I have traded in my '98 and I have a few days left to decide on museum delivery or not for my 04 Z06. I heard the delivery is different than it used to be but I do not know the details. Are they still loaded on a truck and taken to a local dealership for prep? How many miles were on your car at the delivery? Is it worth the 400 bucks? Recommendations please.

 

I have not ever done the delivery, but I have seen it at the Museum. No, they do not take the car to a dealer, they now do all the prep work at the Museum. Go to http://www.corvettemuseum.com for more info.

Michael

 

The $400 isn't really extra is it? You pay freight to the dealership anyways, but this way you get an experience out of it. :chevy

 

Yes it is extra besides paying the shipping charge. All that do the Museum delivery swear it's worth it. I personally can't see paying that much extra. I'd rather just visit the museum and keep that money for mods.

 

I took the museum dilivery and it is most deffinetly worth. The tour you get taken on is different than the normal tour. The tour you get is just you, one or two other people you take with you and the guy from the museum. you get taken on a factory tour thats probably twice as long as the regular one. The museum tour is better too. You get taken through the back storage area and they show you all these extremely rare vettes and a whole lot of other stuff. plus becuase its a private tour theres no real hurry so you can just talk to the guy and ask all the questions you want. The tour ends with your car on display in the museum. Also all the workers are extremely nice and very proud of what they do, especially the people that work in the areas only the private tour goes through. We even got to see the line for the new cadillac XLR, but back then it wasnt up and running yet, and only half of it was built. Though we did get to see the test mold with body panels on it in proper positioning.

I very much recommend museum delivery as it is twice, if not three times, the experience than if you had went there and took the regular tours.

Mongoos

 

Defintely! Not even a little bit of doubt. TAKE THE MUSEUM DELIVERY (option RC8).

(1) The factory delivers your Corvette to the Museum.
(2) Mega-knowledgabel Corvette aficianados at the museum go over the new Corvette with a fine-tooth comb...
(3) For any and every discrepancy they find, the Corvette goes back across the street where the factory rectifies the issue
(4) You get an insider tour of the plant, about half of this tour is "behind the scenes" stuff that is not shown on the regular tour
(5) Seeing "Welcome <your name here>" up in lights over the doorway to the plant is, well, totally awesome. Although you cannot take a camera into the plant, you have to get some pictures of this! (I didn't know about it and missed my chance when I was there)
(6) The museum supplies an employee to facilitate your plant tour and act as your guide on the tour so you can ask all the questions you want and, for most of them, you get answers. (the normal, open house, tour does not have guides. Instead, they have workers placed at strategic points to assure that you follow the path marked for the normal tour).
(7) Wearing a special badge that says "My New Corvette is going home tody." while you take the tour puts you into an in-crowd that visibly changes the attitude of everyone in the plant as you are taking your tour.
(8) Instead of simply wandering through the NCM, you have a guide that knows all about Corvettes, the cars on display, the museum, and all the people behind the legend that is Corvette.
(9) The museum tour even includes the "back rooms." We saw and heard about a lot of cars that are not even on display. In addition, we saw and heard about a lot of other "way cool" Corvette historical artifacts. Lastly, we got to see and hear about a lot of things that go on behind the scenes in the National Corvette Museum.
(10) It is so cool to see, right in the entrance to the museum, a big sign that says "Welcome <your name here>" (we kept that as a souvenier).
(11) What can I say, when you round that bend in the tour and look up to see your new Corvette sitting there, in the museum, in a roped off area, with the sign that says it's your Corvette... Unforgettable.
(12) They hand you the keys and you crank it up, right there in the museum.
(13) Your tour guide goes through every detail of your Corvette and its history. In addition, they go through every control and how to operate every option with you.
(14) Although they back it out of the museum for you, you drive it around front for a photo and....
(15) the traditional "make your mark" spinning of the tires in front of the museum (have someone get pictures and/or video of this too).

As I said earlier... GET THE RC8 (museum delivery) option. It's value far exceeds any and every cost and inconvenience you may have to endure to get it.

One last piece of advice, when you go, have a friend with high-bandwidth internet access monitor the museum net-cams on that day. Coordinate with him (or her) so that every time they see you on a net cam, they can do a "capture". That makes for a very cool set of jpg's (pictures) that will add to your collection of delivery pictures.

dave
2001 Z06 (Speedway White / Torch Red)

P.S. - almost forgot, take lots of extra film (or memory) for the cameras.

dd

 

Thanks for the insight PowerMad, it sounds awesome! :cheers: I hope to do it some time.

 

Wow...I had no idea that it was that cool....guess I know what to pick for delivery option now. :cheers:

 

Thanks alot guys for the great responses. I am definitely going to do it now. BTW, about how many miles can I expect to be on this car at delivery?

 

mine had about 5 or 6.. not to shabby

 

It's gotta be pretty hard to have any less.

