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Help clarify. Once I'm given a target production week, is that when production starts or expected completion? If that's the start date how long before completion typically? Getting a little anxious.
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TPW is when production should start
So typically the car would be done by the end of that week. Occasionally the build will be delayed (it was for mine), but usually if your TPW is Monday the xxx, your car will be rolling off the line on xxx+4 days. Then it gets queued to go on a truck (+1-3 days), and then delivery time to your dealer (2-5 days unless there's bad weather).
At least these are the timeframes that I've seen/heard from others. Like I said - mine was delayed a week. The rest of that waiting time was okay, but that last (unexpected) week was a killer!
Congratulations! I hope the time goes by quickly for you!
At least these are the timeframes that I've seen/heard from others. Like I said - mine was delayed a week. The rest of that waiting time was okay, but that last (unexpected) week was a killer!
Congratulations! I hope the time goes by quickly for you!
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St. Jude Donor '21-'22-'23-'24
Approximately 18 hours on the line time. TPW means production should be finished sometime that week. It may or may not have to sit in the quality parking lot hold for awhile.
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According to the Bowling Green Assembly Line web site, each Corvette spends approximately 36 hours on the line:
From start to finish each Corvette spends approximately 36 hours winding seven miles of conveyor systems in the plant.
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My understanding is that the TPW (which is always a Monday date) is the week that the car is scheduled to go into production. Once it hits the line (which could be any day Monday through Friday that week), I believe it spends a shift and a half on-line before coming off. The number of calendar days it spends in production depends on the time of day it began. If it began at the beginning of a day's shift, my understanding is that it would come off around mid-shift the next work day. Mine went on-line on a Thursday and came off the next day.
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36 hours and there IS a hold after it is finished. They wait approx 2 weeks before releasing the car in case they find a production problem. They would rather take it back inside and fix it than to send it off on a truck and then try to get the dealer to replace something before delivery. Especially something that requires lots of labor to disassemble. To find problems they select random cars and put about 35 miles on them. They are also waiting for parts suppliers to notify them of any problems.
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This is absolutely not true. The majority of cars are released to Allied for shipping within a day or two of coming off the line. (Mine came off the line on a Friday and was released to Allied for shipping the following Monday.) A very few here have reported that their cars were held up for a quality hold but they were by far the exception. The only "automatic" hold is imposed on cars with Corvette Museum delivery and this hold is imposed by the museum, not the factory. The museum generally will not schedule deliveries until at least 2 weeks after the car comes off the line; they use this time to ensure that everything about the car is perfect before the customer comes to receive it.
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St. Jude Donor '21-'22-'23-'24
What's the actual online average time to build a corvette?
From start to finish it takes a Corvette between 33-36 hours on our assembly line. However, we only run one shift a day so it takes between 3-5 business days.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me via email or phone.
Thank you,
Jessica Long
Project Coordinator
2425 Nashville Road
Bowling Green, KY 42101
(270) 745-8019
www.bowlinggreenassemblyplant.com
5/3/07
From start to finish it takes a Corvette between 33-36 hours on our assembly line. However, we only run one shift a day so it takes between 3-5 business days.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me via email or phone.
Thank you,
Jessica Long
Project Coordinator
2425 Nashville Road
Bowling Green, KY 42101
(270) 745-8019
www.bowlinggreenassemblyplant.com
5/3/07
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36 hours and there IS a hold after it is finished. They wait approx 2 weeks before releasing the car in case they find a production problem. They would rather take it back inside and fix it than to send it off on a truck and then try to get the dealer to replace something before delivery. Especially something that requires lots of labor to disassemble.
This part is true. Some cars are selected for additional quality checks.
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Here's an e-mail that I received from Kevin shortly before my car was built. (Things actually happened a day later than he predicted.)
Mike
I have the rest of your vin no # , for order no # JCRZSK the
vin no # is 1G1YY24U455130693 , And the way I got it figure right now it
should be on line on the 6/22/05 Wednesday, and should come off on
Thursday 6/23/05 Thank You Kevin Tarrence 270-745-xxxx
Sounds like the only thing we know for sure is that it's somewhere between 18 and 36 hours.