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BMW AG Plants Starting to be Affected by Global Chip Shortage
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I now understand why my M135i has been delayed to mid June at least… (initial delivery was scheduled for beginning of May - car ordered on the 22 of March).
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Ha ha, yes that and fuel prices are part of the reason why US cars are somewhat unpopular over here (although I'm sure even the most die hard USDM car fan will admit a lot of them are bit sub-par), apart from a tiny minority (plus here in the UK we have the steering wheel on the other side!)
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This was bound to happen the shortage is a bit annoying for everything that uses some for of semi conductor as we speak. Great for the subcontractors who probably can drive up prices on stuff now making it more expensive due to demand and supply issue.
Just as with the ridiculous prices on GPUs at the moment, and lets not talk about scalper prices.
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Yeah, put a gallon at 6-8$ and you would see cars shrink pretty fast here as well
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I thought BMW was already seeing effects of this chip shortage and that's why the Driver Assist Pro on the X3/X4 had already been pulled earlier this year.
This article may be a bit misleading, in that it ignore existing cuts BMW had already made to feature availability in certain vehicles. |
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lets hope this is resolved sooner rather then later.
I believe BMW stockpiled a huge amount of chips anticipating this sort of thing, I thought I read that somewhere. Either way like I said above lets hope it gets resolved soon
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Automotive News article:
https://www.autonews.com/manufacturi...-chip-shortage On a side note, Apple iPad and Mac sales were up 79% and 70.1%, respectively, for Q2 2021. That's the global chip shortage.
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Seems like they're focused on idling lower margin models from the compact class. Focus resources to the higher margin larger class models is smart from a financial stand point.
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Have names been named, for the companies that make "chips" that are presently directly impacting auto factories?
Which company(ies), and which of their factories, isn't(aren't) making "chips" in the needed quantity or quality? |
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Start back production of e30 and e36!
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I ordered a 21 X3 M40i and they said they can't do the lumbar adjustment and bolster adjustment for the passenger seat. Those are supposed to be standard features on this model. Gave me a small credit in return, but I obviously would've much rather had the features instead.
I'm not sure if any other features like this aren't available on other models. Since it's an M40i at least I had no issues getting driver assistance pack. |
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I am America only thing big here is the women and the amount of adults that believe in fairies. This forum is the reason Americans buy European cars and date European women. Nobody wants a chevy or a 300lb girlfriend.
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And your women are real beauties. Especially 50 kg northerners. Anyhow, try moving out “X” production back to your shores. Good luck with that and happy selling! |
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BMW bulletin says Driver Assistance Plus will be unavailable on the X3 30i for "the foreseeable future".
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With foundries of that scale everything needs time, a lot of time. We're talking about 5-10 years until you notice the effects of decisions made today. Unfortunately the biggest of those foundries TSMC is running on 110% since they introduced their 7nm manufacturing node. With Intel only producing for themselves there is basically only Samsung that can supply chips in a sufficient manner. Ramping up the capacities is not possible in reasonable time frames (they are building new facilities, but you can probably imagine it takes years until they are ready to go live). Apart from the automotive industry, you can directly see the effects of that shortage in the supply for graphics cards. They are currently going for double the MSRP (although miners buying up all the cards worsen the situation additionally). |
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