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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: HA54SYM` on 12 June 2013, 08:34
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Just looked at the tracker for a daily update, and my GTi is showing as in Transit!
I'm hoping to pick up before the last day of the month (not confirmed with dealer yet)
Anyone else on the same boat :cool:
Dave
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I wish, great news for you though fella. :smiley:
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Mine is. Due to dock in Dublin port today I think :laugh:
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Hi Guys,
Can you say how long your order stayed at build week confimed status before moving to in transit status?
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Hi Guys,
Can you say how long your order stayed at build week confimed status before moving to in transit status?
I ordered on April 8th. I had a confirmed build week about 3 weeks after ordering. It was built in week 20, which was almost 4 weeks ago, but was only put on a boat a couple of days ago.
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Lucky b4stards! :laugh:
Will you post lots of pretty pics in the "new arrivals" section?
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Order placed April 1st, order number received April 5th.
Build week confirmed week 20, switched to in transit 4 weeks later.
Of course I will post some pics, but think we have seen plenty already. I have resisted the temptation to go and see a demo car however, as want the first one I see in the flesh to be mine.
Dave
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Order placed April 1st, order number received April 5th.
Build week confirmed week 20, switched to in transit 4 weeks later.
Of course I will post some pics, but think we have seen plenty already. I have resisted the temptation to go and see a demo car however, as want the first one I see in the flesh to be mine.
Dave
No no no we have not seen plenty. Have mercy on us who have to wait another 4 months!! Post some pictures to keep us going, please. :cry: :cry: :cry:
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mines onto in transit. i had BW 24 / 10-06-13. maybe in transit means its moving along a production line?
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mines onto in transit. i had BW 24 / 10-06-13. maybe in transit means its moving along a production line?
Should mean it has left the factory.
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mines onto in transit. i had BW 24 / 10-06-13. maybe in transit means its moving along a production line?
when did you order yours and was it gti or gtd?
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I have resisted the temptation to go and see a demo car however, as want the first one I see in the flesh to be mine.
Amen to that my friend! I don't need to see or demo a car I know is going to be great :)
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mines onto in transit. i had BW 24 / 10-06-13. maybe in transit means its moving along a production line?
when did you order yours and was it gti or gtd?
GTI ordered 18/04/13 from lookers teeside.
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mines onto in transit. i had BW 24 / 10-06-13. maybe in transit means its moving along a production line?
when did you order yours and was it gti or gtd?
GTI ordered 18/04/13 from lookers teeside.
ah gti that's ok.
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My Dad's GTD is still "build week confirmed" - hopefully it'll be "in transit" by this time next week as the dealer is quite confident my dad will be picking his up by the end of the month.
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So, I have now been told by my dealer that my car has now arrived in the UK, I assume Grimsby which is about 2 hours away from dealer.
Reckon I could have it next week.
Dave
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Spoke to the dealer yesterday, he said it was on the dock side in Germany. Hopefully on my driveway by the end of the month
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Hope both of you will have some piccies to post in the new arrivals sticky thread!
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Some good news for some at least... Very 'Jel'!!!! :grin: look forward to the pics
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Good news! Although I too am extremely jealous!! :grin:
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jammy b*****ds mines not even a piece of tin yet! :sad:
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All you lot thinking you're awesome with your GTD's in transit!
I hate the bloody lot of you!
Jealousy does that :embarrassed:
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My Dad's GTD is still "build week confirmed" - hopefully it'll be "in transit" by this time next week as the dealer is quite confident my dad will be picking his up by the end of the month.
Will your dads GTD be the first in mainland UK? Sounds like it. Fingers crossed.
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Will your dads GTD be the first in mainland UK? Sounds like it. Fingers crossed.
I thought someone else here had a GTD on it's way already? Can't think who it was (maybe they weren't mainland UK).
It should've been mine! Damn you, Pulman administrative mistake! :evil: :angry: :grin:
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My dad's DBP GTD is now in transit according to the tracker.
It seems that for UK mainland orders we have 4 early arrivals:
HA54SYM, Baza, GolfTi and my Dad's. GolfTi's is a DBP GTI and my dad's is a DBP GTD.
What are HA54SYM and Baza's? If they're both DBP or at least not Pure White then it may mean that the less popular colours may be more likely to get through first due to less competition for slots in the dedicated paint booths for certain colours, as Pure White is by far the most popular colour for GTI/GTD and is popular with the rest of the Golf range too.
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My dad's DBP GTD is now in transit according to the tracker.
It seems that for UK mainland orders we have 4 early arrivals:
HA54SYM, Baza, GolfTi and my Dad's. GolfTi's is a DBP GTI and my dad's is a DBP GTD.
What are HA54SYM and Baza's? If they're both DBP or at least not Pure White then it may mean that the less popular colours may be more likely to get through first due to less competition for slots in the dedicated paint booths for certain colours, as Pure White is by far the most popular colour for GTI/GTD and is popular with the rest of the Golf range too.
That can't really be the hold up though, surely. And if it is how long would it take them to set up a new paint booth? Given they are a sizeable company I'm going to take a guess at 1 day.
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My dad's DBP GTD is now in transit according to the tracker.
It seems that for UK mainland orders we have 4 early arrivals:
HA54SYM, Baza, GolfTi and my Dad's. GolfTi's is a DBP GTI and my dad's is a DBP GTD.
What are HA54SYM and Baza's? If they're both DBP or at least not Pure White then it may mean that the less popular colours may be more likely to get through first due to less competition for slots in the dedicated paint booths for certain colours, as Pure White is by far the most popular colour for GTI/GTD and is popular with the rest of the Golf range too.
That can't really be the hold up though, surely. And if it is how long would it take them to set up a new paint booth? Given they are a sizeable company I'm going to take a guess at 1 day.
There used to be a hell of a clean-up for non-dedicated paint booths when I worked at Fords. The place used to have to be stripped to bits and all of the grates/cladding had to be shot-blasted. It was a 4 day job, and as a result they used to group long campaigns of obscure colours and/or specialist orders (like a campaign of Dynorod vans)
You'd hope that VW would have umpteen dedicated paint booths set up on proportion e.g. if they have 15 booths, then for the distribution seen here about half of them would be for pure white and one each for at least DBP TR CSG NB etc (probably not the case if the colour distribution for GTI and GTD isn't representative of the plant's output against all models and trims - I wouldn't expect that 60% of all the other Golfs will be Pure White for example).
If GTI/GTD popularity for Pure White isn't reflected in the rest of the Golf range then it might be reasonable to assume that they might have to wait longer in the queue for that colour in the dedicated paint booths they have rather than say DBP if the GTI/GTD numbers more closely match % output for all models made there. Say 60% of GTI/GTDs are PW, but only 30% of Wolfsburg output is PW (and the number of PW dedicated paint booths reflect this), then GTI/GTDs could be waiting longer to fit in the PW painting schedule amongst the rest of the cars. Same could apply to any colour that is significantly more popular for GTI/GTD than the rest of the ranges.
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If GTI/GTD popularity for Pure White isn't reflected in the rest of the Golf range then it might be reasonable to assume that they might have to wait longer in the queue for that colour in the dedicated paint booths they have rather than say DBP if the GTI/GTD numbers more closely match % output for all models made there. Say 60% of GTI/GTDs are PW, but only 30% of Wolfsburg output is PW, then GTI/GTDs could be waiting longer to fit in the PW painting schedule amongst the rest of the cars.
I see your point but I don't think it explains the delays.
In the first example PW is not a popular colour for Golfs overall, but it is for the GTI/D... therefore a large % of the PW cars are GTI/Ds and this wasn't anticipated. However, if this is the case we are talking about a low volume of PW cars and therefore a low delay. It might explain an extra week, but not 3+ months of delays.
In the second example PW is a popular colour for Golfs overall, and there is a general hold up for this colour. In this case if we're talking about 3+ months of hold up its a really easy decision to add brand new extra booths to clear things. In fact, to operate a factory like this they would need to already posses overcapacity so they can cope with varying demand, so all they need do is load PW into some of their clearn, ready to use, idle booths that they keep for such a situation.
I'm just saying, if it was paintwork holding a car up for 3 months then something would be done about it, thats just unacceptable. Furthermore they would know full well what the reason is for the hold up, so every time we talk to them about it they would have to be close to lying to us since they always say "we don't know why the delay, maybe DSG?", and if in reality they know it is paintwork that statement is... misleading.
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Mine is currently in Emden.
And I have a VIN - so it's real.
It exists. :smiley:
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Aye, but stating DSG as a maybe seems misleading in itself. They could find out the reason but they're choosing to tell maybes rather than find out the truth (or maybe they know the truth but don't want to divulge it).
In any case, when we all talk of x weeks delay, we need to exclude the shutdown, as that's a constant - anyone beyond the shutdown is going to be at least 4 weeks later than someone who just got in before it. For myself, that means that if my dad nabbed the BW25 slot and the dealership is allowed 1 GTD per month, then without a shutdown my car would be getting built on week 29. Estimated week 33 with a shutdown amounts to the same thing - it's the next production week after BW28.
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Mine is DBP, so could make sense I guess.
The demand for white is very high I suppose.
Checked tracker today and its arrived at dealer!
Dave
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Mine is DBP, so could make sense I guess.
The demand for white is very high I suppose.
Checked tracker today and its arrived at dealer!
Dave
Dave, I am so jealous its unreal :grin:
Lots of pics please when you get it (tomorrow?!)
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Good point regarding the shutdown. I suppose when I talk about 3+ months delay it should be 2+ months...
Actually I'm not sure. I was originally told to expect July/August delivery, so regardless of the reason a delay is a delay. Perhaps when I collect the car I'll tell VW that I'm having a financial shut down of 4 weeks and so they I'll be delaying payment for a month. I doubt they would consider this fair though. :evil:
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Mine is DBP, so could make sense I guess.
The demand for white is very high I suppose.
Checked tracker today and its arrived at dealer!
Dave
Do I hear champagne corks popping? :cool:
As for the build delays and the likelihood of the while paint issue, I do seem to remember with the Scirocco it was the actual supply of paint that caused a delay, so supplier rather than factory related. Or ordering rather then manufacturing? Or something...
