Tracking Production With A VIN#???

Bonzo

My actual order was placed at the end of August, direct though the little known Nissan "backdoor network" at Nissan North America Distribution. I got written order confirmation on August 30th. NNAD told us then that 2012 model production was to start in September, and that my estimated delivery would be sometime in November or early December.

The question with Nissan is, when is the VIN# assigned? When I went through this with Pontiac years ago, an actual VIN# meant that the car was "in the production chain." But I know of other companies that assign the VIN# only after the car is actually built, as in a car for actual sale.

But this sort of jives with what you have. I have a VIN# now, which I'm thinking maybe means my car is built. This also explains why my delivery is scheduled ahead of yours by a few weeks. If my assumptions are correct, my car is 2 - 3 weeks ahead of yours in the schedule. But as I know from previous experiences, this means nothing for ACTUAL delivery.

My dealer, similar to yours, also told me that with a VIN# in hand, he expected the car sooner than the date given. We'll see. Let's all keep our fingers crossed for each other.

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Finally Able To Order 2012 Model 8/24/2011
Delivered Tuesday November 15, 9:57 am!!!
2012, Auto, White, Sport, Kick Plates

Waiz

If you have an in at NNA Distribution they will be able to track the VIN as it leaves the factory but I don't believe we were able to track it in the factory when I worked for NNA.

There isn't a way that I know of for a normal consumer to check the status of their car otherwise without a dealer contact, Nissan is not that advanced yet..

Bonzo

Thanks for the info. I'll try to get my dealer to do a weekly check on it.

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Finally Able To Order 2012 Model 8/24/2011
Delivered Tuesday November 15, 9:57 am!!!
2012, Auto, White, Sport, Kick Plates

Bonzo

So I swung by my dealer on Saturday and got the official paperwork. Car was built on September 25th, and is scheduled for delivery the week of 11/18. The other paperwork, a dot matrix report print out, has the code on where the car is, and INT means sea transit, so it's on the boat. My dealer says that in the last 3 months every car they have gotten has actually arrived 1 - 2 weeks earlier than the scheduled date.

AWESOME, it's on it's way.



For thread relevance, the VIN# is in the low 500's. So as of September 25, they have built about 500 2012 Z's.

Now I'm wondering how many they actually build a day. I know with high production vehicles like pickup trucks, GM builds more than 1 truck every minute (something like 70-80 trucks an hour). I'm assuming the Z has a much lower rate, but I wonder what it is? Is it super low like 20 per day or is it like 100 per day?

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Finally Able To Order 2012 Model 8/24/2011
Delivered Tuesday November 15, 9:57 am!!!
2012, Auto, White, Sport, Kick Plates