congratulation ! But still want
As the others have mentioned. Placing an order with the factory isn't likely going to result in a vehicle being delivered to you. People who placed order back in March still haven't received an order confirmation. The chip shortage has given all production priority to maintaining dealer inventory. The factory is unlikely to fill your order until the supply builds back up at dealerships first. I'm not talking weeks or even months either. You won't see a car in 2021 and maybe not even 2022 the way things are going.
Thank you for this and you are absolutely right that our sample size is relatively small and based on our own experiences and feedback from others within this forum. Some people here have placed and received orders through dealers based on allocated inventory from the manufacturer (i.e. not a factory order). When you receive your factory order, it will be the first that we are aware of.
For sure. The "factory orders" received may just be dealer inventory that matches the Trim/Color ordered but could possibly have different options. I am not 100% certain. Fortunately, most of the "options" available are all easy to add on after market. But basically just wanted to make sure the OP wasn't disheartened thinking that he will never receive a Carnival because he "ordered" one and that his only option was to find one already on the lot somewhere. Because that seems more hopeless than "ordering" one, especially if all the dealer allocated inventory is going to the people who have "ordered".
Did you customize yours or is it a standard trim with a specific color combination?
I did select options such as floor mats, roof rails, etc. We will see whenever it arrives if it has exactly what I selected, or if I was just the next in line to receive a White SX with whatever options it happens to come with.
Interesting. It must be up to the individual dealers how they want the selling process to look to the customer. Here, all the dealers are saying you can only get an SX if you place an order. That must be their way of just building a waiting list for vehicles allocated to them by Kia, and that there isn't a true "order" process. Who knows.
Oddly enough, was walking my son to school this morning and saw my first SX in the wild. Had Texas temp plates with an October expiration so it must have been recently delivered.
That's great to hear. I assume by having an assigned VIN, this was a factory order? Did you customize it at all?