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Well that's 3 of the 4 earlybirds with Deep Black Pearl paint, and the 4th is Baza - anyone know what colour he ordered?
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Well that's 3 of the 4 earlybirds with Deep Black Pearl paint, and the 4th is Baza - anyone know what colour he ordered?
CSG.
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Well that's 3 of the 4 earlybirds with Deep Black Pearl paint, and the 4th is Baza - anyone know what colour he ordered?
CSG.
That's another theory that bites the dust :grin: :grin:
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Well that's 3 of the 4 earlybirds with Deep Black Pearl paint, and the 4th is Baza - anyone know what colour he ordered?
CSG.
That's another theory that bites the dust :grin: :grin:
It's another colour that's a minority colour across the Golf range (in the UK at least), could be easy to slip into the paintshop schedule for a paint booth dedicated to that colour that may not be particularly busy.
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Well that's 3 of the 4 earlybirds with Deep Black Pearl paint, and the 4th is Baza - anyone know what colour he ordered?
CSG.
That's another theory that bites the dust :grin: :grin:
It's another colour that's a minority colour across the Golf range.
I would be very surprised if DPB is a minority colour :huh:
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Well that's 3 of the 4 earlybirds with Deep Black Pearl paint, and the 4th is Baza - anyone know what colour he ordered?
CSG.
That's another theory that bites the dust :grin: :grin:
It's another colour that's a minority colour across the Golf range.
Not to confuse it further but he changed his choice. I'm not sure what his original choice was, so might have been DBP.
I really think we are reading too much into this colour thing though. :tongue:
(http://i.imgur.com/GFES94H.png)
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I would be very surprised if DPB is a minority colour :huh:
I think everything is minority next to Pure White. It does seem huge coincidence that 3 out of 4 earlybirds are DBP, but colour choice could be nothing more than coincidence (cue impatient GTI/GTD orderees changing their colour to DBP en-masse! :drool:).
Baza's has been built in CSG within 8 weeks of order placement, including a colour change a few weeks into the ordering process.
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Mine is DBP, so could make sense I guess.
The demand for white is very high I suppose.
Checked tracker today and its arrived at dealer!
Dave
Unfortunately no, I guess they will have to PDI it, and it would be Monday till it would be ready?
That said it won't be till later next, till I get chance to collect.
Will post some pics though!
Dave
Dave, I am so jealous its unreal :grin:
Lots of pics please when you get it (tomorrow?!)
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Got a courtesy car from my dealer to tell me that my dad's car was not only at Emden dock, but it was fully released for shipping, meaning it can hop onto the next ship heading for Tyne Dock. Not sure why the dealer felt the need to phone me about my dad's car, but I took the chance to wind him up a little about him "rubbing it in" when my car is still stuck at BW33. The good news is that he didn't say mine had slipped any.
Anyway, I had a look at the Port of Tyne website and there are 2 ships from Emden arriving to the Port of Tyne (PoT) in the next 3 days (so my dads car should be on one of them) and these are:-
City of Paris - arriving at PoT 23 June 15:00
City of Amsterdam - arriving at PoT 24 June 18:00
Bearing in mind that the dealership is only 8 miles from PoT I think it could be ready for pick-up as soon as Weds/Thurs next week.
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I took the chance to wind him up a little about him "rubbing it in" when my car is still stuck at BW33.
Bearing in mind that the dealership is only 8 miles from PoT I think it could be ready for pick-up as soon as Weds/Thurs next week.
Err, can we take the opportunity to wind you up about rubbing it in? :grin: Even at BW33 yours is going to be built almost 2 months before mine! Dontcha just love VW? heh heh heh
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Confirmed for Friday pick up next week.
Dealer says that I was 3rd GTi to be ordered and those first 2x are still way off build weeks yet too?
Dave
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Confirmed for Friday pick up next week.
Dealer says that I was 3rd GTi to be ordered and those first 2x are still way off build weeks yet too?
Dave
Woah! Unless those first 2 played around with their orders, thus triggering delays (for no rational reason, but I digress) then this blows the "dealer allocation is the dominant reason to explain inconsistent build estimates" theory right out of the water. :shocked:
And that would leave us with no reason whatsoever, but to assume VW have a random number generator (or any system producing the equivalent result*) that they are using to determine which the next car to be built will be.
*For example, all cars same colour done same week would effectively be a random generator since we can safely assume the distribution of colour choices is random, and is not correlated with order date (or anything else).
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Great news Dave... Hopefully a week won't seem like enternity.
Looks like VW are using a "Lottery" ball system with regards to production
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Confirmed for Friday pick up next week.
Dealer says that I was 3rd GTi to be ordered and those first 2x are still way off build weeks yet too?
Dave
That's brilliant news. Must be one of the first in the UK
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Confirmed for Friday pick up next week.
Dealer says that I was 3rd GTi to be ordered and those first 2x are still way off build weeks yet too?
Dave
Hey nice one Dave. I think you'll be the first UK mainland person to receive their GTI in June (as advertised by the VW numpty's).
Jealous.... not :smug:
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Moved into transit this morning :smiley: don't know if that's a good thing mind you - a Friday build? :cry: :grin:
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Why do I hate this thread?? :angry:
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Moved into transit this morning :smiley: don't know if that's a good thing mind you - a Friday build? :cry: :grin:
Top news Craig - won't be long now before you get your hands on it!
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Moved into transit this morning :smiley: don't know if that's a good thing mind you - a Friday build? :cry: :grin:
Top news Craig - won't be long now before you get your hands on it!
Thanks Mark. Definitely getting exited now. Hopefully it won't be too long before you guys get some better news :smiley:
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Nice one mate, expect plenty of pics when you get it. (After an extensive road test of course :p)
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Nice one mate, expect plenty of pics when you get it. (After an extensive road test of course :p)
Cheers Kyle. Ill make sure I take plenty of pics :smiley:
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Moved into transit this morning :smiley: don't know if that's a good thing mind you - a Friday build? :cry: :grin:
Wow Craig, that's uber exciting for you. (and for us with the pics and report :smiley:)
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Moved into transit this morning :smiley: don't know if that's a good thing mind you - a Friday build? :cry: :grin:
Why do people seem to think the minute it's come off the build line it goes in transit ???
Knowing vw it may even be in the uk already or have been sat in a dusty German car park for the past week
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Scrap what I have just said. Just check tracker and mine has too now gone to transit. Whoopie
Jerry better not have made mine on a Friday !!!
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Moved into transit this morning :smiley: don't know if that's a good thing mind you - a Friday build? :cry: :grin:
Wow Craig, that's uber exciting for you. (and for us with the pics and report :smiley:)
Thanks Gordor! Can't wait :smiley:
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Dealer just called. Mine has arrived in Skegness!! Should be ready for pick up next week. Am I excited or what??
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Dealer just called. Mine has arrived in Skegness!! Should be ready for pick up next week. Am I excited or what??
Nah, I doubt it. This time next month, the novelty will have worn off and we'll all still have ours to look forward to! ;)
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Lucky bugger! :grin:
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Joet - when did yours move to 'In Transit'? Mine did a week last Monday and still doesn't seem to have 'arrive in the UK'. I wonder if they are sometimes in the UK a while before the tracker shows it?
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Joet - when did yours move to 'In Transit'? Mine did a week last Monday and still doesn't seem to have 'arrive in the UK'. I wonder if they are sometimes in the UK a while before the tracker shows it?
Mine moved to 'in transit' on 24th June. In fact it still showing that. Seems like it's not updated in real time.
By the way - it's arrived in Sheerness, not Skegness :smiley:
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I was gonna say ... Skeggie has lots of things (let's not go there, physically or metaphorically) but a commercial port is not one of them :smiley:
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I had a build week 28 and to my delight and surprise when I called on the Monday of that week I was told my car was in transit and yesterday it arrived in Emden. I now have a VIN and wonder if anyone knows if there is any way to track loading and journey to UK using the VIN and order number?
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I had a build week 28 and to my delight and surprise when I called on the Monday of that week I was told my car was in transit and yesterday it arrived in Emden. I now have a VIN and wonder if anyone knows if there is any way to track loading and journey to UK using the VIN and order number?
If you're a dealer you can. For Joe Public? Nope.
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I had a build week 28 and to my delight and surprise when I called on the Monday of that week I was told my car was in transit and yesterday it arrived in Emden. I now have a VIN and wonder if anyone knows if there is any way to track loading and journey to UK using the VIN and order number?
I don't think there is anyway of tracking unfortunately. Mine was built in WK 27 and I have no idea when it will be shipped over. The next ship leaving Emden to the Port of Tyne is this Saturday but I don't expect me car to be on it to be honest.
I've been snooping on another GTI on the website and it's been sitting in transit for 3.5 weeks now. This is my 2nd week in transit so maybe another 2 weeks before it is actually shipped across?
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That's totally crazy. My Merc arrived on a Monday and I had it by the Thursday of that week. I just don't understand how VW is so inefficient. :rolleyes:
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I had a build week 28 and to my delight and surprise when I called on the Monday of that week I was told my car was in transit and yesterday it arrived in Emden. I now have a VIN and wonder if anyone knows if there is any way to track loading and journey to UK using the VIN and order number?
I don't think there is anyway of tracking unfortunately. Mine was built in WK 27 and I have no idea when it will be shipped over. The next ship leaving Emden to the Port of Tyne is this Saturday but I don't expect me car to be on it to be honest.
I've been snooping on another GTI on the website and it's been sitting in transit for 3.5 weeks now. This is my 2nd week in transit so maybe another 2 weeks before it is actually shipped across?
My dad's sat dockside for about 6 days, missing 2 ships that arrived and went in the time it was sat at Emden port before the 3rd picked it up. Getting to Emden via the train is very efficient - it was there within 18 hours of being signed off at the plant. Unless there is a serious backlog of VWs sitting at portside and waiting for a ship, i'd say yours will be on the Saturday ship or the one after.
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What do you know, the car I'm snooping on has just changed status to arrived in the UK this morning. Strange, given that no ships were due in until Saturday :huh:
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CraigW: It probably arrived on the evening of the 15th on the "City of Sunderland", but didn't officially "arrive" until it has passed through customs and then the VW UK red tape that my dealership bypassed at considerable effort for my dad's GTD. It will be cleared for delivery to the dealership now.
