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      01-14-2018, 09:11 AM   #1
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For those that have done it, how long does the entire process take from arrival to departure on the day of delivery...not including any tour? I've toured the Welt, museum, and factory before so just trying to plan my day aside from a tour.

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For those that have done it, how long does the entire process take from arrival to departure on the day of delivery...not including any tour? I've toured the Welt, museum, and factory before so just trying to plan my day aside from a tour.

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Sorry, just realized there is an ED forum...don't know how to move this.
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      01-15-2018, 05:18 PM   #3
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For those that have done it, how long does the entire process take from arrival to departure on the day of delivery...not including any tour? I've toured the Welt, museum, and factory before so just trying to plan my day aside from a tour.

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You can get out of there in less than an hour if you really want, but why would you want to rush it and shorten such an awesome experience?
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Agreed, it shouldn't take more than an hour. However, I wouldn't rush through it. My specialist was pretty knowledgable. Take advantage of the time you have to learn all about your new ride.
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Agreed, it shouldn't take more than an hour. However, I wouldn't rush through it. My specialist was pretty knowledgable. Take advantage of the time you have to learn all about your new ride.
Nope, don't want to rush it for sure.

We are staying south of Salzburg that evening but I would prefer to actually head south west towards Innsbruck then head east towards our hotel in order to show my wife more of the alps. I'm looking at turning a 90 minute drive to a 4 hour drive but just want to ensure we have enough daylight.

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I agree with the other posters that it's best to take some time and savor the experience. The mountains are magnificent, of course, but there not going anywhere. The delivery experience at Welt is quite unlike anything else you'll ever do.

But if you DO need to get out of there quickly, you can just tell the person at step one in the lounge, when you're completing your paperwork, that you're in a rush and they'll certainly accommodate you.
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I agree with the other posters. Best experience, ever. We went back and forth from the Owner's lounge three times. Great food and drink. Super nice people. It's like the Ritz or Four Seasons times 10. They'll accommodate any reasonable request. I've done two, and planning a third.
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I agree with the other posters. Best experience, ever. We went back and forth from the Owner's lounge three times. Great food and drink. Super nice people. It's like the Ritz or Four Seasons times 10. They'll accommodate any reasonable request. I've done two, and planning a third.
So, how much time did you spend there in total?

Like I said, don't want to rush it but do want to plan the rest of the day.
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So, how much time did you spend there in total?

Like I said, don't want to rush it but do want to plan the rest of the day.
The first time we spent darn near all day going between the Owner's Lounge, to the Welt's first floor attractions, to the museum, to the factory tour. The second time, was "only" half a day. But as others have mentioned, I suspect you could be in and out in 90 minutes, probably less if you told 'em you wanted to be. But I certainly wouldn't recommend that.
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I've done it twice. The first time we flew in that morning, so I scheduled the car pickup for late in the afternoon, 4pm, I think. Don't do that! Too stressful with worrying about the flights, and utterly exhausting. We drove to Stuttgart after the pickup. Got to the Welt at about 11:30am, which was plenty of time to see the Welt and tour the Museum before the pickup with a nice lunch in the lounge.

Second time, we flew in the day before and spent the night. I scheduled the car pickup for very first thing in the morning, 8:45am. Took an hour to do the pickup, then they valet parked the car for us. We did the factory tour, which takes a 2ish hours, then lunch and the museum. Left about 2pm, drove to King Ludwig's castles, toured around the mountains a bit, then drove to Stuttgart again. Also completely exhausting, but less stress about flights. Of course, I got minimal sleep the night before pickup due to the excitement of it all.

A couple interesting things differed between doing ED in 2011 and 2015. The first time, the car had just about enough gas in it to get to a gas station, the second time they gave a full tank, but made note that it was BMWUSA that was paying for that, not BMW! The first time we got a 10E voucher for the gift shop. The second time the voucher PLUS the personalized key chain that was the only thing you could actually buy for 10E! And they threw in safety vests for each person in the party. Also because I had ordered the H/K stereo, H/K was giving out a nice Bluetooth desk speaker.

If you are buying a car with NAV, it will not have the Europe maps loaded into the system, but rather maps on a special USB thumbdrive. You can't take it out! And there is no address info for most of Eastern Europe. You can still enter addresses by GPS or by moving the cursor. Luckily, I already knew my way around Budapest well enough! Don't forget to take that thumbdrive out when you drop the car off. Also, I was exceedingly annoyed that the delivery center removed the brackets for the warning triangle from the trunk lid. My dealership ordered replacements for me gratis though.

