04-02-2016, 10:20 PM | #1 |
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Need a faster ship for my M3
Story of my own personal fun/torture.
Have been tracking the new addition to the family and hopefully into the last month of its long journey to its new home. Placed the purchase at the end of Jan and had a few false starts, which is another story. Told that it would be a March build/May delivery. So once I had the VIN from the dealer I was able to track where she was in the world. First step was finding out which ship she was on, and was pleasantly surprised to see that it must have been a very early March build since it was loaded onto the ship on the 10th March. Then the long wait started. Nearly 50 days to arrive at my home port with an ETA of 22nd April. So at the moment she has just left point 6, which is Durban, South Africa. Still a long way to get to point 11. Sigh. Here is the ship now, just leaving Durban. Its great to be able to track all this but there is a hint of torture that goes with it. Hurry up ship, why only 16knots? At least I have the knowledge that it arrives in Brisbane this month. Then another 10 days or so before I can pick her up at the dealership. |
04-03-2016, 12:14 AM | #2 |
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Mate thats the worst part having to wait on a slow moving ship I remember when I too had the torturous time looking at a ship which moved so slow... Mine was parked in the Panama Canal for a week due to last years cyclone which was moving slowly south from Fiji It took forever to arrive in Brisbane and when it did I went to the Port of Brisbane to see how they drive them out of the boat. I was paranoid that they will do burnouts in my car but I was lucky that some old guy drove it out very slowly
5 x M4's and 2 x M3's was unloaded that afternoon and one blue M4 out of the lot was driven out by some young hooligan revving it up like hell glad it wasn't mine which was driven out like that! Anyway one of the M3's had some door dings in it which could have been from being loaded up |
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https://www.2wglobal.com/webapps?url...uickSearchPage This will give you the vessel name which can be used in a number of ship tracking sites. I used http://www.marinetraffic.com/ |
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04-03-2016, 10:10 PM | #6 |
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I wouldn't worry about it, just take a drive to the port of Brisbane once the ship docks. The fence is so close to the road that you can smell the new cars unloading
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04-04-2016, 01:59 AM | #8 |
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04-04-2016, 02:18 AM | #10 |
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Yes, I am based in Adelaide, the ship will first stop at Perth, but i don't think BMW will arrange to transport it to Adelaide from Perth, so i will have to wait it transport from Mel. I have ordered silverstone M3 with CP, and also thinking add other performance parts like front lip, rear diffuser, MP exhaust and MP steering wheel.
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I went for sapphire black M3 with sakhir orange interior. First things are M Performance black kidney grille and sidewall bars, followed by 3M window tint and full external OptiCoat. Will code a couple of things and then possibly JB4 and MPE later in the year seeing how the car grows on me. I do like the look of the MP steering wheel, especially with the race display. |
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Are you getting BMW to change the exhaust and steering wheel? Did see a write up a while ago of someone changing over their steering wheel themselves. I love tinkering with cars, but it looked pretty involved. |
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04-05-2016, 01:43 AM | #16 | |
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I was concerned when HUD is activated its too many distractions. I have MPE with Akropovic DP and JB4. AWESOME 😊 |
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04-05-2016, 03:07 AM | #17 | |
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Do u have any vids of your car? Would love to have a listen from idling to revving to fly-bys I'm not asking for much |
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04-05-2016, 11:44 PM | #19 |
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How do you track your car?
Mine arrives next week - I regularly call up the dealer I purchased it through and get updates. I wasn't given any details on this tracking system... That's fukn bull shit.
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04-06-2016, 01:09 AM | #20 | |
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Go http://www.2wglobal.com/ and click on 'Track and trace', then enter your VIN in 'Cargo ID'. |
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