they already had the car before I even knew about it then it wouldnt feel so long but yeah there are a lot of logistics of trains then getting assigned to a truck carrier and then getting scheduled to drop it at the dealer. Initial delivery was supposed to be March 7 but it didnt even leave port until mid march. its been off the train and sitting since I think last weekend.
not to mention there were really severe storms in parts of Chicago this week where my car is with reports of Hail.
I found a guy one facebook that was posting vids from the Chicago yeard. one of those 4 black Z's in this video is most definitely my car.
Bucko
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I would call/email the salesman and tell him you want it removed before you take delivery. Let them be responsible for removing it without causing any damage to the paint. Every car I have ever bought, one of my condidtions of purcahse is if there is no dealer sticker on it, don't put one on. If there is already one there, remove it before delivery. At least now they use stickers that are fairly easy to remove. In my early days of car buying, some dealers used metal plates that were rivited to the back of the car.
Thanks I just have to believe it will arrive this week. But it's already started to slide. Was the 4/10 yesterday now it's 4/11 today. A lot of buyers never know about this part of the process as a lot of times cars are already in the showroom or at the last part of this process. What didn't help me and what I didn't know at the time is my car had to go through LA and Chicago which are some of the largest transportation hubs in the country
Bucko
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I sure feel for you. I had to put up with that same slippage, but only for a week. Then it ended up arriving a day early. Mine was delivered to the dealer on a trailer towed by a pickup truck (just a 1-car trailer), not a big car carrier rig. The dealer siad they had never had a new vhehicle delivered to them like that before.
mac49
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I guess I made the right decision to get my car and drive it home. Although I still have to get to the dealer. But the weather looks good for flying Tuesday and being retired I can take all the time I need driving home.
West Aussie
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Call me when you’ve been waiting 720 days…only then can I feel sympathy
ZedNotZee
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