DACAR

Anyone have any insight on how long it should for dealer deliver once the vehicle has been built? My dealer on the East coast said our RDX was build three weeks ago and can confirm it as 'in transit' but nothing else. Seems to me it shouldn't take 3 weeks from factory to dealer on the Easy Coast/New England.................

billyt1963

Here are pieces of information that I have. We ordered a 2019 a week ago. Our salesman said we had a build date of 7/15 and we should have the car at the end of July (dealer in Middle TN).

Using Google the answer was 2 days to 4 weeks.

That being said, I would think from Ohio to New England would be about like our car, a couple of weeks.

Good luck on your new ride getting there sooner than later.

MI-RDX

Sometimes it's just a matter of timing.

Cars are generally shipped long distance by train with only the last few miles by truck. Trains don't move until it's economically viable so your specific vehicle is probably just sitting around waiting until there's a full load heading in the right direction. If yours is the first one built going east there's going to be a wait, if it's the vehicle that fills the train it'll be on it's way the next day.

birdonamission

Don't want to change the subject -- that last reply was very interesting, BTW [never would've thought about that trains-waiting-to-be-filled stuff, etc.]) -- but wondered if you all who are waiting for your car to arrive from the factory have a signed, finalized sales contract already and now just waiting to take delivery, OR if you won't be doing the contract until the car arrives. I forgot the sequence of things.

The reason I ask is because if your finalized sales contract includes a trade-in, what happens to the agreed-upon amount you're getting for the trade-in if you have to drive it around for a while until the new RDX is available for pick up.

MI-RDX

My experience is the dealer allows a 'reasonable' number of miles. The last time I did a factory order it was about 10 weeks to delivery so we estimated how many additional miles I'd drive and did the trade value based on that. If you pile on thousands of miles while waiting it may affect the trade value.

birdonamission

Ahhh, OK. Good info, thanks.

oblio98

I was given my VIN last Thursday and was told it was ready to be shipped from Ohio. They told me it might be 2-4 weeks. I got a call today that it was coming off the truck right now and I could pick it up tomorrow!
Woo-Hoo. So I would bet that since I'm in CT there were a lot of cars being brought up into NY/New England, so the train didn't have to wait too long to get filled up. If you're in Wyoming, you might have to wait a lot longer!

DACAR

oblio98; I'm also a CT resident, may I ask who your selling dealer is and which RDX did you order specifically? [I'm still awaiting delivery, almost four weeks now.........]

oblio98

Sure. Mine came from Schaller Acura in Manchester. Picked it up yesterday. Very nice.
I was asking them about colors as they seemed to make a big deal about the red ones being hard to get. I asked about Gunmetal just because I wanted to see one and they told me those were even harder to get and they had one on order but it would not be here for weeks. Was your car ordered in Gunmetal?

starlord

how long did you wait until you received your VIN? I'm at 4 weeks and they still dont have a VIN # for me yet

oblio98

About 3 weeks. Then in just over a week the car was here.

romer

My Gunmetal Metallic Advance is supposed to be built on July 14th (2 weeks from today). I was told likely delivery by the end of July. Portland, OR. I'll let you know.

billyt1963

We ordered a Modert Steel Metallic two weeks ago, we were told the build date would be July 15th and we would have the car by the end of July. Our dealership is in Middle TN.

Billy

pdpgps

My sister ordered her blue A-spec early June, and it was about 2 weeks before delivery to the dealership.

mcrompton

I ordered a black on black in May, it was built around mid-June and hopefully it is at the dealer early this week for pickup.

romer

mcrompton

Absolutely

DACAR

Dealer finally called and said the black on black Advance is in and will be ready for delivery tomorrow. Built on the first week of June, a full 4 four weeks to dealer delivery.

billyt1963

Dacar,

Congratulations!! I know tomorrow probably can't come fast enough.

Billy

romer

birdonamission

As has been said many times by car buying "experts," it's always best to wait until the last few days in the month to make a deal because of the pressure on dealerships to get rid of inventory before getting allocations for the next month.

If this is the case, I think my plan to take delivery no later than November 9, 2018 (a Friday) (due to going out of town that weekend) might just get screwed up. Let's just say it takes 4 weeks from factory to dealer, I would have to sign a contract around October 15. There goes trying to make a deal the last week or so in October.

Do I have that about right?

CheeseyPoofs McNut

I would think they'll have a decent inventory by early Nov - you should be able to find what you want on the lot by then.

birdonamission

That's what I'm hoping, too. Was just a tad concern since the car continues to be in such high demand. I just have to take my chill pill twice a day like it says on the bottle and remember this is just July and the car only showed up at the dealerships a mere weeks ago.

Hou-RL

Looks like some colors are still hard to find. Acura builds the RDX all in the same colors at the same time. So we have to wait until they build for example, Pearl White with Espresso and ship those out. They are currently trying to get as many out as possible but some color combinations have not even made it to our state yet. I am told we will receive those colors this week and early next week. I do see a trend of several cars just sitting on the dealer lots and not moving, which means some colors are not as popular as the dealers may have thought. It is easy to pick up a Red A-Spec here in my area.

Dizzyg12

starlord

Interesting. My local dealer has 7 blacks on their lot, 3 A-Specs, 2 Advance and 2 Tech

Dizzyg12

DACAR

Update on my delivery; salesman made a mistake and our Advance was NOT delivered [!] he showed the the transport update on the dealer computer; the transporter company changed the delivery slot from 6/29-7/4 to 7/9-7/13. I'm guessing they don't have any other RDX to deliver to my dealer, either that or there's damage to it and they need time to get it repaired. Wife says she's willing to wait-otherwise I would go to another dealer to purchase.an in-stock vehicle. I made an /Acura website inquiry about the delivery delay[ vehicle was built a month ago now] but doubt that will do anything-per text message my inquiry has been assigned to a Chat manager.

romer

romer

Dizzyg12

billyt1963

Dacar,

Sorry to hear that. Hopefully they will meet the next date or you can get something extra for your trouble.

Billy

mcrompton

I too am still waiting, original window for delivery was 6/27-7/2. No car or updated ETA at this point. It also was built later than originally expected.

romer

billyt1963

mcrompton

Fury63

birdonamission

Congratulations. Make sure they don't let people take it out on test drives...LOL.

Fury63

birdonamission