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CraigW: It probably arrived on the evening of the 15th on the "City of Sunderland", but didn't officially "arrive" until it has passed through customs and then the VW UK red tape that my dealership bypassed at considerable effort for my dad's GTD. It will be cleared for delivery to the dealership now.
Ah thanks mate, how long in general could you expect it to take from arriving in the UK to you actually collecting it? Hopefully mine will be on the ship this Saturday. That would be brilliant !
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That's great news, Craig! VW told me that mine had landed in the UK but this still isn't showing on the tracker :sad:. My dealer said that it can take anything from 2 days to 2 weeks before it will arrive on a transporter and that he won't know until the day before until it is coming. We're starting to get excited now, Craig! :smiley:
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Ah thanks mate, how long in general could you expect it to take from arriving in the UK to you actually collecting it? Hopefully mine will be on the ship this Saturday. That would be brilliant !
I thought you said the tracker had changed to arrived in the UK? If so it won't be on the ship on Saturday. If it is here in the UK and is waiting on dealership delivery - anything from 2 days to a week is possible.
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Ah thanks mate, how long in general could you expect it to take from arriving in the UK to you actually collecting it? Hopefully mine will be on the ship this Saturday. That would be brilliant !
I thought you said the tracker had changed to arrived in the UK? If so it won't be on the ship on Saturday. If it is here in the UK and is waiting on dealership delivery - anything from 2 days to a week is possible.
He's talking about two different cars mate. The one he spied on has arrived. His is still "in transit". :wink:
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Ah thanks mate, how long in general could you expect it to take from arriving in the UK to you actually collecting it? Hopefully mine will be on the ship this Saturday. That would be brilliant !
I thought you said the tracker had changed to arrived in the UK? If so it won't be on the ship on Saturday. If it is here in the UK and is waiting on dealership delivery - anything from 2 days to a week is possible.
He's talking about two different cars mate. The one he spied on has arrived. His is still "in transit". :wink:
Yes that's right Bill. Sorry for any confusion. Mine is still in transit at this moment
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That's great news, Craig! VW told me that mine had landed in the UK but this still isn't showing on the tracker :sad:. My dealer said that it can take anything from 2 days to 2 weeks before it will arrive on a transporter and that he won't know until the day before until it is coming. We're starting to get excited now, Craig! :smiley:
Yes definitely getting excited Iain. The dealer told me I could possibly have before the end of this month but if it goes into the beginning of August that would still be great, especially considering some of the horror stories on here about delivery times. I certainly cannot complain :smiley: :smiley:
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That's great news, Craig! VW told me that mine had landed in the UK but this still isn't showing on the tracker :sad:. My dealer said that it can take anything from 2 days to 2 weeks before it will arrive on a transporter and that he won't know until the day before until it is coming. We're starting to get excited now, Craig! :smiley:
Yes definitely getting excited Iain. The dealer told me I could possibly have before the end of this month but if it goes into the beginning of August that would still be great, especially considering some of the horror stories on here about delivery times. I certainly cannot complain :smiley: :smiley:
thats good news for you mate :wink: i know someone else who will be happy at that :smiley:
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That's great news, Craig! VW told me that mine had landed in the UK but this still isn't showing on the tracker :sad:. My dealer said that it can take anything from 2 days to 2 weeks before it will arrive on a transporter and that he won't know until the day before until it is coming. We're starting to get excited now, Craig! :smiley:
Yes definitely getting excited Iain. The dealer told me I could possibly have before the end of this month but if it goes into the beginning of August that would still be great, especially considering some of the horror stories on here about delivery times. I certainly cannot complain :smiley: :smiley:
thats good news for you mate :wink: i know someone else who will be happy at that :smiley:
Yes hoping to get that side of things sorted in the next few weeks Barry
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That's great news, Craig! VW told me that mine had landed in the UK but this still isn't showing on the tracker :sad:. My dealer said that it can take anything from 2 days to 2 weeks before it will arrive on a transporter and that he won't know until the day before until it is coming. We're starting to get excited now, Craig! :smiley:
Yes definitely getting excited Iain. The dealer told me I could possibly have before the end of this month but if it goes into the beginning of August that would still be great, especially considering some of the horror stories on here about delivery times. I certainly cannot complain :smiley: :smiley:
thats good news for you mate :wink: i know someone else who will be happy at that :smiley:
Yes hoping to get that side of things sorted in the next few weeks Barry
great mate :wink:
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So Craigw orders his 5 weeks after me from same dealership, ( mine in Merylee) and his is in transit, and mine won't be built for a fortnight .
Strange allocation system.
Perhaps you'd like to lend me yours till mine arrives in September. :grin:
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So Craigw orders his 5 weeks after me from same dealership, ( mine in Merylee) and his is in transit, and mine won't be built for a fortnight .
Strange allocation system.
Perhaps you'd like to lend me yours till mine arrives in September. :grin:
Backhanders always work to speed up the process :grin: I must admit I have no idea how the allocation is working. I went to other branches of this dealership before I had placed my order and to say they showed very little interest is an understatement. The guy who I have been dealing with had been first class.
Very interesting to note as well that my dealership were pretty much one of the first in the UK to get a demo. Seems as though this particular dealership have a very good relationship with VW.
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So Craigw orders his 5 weeks after me from same dealership, ( mine in Merylee) and his is in transit, and mine won't be built for a fortnight .
Strange allocation system.
Perhaps you'd like to lend me yours till mine arrives in September. :grin:
Speaking hypothetically... I wonder how VW would react if someone were to make a complaint about this? I suspect they'd just fob it off with excuses about different spec, but what they should really do is properly look into why some orders take so much longer than others which seem to 'skip the queue'. Perhaps there is an innocent explanation, but perhaps they need to make some changes.
It wouldn't be so bad if they could actually provide roughly accurate estimates for delivery, but because they had us all expecting delivery around early August and then changed this to "delay of unknown length" with some cars coming through much earlier than others they've angered a lot of people.
I think we'd all be a bit less pissed off if we'd known what we were getting when we signed the deal. And that means either telling us straight that "some cars will be build fast, others will take months longer with no fixed date and its near enough random which your order might turn out to be" or to get their system working so they can provide a decent estimate.
And its not enough for them to cop out by saying "can take anything up to 20 weeks" (and for some of us its well over that anyway) because that would still cause irritation when some come in 10 weeks and others in 20 weeks. The estimate needs to be accurate or they need to be honest about how absurdly random the lead times really are. Feels like mis-selling to me.
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The VW system seems bizzare doesn't it?
Surely from the moment a car is ordered it must sit somewhere in a que (or one of several ques for colour/Nr of doors/DSG or Manual/spec etc...), and that que must surely be visible to the factory if nothing else?
Am i right in thinking the BMW system allows for 'real time updates' of the build - sure i'd read it somewhere, if so VW (indeed the VAG group going on my experience with Audi) need to develop a new system!
If VW were just more transparent and honest about individual customers delays i'm sure people would be more forgiving.
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Dirvy: Did you make any changes post-ordering and perhaps CraigW didn't? Perhaps some changes for a piece of kit that may be on the hard to get a hold of list, like a rear view camera (or perhaps you had the camera originally and CraigW doesn't)?
Same thing happened with me. I was first in a 3 car queue, with mcmaddy (and my dad behind me (in that order). Mcmaddy made a few changes and added the rear camera which appeared to have pushed him to the back of the queue. I asked for a colour change and they changed the colour of my dad's in error instead. By the time they realised their error and changed mine, they couldn't change my dad's back and it was built on BW25, pushing mine back.
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Dirvy: Did you make any changes post-ordering and perhaps CraigW didn't? Perhaps some changes for a piece of kit that may be on the hard to get a hold of list, like a rear view camera (or perhaps you had the camera originally and CraigW doesn't)?
Same thing happened with me. I was first in a 3 car queue, with mcmaddy (and my dad behind me (in that order). Mcmaddy made a few changes and added the rear camera which appeared to have pushed him to the back of the queue. I asked for a colour change and they changed the colour of my dad's in error instead. By the time they realised their error and changed mine, they couldn't change my dad's back and it was built on BW25, pushing mine back.
The only option i added later on was the winter pack (fingers crossed it is on the car) and i think was within 2 weeks of placing the order. Your right, I didn't spec the camera, maybe that does have something to do with it?
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No no changes. Was tempted after review of PP, but between not wanting to possibly cause de lays, and spend another grand that I don't think I'd notice ( let's not start that argument again, plenty threads for that)..
Only up is trade in locked in, and my wonderful mk 6 will be paid off.
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This all sounds like normal operational procedure for VW.
I went through exactly the same in 2004-5 and 2009-10.
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This all sounds like normal operational procedure for VW.
I went through exactly the same in 2004-5 and 2009-10.
Why don't VW give a f*#k and try to reduce lead times? I'm not talking 6-8 weeks, but 12 weeks from placing order to taking delivery seems reasonable to me.
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This all sounds like normal operational procedure for VW.
I went through exactly the same in 2004-5 and 2009-10.
Why don't VW give a f*#k and try to reduce lead times? I'm not talking 6-8 weeks, but 12 weeks from placing order to taking delivery seems reasonable to me.
Why should they give a f**k when people keep going back to them time and again...
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I think it's actually quite good press for VW to have a car in such high demand.
The GTI is and always has been a limited production model, if the headlines start appearing talking about long waiting lists then that is going to help boost not only GTI but standard Golf sales.
I think VW actually manufacture this situation with the GTI for their own long term sales and brand image.
As Snoopy says it was the same for the mk5 and mk6 and VW ain't stupid.
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This all sounds like normal operational procedure for VW.
I went through exactly the same in 2004-5 and 2009-10.
Why don't VW give a f*#k and try to reduce lead times? I'm not talking 6-8 weeks, but 12 weeks from placing order to taking delivery seems reasonable to me.
Why should they give a f**k when people keep going back to them time and again...
Still doesn't make it right though! Not good practice is it.
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My car is finally 'in transit', some background to help with timings.
* I placed my order at the end of March - 3 Door, DSG, Onyx White, Key-less, Leather seats (hot, hot) - No changes made after order.
