Possible LEAF Roll-Out Delivery Delays

no way harry!

 

just saw a leaf commercial, just like the ol' gm, make it sound like you've been selling them for years.

 

I take it this delay of a couple of weeks has some monumental significance I am unaware of. Will the world end in the meantime ?

 

What do you mean couple of weeks ? We are talking about 15 days here !

 

Who knows ... it may be only 4 or 5 days ... and the nit-picky gets worse. Nissan MAY just put one at each dealership to technically say "they were delivered in December". That sounds so GM-ish ... and who wants to wear THAT label.

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Probably at least another year before we get ours here in Oklahoma.

 

probably wind up like the altima hybrid, they won't sell them everywhere.

 

Compared to the increasingly painful Boeing 787 delays, this seems like nothing.

 

A year for me, too.

 

here is a link concerning the delays.

Nissan to deliver only five Leafs this year, more delays look imminent | VentureBeat

 

I got an email from Nissan. I am sure everyone on the reservation list got the same email. It said that cars would be delivered between 4 and 7 months after the order date. The first orders were taken on the last day of August, and limited numbers of people were given the opportunity to order in following months.

The email also said that my delivery timing WAS NOT CHANGED. It would appear that this is a falsehood. Perhaps they will say that my delivery timing has not changed because my delivery timing has not yet been set. But it's clear that planned delivery dates have been significantly revised.

But if the guy working on repairing my electric Porsche (a major job, as the original conversion was effed up royally) gets it done before my Leaf arrives, I may well decide to walk away from the Leaf. My dealer told me I am under no obligation to buy it, and even requested that I place the order even if I have no intention of buying it, since that would give him a car to sell.

Oh, and the announcement that there will be no dealer demo cars because people can test-drive the car at one of their preview events: I'd have had to travel all the way to Seattle to attend that event, so that's worthless to me.

Either Nissan is having serious last-minute engineering issues with design or production of the cars, or else they have decided to renege on their promises in order to reap the additional profit of selling the cars promised to the U.S. in Japan.

Nissan has not been handling this well. The entire roll-out has been a fiasco, from serious bugs in the ordering process, to selecting a dishonest company to install EVSEs, to these delays.

 

just an update. it would appear that the delivery of "real" Leafs may start as early as next week. we have had our 6 publicity deliveries for each area of the EV Highway Project out of the way so most are guessing its now time for the "regular" people.

inside sources state that this week a ship docked at Long Beach with 52 additional Leafs.

 

Another gloom & doom'er gets shot down, loosing all creditability

Nissan cargo ship that just left Long Beah CA had over 50 Leafs unloaded, and another ship is due on the west coast in prior to year end.

 

Thanks!

Got any proof / reference / source / photos ?

Is this your source? My Nissan Leaf Forum • View topic - The 20 Dec Ship Arrived

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December 28, 9:56am - Nissan delivers 10 Leafs to Japan's Kanagawa Prefectural government.
Nissan delivers 10 Leafs to Japan's Kanagawa Prefectural government — Autoblog Green

Nissan Commits to "Thousands" of LEAF Deliveries by "End of Summer 2011" | PluginCars.com

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that is the source. but many Leaf buyers have already been contacted by their dealers to expect to pick up their Leafs at various intervals over the next two weeks. the closer to San Diego, the lesser the interval.

so we have San Diego area, Jan 3rd or so.
Phoenix, San Fran, around the 11th
Portland/Seattle anywhere from the 14th to the 21st.

now with all this. previously we had our Dashboard giving us a delivery estimate. mine said "week of Jan 19th". it is now saying pending. but the Dashboard has gone thru many many hiccups and everytime the Dashboard gets updated (it has several categories and they have been initialized one at a time) it becomes non-functional for a short period of time which usually signifies another step in the purchase process.

the last 3 times the Dashboard hiccuped and came back to life, we were provided with vehicle VIN, Carwings then loan applications.

gotta say; what else is left but the call to COME ON DOWN AND GET YOUR LEAF!!"

 

let me repeat what i have said many many times. when i get my Leaf, "a thousands rolls of duct tape could not shut me up"

**edit**
a rumor is now circulating that someone will be picking up their Leaf either today or tomorrow. this will be the first true consumer delivery...squeaking in a 2010 delivery!!

 

Thanks. I hope they arrive soon. Please keep us updated!