[Speedy3]

Originally Posted by wife-dog-bmw

Smokey- Your ride looks awesome....

For all those on the Glovis Challenger headed to the east coast (Baltimore 10/9). It is still sitting outside the port of Altamira. Is it waiting for the longshoreman strike that is supposed to occur on 10/1. Who knows. I am sure we are in for a delay. The last article I read said car companies knew it was coming and have been preparing for it. Not sure what they are doing but waiting to ship? Maybe. Stay tuned......

Crap, my M2 is on that ship. I was figuring it’s waiting for the hurricane to pass. Didn’t think it would wait to see what happens with the strike. I hope it’s on its way when I check it in the morning.

[curtdragon]

Odd request, but anyone who is purchasing out of state can you PM me, I have a few questions.

[vivcal]

Hurricane Helene is what's causing the BMW site to be down...??

[ednir98]

Originally Posted by vivcal

Hurricane Helene is what's causing the BMW site to be down...??

It's possible if the site is hosted on a server located in the impacted area.

[vivcal]

Originally Posted by ednir98

It's possible if the site is hosted on a server located in the impacted area.

Yeah it's possible - I don't think any major cloud providers have servers in the affected areas so I was surprised that they listed that as the reason

[ednir98]

vivcal whatever it is I hope it's resolved quickly. Even the dealer's system is down. Was supposed to send my down payment yesterday but can't.

[vivcal]

Originally Posted by ednir98

vivcal whatever it is I hope it's resolved quickly. Even the dealer's system is down. Was supposed to send my down payment yesterday but can't.

Yeah wow this looks like a major outage affecting all of their systems -- The Genius line has a message that says they are "closed due to unforeseen circumstances"

[blue135]

If the originating connection cannot get to the cloud, would that not mean the originating server is out of service?

And there are several cloud operations in Georgia and the Carolinas. Not aware of any in Florida

[vivcal]

BroDoze We're waiting for those pics!! Hopefully you weren't affected by the system outage today.

I heard they lost power at their offices in Spartanburg, SC. I believe that's where they have their data center as well... But pretty wild that a company of this size and scale doesn't have cloud backups or some kind of disaster recovery.

[SpaceGhost]

Pulled the trigger today. Probably a November build

2025 M2
Alpine White
Black interior with red accents
6 speed manual
Lighting package
Shadowline lights
Red calipers
Live Cockpit Pro

The wait begins...

[IamJoe]

Originally Posted by SmokeyandtheBandit

Interesting to see a mix of Yokohama’s and Michelins from the same batches. I’ve heard a few other people say they got PS4S on there ‘25’s. I’m hoping mine has them tomorrow. I’ve had the advan sports before on my STI type RA and I was not impressed.

Yokohamas on mine.

[BroDoze]

Originally Posted by vivcal

BroDoze We're waiting for those pics!! Hopefully you weren't affected by the system outage today.

I heard they lost power at their offices in Spartanburg, SC. I believe that's where they have their data center as well... But pretty wild that a company of this size and scale doesn't have cloud backups or some kind of disaster recovery.

Hey! Have a bunch of pics. Just been so wrapped up in washing and playing with the new toy! It’s freaking AWESOME. Love it!

I got the rear CF spoiler installed today (that was.. interesting) and have a big day tomorrow installing stuff. IS2000 pads, FPB front reflectors, Midpipe, axle-back etc.
Goes in Monday for full-PPF and tint. They say they’ll need it for like 5 days. That going to be rough going without it. I’m still trying to learn iDrive n all that stuff.
Very I’m-rested with the car. The audio sounds great once I got the EQ dialed and Surround disabled. Surround was just making a giant mess of the sound. Only put about 20mi on the car because I was so busy doing other stuff to it.
I’ll post some more pics when it fully detailed and PPF’d.


While I was picking up the car this morning at the dealer, BMW mothership was down. They were able to process me manually I guess n said they’d email some additional E-sign stuff once the system was back up.
I don’t think they knew it was hurricane related.

[vivcal]

CA texted me this afternoon and said that the car was on its way from Oxnard/Port Hueneme.

Apparently it doesn't come straight to the dealership for some reason? They told me it's going to the Richmond, CA railyard first (located around 30ish miles from the dealer) and then it'll be put on another truck from there. Hoping it doesn't take too long, but I'm assuming it's going to be another 2 days minimum when factoring in PDI as well.