Interesting situation here and maybe
@StephenCantrelle could help answer some questions. (Apologies for the length of this post.)
First, my dealer has been good at answering my questions and I probably could just reach out to them to answer my questions but with everybody waiting here and looking for any little clue that could tip them off as to when their car may come, I figured I'd ask here. Maybe a group of us will learn something or maybe we'll learn nothing...
I found my car on the lookup tool last week and not having been given a
vin, I asked my dealer if that particular car was mine and they confirmed it was. I ordered a Black/Black EX P/T. On the tool, another car identical to mine but with mud guards added was on there with the same date and a
vin that's 35 #'s ahead of mine headed to the same dealer.
The EX built just ahead of mine showed up on the dealer website yesterday along with an SX built prior. There were 5-7 S models that showed up on the tool the week prior to that even, which still haven't shown up on their site.
Here are my questions: Is there some step in the process that triggers a vehicle to get posted on a dealers' website? Is the process the same for all dealers or do the dealers control what inventory they post? Is there a reason that cars more recently produced would show up or even get shipped ahead of another vehicle heading to the same dealership?
For giggles, it would interesting to see the ETAs for these two identical vehicles built possibly the same day heading to the same dealership. If someone is interested in checking...
5XYP3DHC3LG094708
5XYP3DHC5LG094743 -Mine
Given ETA of 7/15 on 6/16
I may be reading too deeply into things... No amount of information is going to make my car come any faster but I find all of this stuff interesting maybe someone else might as well.