If you placed and order, there will be a VON (vehicle order number) issued when your order has been accepted into their system. Once the vehicle is ready to be built, the VIN will be issued. Talk to the dealer, they should be able to give you a VON at a minimum. Once you have that number, you can call Subaru Customer Support. They will be able to give you a status update.
Just adding to this, unless you placed your order with a sdc specified dealer in the ny/nj area, they do not give out vons, they have control numbers after your order has gone through. But trying to call sdc and get any info out of them is useless because they wont have it.
Already have a Von. Ordered 6 weeks ago just don't think they can ship the car in less than 2 weeks. They never informed me of ordering issues and promised it within 8 weeks.
I got my $500 credit by calling and complaining about the length of my wait. I placed my order on 9/10/12 for a 2013 STi. Around the end of October, beginning of November, my order status went to "HOLD". My dealer told me to call and complain to SOA. I did a couple times a few weeks apart. Typical complaints, "it's been inconvenient, other manufactures don't do this, etc". That's when I requested some form of compensation for my troubles, I was offered $500. My vehicle is scheduled to arrive at the dealer on 12/10/12.
Checked with SOA and received both the VIN for my vehicle, as well as confirmation that it's stateside with an updated ETA of 12/17 (Texas). Those of you who were hoping for a WRXmas should have your cars on the way. If your car isn't on US soil yet it's probably not going to happen this year. Hope yall don't get stuck waiting in the 4-month extension that came down last week.
Well it's been a long long road... Ordered Aug 11th, picking car up later this afternoon. Almost 4 months to the day.... And of course what could be more perfect then a nice rain/wind storm today while I am getting it too lol...
I ditched the idea of ordering. I sold my current vehicle waaay sooner than expected and will need a car asap. Flew from Pennsylvania to Orlando this morning and picked up my '13 ISM Limited hatch. The car and myself are sitting on a train making our way back up north . I only put 30 miles on it from the dealer to the train station, but I'm already in love.
Best part is that I got a much better deal than my local dealer would offer for an ordered car, so the travel expenses were negligible.
Here's few quick pics I snapped off with my phone cam while still at the dealership, it's not the best pics I've ever taken that's for sure but it's was all I could get for now since it was starting to rain pretty hard and was loosing daylight fast..
Here's few quick pics I snapped off with my phone cam while still at the dealership, it's not the best pics I've ever taken that's for sure but it's was all I could get for now since it was starting to rain pretty hard and was loosing daylight fast..
Hmmph saleswoman said that there is no scheduled ETA on the website but said its "released" -> means that Subaru released it to the trucking company and that its a max 2 day shipping process once on the truck. After they get the vehicle in they gotta do the inspection and get the car ready.
The stock exhaust on the sedan looks better/shiny compared to the stock hatchback exhaust. Boston, that's the regular/non-SPT exhaust right? The tips look naaayce
My car arrived at the dealership last night. Should be picking it up today! Have to work through trade in and financing (already have competitive offers to work off of) and then I should be good to go.
About the break in thing, not sure if this helps make your decision but I am the type that drives my cars pretty hard most of the time, nothing death defying or anything like that but I accelerate hard often, and will probably be taking the car to the drag strip fairly often as well. I feel the harder break in seats the rings better then going by the book (it's the entire point of Motoman's early heat and pressure plus cooldown cycles), so what I am saying is the better sealings will protect me from burning oil when driving it hard like I intend to do (and may produce a few extra HP ). But if you are a more conservative driver the slow going break-in peroid of 1000 miles might not even phase you, and if you don't plan to drive it all that hard then the standard break-in method's seal i'm sure is perfectly fine since you might not be driving it hard anyway.
As an engineer I tend to think outside the box and give things a try that I can make sense of, it just seemed like simple physics to me that's why I gave it a shot awhile back. The people that seem to be against this break-in are usually the more conservative "i'm sure the manufacture knows best" type but they don't concider most of that info is a copy and paste from nearly every car in the fleet and most people don't drive hard, they like the MPGs lol
I drive pretty conservative for the most part, but I will be going hard once and awhile. I want to be able to go hard and not break anything down the line. I'll probably do a more conservative approach to the motoman's break in... Maybe take it up to 5,000.
how many miles or how long do you drive it for each time you take it out during the breakin?
Well around my area there is always a lot of traffic so getting ideal conditions for the break-in is hard unless I head out between like 2-6am so it took a little more mileage to get where I am now then I would have liked. But to answer your question I picked the car up with 4 miles, I drove it easy until about 25 miles making sure to always be varying RPMs (aka cruise controling) and I parked it overnight, headed out this morning drove it for about 15 mins easily and did my pulls starting at 5000, then 5500, then 6000, then 2 at 6200 drove easily for about 5 miles and repeated and parked car around 60 miles total for about 3 hours to cool and repeated this again later in the day the same way and parked it with around 90 miles. Going to run it the 3rd time tonight so it can sit overnight and tomorrow I start driving it as I plan to for the life of it (I will get an oil change around 500 miles).
That's actually good news for you. That mean your order has been accepted by Subaru factory. You might even get a VIN and ETA soon. My order was in hold since day 1 and stay like that for 7 weeks then all of sudden my salesman told me my order status updated to "Ordered" then a week later told me status updated to "Scheduled" with ETA 12/31 and a VIN#.
Patience is a virtue lol, I ordered mine 9/20 and still waiting, but I did just get the VIN#, no ETA yet, probably won't get it until after the new year would be my guess...I live in the northern NJ area
Just placed an order with Clayton from Ramsey Subaru in NJ. Satin White Pearl 13 5dr STi w/ SPT boost guage, cargo tray, and all weather mats. OTD price is 35554$. I think I am getting a real good deal here
Just placed an order with Clayton from Ramsey Subaru in NJ. Satin White Pearl 13 5dr STi w/ SPT boost guage, cargo tray, and all weather mats. OTD price is 35554$. I think I am getting a real good deal here