* Build week was confirmed 5 weeks before build.
* The car was meant to be build WK27, but was pushed back to WK28
* Car was in build for around 7 days (I think shutdown rolled into this), Phase 5 build progression was confirmed on Monday (15/07)
* Car was confirmed 'in transit' this morning.
Hope this helps.
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My car is finally 'in transit', some background to help with timings.
* I placed my order at the end of March - 3 Door, DSG, Onyx White, Key-less, Leather seats (hot, hot) - No changes made after order.
* Build week was confirmed 5 weeks before build.
* The car was meant to be build WK27, but was pushed back to WK28
* Car was in build for around 7 days (I think shutdown rolled into this), Phase 5 build progression was confirmed on Monday (15/07)
* Car was confirmed 'in transit' this morning.
Hope this helps.
My GTD has been in transit since 5th July (nearly two weeks) and as of last thursday the dealer said it was 'released at port of exit', ie waiting for a boat!!
With there being at least one boat every other day to Grimsby I would have thought it may even have landed this side of the water already !!
But then again VW probably have it shipped all the way up to tyne when they only get one boat a week !!!
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My GTD came into Port of Tyne earlier this week. Is there any way of finding out from VW when it is scheduled to go on a transporter?
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My GTD came into Port of Tyne earlier this week. Is there any way of finding out from VW when it is scheduled to go on a transporter?
Nope, but your dealer may be able to get that level of detail from VW UK.
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Just heard from my dealer that my car is arriving tomorrow on the transporter and I will be picking it up next Thursday! Excited! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
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Just heard from my dealer that my car is arriving tomorrow on the transporter and I will be picking it up next Thursday! Excited! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
Fantastic Iain. Hope to see plenty of pics!!
Can I ask how long was it between arriving in the UK and being transported to your dealer?
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Hi Iainmac, Great news for you. Mine went into transit on the 8/07 and arrived Emden on the 15/07 . Spoke to VW today and was told it was likely to sit in Emden for up to 10 days and not to expect delivery before Mid August. Very disappointing and doesn't seem to fit with your experience. I'm a bit miffed because I have a buyer of my old car champing at the bit.
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Just heard from my dealer that my car is arriving tomorrow on the transporter and I will be picking it up next Thursday! Excited! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
Fantastic Iain. Hope to see plenty of pics!!
Can I ask how long was it between arriving in the UK and being transported to your dealer?
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Yup, about 3 days! Dealer wants 7 days to prep car....does it really take that long?! Prob be in showroom as it's the first GTD in the North of Scotland. Don't mind a bit though! Yeah, there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the whole allocation and waiting time thing. Who knows! Prob the transporter coming up North had plenty of space on it!
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Just heard from my dealer that my car is arriving tomorrow on the transporter and I will be picking it up next Thursday! Excited! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
Fantastic Iain. Hope to see plenty of pics!!
Can I ask how long was it between arriving in the UK and being transported to your dealer?
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Yup, about 3 days! Dealer wants 7 days to prep car....does it really take that long?! Prob be in showroom as it's the first GTD in the North of Scotland. Don't mind a bit though! Yeah, there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the whole allocation and waiting time thing. Who knows! Prob the transporter coming up North had plenty of space on it!
Looking forward to some pics of carbon grey in the sun, then I can convince myself I chose the right colour :wink: :wink:
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Hi Iainmac, Great news for you. Mine went into transit on the 8/07 and arrived Emden on the 15/07 . Spoke to VW today and was told it was likely to sit in Emden for up to 10 days and not to expect delivery before Mid August. Very disappointing and doesn't seem to fit with your experience. I'm a bit miffed because I have a buyer of my old car champing at the bit.
I'm in exactly the same position as you jrc. Mine went into transit on 7/07 and I was told by my dealer possibly end of July but not to get my hopes up. I have a private purchaser patiently waiting for my car as well and have basically had to bite the bullet and tell them that they can have my car at the end of this month. I didn't think it was fair to keep them waiting any longer. I just hope my car is here no later than the first week in August
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I had the same thing when I ordered my Scirocco - I had to sell my Porsche Boxster to a private buyer.
I had no car for 6 weeks and I was cycling everywhere or using hire cars occasionally. I was seriously fit!
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Yup, about 3 days! Dealer wants 7 days to prep car....does it really take that long?! Prob be in showroom as it's the first GTD in the North of Scotland. Don't mind a bit though! Yeah, there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the whole allocation and waiting time thing. Who knows! Prob the transporter coming up North had plenty of space on it!
7 days to prep? Are they taking the piss? They did my dad's car in 3 hours, the day it arrived at the dealership.
Are you sure it hasn't been damaged in transit and they're buying time to repair?
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Found out my car has been sitting in Emden for 12 days. When I called VW they told that all cars are subjected to a full check over before being loaded and that this can take 10 days or more. Seems reasonable but I suspect the delay is more likely due to availability of vessels sailing to UK. Like others I have a buyer lined up and will probably have to bite the bullet and sell.
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all cars are subjected to a full check over before being loaded and that this can take 10 days or more. Seems reasonable
It does? :huh: What are they checking that it requires twice as long as it did to build the thing in the first place? And do they not check them in the factory and then also at the dealer? Why another check? Sounds to me like it is just to make sure there is no damage in transit so they know who to claim from if it arrives at the dealer requiring work. Thats a 5 minute job... not a 10 day job.
We're looking at a minimum 21 week lead time already we don't need another 2 weeks of pissing around for no reason!
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all cars are subjected to a full check over before being loaded and that this can take 10 days or more. Seems reasonable
It does? :huh: What are they checking that it requires twice as long as it did to build the thing in the first place? And do they not check them in the factory and then also at the dealer? Why another check? Sounds to me like it is just to make sure there is no damage in transit so they know who to claim from if it arrives at the dealer requiring work. Thats a 5 minute job... not a 10 day job.
We're looking at a minimum 21 week lead time already we don't need another 2 weeks of pissing around for no reason!
You are assuming no shipping backlog at all in that 10 day time to get the car on the boat (the more plausible reason to me). My dad's GTD got on the 3rd ship passing through Emden to port of Tyne after it's arrival at Emden port from the very quick train that took it from Wolfsburg.
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You are assuming no shipping backlog at all in that 10 day time to get the car on the boat
Actually, jrc says 10days to check.
all cars are subjected to a full check over before being loaded and that this can take 10 days or more. Seems reasonable
But yes, it does seem possible they mean 10 days waiting for a ship... but that isn't what they said, so...
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The hold up with my car didn't appear to be in Emden but at Tyne where apparently it arrived the middle of last week and didn't arrive at the dealership until today, a week later.
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The hold up with my car didn't appear to be in Emden but at Tyne where apparently it arrived the middle of last week and didn't arrive at the dealership until today, a week later.
When my dad's car was rushed through it was because the dealership made arrangements to collect the car from the port (given the distance it was not a big deal - 8 miles) rather than VW delivering it to the dealership - that's where the delay probably is, VW happy for it to sit for a good few days before trying to get it moving.
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My Car has been stuck in Emden for 7 days now :/
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My Car has been stuck in Emden for 7 days now :/
My car has been somewhere between Wolfsburg and Emden for 7 days now (as of yesterday) :cry:
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My Car has been stuck in Emden for 7 days now :/
My car has been somewhere between Wolfsburg and Emden for 7 days now (as of yesterday) :cry:
Hi Neil,
I see you were bw28. I was bw27 and collected mine towards the end of last week. You should have your car no later than the end of next week I would have thought :smiley:
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That would be nice, but as the car didn't leave the factory until last Wednesday (despite being BW28) I've resigned myself to mid-late August, and hence waiting until 1st September for the new plate. But if it did arrive as early as next week I might have to rethink that :smiley:
My Car has been stuck in Emden for 7 days now :/
My car has been somewhere between Wolfsburg and Emden for 7 days now (as of yesterday) :cry:
Hi Neil,
I see you were bw28. I was bw27 and collected mine towards the end of last week. You should have your car no later than the end of next week I would have thought :smiley:
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My car has arrived in the UK and it's just waiting for a car transporter.
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My car has arrived in the UK and it's just waiting for a car transporter.
Great news - not long now then! Mine seems to have disappeared into some kind of Bermuda Triangle - according to the dealer it's been showing as en route from Wolfsburg to Emden for 2 weeks now. I thought that stage was meant to take 24 hours! Ah well, as long as it's ready for 2nd September I'll be happy.
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Mine has arrived at the dealer and I could collect next week. I know I have previously mentioned that as I am buying with my own cash ( belay that: with mainly bank's cash) and ,conscious of residuals if I survive to sell or trade in in 3/4 years, am I mad to delay the pleasure of taking delivery now?
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Mine has arrived at the dealer and I could collect next week. I know I have previously mentioned that as I am buying with my own cash ( belay that: with mainly bank's cash) and ,conscious of residuals if I survive to sell or trade in in 3/4 years, am I mad to delay the pleasure of taking delivery now?
In all honesty, these days with two changes a year, it doesn't make a huge difference in relative terms, and value is based on first registration date anyway. The question is, if you collected next week on a 13 plate, how would you feel when the 63 plate cars came out?! Not sure what I'd do - waiting over two weeks knowing your car is sat there... :undecided:
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Completed the finance today and my car should be ready for Thursday! :smiley:
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Completed the finance today and my car should be ready for Thursday! :smiley:
Fantastic news mate :smiley:
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Mine has arrived at the dealer and I could collect next week. I know I have previously mentioned that as I am buying with my own cash ( belay that: with mainly bank's cash) and ,conscious of residuals if I survive to sell or trade in in 3/4 years, am I mad to delay the pleasure of taking delivery now?
I would wait the extra 2 weeks. Some will view that as 6 months older than a 63 plate when you sell or p/x, some won't.
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Mine has arrived at the dealer and I could collect next week. I know I have previously mentioned that as I am buying with my own cash ( belay that: with mainly bank's cash) and ,conscious of residuals if I survive to sell or trade in in 3/4 years, am I mad to delay the pleasure of taking delivery now?
