AvramD

Hey everyone, I'm about to try negotiating with my dealer, and I need to know when the first few orders were actually loaded into the system - by that I mean what was the earliest date that anybody actually had a production week listed. (it doesn't matter the actual production week)

I'm sure it doesn't make sense why this would matter, but it has to do with a promise they made me on placing my order, and then broke, and that being my reason for breaking our pre-negotiated MSRP deal.

I have a second question coming up that is the second half of this...

AlanL

I placed my order in mid May. Order placed with factory later that week.

AvramD

Did you get a prod. week immediately?

JDBlueAudiS4

also remember orders in the system mean jack without an allocation. How large is the dealer?

DMoore

I ordered my Avant in May, got a commission #, but to this day the dealer has never gotten an allocation for the car. Order date means nothing unless the dealer has an allocation. Avant allocations have been very scarce, and unless your dealer is in very good standing with AoA he probably couldn't get an earlier allocation.

DMoore
'04 S4 Avant

AlanL

I heard my production week in early June since I was part of the initial allocation.

BlueCarDude

I still don't see any harm in trying to re-negotiate your deal. Don't be disappointed if they say "NEXT!" though.

I originally contacted 2 local dealers in Feb./April... was told I'd be getting my car no later than August. August rolls around and still no allocation. Eventually ended up expanding my search to another state...

Now I'm expecting my car in early Nov.

M3expat

The first one is dated April 28 and shows a status of (10) Factory Order Bank. The second one is dated May 9 and has the assigned production week as 24/2003. The car finished factory inspection on July 8. It arrived at BH Audi on August 25. I took delivery on August 27.

I don't know if that helps you any at all.

AvramD

All 6 had build weeks in the low-mid 20's.

I'm not exactly sure how that adds up, but I believe it's above average.

I have a suspicion that Avants allocations were not distributed across dealers up-front. I think they are expecting fewer than 1 Avant sale per dealer for a while. It's just a theory, but I think they held the small # of Avant allocations at AoA, and hand them out based on whose order came in earlier - out of the whole country.

If I'm right, then the 2 week delay made all the difference in the world.

AvramD

like sedans. I think they expected far fewer Avant orders than they have dealers.

So rather than guess, and have a bunch of cars end up at dealers that don't find a buyer for them, I think what happened is AoA held them all, and doled them out as dealers put Avant orders into the system.

Now whether they played favorites and passed over low volume dealers who had an order in earlier, I couldn't begin to guess. But I do believe that dealers aren't "getting Avant allocations" per se - I think they won't get one until after the place the order.