02-21-2012, 01:09 PM | #1 |
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My baby is arriving at the port tomorrow . I just hearing that the F30 are made in Africa is that true? |
02-21-2012, 01:14 PM | #2 |
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Not a biggie. My current e90 was built in Rosslyn, South Africa and it holds up well. I would not be worried about a South African build in the least! If you want to guarantee a German build, you're going to have to pick it up yourself.
Too bad they don't offer a pick up in South Africa, that would be an excellent trip |
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02-21-2012, 01:35 PM | #6 | |
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My guess is that people haven't been to South Africa, it's quite an advanced country. Probably more advanced than some European countries out there (no offense). |
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02-21-2012, 01:41 PM | #9 | |
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Sorry for my ignorance hahahah. I believe in certain thing's. I't should be built in Europe |
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02-21-2012, 01:44 PM | #10 |
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That said, I'm sure they can arrange something for you if you like to have German build but prepared to get some laughs at you.. Lol, I mean he knows alot about that factory as far I've seen. |
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02-21-2012, 01:53 PM | #14 |
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Thank you. I very much agree. I dont know this mumbo jumbo African plant. All my BMW's where built in beautiful civilized Europe my bmw has never given me an issue. It's even saved my life
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02-21-2012, 01:57 PM | #15 |
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Rosslyn plan has been one of the top performing BMW assembly plants for decades. I am very happy that my 2005 built E90 325i was built there. Very happy, no crying and 1,000,000+ thumbs up!!!!!
Looking forward to my SA built F30.
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Some BMWs are built in the USA
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Mehh i guess im use to my EURo built car. My ignorance is getting in the way of proper judgement. Lets hope its good |
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Yes, 3 Series are built here in South Africa. Soon to be close to 600 a day
The F30 will also be supplied to the USA and Canada from here Actually 25% of all F30 worldwide will be built here. Full production of F30 was opened here today. So first shipment to USA will be soon. Whats the difference if a ABB robot welds the car in Germany or here in South Africa ? A lot of the German assembled cars leather comes from here anyway. BMW South Africa have also won the internal quality competition for many years. A number of markets reported 60-80% less faults when switching from Germany to South African supplied E46 or E90. BMW USA quality does not come close. Especially not when they made the Z4.
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Final assembly and testing is by human hand, no matter where the factory.
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Since you seem to be so concerned about your F30 being built in South Africa, I thought I read somewhere in this forum that the South African plant for F30 building won't come online until March. This was also part of the reasoning for not all colors being available at launch (limit orders as all production facilities weren't yet available).
After getting the VIN for my 335i currently enroute, I decoded it to find out that mine was built in Munich to be specific. If the first letter of your VIN is W, its German built. The specific factory built at is the 11th character.
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