HipPop

The dealer tells me my build weeks 3/10. I'd sure dig hearing your guesses on a delivery date to Dallas.

A7 Prestige
Loaded with Geeky and Safety Stuff
Dakota with Beige

raslam77

90days or so... Jun/Jul maybe???

HipPop

raslam77,

You might be right on the money, but I sure hope not. I had heard "approximatley 90 days from the order date" plenty of times, but I was hoping that knowing the actual build date meant that we could predict a much crisper timeline on how long things took after it rolled-out of the factory.

If other folks were told their build week, and that might not be too common, I was hoping to hear their timing after that. It is easy to tally-up at least a month in getting the car to the port, shipping, unloading, etc., but a few actual timetables on what it took would be cool to know.

60614allroad

...my build date was February 2nd; I'm in Chicago and the scheduled delivery date is March 15th. From what the dealer tells me, all U.S. bound Audi cars ship to the Houston area, it takes a few days and then the cars are on trucks to their ultimate destination. Mine is scheduled to hit the port in Texas around March 7; so, that's 5 weeks, then a week to get here.

Prestige Package
Moonlight Blue with Titanium Gray interior, fine grain ash
Driver Assistance Package
19" Sport package
Cold Weather Package
LED Headlights
Rear Side Airbags
Stasis Exhaust
Stasis Engine tuning software (when they finally release it...)

derfA8L

My A8's build date was week of Jan 31st 2011 and the car arrived at the dealer in mid-March; about 5 weeks after production week. I think 4 to 6 weeks is the norm. All depends on how long the car sits at the port waiting to fill a cargo ship, and then at the port of entry waiting for customs clearance and ground transport.

GHeard

Probably the same as Vegas plus a few days depending upon what port the vehicle is coming in at. I live in Vegas and ordered my vehicle on 12/15/2011. I received notice that the vehicle was loaded for transport on 2/18 (approximately 65 days from order placement to build and stage). From there it will be approximately 30 days to reach the San Diego port and another 5-7 days to clear customs, load onto transport truck and arrive at dealership. All in all just over 3 months. Some variability should be factor in when the factory stages orders and the lag time in starting the build process at the factory. Having worked at the Corvette plant (low volume) and at the now defunct Saturn plant (high volume), this can vary. Audi may have different policies though. if ordered and scheduled to build on 3/10 I would anticipate you getting delivery to the Dallas/Ft Worth dealership by the last week in June

tenspeed

You should have it by tax time - April 15th if there's no delay getting it on a ship.

HipPop

Here's the official update. The car was produced ahead of schedule and was already headed to port when it's build week arrived. It hits Houston on 3/29 (if the waters cooperate) with delivery within a week. Not bad, Audi.

HipPop

Well, the good news from the dealer is that the delivery truck caring my car to DFW made it to the lot today. The bad news is that it arrived at the same time a hail storm did, and my car got hit with some dents.

Presuming all dents can be fixed by dent less repair only, suggestions on discount I ought to request?

carljones11

I would want a new one period!