 

Great experience and would do it again in a heartbeat!! :D :D :D :D :D


[Modified by ckrueger, 3:00 PM 10/17/2003]

 

ACTUALLY - you want to try to get ahold of someone at the GM plant and coordinate the assembly of your car with the museum delivery.

During the GM plant tour we were told for FREE you can be there while your car is being built. Photos will be taken of you during the process and you follow the car along the line. You are the first to sit in your car and the first to start your car and you receive a "birth certificate" for the car. I doubt you get to be there for the track test though :nono: to see them put your car through the paces.

I've heard it can be difficult to arrange this but the tour guide made it sound like it was no big deal. I'd definatelly look into it. Apparently is has something to do with WHOM you purchase the Vette through so find an extrememly reputable and large Corvette dealer.

The plant tours stop for quite a long time starting in December and lasts a few months if I remember correctly.


[Modified by KCvetteowner, 3:26 PM 10/17/2003]

 

Clay, My wife and I took the tour last August (2002) when we oicked up our car. It was the best $400.00 I could have spent. The tour you get is more than just the "regular" visitor's get. It is an amazing plant. Our car had 8 miles on it from a tech at the Corvette Museum. Ours was displayed in the "Atrium" but I hear that they are going to use "Delivery Rooms" for future deliveries. Your friends can watch you get your car on the Museum website.
If you have any more questions I 'd be happy to answer them. Hope you enjoy your new car...

 

Not really, it depends where the odometer is orginally set. Most manufacturers set it below 0, such as 99,980 or so to allow delivery mileage not "to show". They know that customers complain about mileage and thus take very basic steps to avoid it showing.

I would also assume that the car is driven by the factory personnel before it is actually delivered at the factory to ensure that no major problem exists. Some exotic manufacturers actually drive their vehicles approximately 100 miles before they are delivered.

And does it really matter, since the factory mileage doesn't count against the warranty?


:cheers:

 

Maybe this will encourage you to get the R8C delivery
http://www.hbscomputers.com/z06

Joe

 

Every Vette is, in fact, driven before delivery....on a chassis dyno up to a maximum speed of approximately 71 to 75mph. I asked what they are accomplishing by this and the answer was, they are mainly checking out electrical systems and the functioning of the car prior to being put on a transport.

The really eye opener is that right behind the dyno is a "hospital" which had about 12 to 15 cars in it that didn't pass the dyno or for other malfunctions. They get fixed, back on the dyno, worked on again, back on the dyno as many times as it takes. Now what was I thinking when I saw this? "Wonder how many times they didn't build my car correctly the first time". With 12-15 cars in the hospital at a moment in time and with daily production of only 135 Vettes, there's part of the answer to the quality problems frequently complained about here.

I also asked the college kid tour guide why Chevy doesn't fix the differential leak problem and he says a lot of people ask about this but that the factory isn't really familiar with this problem....sure, right.

Nevertheless, it's a great feeling to have a 170 something mile an hour car sitting no more than 30 feet away right now. The factory tour and museum visit was a good experience last week. :D


[Modified by Roadfrog, 11:54 PM 10/19/2003]

 

I got mine at the museum, and it is definitely worth it!

NOTE THAT FACTORY TOURS ARE BEING SUSPENDED FOR C6 PRODUCTION.

CHECK WITH THE MUSEUM, OR LOOK AT http://www.bowlinggreenassemblyplant.com/ FOR MORE INFORMATION.

(I think they will let you come back for the special tour after the blackout)

 

The NCM delivery was awesome. I picked up my ZO6 earlier this year and it was well worth it. Besides all that was mentioned above. I was able to start a new ZO6 on the assembly line for the first time and was given a certificate stating I took part in The Birth of a New Corvette. (kinda cool) I also received my own build sheet and get 10% off for all merchandise in the corvette store for up to a year. You receive an NCM plaque to hang on the wall and a decal to stick on the drivers door jamb that states "NCM Delivered". I also noticed a few signatures on the diffuser underneath the car from the PDI crew with the build date of the car and "NCM Delived" on it. The car goes through the factory with a huge decal on its windshield stating this is an NCM car and I feel the workers pay more attention to details when an NCM car comes through. My fit and finish is almost perfect and there is not much orange peel on the paint. This is the main reason why I did this option because I thought I would get a better car. So far I have been right.

Oh, one last thing, as you walk into the factory you name appears on an LCD screen that says proud owner of a new corvette. You also get to see the lot where they store the Vettes before the trucks take them away. We are talking hundreds and hundreds of vettes waiting. You also get to see the Vettes that come out do some tests to check for squeaks and rattles as it drives over bumps and simulated potholes. I cannot tell you much more as I do not want to spoil it for you. But it was well worth the extra cost. I would definitely do it again if it was twice the cost.

GOOD LUCk!!!!!

 

Does the standard frieght charge still apply plus the $400 for NCM delivery?