I would definitely wait. if you collect it now you are only going to get 2 weeks of new plate (and there are loads about) if you wait until September you will be one of the first around with the new plate and 6 months to enjoy it. also I am only down the road, I am sure you will feel pretty sick if you spot me in my new 63 plate while you are in your old 13 plate.
mmm maybe I can have a bit of a gloat :rolleyes:
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Just get a private plate - problem solved
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Just get a private plate - problem solved
Very true, I'm getting one put on myself, but I think I'd still wait for it to "officially" be a 63 plate. It will help to some degree or other come resale or p/x when you take the private plate off and put a regular one on.
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Completed the finance today and my car should be ready for Thursday! :smiley:
Yeah Great News simoor... Very Jel... Probably one the first Oryx Whites in the country.
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hi all. my gti is arriving into Dublin on the 15th September. VW Ireland have told me the car should be at dealers within 10 working days. Does this seem normal? I ordered May 01st. Please and thanks! :whistle:
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hi all. my gti is arriving into Dublin on the 15th September. VW Ireland have told me the car should be at dealers within 10 working days. Does this seem normal? I ordered May 01st. Please and thanks! :whistle:
Hi fellow Ireland member! My car arrived into Dublin around June 15th and I didn't collect it until July 1st, but that was my own doing as I asked the dealers to delay it for the 132 plate. If I'd wanted it, I could have had it at least a week earlier. I'm sure your car will be at the dealers within a couple of days of reaching Dublin. It'll be worth the wait!
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Thanks for the reply Joe. Hope to be driving it the 21/22nd as I have a good long road trip planned for it! Im from Cork btw. Think MK7 Gti's are going to be a very rare sight on Irish roads, which is a good thing! :wink: hope your motor is going well.
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Thanks for the reply Joe. Hope to be driving it the 21/22nd as I have a good long road trip planned for it! Im from Cork btw. Think MK7 Gti's are going to be a very rare sight on Irish roads, which is a good thing! :wink: hope your motor is going well.
Cool, I'm in Galway. Yeah, it's going very well, delighted with it so far! I'd say they will be rare but maybe not as rare as the MK6 was.
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Hello Ricepop and thanks for your input.Are you buying locally? I did try to give the business to the Stamford dealer but they were unable to come up with a sensible offer.
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Yes I bought from Robinsons in Stamford, I got a fair deal and like the thought of having the dealership within walking distance. The whole place is a bit ramshackle but I am ok with that because its backed up by the Peterborough branch.
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Just had the dealer on the phone and my car will be ready for 12pm tomorrow :smiley:
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Just had the dealer on the phone and my car will be ready for 12pm tomorrow :smiley:
Waiting for the new plate (18 days) or collecting it tomorrow?
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I think if I wait any longer I would go mad! I have taken out that VW PCP finance, but if I was purchasing out right then maybe I would wait until September.
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The best sight ever :smiley:
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Are you BW33 mk7gti??
Edit: Ignore me, I see you've answered that in another thread.
Why the f7ck is mine not in transit grrr :angry: :laugh:
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Its so good to know my cars not a Friday afternooner...
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Are you BW33 mk7gti??
Edit: Ignore me, I see you've answered that in another thread.
Why the f7ck is mine not in transit grrr :angry: :laugh:
Don't worry Mark, this happened to me on my confirmed bw. Only moved to in transit on the Saturday morning :smiley:
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Are you BW33 mk7gti??
Edit: Ignore me, I see you've answered that in another thread.
Why the f7ck is mine not in transit grrr :angry: :laugh:
Don't worry Mark, this happened to me on my confirmed bw. Only moved to in transit on the Saturday morning :smiley:
Thanks Craig, I can relax again!! :laugh:
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Are you BW33 mk7gti??
Edit: Ignore me, I see you've answered that in another thread.
Why the f7ck is mine not in transit grrr :angry: :laugh:
Don't worry Mark, this happened to me on my confirmed bw. Only moved to in transit on the Saturday morning :smiley:
That's "Worrying!".... :sad: I was confirmed BW32 and mine is still showing 'Build Week Confirmed'... Eeek
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Phew!!! Was getting paranoid..... Gone into "In Transit" this morning. Happy Days!!! :grin:
Order History to date:
On Order: 5dr GTi Performance Pack DSG, Pure White, ACC (or DCC), 19" Santiago's
Ordered: 29th March 2013
Expected BW: 37.. 27.. 25.. 28
Confirmed BW: 32 W/c 5th August (Confirmed online Tracker 23rd June, which is about 7 weeks from Confirmed to Build N.b factory closed 3 weeks)
In Transit: Confirmed 15th August
Expected Delivery: 1st Week of September fingers crossed.
So that works out roughly 5 Months from Order to Delivery!!!
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So my dealer has got back to me regarding the 3.5 weeks my car has now been in transit to Emden. After speaking to VW UK apparently my car was one of a batch in transit that were hit by a HAILSTORM and had to be sent back to the factory to go through the QA process again and repaired if necessary. You really couldn't make this stuff up!
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So my dealer has got back to me regarding the 3.5 weeks my car has now been in transit to Emden. After speaking to VW UK apparently my car was one of a batch in transit that were hit by a HAILSTORM and had to be sent back to the factory to go through the QA process again and repaired if necessary. You really couldn't make this stuff up!
These VW whoppers are getting more and more ridiculous!!
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So my dealer has got back to me regarding the 3.5 weeks my car has now been in transit to Emden. After speaking to VW UK apparently my car was one of a batch in transit that were hit by a HAILSTORM and had to be sent back to the factory to go through the QA process again and repaired if necessary. You really couldn't make this stuff up!
If that is true that is some terrible luck. Make sure you inspect the car 100% thoroughly when you collect it
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Heard about that on the news last week...
http://www.dw.de/hailstorm-damages-a-nuisance-for-volkswagen/a-17010009
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Heard about that on the news last week...
http://www.dw.de/hailstorm-damages-a-nuisance-for-volkswagen/a-17010009
The news article suggests customers of damaged/repaired cars are being offered a discount or option of rejoining the waiting list for a new car. Wonder what my chances are of squeezing out some more discount. Hmmm :whistle:
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Heard about that on the news last week...
http://www.dw.de/hailstorm-damages-a-nuisance-for-volkswagen/a-17010009
The news article suggests customers of damaged/repaired cars are being offered a discount or option of rejoining the waiting list for a new car. Wonder what my chances are of squeezing out some more discount. Hmmm :whistle:
The biggest fairy story we've heard to date is actually true. I think it stinks that Neil had to push to get the truth, were they ever going to admit his car was maybe repaired when he finally got it, if he didn't start asking why plant to port transit was taking so long. Would they have ever offered him a discount on his car on the assumption the damage wasn't bad and they repaired it to the point that he wouldn't notice?
I wonder whether delays to BW33 are due to the remedial work/inspections or possibly rushing through manufacture of replacement vehicles for those which are worst affected? If there are a finite number of cameras, if they don't strip those cars down that may have had one fitted to reuse the components, you might see people with confirmed orders getting refused cameras because in effect they have used 2 for 1 order (the hail-wrecked car and it's replacement).
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Yep I've no doubt I'd be left waiting and wondering where my car is if I hadn't chased it. Worrying thing is the dealer seems to have no idea how long the delay will be. With 28000 damaged vehicles being repaired by a 3rd party it could be some time :cry:
Heard about that on the news last week...
http://www.dw.de/hailstorm-damages-a-nuisance-for-volkswagen/a-17010009
The news article suggests customers of damaged/repaired cars are being offered a discount or option of rejoining the waiting list for a new car. Wonder what my chances are of squeezing out some more discount. Hmmm :whistle:
The biggest fairy story we've heard to date is actually true. I think it stinks that Neil had to push to get the truth, were they ever going to admit his car was maybe repaired when he finally got it, if he didn't start asking why plant to port transit was taking so long. Would they have ever offered him a discount on his car on the assumption the damage wasn't bad and they repaired it to the point that he wouldn't notice?
I wonder whether delays to BW33 are due to the remedial work/inspections or possibly rushing through manufacture of replacement vehicles for those which are worst affected? If there are a finite number of cameras, if they don't strip those cars down that may have had one fitted to reuse the components, you might see people with confirmed orders getting refused cameras because in effect they have used 2 for 1 order (the hail-wrecked car and it's replacement).
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Have changed to 'in transit' over night :) :smiley:
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If you go to www.marinetraffic.com and search for Vessel 'AUTOPRESTIGE' you can see it currently waiting in the port at Emden. :smiley: (I may have become slightly obsessed)
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How are you finding out which ship your car is going to be on though?
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The other is the Panama to Grimsby, which is on the loading quay at the moment. I'll have to put my thinking cap on to see if I can discover which it would be :smiley:
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It's the one to Sheerness for me the dealer has confirmed.
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If you go to www.marinetraffic.com and search for Vessel 'AUTOPRESTIGE' you can see it currently waiting in the port at Emden. :smiley: (I may have become slightly obsessed)
Mine is going to the port of Grimsby, where the vessel 'PANAMA' has just left port, due to arrive at 3pm tomorrow. Wonder if my car is on that one, given it was on the way to port last Monday, and still shows as in transit? No rush :grin:
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If you go to www.marinetraffic.com and search for Vessel 'AUTOPRESTIGE' you can see it currently waiting in the port at Emden. :smiley: (I may have become slightly obsessed)
Mine is going to the port of Grimsby, where the vessel 'PANAMA' has just left port, due to arrive at 3pm tomorrow. Wonder if my car is on that one, given it was on the way to port last Monday, and still shows as in transit? No rush :grin:
This is the point where the tracker went a bit wonky for me. The car sat in transit for just over three weeks and remained that way even after the car had been delivered to the dealer :huh:
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Feel like a big kid :smiley: mine isn't at Emden yet so hoping the boat doesn't leave before it gets there
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This is the point where the tracker went a bit wonky for me. The car sat in transit for just over three weeks and remained that way even after the car had been delivered to the dealer :huh:
Yeah, let's see how much better the new tracker is :grin:
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This is the point where the tracker went a bit wonky for me. The car sat in transit for just over three weeks and remained that way even after the car had been delivered to the dealer :huh:
Yeah, let's see how much better the new tracker is :grin:
At least you know your on the homeward stretch :smiley:.
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At least you know your on the homeward stretch :smiley:.
