theo1000

Thx. Much appreciated.

Its sailing in the middle of the Atlantic! Hopefully a big batch of Etrons.

Is Kansas/Missouri Houston or Davisville?

mjeaton

I was in the exact same situation. My dealer only had 2 get released from Benicia last week. 1 Edition One for a customer and 1 for a demo. Luckily when I came by to test drive the demo, the customer for the Edition One had just declined his car. I bought his instead of waiting for mine. I asked about the port hold up. Customs takes about a week, after that it is limited to processing and trucking capacity constraints. They are expecting several truckloads to get released this week and next. You should be getting yours very soon.

BTW... the car is awesome! And totally worth the wait.

hrc1079

Mine went into leaving factory status on 4/19 and according to my dealer this morning it's still "leaving the factory". I spoke to Audi online on 4/25 and they told me it was on a boat en route to the US. No one seems to have any clue what's going on. The dealer did tell me I could buy the demonstration model if I didn't want to wait. No, I just want someone to tell me where my damn order is!!!!

theo1000

I think your dealer needs to buck up.

Ask Audi which boat it is on. My dealer just told me mine is on the Goodwood. Ship #176. It would not surprise me if yours was on it too.

The website is all over the place, but the dealers have access to precise knowledge.

hrc1079

I agree. I’m thinking of changing dealer but I don’t think they would care about losing the sale. I just got this response from them after pushing them multiple times to do some more research -

“The customer’s e-tron is built and is now at the Port of Emden (Germany). It will most likely be loaded on the next scheduled vessel for the US (Vessel = “Glovis Sunlight”) which is expected to depart Wednesday evening, and should arrive at the Port of Benicia, CA on or about June 7th.”

i find it amazing that others who have come out of production afterwards are on boats already but mine for some reason got stuck at the factory. This is extremely annoying when Audi told me on the 25th April that it was already En Route to the US but the site hadn’t updated yet.

I’m beyond frustrated with this whole process.

** Update - Asked for VIN and told it's not available **

theo1000

So somehow it managed to go from the factory to port in 3 hours. Not!

BTW your VIN is most definitely available to the dealer by now. It is factory thing and not at the port thing

hrc1079

I think I will just deal with the e-Tron customer service and see what I can get out of them. If the dates are correct i'm happy it's arriving next month but i'm not happy about having to fight to get this information that others seem to be able to get so easily from their dealers

hrc1079

LOL - response when asking for VIN for insurance quoting

“If that is the case we will need to wait until AUDI to issue a vin for your car.


I’m not giving advice on the insurance, I would figure if you provide a similar price vehicle they can give you an idea what it would cost.”


Nice talking to you. Feel free to contact me anytime.

JeffSmith

Larry you have been uncharacteristically quiet. How are you doing with your reservation?

Larry David

I've been in India for a week, just got back yesterday. While I was out, mine did enter production and has been in production for about a week. It appears pretty standard to stay in production for several weeks. Henry Ford is rolling in his grave.