relytgerg said:
Let me know what you think.
Sounds reasonable to me up to step 3. I think 3a and 3b need to move up in your list and become 2c and 2d. In fact 3a may even move all the way up into step 1 now.
I agree this is not the way it used to work based on forum posts here. The thought was that you got Carwings/VIN around the time your car was unloaded.
But that is either not the case with me, or my car has been sitting at the dock for a LONG time! I think this experience is shared with others who have had (or are having) recent deliveries.
I didn't keep track of exactly when I went from "month of" to "week of", but when the vehicle is loaded onto the ship sounds like a reasonable assumption.
If my calculations are correct though, this is now also when you get Carwings/VIN: I got mine on 10/28, and if you factor in an approximately one month transit from Japan to the east coast, making its way up through JAX and Norfolk, unloading/prep, delivery to local dealer, etc. then my expected delivery of this week (technically my dashboard says 12/15 now, but until Sunday it had read 12/10), then I think my car was assigned to me at or around the time the vehicle was loaded onto the ship. This may be a relatively new phenomenon, but that's my experience. I don't have any options or accessories (other than floor mats) and my car color is Glacier Pearl, not one of the "fancy" colors (blue and red) that they said would take longer (although seriously, I've seen more of them than anything else and there are only 5 color choices anyway, so I'm not sure what the big deal about those colors is!)
Given your delivery change today, I would highly recommend you start looking for ships that are loading in Japan to figure out for yourself what ship its on so you can have fun tracking it for the next 6 weeks! And I would further expect your Carwings/VIN to open up for you very soon.