Very true, and it's nice to be back into happy thought territory! Properly looking forward to it now, as I'm sure almost everybody will be regardless of how rocky the road might have been :)
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At least you know your on the homeward stretch :smiley:.
Very true, and it's nice to be back into happy thought territory! Properly looking forward to it now, as I'm sure almost everybody will be regardless of how rocky the road might have been :)
Exactly! Sounds like the next few months will see an explosion of GTI's arriving on these shores. They are definitely beginning to come through now :smiley:
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You probably won't know which ship your car will get on. From waiting at Emden, 3 ships came to Emden and went to Port of Tyne in about a week before my dad's GTD got on the fourth ship.
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You probably won't know which ship your car will get on. From waiting at Emden, 3 ships came to Emden and went to Port of Tyne in about a week before my dad's GTD got on the fourth ship.
I definitely don't know, and aren't too fussed now to be honest! It is what it is and will be here when it's here. I guess I might get a status update on Monday, we shall see.
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You probably won't know which ship your car will get on. From waiting at Emden, 3 ships came to Emden and went to Port of Tyne in about a week before my dad's GTD got on the fourth ship.
I definitely don't know, and aren't too fussed now to be honest! It is what it is and will be here when it's here. I guess I might get a status update on Monday, we shall see.
Hoping to find that my BW33 GTD will actually get started next week (BW34 - WTF!). I am totally non-plussed by the prospect of receiving my car that was suppsed to be built BW25/26 originally. Just been looking at A3 3 door S-line with the 184PS engine and a few extras like the comfort pack and a few other bits. It's not looking so special on the outside compared to GTD, but the S-line interior is amazing especially the seats. If my car isn't built next week i'm tempted to tell them to shove it, if I can get DTD £2500 discount and £14.5k - £15k for my Scirocco.
I have never been less excited for a car change - VW have completely ruined it for me with disappointment after disappointment.
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Hoping to find that my BW33 GTD will actually get started next week (BW34 - WTF!). I am totally non-plussed by the prospect of receiving my car that was suppsed to be built BW25/26 originally. Just been looking at A3 3 door S-line with the 184PS engine and a few extras like the comfort pack and a few other bits. It's not looking so special on the outside compared to GTD, but the S-line interior is amazing especially the seats. If my car isn't built next week i'm tempted to tell them to shove it, if I can get DTD £2500 discount and £14.5k - £15k for my Scirocco.
I have never been less excited for a car change - VW have completely ruined it for me with disappointment after disappointment.
Now I know it's on the way I'm as excited as I ever was! It's awful when you are in the position of not knowing though. Only you can make the decision to sack it off and buy something else, but would the Audi be a factory build? If so, surely you'd be waiting longer for that than you would your GTD? I guess you just need to see what happens next week with you car, hope it finally goes into build.
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Now I know it's on the way I'm as excited as I ever was! It's awful when you are in the position of not knowing though. Only you can make the decision to sack it off and buy something else, but would the Audi be a factory build? If so, surely you'd be waiting longer for that than you would your GTD? I guess you just need to see what happens next week with you car, hope it finally goes into build.
I just feel that VW haven't done very much for us early adopters, especially one who has already had 6 new VW purchases under his belt. I ordered before the great broker prices were available too, so I do feel like i've overpaid and it's only the fact that i've waited so long and my fixed p/x price has opened up some big equity in my Scirocco that I feel I still have a "reasonable" deal. Might write a letter of disappointment to VW UK to see if I can shame them into some goodwill if it isn't built next week.
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Clearly VW have had a lot of logistical issues to deal with, and have been piss-poor at keeping us all informed about what's going on. I'm sure that with enough persistence and understanding from yourself, goodwill of some description would head your way. It's all too easy to get wound up and upset about it, but the fact of the matter is this - if the only major worry in my life right now is the unorganised delivery of a £30k car, I really don't have things too bad in the grand scheme of things.
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Clearly VW have had a lot of logistical issues to deal with, and have been piss-poor at keeping us all informed about what's going on. I'm sure that with enough persistence and understanding from yourself, goodwill of some description would head your way. It's all too easy to get wound up and upset about it, but the fact of the matter is this - if the only major worry in my life right now is the unorganised delivery of a £30k car, I really don't have things too bad in the grand scheme of things.
It's not a life or death situation, but they seem to think that they can treat their customers with contempt or indifference that are spending £26K+ with them. If I were to vote with my feet, the Audi A3 (3 door, as the 5 door is an estate car) S-line with approximate GTD spec is the only thing that tempts me right now.
I'm going to have a "meh" feeling when I finally get that car, you shouldn't ever feel that way on a £26k spend.
If the 184PS engine is freely available then a fresh A3 S-line order shouldn't take long, there should be no allocation considerations as it is "just" a normal A3 order.
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you'll face the same delays on an Audi or a seat I think. I enquired about a 5 door Leon with 184ps engine and was told minimum 4 months maybe even 5.
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Hard to know what to do mate. For all the negativity VW have caused, the GTI is still the car I wanted all along so I wouldn't have had any alternatives other than to just cancel and stick with what I've got now. If you'd be happy with the A3, it cant hurt to investigate, but the chances are if you were due for build this week, you really should see movement soon.
Your right though, when spending so much we shouldn't get treat like we have, and I for one will be writing a letter or two.
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I guess it depends how your expectations are set. When I ordered mine the dealer said it showed a July 1st delivery, but she said to me quite clearly "From experience with a new GTI model, I strongly doubt that will be the case, it never is". I've known her for years as she used to sell BMW (have waited 11 months for a new M3 before).
The only delay I've really had was being pushed from BW28 to BW32 because of the factory shutdown being brought forward a week. When the car didn't show as being in build at the end of BW32 she called VW daily and emailed me an update. Today said the other 4 cars in their original allocation of 5 have been pushed back to 'unconfirmed' BW 41. The worst part is I really want her to work for me now, I'm wondering what a VW salespersons basic might be? :smiley:
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It's mix of how expectations are set and how they are managed going forwards. I was told I'd have it early August, which I guess is only 4 weeks off the original 16 week estimate. At one point though I was told build week 38, which came forward to 32 and stayed there. I haven't been kept informed particularly well, but others have hade it a lot worse.
Still, it really does seem like with the odd week 51 exceptions, thing are moving along now.
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Oh she did also say, and I quote "VW are telling people there's a shortage of reversing camera's, there's not, they're stockpiled, VW have an issue with the company supplying the motors that lift the badge up"
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I think GTI's are starting to move along fine now. GTD orders however sound as if they are about to get royally screwed. I'm expecting alot more orders to go BW51. The guys getting theirs built this week or next have dodged a bullet!
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I guess it depends how your expectations are set. When I ordered mine the dealer said it showed a July 1st delivery, but she said to me quite clearly "From experience with a new GTI model, I strongly doubt that will be the case, it never is". I've known her for years as she used to sell BMW (have waited 11 months for a new M3 before).
The only delay I've really had was being pushed from BW28 to BW32 because of the factory shutdown being brought forward a week. When the car didn't show as being in build at the end of BW32 she called VW daily and emailed me an update. Today said the other 4 cars in their original allocation of 5 have been pushed back to 'unconfirmed' BW 41. The worst part is I really want her to work for me now, I'm wondering what a VW salespersons basic might be? :smiley:
It's all well and good quoting and managing expectations when things have gone to plan. Others have ordered at the same time/before you and either have BW33 & not started build yet/no confirmed BW/pushed back to BW51. A little harder for others to deal with I would suggest.
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I ordered the day before the order books were open for the GTI, so effectively anyone that ordered before me had their order made on the same date.
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The point is, we've had people order after others and get their cars well before, so it's natural that those negatively affected are going to be disgruntled. The fact that there appeared to be no consistency makes it even worse.
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I have absolutely no problem with my car taking so long, it's the fact that nobody can tell me why that i find frustrating! If they were honest and forthcoming with problems i'm sure we'd all be a little more chilled about the whole thing? ???
I mean 4 and a half months and they've only just decided when they're going to build it! ::)
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I ordered the day before the order books were open for the GTI, so effectively anyone that ordered before me had their order made on the same date.
And there's people on here who did the same and still haven't got a confirmed BW. So well done you, but you're one of the few lucky ones.
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I have absolutely no problem with my car taking so long, it's the fact that nobody can tell me why that i find frustrating! If they were honest and forthcoming with problems i'm sure we'd all be a little more chilled about the whole thing? ???
I mean 4 and a half months and they've only just decided when they're going to build it! ::)
Exactly right, I'm sure I've said before that I don't mind when the car comes, I just expect to be kept informed when delays happen, including why and expected resolution. It's the constant not knowing that eats away at ya'
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I think GTI's are starting to move along fine now. GTD orders however sound as if they are about to get royally screwed. I'm expecting alot more orders to go BW51. The guys getting theirs built this week or next have dodged a bullet!
I'm confirmed bw36 and I won't be happy if anything happens from here on in!
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I ordered the day before the order books were open for the GTI, so effectively anyone that ordered before me had their order made on the same date.
And there's people on here who did the same and still haven't got a confirmed BW. So well done you, but you're one of the few lucky ones.
Oh??.. that's madness :(
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Like a lot of you on here, been doing a bit of tracking myself using MarineTraffic.com website.
Its a bit hit and miss, but my BW32 order went into transit on Thursday 15th August and since then Ive been checking all Vehicle Carrier departures from Emden to Sheerness. Low and behold ones just left Emden today ("AUTORUNNER") bound for Sheerness due to arrive tomorrow (Wednesday 21st August ETA 13:00).
This tallies with what VWCS confirmed, so Im keeping my fingers crossed my order is on that boat.
"GtG".... Your order could very well be on the same boat as I remember you mentioning Sheerness as your port of entry! :smiley:
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Hoping the same, also tracking it :smiley:
If it's not on AUTORUNNNER I managed to find a schedule online ealier (don't have the link on this machine) that said that AUTOPRESTIGE leaves Emden for Sheerness tomorrow :smiley:
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Hoping the same, also tracking it :smiley:
If it's not on AUTORUNNNER I managed to find a schedule online ealier (don't have the link on this machine) that said that AUTOPRESTIGE leaves Emden for Sheerness tomorrow :smiley:
"COOL!".... Thanks for that... Not noticed AutoPrestige.... Got to be on at least one of these :grin:
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Like a lot of you on here, been doing a bit of tracking myself using MarineTraffic.com website.
