Still At 1100!!

["prima"Donna]

Originally Posted by LkyCzx

Event 1100 means your vehicle has been ordered by the dealership and it has been accepted by General Motors......I believe the next event code is 1500 and that means it's been accepted for production and has a TPW ...target production week ..which is the week the vehicle will be built....the next is 3000...and the event code you're waiting to see is 5000....that's delivered to dealer.....there is an expiration of transit date on the invoice and your car could come in a couple of days prior ...or as much as two weeks after....and even longer if the vehicle is pulled for quality control by GM...I suspect a number of them will at first....it's what happend when we got the Pontiac Solstice....some cars came in as much as two months after the expiration of transit...(talk about P.O.'D People) ..I'm a General Sales Manager at a Chevrolet Dealership and do all the ordering ...the event code you have is the first step in it getting built....it simply means that the order placed was clean and with no errors..and it is a buildable car..your event code will not change until....the dealer is allocated a vehicle to build...depending on your priority code it will either pick your car or someone elses with a lower priority code....if someone ordered theirs before you they would have a lower p.code so theirs would be pulled to be built first....unless the vehicle they spec'd out suddenly had constraints and then the system will go directly to the next car that they can build and pass over the vehicle that has the constraints on it...your car won't be built until the dealership is granted allocation from GM and then it will be built in sequence as to who's in first and can it be built.......good luck and hope you get it as soon as possible......I still have 2 vehicles available for retail if you know anyone who wants one....here's the one bad thing that people who've ordered cars don't know the answer to....a dealer may have been guaranteed 6 cars...like I was...however...some schmucks out there have an order bank with 20 cars in it and took deposits from everyone and those cars will never be built....I got six cars ...I could put in 200 orders but I won't get more than the six GM said I'm gonna get....you have to know if your order is within the dealers promised allocation or above it...there won't be "extra" cars.......and those six I was allocated are for the first 3 quarters of the 2010 model year...I may get more ...I may not.........but I still have two that will definately get built if you know someone who wants one...........Mike LiCausi

best dealer in my world!!!!

[2Muchmark]

First, Everyone in this thread, you are being WAY TOO NICE TO YOUR DEALER. This is BS!!

First, SilverIce: I feel your pain. My order is also a Silver Ice, and I have been getting nothing but a run-around as to where my car is from GM and the dealer. I wonder if there is some kind of restraint on this color.... ?

Anyway, GM holding back orders to smaller dealers just so they can fill the orders of larger dealers is evil. How are smaller dealers ever going to be able to grow if they take longer to fullfill orders?

Anyway its no secret that the thrill is gone for me now and I'm "this close" to canceling my order. I hope that you Silverice (and everyone else) get their cars before going nanners like I am.

[Lee9710]

If you want to cancel then do it, but since production is ramping up it wouldnt be a smart move. I understand you are upset, I would be too. But it's simple business that if a dealer makes a company more money, of course they will be filled first. I ordered at a dealer around Washington DC.........just the number of people there ensure all the cars will be sold. A small town dealer with only 2 allocations has no chance of being filled until probably last unfortunately. I was in the same boat but instead of waiting I went and ordered in a bigger market and now my car seems to be sprinting through the line. I suggest everyone try to find a dealer in a huge market that might still have allocation and reorder. You wont regret it. I re-ordered May 8th and am at 3000 with a TPW of June 29th after only 3 weeks.

[Unfair]

Originally Posted by Lee9710

If you want to cancel then do it, but since production is ramping up it wouldnt be a smart move. I understand you are upset, I would be too. But it's simple business that if a dealer makes a company more money, of course they will be filled first. I ordered at a dealer around Washington DC.........just the number of people there ensure all the cars will be sold. A small town dealer with only 2 allocations has no chance of being filled until probably last unfortunately. I was in the same boat but instead of waiting I went and ordered in a bigger market and now my car seems to be sprinting through the line. I suggest everyone try to find a dealer in a huge market that might still have allocation and reorder. You wont regret it. I re-ordered May 8th and am at 3000 with a TPW of June 29th after only 3 weeks.

I bumped into this:

GM 10/08: The all-new 2010 Chevy Coupe delivers outstanding power, performance, efficiency, sporting sleek styling and a unique array of features. Bookings are open. So be the first to take the wheel of the new Camaro. Place your order today!

They could have made it a little clearer that you wouldn't be the first to physically take the wheel.

[Lee9710]

We should have known it was going to be like this. No small town anything ever gets something first. This is why I didn't order in October. Even by placing the order in October people will still get their car at least by September. Too many people took this as if I order now I will be the first one in my town to have it. It means you will be in the first wave of customers to own it, which is true. This first wave of owners this speaks about is the first wave of allocations. I have been around the car business for a long time and took this as what it was. Marketing tactics rarely ever speak the truth. What this all boils down to is that customer A wanted to be the very first one to own a Camaro so he went down to the dealership in October and didnt know about allocations yet because it was so early and neither did the dealer. Then finds out that they will only get 2 or 3 because it is a small market. Now the customer is upset, but it's not really about the process, it's because he wanted to be first to get one and show it off and all that stuff. I ordered mine, dont care when it gets here as long as it does, dont care about what others think of it, and just want to have fun in it. Most people are upset because they cant wait 3 more months because now other people got them first and spoiled their I want to be first party. Really.......who gives a s**t who gets the car first as long as we help save this company and all get something fun to drive in the near future. These cars will be everywhere anyway.