on his user name. Man knows a lot about what is going on. I asked the same type question you did about "some strange number" and he broke the code for me. Look on zcar.com and search his name there as well.

And be nice... never know who is reading what you post.

Good luck.

 

I did the search on "ZISME" and found the following information. Also saw another post where ZISME asked we go to zcar.com and find some of the info we were asking for answered there. ZISME is the 2nd in charge of launching the Z here in the US. Had his name revealed on one of the sites I saw. Today, he was on CNN for about a minute in a news update on the Z. Here is the post I referred to earlier. Also, ZISME has another email address that is from his office with company name. Just post requests to him and hope you are one of the lucky ones to get answered.


Author: ZISME (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: Aug 10, 3:34pm

Dealer has distribution reports that are available to print out at his dealership daily...two examples are KMD3210-R2 - Production Ordering Detail Report and KMD3210-R3 - Customer Orders Report. Both of these reports would tell a Dealer what month vehicles assigned to him are scheduled to be built and what month they are estimated to be delivered. This much information is available for all the pre-orders. Must be understood that these delivery estimates are just that...estimates.

Once a vehicle gets built and loaded on a ship and the ship departs for the U.S. a vin# will show up in our system. Once the vin# shows up, the two (2) reports referenced above update with the vin # and a closer approximation of when the vehicle will arrive. Please understand that vin info is not available until the ship sails and we are going to still be building pre-orders in September, so it will be quite a while before vin info is available for all pre-sell customers. Now the hard part, getting some dealers to look at these reports and communicate the information.

Let me stress that some dealers are communicating with their customers and working the program correctly, others may be hesitant to pass on the info on the reports because it is subject to change and they don't trust the report and still others may for whatever reason not be familiar with the reports. We are communicating to the dealer the importance of calling their customers and will continue to press the issue. I guess if it were me, I would try and visit my dealer in person and inquire. Nissan Consumer Affairs is an avenue to register your complaint, however they are not equipped to handle a situation where you feel your vehicle should have been built before someone else or you think your dealer held your order and didn't fax it in quick enough.

Regarding the other issues in your post.....in order for us to be able to run a pre-sell program where you would be given the opportunity to have us build the car to your specifications, there needed to be ample lead time between the beginning of the program and when the first production order was due to the factory. Our program began in January and the first order to the factory was due in April (to begin to be built in June). So there was a large number of pre-sell orders available for the first production order, however there was only a small number of orders that were available to be built in that production order.

The pre-sell orders left then moved to the next months order, then what was left was moved to the next month, etc. We did the best we could to try and prioritize early orders first, but the orders also had to be distributed fairly across the country. For example we could not fill all west coast orders before east coast orders. I can tell you that we did make sure that pre-sold orders were prioritized before unsold orders.

Other factors come in to play at the factory, but I can not explain how that process works. It is possible and probably did happen that some dealers mistakenly held their orders before faxing them in...I don't know who, if any, and it is not going to change anything to find out. But it wouldn't matter how I explained the process there will always be an exception...just the way things work. I know everyone is not going to be happy about the delivery information they receive, but you will still receive the car you ordered, based on your specifications, within the delivery window we communicated in your confirmation letter.

 

Thoutht you might want to see the reply I received from ZISME to my question about strange numbers.

Author: ZISME (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: Aug 10, 3:41pm

He is looking at the right report, he just looked in the wrong place. He is reading off options: AKP - Aluminum Kick Plate, FLO - Floormats, TMA - Trunk Mat, 50S - 50 State Emissions....Now please give the guy credit for trying, and ask again....nicely please.