Its a bit hit and miss, but my BW32 order went into transit on Thursday 15th August and since then Ive been checking all Vehicle Carrier departures from Emden to Sheerness. Low and behold ones just left Emden today ("AUTORUNNER") bound for Sheerness due to arrive tomorrow (Wednesday 21st August ETA 13:00).
This tallies with what VWCS confirmed, so Im keeping my fingers crossed my order is on that boat.
"GtG".... Your order could very well be on the same boat as I remember you mentioning Sheerness as your port of entry! :smiley:
Yesterday morning my BW32 order was showing in transit, and in the afternoon it had changed to into UK :)
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There's been almost nothing going from Emden to port of Tyne for the last week and forseeable for next week. Not sure whether there's enough cars wanting to go to Tyne for Sept delivery to justify a direct sailing - there seems a fair few ships going to Tyne from Sheerness. Irrelevant in either case because my BW33 car has not even been started yet.
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Still "in transit"... meh... anyone had any updates?
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Still "in transit"... meh... anyone had any updates?
Nope!!! :angry: if it makes you feel any better mate mine went into transit on the 15th and its still showing "In Transit"! I was hoping it had arrived in Sheerness last Wednesday/Thursday and my status had changed to "Arrived in the UK"... No such luck. No further update from dealer as well. They said they would phone as soon as it arrived in the UK?
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I wonder if it's a tracker issue?... Some seem to have said that it still said 'in transit' when they'd picked the car up.
Dealer said they were expecting it to arrive with them this week. No idea if that will actually happen or not.
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I wonder if it's a tracker issue?... Some seem to have said that it still said 'in transit' when they'd picked the car up.
Dealer said they were expecting it to arrive with them this week. No idea if that will actually happen or not.
Wasn't that before the new tracker though? I've found the new one quite accurate as mine has gone through build to the dealer.
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Yeah I think it was the old one. The next Emden > Sheerness I can see isn't until Saturday :sad:
Wonder if it's sat at Sheerness 'not checked in' or whatever the process is...
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Not sure mate, I lost faith in the whole VW process long ago! :grin:
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I'm almost certain our cars are sat on the dockside at Sheerness! The flamin buggers have probably fecked off on holiday as its a Bank Holiday weekend.
VWCS had confirmed that I would either take delivery of the car either the last week of August or the first week of September. I know there's been a lot of BS flying around, but their predictions have been accurate up to now.
I'm still hanging onto the hope I'll take delivery of the car 1st week September.
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I'm hoping I'm just a week behind you. Mine went 'In Transit' yesterday. Was expecting the keys third week of September.
Saw a 3dr white GTI on the road today that looked special. Pound for pound these are he best cars on the road.
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Mines been in transit for over a week now
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2 to 4 weeks from in transit to arriving at the dealers.
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My week 33 is arriving via grimsby according to my dealer. It would be great to know how often the ships leave from Emden.
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'AUTORUNNER' seems to do the Emden > Grimsby trip. (It's in Grimsby now). If you have a look on www.marinetraffic.com you can find the vessels and see the expected arrivals by port :)
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GTG I was just reading the very same thing. VW really have turned us into anoraks..
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I'm resisting calling the dealer again to see if there's any update :smiley:
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Has anyone else noticed this, but in the "In Transit" stage it has now changed to 10 days???
i.e. "On average it takes 10 days from build for this model to reach your local Volkswagen Retailer"....
I'm sure it use to state 3 weeks??? Might be just imagining things??? :shocked:
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Mine still has the '3 week' message :sad: .. before that it said '4 weeks'...
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I kid you not... Mines changed to 10 days just this morning. It was showing 3 weeks only just yesterday??? Weird????
Step 5 of 7:
In transit
Your car is in the final stage of its journey to the UK. On average it takes 10 days from build for this model to reach your local Volkswagen Retailer.
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Mine shows the following go figure!
"Your car is on the next stage of its journey to the UK. On average it takes 3 weeks for this model to reach your local Volkswagen Retailer."
The question that intrigues me is now my car gets to Belfast. If my new toy has arrived in Grimsby today they must have to put the car on a transporter and drive across to the west cost of England. Then ship the transporter to Belfast...
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That's really weird... Here's a screenshot of my order in transit???
(http://i582.photobucket.com/albums/ss268/Gung-Ho_2009/image.jpg) (http://s582.photobucket.com/user/Gung-Ho_2009/media/image.jpg.html)
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I kid you not... Mines changed to 10 days just this morning. It was showing 3 weeks only just yesterday??? Weird????
Step 5 of 7:
In transit
Your car is in the final stage of its journey to the UK. On average it takes 10 days from build for this model to reach your local Volkswagen Retailer.
Mine changed too during transit as it goes through the various parts of the journey.
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I wonder if that means yours has just got on to the 'EMDEN' at Emden and mine is still sat there waiting. While BW32 mine wasn't built until BW33.
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Confirmed, mine is still sat in the massive car park that is Emden docks...
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Mine still says 3weeks :cry:
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Seems the 4 week message means on the way to Emden, 3 weeks means @ Emden, 10 days means on the boat. There is one loading up now that normally does Sheerness then Grimsby, so fingers crossed!
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Seems the 4 week message means on the way to Emden, 3 weeks means @ Emden, 10 days means on the boat. There is one loading up now that normally does Sheerness then Grimsby, so fingers crossed!
I think you could be onto something there mate. Bit too much of a coincidence that I've gone from 3 weeks to 10 days on the tracker, just as a ship bound for Sheerness is loading up ('Emden'). If that is correct then its taken roughly 10 days to get from the factory... Probably only two days in reality, but been sat around on the dockside for the other 8 days (just a theory).
Well here's hoping my tracker changes to 'In the UK' by the end of the week.
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I think you could be onto something there mate. Bit too much of a coincidence that I've gone from 3 weeks to 10 days on the tracker, just as a ship bound for Sheerness is loading up ('Emden'). If that is correct then its taken roughly 10 days to get from the factory... Probably only two days in reality, but been sat around on the dockside for the other 8 days (just a theory).
Well here's hoping my tracker changes to 'In the UK' by the end of the week.
I'm pretty sure it will do. Although the status itself doesn't change, the text does, and I'm pretty certain that coincides with various key stages of the journey. Personally I'd have liked more actual stages, but there ya' go!
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Hoping mine changes to '10 days' before the 'EMDEN' vessel leaves port, the next sailing doesn't look like it's until Saturday...
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Hoping mine changes to '10 days' before the 'EMDEN' vessel leaves port, the next sailing doesn't look like it's until Saturday...
Crikey!!! I was hoping it was gonna leave tomorrow!!! :grin: Oh well in that case if it doesn't leave till Saturday, there isn't much hope for me picking it up the 1st week of September... It's looking more like the 2nd week now :cry:
I'm almost certain your car is gonna get on mate if the Emden doesn't set sail till the end of the week.
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I think you could be onto something there mate. Bit too much of a coincidence that I've gone from 3 weeks to 10 days on the tracker, just as a ship bound for Sheerness is loading up ('Emden'). If that is correct then its taken roughly 10 days to get from the factory... Probably only two days in reality, but been sat around on the dockside for the other 8 days (just a theory).
Well here's hoping my tracker changes to 'In the UK' by the end of the week.
I'm pretty sure it will do. Although the status itself doesn't change, the text does, and I'm pretty certain that coincides with various key stages of the journey. Personally I'd have liked more actual stages, but there ya' go!
I agree... There should definitely be an extra few stages or a re-wording of the text as its very confusing at the moment. I mean how can the average transit time go from 4 weeks to 10 days??? It's either 4 weeks or 10 days... No wonder the bods at VWCS are confused!!!
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I agree... There should definitely be an extra few stages or a re-wording of the text as its very confusing at the moment. I mean how can the average transit time go from 4 weeks to 10 days??? It's either 4 weeks or 10 days... No wonder the bods at VWCS are confused!!!
Yeah, extra stages or better wording, but I suppose that in the grand scheme of things, if it's in transit, you know it's only a matter of a few short weeks until all of this anticipation will be but a distant memory!
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:grin: too right mate... After 5 agonising months, the "excitement" is beginning to build again!!!
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:grin: too right mate... After 5 agonising months, the "excitement" is beginning to build again!!!
It's fair to say that most of us hit pretty low points through all of this, and if I'd have known it would have been 5 months at the point of ordering, I don't think I'd have pulled the trigger. But, I'm so glad I stuck with it, as the excitement levels rise each day now! It's made worse for the fact that I know it's at the dealers right now, and am just waiting on a phone call tomorrow to arrange collection from 1st September!
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I was fine until I knew it had been built. Now the suspense is killing me.
Worse however, the Mrs who says she has no interest in cars and put me through hell when I ordered it seems to be asking me every 90 seconds if there's an update on it. It was her that decided to (apparently coincidentally) drive to a supermarket she never uses that meant driving past the dealership and popped in to ask where the car was.
God she's going to want to drive it... I'd best pre order a replacement now...
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I was fine until I knew it had been built. Now the suspense is killing me.
Worse however, the Mrs who says she has no interest in cars and put me through hell when I ordered it seems to be asking me every 90 seconds if there's an update on it. It was her that decided to (apparently coincidentally) drive to a supermarket she never uses that meant driving past the dealership and popped in to ask where the car was.
God she's going to want to drive it... I'd best pre order a replacement now...
Haha, I was kinda like, "whatever" even knowing it had been built, but as it got closer to home I started to get more and more excited!
Ooh...I'd like to keep my new car the same state as my current one - never driven by my wife! She's not even named on the insurance, because she WILL bump into something! :grin:
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My wife has a Mercedes 320 E-Class (which she drives like it's a Mini), if you ever fancy a white knuckle ride I'll get her to give you a lift home from the pub. It's twice as terrifying and half the cost of anything Alton Towers have to offer...
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Haha, sounds like an experience to be had! :grin: My wife's just got so little confidence behind the wheel that I'm a nervous wreck for different reasons, so generally I'll do the majority of the driving!
