I was at my dealer here in VA on friday. They are still sticking to the mid Sept. date. I believe it will be sometime in Oct. Thou.
Just venting cause I'm tired of waiting
First I would like to say hello to all of you here on this forum. This seems like a good place to learn more about the Spyder. I am sure once released this forum will be filled with valuable information.
I saw pictures of the Spyder way back in October of '06 and knew I wanted one just from the pics. I placed my order in Feb '07 and I am the first one on my dealer's list for the first batch. I was able to get a test ride for about 15 minutes and was sold even more on the bike. I wish the demo ride was longer like the one some of you had but hey, what ya gonna do
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Anyway, my issue is this. With so many of us plopping down $$ that we cannot have refunded you would think BRP would at least give us production dates. I've ordered several cars, Harley's and even furniture and the manufacture was always able to give me a production date. In fact, when I ordered my Mini Cooper not only did I get a production date and number, I received a website where I could track the car throughout the process. I even received emails from MINI USA every 3 to 6 six weeks with and update.
I have called my dealer several times over the last few months and I all I would receive is the same old "I believe it will be here in September." Now today I call my dealer only to hear;
"I was told that they are running behind schedule. Your Spyder might not make it here in September or October; you will more than likely see it in November"
Of course I was not happy to hear that bit of news. If anyone of you has inside scoops you could share please do. I knew going into this that I would have a long wait on my hands but it would be great if we could get some idea of what is happening.
I saw pictures of the Spyder way back in October of '06 and knew I wanted one just from the pics. I placed my order in Feb '07 and I am the first one on my dealer's list for the first batch. I was able to get a test ride for about 15 minutes and was sold even more on the bike. I wish the demo ride was longer like the one some of you had but hey, what ya gonna do
Anyway, my issue is this. With so many of us plopping down $$ that we cannot have refunded you would think BRP would at least give us production dates. I've ordered several cars, Harley's and even furniture and the manufacture was always able to give me a production date. In fact, when I ordered my Mini Cooper not only did I get a production date and number, I received a website where I could track the car throughout the process. I even received emails from MINI USA every 3 to 6 six weeks with and update.
I have called my dealer several times over the last few months and I all I would receive is the same old "I believe it will be here in September." Now today I call my dealer only to hear;
"I was told that they are running behind schedule. Your Spyder might not make it here in September or October; you will more than likely see it in November"
Of course I was not happy to hear that bit of news. If anyone of you has inside scoops you could share please do. I knew going into this that I would have a long wait on my hands but it would be great if we could get some idea of what is happening.
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Kinda like me waiting for snow.
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I called BRP to ask about the VIN vs delivery date and this is the email I recvd.Kinda like me waiting for snow.
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"Mark,
In response to your phone call, please note that your VIN and order of delivery are not linked.
Your dealer is the best to let you know when your unit will be delivered.
Best Regard,"
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ok, I have to agree here. Lets face some facts. We are grown adults here. Any company that is comming out with a product, that is publicly held with stocks needs to make certian ship dates, production releases and so forth. Ford, chyrsler, HD, suzuki, all of them. If you call on any bike, any car that is new, all of the dealers will tell you a month that production is to start. In some cases, they will tell you, such the case when I got one of the first PT cruisers, Is here is the start production date, here is the expected build / ship time. There is no reason why BRP cant tell us when production is to start. Now,, food for thought. If these bikes are to ship out and arrive at dealers this month. it will take the a few days to tag each spyder with a vin, associate that vin with a name, print up plaques (that are supposed to come WITH the spyder). get them on trucks, and to the dealers. If you think about that and how the first run is slow on the produciton line to make sure things are ok, QC testing and so forth, then production HAS started this week in theory. It will take them a couple of weeks to push out 600-900 bikes on a new production line startup, to work out the bugs in the process, QC them completely, assign, box, load and ship them out.
but at the very least, yes, there is no reson why they cant say, production started on x day, or it is starting the week of x, We after all HAVE put down money, and not talking 10 bucks, but thousands. BRP is sitting on close to one , two million dollars or more in down payments,,,, that alone warents keeping customers of the money they are sitting on at least in the loop.
now for snow!!!! OMG t
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that is a 4 letter word and I am NOT wanting it up here in the boston area,,, Nov is about as late as we can ride before packing them away for the long winter night.
but at the very least, yes, there is no reson why they cant say, production started on x day, or it is starting the week of x, We after all HAVE put down money, and not talking 10 bucks, but thousands. BRP is sitting on close to one , two million dollars or more in down payments,,,, that alone warents keeping customers of the money they are sitting on at least in the loop.
now for snow!!!! OMG t
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