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Re: My CTS 08 order suffering from constraint [bding] by adamg2
Nov 27, 2007 (8:34 am)
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Replying to: bding (Nov 26, 2007 3:03 pm)

I gathered some reassuring info from my dealer today. Refresher, my very basic CTS is black and black, Y42 package, manual transmission - ordered on Oct 26. After providing my manufacturing number, I was informed that the target build date is the first week in December with expected delivery in early January. Build dates after this time are subject to delays since the factory is shut down for the last 2 weeks of December. No indication of any constraints for the manual transmission according to what I've been told from my sales manager and GM Canada.
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Re: car starting with remote keyless entry [lenbroverman] by thebug
Nov 27, 2007 (11:49 am)
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Replying to: lenbroverman (Nov 26, 2007 6:54 pm)

lenbrover - See page 2-13 in the owner's manual, or us your other key.
 
thebug...
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Re: sunroof question [thebug] by knotem
Nov 27, 2007 (3:20 pm)
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Replying to: thebug (Nov 26, 2007 2:31 pm)

In January, after the NAIAS, I’ll probably try to order a 2WD, DI with all options minus sunroof. I know I wouldn’t be able to get the nav but things might change by then.
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Re: sunroof question [knotem] by thebug
Nov 27, 2007 (6:47 pm)
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Replying to: knotem (Nov 27, 2007 3:20 pm)

knotem - Things with the nav system probably will change by then, or somewhere down the MY because of the voiced indifference with the sunroof. Besides, the nav system is a high dollar option, ($1000 vs. $3145 per order) and I'm sure they will figure a way to work those lost dollars in. They would simply have to just modify the PDW option.
 
If you remember, the PDW option wasn't one of the original options. It came to life (late Sep 07) only after people started requesting the car without the sunroof (as I was told by the dealer), but wanted the other bells and whistles included in their orders.
 
When you look at what the PDW package offers and requires, it's simply a scaled down version of the Premium Lux Collection. It's already too late for me but I hope it changes in time for your order, and the benefit of others who want to go that direction. If they're wise, they will make the change.
 
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Update on my constrained CTS by ctbarker3232
Nov 27, 2007 (8:56 pm)
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Great news. Last Monday, I got an email from my dealer that my CTS with Prem Lux and B20 and P63 had been accepted to be built by GM. Today, I get an email that it is scheduled to be built the week of 12/3. He said he will be able to provide a VIN in a couple of days. My dealer believes I will take delivery before Xmas which would be wonderful.
 
I've downloaded the manuals so that I will be up to speed when I take delivery. I am very excited. This is my first new car since my purchase of and earlier Motor Trend car of the year - a 2000 model year Lincoln LS V8.
 
-CB
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Re: Update on my constrained CTS [ctbarker3232] by rayainsw
Nov 28, 2007 (4:49 am)
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Replying to: ctbarker3232 (Nov 27, 2007 8:56 pm)

"This is my first new car since my purchase of and earlier Motor Trend car of the year - a 2000 model year Lincoln LS V8"
 
As purchaser of a Y2K Lincoln LS V8 myself ( and an '03 as well ) I'm looking forward to your report on how this CTS compares...
 
- Ray
Not in the market today, but looking....
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Re: My CTS 08 order suffering from constraint [bding] by bmwnewbie530i
Nov 28, 2007 (6:58 am)
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Replying to: bding (Nov 26, 2007 3:03 pm)

My CTS with DI, Luxury Premium, Sport Performance, Polished Wheels, AWD, Black Raven was accepted on Monday. MSRP was about $49 so maybe what you are saying is true.
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Re: Update on my constrained CTS [ctbarker3232] by bingoman
Nov 28, 2007 (11:46 am)
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Replying to: ctbarker3232 (Nov 27, 2007 8:56 pm)

Were did you download the manuals from? Can you give me the URL.
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Re: Update on my constrained CTS [bingoman] by ctbarker3232
Nov 28, 2007 (3:22 pm)
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Replying to: bingoman (Nov 28, 2007 11:46 am)

"Were did you download the manuals from? Can you give me the URL."
 
Here you go:
 
2008 CTS Manuals
 
-CB
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Re: Suspension. . . . [taxesquire] by markcincinnati
Nov 28, 2007 (7:15 pm)
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Replying to: taxesquire (Nov 26, 2007 1:31 pm)

The FE2 setup is, IMHO, what should be the base suspension, it is softer than I have come to expect from the cars in the ELLPS and LPS class of cars from Germany (and Infiniti.)
 
This is NOT at all a bad thing -- I drove in to the dealer in a 2005 Audi A6 with 18" wheels and the then standard suspension set up. I then tested the CTS FE2, AWD, bla bla bla.
 
Got in my car and drove over the same route I had just driven the CTS. The CTS was softer, it floated about 1/2 of a suspension cycle more than the A6.
 
The damping, apparently was the issue. The FE2 version allows a down, up, down and half an up/down over a "whoop-de-doo" that the A6 only allows a down, up, return to normal motion.
 
This is NOT meant to suggest the CTS is not a fine sheen. It simply means it is apparently an American interpretation of a Sport suspension.
 
It is not sufficiently damped in this league -- I could live with it and probably after a time come to think the Germans were stiff and harsh.
 
Today, I feel the CTS is too much like my first water bed.
 
Alas, no FE3 offered with AWD.
 
The springs remain the same -- the differences ARE the dampers.
 
Drive it like you live.

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