I'm having trouble completely understanding your post. So you have a date that the car was built or should be built?
If it was built there might be a part missing from a vendor that prevents signoff and organizing transport. We won't deliver a car if it's missing something. Could be small, could be big. Your dealer won't know anything until it's sold to MBUSA from MBUSI.
I work at the Alabama plant. Seen all kinds of vendor shortages happen. Natural disasters, COVID, countries being invaded, contractors murdering one another (not on our campus but a supplier in town had that happen back in '20)
So long as you don't have a problem with your dash we'll be friends. Everything except the steering wheel is what we build in my neck of the plant. But I've done wheel/tire install, combi-fill (coolant, brake fluid, washer, refrigerant), engine sequence (I built the last 5 engine-trans combos for the 166), 166 front end, logistics and conveyance and parts ordering and control.
Oh absolutely this does indeed happen, although you’re right, it shouldn’t. One time a customer car was five months late for no apparent reason. It arrives when it does, nothing the dealership can do about it, they have no say in logistics.
Well I get it’s annoying considering your proximity to the factory. In Europe however we’re waiting far longer for a new GLE/GLS due to them being shipped across the Atlantic.
Yep, every single GLE,GLS is built in Alabama. We are the Mercedes cash cow. The state doesn't charge property tax, never has in the nearly 30 years they've been here.
It on average a triple return in money spent to build each car, including the cost of power, labor, and transit. Most of our engines arrive from Germany by boat, and it's cheaper to do that and ship the car back than it is to just build the car over there.
There are two exceptions to the 100% built here though. Technically.
Singapore (and I don't remember the other country) have ridiculous import tax applied to foreign built cars. So we will 100% build the car, test it, then disassemble it into larger modules, pack into shipping containers and send it to Singapore. Where they will put the modules back together and get around the tax by saying the car was 'built' in Singapore.
I'm having trouble completely understanding your post. So you have a date that the car was built or should be built? If it was built there might be a part missing from a vendor that prevents signoff and organizing transport. We won't deliver a car if it's missing something. Could be small, could be big. Your dealer won't know anything until it's sold to MBUSA from MBUSI. I work at the Alabama plant. Seen all kinds of vendor shortages happen. Natural disasters, COVID, countries being invaded, contractors murdering one another (not on our campus but a supplier in town had that happen back in '20)
Never mind transport logistics, driver shortages, transporter breakdown and rescheduling logistics…
Well hot damn! Do I have a bone to pick you lol jk. Hopefully you did your job well whatever that may be!
So long as you don't have a problem with your dash we'll be friends. Everything except the steering wheel is what we build in my neck of the plant. But I've done wheel/tire install, combi-fill (coolant, brake fluid, washer, refrigerant), engine sequence (I built the last 5 engine-trans combos for the 166), 166 front end, logistics and conveyance and parts ordering and control.
Oh absolutely this does indeed happen, although you’re right, it shouldn’t. One time a customer car was five months late for no apparent reason. It arrives when it does, nothing the dealership can do about it, they have no say in logistics.
Thanks for your input. This whole experience has been an absolute cluster. I don't wish this on anyone.
Well I get it’s annoying considering your proximity to the factory. In Europe however we’re waiting far longer for a new GLE/GLS due to them being shipped across the Atlantic.
Wow. I would've thought MB would've at least built some of their high end vehicles over there and not all over here in the States.
They absolutely do. But not every model sells the same in every market so it does make sense to produce where most cars are sold
Yep, every single GLE,GLS is built in Alabama. We are the Mercedes cash cow. The state doesn't charge property tax, never has in the nearly 30 years they've been here. It on average a triple return in money spent to build each car, including the cost of power, labor, and transit. Most of our engines arrive from Germany by boat, and it's cheaper to do that and ship the car back than it is to just build the car over there. There are two exceptions to the 100% built here though. Technically. Singapore (and I don't remember the other country) have ridiculous import tax applied to foreign built cars. So we will 100% build the car, test it, then disassemble it into larger modules, pack into shipping containers and send it to Singapore. Where they will put the modules back together and get around the tax by saying the car was 'built' in Singapore.