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Originally Posted by jcracken
I don't get the BMW tracking system.
I've mentioned it before, but basically put the order in back in Sept, dealer said it would build in Oct, but that was a lie and it only entered 112 back in late November.
It entered 150 back in December, and the production date was set for today. However, a few days ago, it flipped forward to "In The Paint Booth" and I expected it to move into production line today.
Nope! It's at 182 "Awaiting carrier assignment" already. So either they went through the entire build process in less than a day, or it actually started production last week or something and it just flicked forward to the end status all at once.
Now I have to figure out how to track potential ships it could be put on...
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So first off, I think maybe your dealer lied to you about having an allocation given the 112 taking two months.
As far as the other parts, my opinion is that a lot of people are taking the reported status available via the customer facing REST server queried from mygarage or the myBMW app as being far more accurate than it really is. While yes I do believe that within the company it can be queried by those who can to find out exactly where you car stands, but I don’t think the public has access to that but only some sanitized version of the data moved to an outer ring of security appropriate for public access. More likely some jobs kick off at certain times to push out status to the customer facing servers, and who knows exactly how often and on what days that happens. Remember that data sources come from different areas of the company, the production line (which consists of many steps, like the paint booth), ports, etc, and the times and occurences of data moving up and out from these places may not necessary be on the same schedule as other places.
Also one of the better epics I’ve read on monitoring status says that the production date is actually at the
end of production. Not sure if that’s true, but it would explain why the car goes into production about 1-2 weeks before that date, and might explain why things can appear to progress strangely (such as in a time-compressed manner), given that the states may not update exactly when the happen but when some data dump occurs and so it looks like there was suddenly a flurry of activity when just previously nothing was happening.