The wait times in the opening message show how far out the next available appointment is for non-emergency repairs or yearly maintenance. Let's say somebody calls a service center to book an appointment for yearly maintenance or minor issues and is told on the phone that the next available slot is 45 days out. That's exactly the kind of example I collect.
The links in the opening message next to "Longest appt wait times" are clickable in case people want to read them or you can read a summary of each of them below. These wait times have nothing to do with parts availability or how long it took to fix the car after it arrived at the service center. I scan the whole forum regularly to try to find these examples. I'm not sure if I get all of them but I try to. I have 14 examples for the USA.
Q3 '14
32 days "Service said that can only get me in after Oct. 1" (posted on 26 Aug 2014)
Q3 '14
55 days "I had to wait for almost 2 months for my yearly maintenance"
Q1 '15
45 days "Out here in CA non-emergency service appointments are 1.5 months out"
Q2 '15
44 days "Called the local service center, only to be told that the closest appt they have is end of July" (Posted on 16 July 2015)
Q3 '15
48 days "After three days of service dragging their feet, I finally was able to get a service appointment today for my 36K service. September 24th" (Posted on 6 Aug 2015)
Q4 '15
45 days "I'm in the middle of a 45 day wait for the first available appointment"
Q2 '16
35 days "I tried to schedule our S and Roadster into Burlingame back in April and they were booking 5-6 weeks out."
Q2 '16
34 days "I called on 8/22 and couldn't get an appointment till 9/26 - almost 5 weeks."
Q1 '16
32 days Yearly service: "we made the appointment over a month ago"
Q3 '16
49 days "called my San Diego Service Center for some Fit and Finish issues one week later on Sept 26th. I got my earliest appointment for November 10.....7 weeks wait!"
Q3 '16
42 days "6 week wait for an appointment"
Q3 '16
60 days "to get back in for service, the wait is another 2 months"
Q4 '16
60 days "it took 2 months for the appt"
Q4 '16
42 days "Currently waiting 6 weeks for service appointments here"
@ohmman, I'm close to adding you to my ignore list.