Ernest,
I seem to have a pretty good track record so far on this forum and others in predicting this stuff. (maybe I can see dead people too) but heres my 2 cents--
1 of 2 things happened-
1) they initially accepted a certain percentage of red leather thinking that they would be able to fill all of them. Then for some reason (that we will probably never know) they didn't get all the red they expected to to fill the small allocation of red that they previously accepted. So they built the ones they could. You were at the end of the line and when they got to your order... ooops, not enough red left to finish this car so we'll push it aside till we get more in. Hence, the code 030. There could be a million reasons that they ran out of red and a million more on why the don't have any now but if you read the SOL forum as often as you read this one, you will learn alot! I probably read that forum more than this.. they have been there done that.
One thing I base this theory on is that they had very similiar thing happened to them with chrome wheels. (rumor over there has it that there was a contract dispute with the wheel makers so they stopped sending wheels until it was resolved)
I ordered my car today and the dealer said when he tried red that he got a message saying "not available for this TPW". which means I am out of luck unless I want to give up my spot. Which I didn't, so black it is.
2) your car has been built and is maybe waiting for carrier. We saw in the first batch of images that they didn't exactly follow the "rules" on the status of the cars. they sat at 030 and then all of a sudden went to "waiting for carrier" what happend to the in between codes?
I think that they did that on purpose so that they could be sure QA was done on all demos and that they shipped at about the same time without getting everyones hopes up which would have resulted in PO'd customers in the end.
I honestly think that theory #1 is it though, we haven't seen them really do the same things with the codes on the second or third batch of images so I think that was just an initial, first run thing.
anyway, I wasn't going to say anything about my theory but I can tell that your stressin over this.. my theories probably aren't going to help that but heres to red interiors being made available soon :cheers:
PS- why don't thye unlock the order so you can change it?? dunno, but they didn't do that for the sol owners either. They got stuck waiting.