If you are into cars other than BMWs, I highly recommend driving over to Stuttgart (a nice couple hours on the autobahn) and touring the Porsche and Mercedes Benz museums. The Porsche museum is small, do that in the morning, have lunch, then spend the afternoon at the MASSIVE MB museum.
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There's another thread somewhere where it' also mentioned about some of the stuff you may also want for driving 'round that part of Europe. It'd be a lot easier if BMW can provide the accessories on collection (1L screenwash; spare bulb set; parking disc; hi-visibility jackets).

At the risk of repetition, if you go to Austria or Switzerland, you need to buy a windscreen sticker ('vignette') to use the freeways and some main roads. You can usually buy one at the border or at petrol stations. Highway police in A and CH are hot on stopping cars without a vignette.

Most EU countries use a parking 'disc' for 'free' parking (but with a limit on maximum parking time) - this is just a piece of cardboard with a 12h dial and you set the dial to your arrival time and display it in the window. Most garages hand them out for free.

This is a contentious issue, but BMW is hot on only using BMW concentrate in the screenwash when you refill it. PLain water is fine, but just be aware that using cheap petrol station screenwash can cause problems. So I'd pick up a 1L bottle of this on delivery if possible.

Some countries require you to carry a set of spare bulbs in the car. Again, this is something that would be useful to get when the car is collected. Be aware that this can be pricey (£80 for my M235i!).

Carrying Hi-visibility jackets is also mandatory in most EU countries. If you are forced to stop on the hard shoulder or break down, you need to put them on if you get out the car. Hopefully, you get these on collection.
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I've done it twice. The first time we flew in that morning, so I scheduled the car pickup for late in the afternoon, 4pm, I think. Don't do that! Too stressful with worrying about the flights, and utterly exhausting. We drove to Stuttgart after the pickup. Got to the Welt at about 11:30am, which was plenty of time to see the Welt and tour the Museum before the pickup with a nice lunch in the lounge.

Second time, we flew in the day before and spent the night. I scheduled the car pickup for very first thing in the morning, 8:45am. Took an hour to do the pickup, then they valet parked the car for us. We did the factory tour, which takes a 2ish hours, then lunch and the museum. Left about 2pm, drove to King Ludwig's castles, toured around the mountains a bit, then drove to Stuttgart again. Also completely exhausting, but less stress about flights. Of course, I got minimal sleep the night before pickup due to the excitement of it all.

A couple interesting things differed between doing ED in 2011 and 2015. The first time, the car had just about enough gas in it to get to a gas station, the second time they gave a full tank, but made note that it was BMWUSA that was paying for that, not BMW! The first time we got a 10E voucher for the gift shop. The second time the voucher PLUS the personalized key chain that was the only thing you could actually buy for 10E! And they threw in safety vests for each person in the party. Also because I had ordered the H/K stereo, H/K was giving out a nice Bluetooth desk speaker.

If you are buying a car with NAV, it will not have the Europe maps loaded into the system, but rather maps on a special USB thumbdrive. You can't take it out! And there is no address info for most of Eastern Europe. You can still enter addresses by GPS or by moving the cursor. Luckily, I already knew my way around Budapest well enough! Don't forget to take that thumbdrive out when you drop the car off. Also, I was exceedingly annoyed that the delivery center removed the brackets for the warning triangle from the trunk lid. My dealership ordered replacements for me gratis though.

If you are into cars other than BMWs, I highly recommend driving over to Stuttgart (a nice couple hours on the autobahn) and touring the Porsche and Mercedes Benz museums. The Porsche museum is small, do that in the morning, have lunch, then spend the afternoon at the MASSIVE MB museum.
Sorry for not replying sooner. This one missed my radar!

Yes, what you did the second time is what we are planning. Flying in the night before then plan to do the delivery first thing, then tour, but skipping the museum. I wasn't all that impressed with it when I was there in 2010.

I've been to Stuttgart and Porsche. Loved it! I've also done Lambo, Ferrari (museum only) and Pagani over the years. I've done the BMW factory tour before but my wife hasn't so she's looking forward to that.

We were going to keep the car for 2.5 weeks around Europe but I have now decided we are just going to take the car down through Austria to to a couple of mountain passes and bring the car back to Munich the next day then are renting a car to go through Austria, Budapest, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, back down through Poland, over to Prague, and back to Munich. This way my car will have less kms on it and will start the process of heading home 2+ weeks earlier!

Thanks for the input. Can't wait!
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