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I wish mine was the same in a way. She's actually not a bad driver (ish)... but so aggressive, if someone pulls out in front of her at any distance she decides isn't acceptable she basically floors it and sits on their ass. We might do the same, but when she does it it's like 3 inches behind, it's truly terrifying if you're in the car at the time.
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Looks like us BW33 TRers are still waiting on build (maybe they've been started over the weekend? :rolleyes:).
Can't remember what happened with my dad's in relation to the tracker status. Is "in transit" designated as soon as the car is through final checks, on it's way to Emden, Waiting at Emden for a ship, or not until actually on a ship?
Not sure whether to politely but strongly have some words of criticism for VW UK tomorrow (and ask directly about goodwill gestures) if my car hasn't even been started yet in what will be day 3 of BW35.
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Yeah I think you're right "In transit" seems to just mean finished...
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I wish mine was the same in a way. She's actually not a bad driver (ish)... but so aggressive, if someone pulls out in front of her at any distance she decides isn't acceptable she basically floors it and sits on their ass. We might do the same, but when she does it it's like 3 inches behind, it's truly terrifying if you're in the car at the time.
Oh I'm sure we all have our moments on the road, but if there is one thing I cannot stand, it's tailgating! My wife's not "too" bad on the open road to be fair, she is just a bit hesitant at times, but has no spatial awareness whatsoever when it comes to maneuvers! :grin:
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I feel some people are more emotional than logical. The seem to think that position and speed are things you need to get roughly right most of the time rather than exactly right all the time. It's possible there is a degree of correlation with those of the female persuasion.
My wife will frequently manoeuvre then signal. It's like the signal is added afterwards in a kind of "ha, almost forgot it that time" kind of way! Swerving across lanes while talking is not considered to be a problem as long as there is a swerve back. Accelerating and braking are relatively random and accelerating will often occur even when faced with brake lights that we are rapidly gaining on. There is little to no understanding of when cutting up other drivers on roundabouts...
About 1 in 2 journeys results in me silently swearing to do ALL the driving in future!
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Only 1 in 2 Bear?! :grin: You are a very tolerant man, your wife is lucky! I just told my wife after 3 journeys with her that in future I'll drive when we are together. To be fair she's cool with it anyway and would rather sit back and be chauffeured about.... Ummm, actually, she did it on purpose didn't she?! :grin:
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Only 1 in 2 Bear?! :grin: You are a very tolerant man, your wife is lucky! I just told my wife after 3 journeys with her that in future I'll drive when we are together. To be fair she's cool with it anyway and would rather sit back and be chauffeured about.... Ummm, actually, she did it on purpose didn't she?! :grin:
Yeah sounds likely. They've outsmarted us without us even realising it!
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Yeah sounds likely. They've outsmarted us without us even realising it!
Yup, suckered right into that one. I'd best not mention it though, might cause a domestic!
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Bill_the_traitor_Bear!... cancelled your Golf and ordered a poor man's BMW tut tut!...
Understand your frustration, but no long term Golf GTI lover would ever swap!
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Bill_the_traitor_Bear!... cancelled your Golf and ordered a poor man's BMW tut tut!...
Understand your frustration, but no long term Golf GTI lover would ever swap!
Ah well I'm no long term GTI lover. Admirer yes, but I never owned one.
A friend of mine calls BMW the "stupid rich man's car" as he says you can get the same thing elsewhere for a lot less money. So is it a poor man's or a rich man's? :tongue:
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From someone that has owned two new M3's, I can confirm that the one series is defo a poor mans BMW. Just like the M3, the Golf GTI is an icon... No chance I'd change, no matter what the delay. You must have made about 10,000 posts on this forum? but you've changed to a BMW 1 Series?... and you're still posting ?
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:huh: You'd prefer I did not? If you want to say something then say it.
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Jeesus - mine is in transit! I was ready to give it to VW UK with both barrels today, and it is finally in transit. Might ring them up anyway and plead ignorance on the tracker just so they can hopefully tell me expected shipping etc.
Matchboy - check your tracker!
No need to be having a go at Bear. He's been very enthusiastic about the GTI from the start of the waiting process and has never dissed anything but the ridiculous wait VW had put him through. At the end of the day, extreme measures have made him jump ship to BMW.
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@gtg what's with the attitude towards bear?? if you've got nothing constructive to say then don't say anything!
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Yeah, I don't want to beat a dead horse here, but Bear has been a big part of these forums since joining, and I for one hope he sticks around. In relation to BMW, at that money I'd be saving up for a decent 3 series or even a used M3, but if he's happy with the M135i, be happy for him.
Great news monkeyhanger, and fingers crossed matchboy!
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Matchboy - check your tracker!
Excellent news MH, very pleased for you! You have been waiting one of the longest!
Mixed news for me - the tracker still says 'being built' however VW have told me this morning that the car went into build today. Whether I believe that or not is another matter, but he seemed quite definitive about it. We shall see....
As for GtG.... :rolleyes:
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Matchboy - check your tracker!
Excellent news MH, very pleased for you! You have been waiting one of the longest!
Mixed news for me - the tracker still says 'being built' however VW have told me this morning that the car went into build today. Whether I believe that or not is another matter, but he seemed quite definitive about it. We shall see....
As for GtG.... :rolleyes:
Maybe yours was put off past mine due to shipping concerns – if they’re working to a “just in time” method right now. There is a ship in today that could potentially take mine to port of Tyne if it hasn’t hung around getting on the train to Emden. Maybe they held off on building yours because there isn’t a ship to Sheerness (likely port of delivery for yours, given your location) or Grimsby (less likely) for a good few days. Either way it is confirmed that they hung around for 2 weeks past build week to start yours, so this “the build week means that week or the week after” line from VW UK is horse sh!te, as we all knew it to be.
Or maybe I still have an epic wait for shipping. There is nothing after “city of Rome” going to port of Tyne for the foreseeable (shipping website only allows me to see to 2nd September)
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Or maybe I still have an epic wait for shipping. There is nothing after “city of Rome” going to port of Tyne for the foreseeable (shipping website only allows me to see to 2nd September)
Next thing you know we'll all be listening to the shipping forecast :rolleyes:
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Matchboy - check your tracker!
Excellent news MH, very pleased for you! You have been waiting one of the longest!
Mixed news for me - the tracker still says 'being built' however VW have told me this morning that the car went into build today. Whether I believe that or not is another matter, but he seemed quite definitive about it. We shall see....
As for GtG.... :rolleyes:
Maybe yours was put off past mine due to shipping concerns – if they’re working to a “just in time” method right now. There is a ship in today that could potentially take mine to port of Tyne if it hasn’t hung around getting on the train to Emden. Maybe they held off on building yours because there isn’t a ship to Sheerness (likely port of delivery for yours, given your location) or Grimsby (less likely) for a good few days. Either way it is confirmed that they hung around for 2 weeks past build week to start yours, so this “the build week means that week or the week after” line from VW UK is horse sh!te, as we all knew it to be.
Or maybe I still have an epic wait for shipping. There is nothing after “city of Rome” going to port of Tyne for the foreseeable (shipping website only allows me to see to 2nd September)
Scratch what I said above - my dealer has now just told me I'm BW39. Sick of this.
Hope you get on that ship MH, at least some of us are having better news!
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i ordered three days after MH and mine still isnt built yet either. Not due to start until 1st September so we'll have to see what happens.
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Scratch what I said above - my dealer has now just told me I'm BW39. Sick of this.
Hope you get on that ship MH, at least some of us are having better news!
:cry: So they can move BWs after BW confirmed then? Well... I guess this is obviously true really, but yet again why can't they be honest with their customers? "BW means starting any time that week... no wait it means any time within 2 weeks". "Build week means it is locked in and will happen... no wait we can move it after assuring you we won't!" grrr, think I need to update the things VW say thread!
PS: I'll edit my signature a bit, perhaps its offending some... I can understand that :sad:
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Scratch what I said above - my dealer has now just told me I'm BW39. Sick of this.
Hope you get on that ship MH, at least some of us are having better news!
:cry: So they can move BWs after BW confirmed then? Well... I guess this is obviously true really, but yet again why can't they be honest with their customers? "BW means starting any time that week... no wait it means any time within 2 weeks". "Build week means it is locked in and will happen... no wait we can move it after assuring you we won't!" grrr, think I need to update the things VW say thread!
PS: I'll edit my signature a bit, perhaps its offending some... I can understand that :sad:
It doesn't offend me Bear, because by the end of the week I could well have the same sig :laugh:
I really don't understand how BW33 confirmed means BW39 :rolleyes:
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Doesn't bother me either Bear, you've earned the right! ;)
Stick with it matchboy, as easy as it is for me to say, it will be worth it and far more satisfying when you do get it knowing you didn't buckle!
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Doesn't bother me either Bear, you've earned the right! ;)
Stick with it matchboy, as easy as it is for me to say, it will be worth it and far more satisfying when you do get it knowing you didn't buckle!
You say that, but at the moment I'm looking at a minimum 28 week period from order to delivery. That's a hell of a long time to wait for any car, let along a Golf. I do love the GTI, but my patience is the thinnest its ever been today.
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You say that, but at the moment I'm looking at a minimum 28 week period from order to delivery. That's a hell of a long time to wait for any car, let along a Golf. I do love the GTI, but my patience is the thinnest its ever been today.
Completely agree mate, I think even 16 weeks is absolutely ridiculous, let alone the 20 I'll have waited or the 28 that you will have, assuming you stick with it. I guess it all depends on what else is out there and if you really do like the alternative, M135i being one in particular. For me there is nothing out there that touches the GTI in terms of looks, kit, refinement and general everyday balance. So, I'd have waited no matter what.
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For me there is nothing out there that touches the GTI in terms of looks, kit, refinement and general everyday balance. So, I'd have waited no matter what.
And don’t the f**k*rs know it!
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You say that, but at the moment I'm looking at a minimum 28 week period from order to delivery. That's a hell of a long time to wait for any car, let along a Golf. I do love the GTI, but my patience is the thinnest its ever been today.
Completely agree mate, I think even 16 weeks is absolutely ridiculous, let alone the 20 I'll have waited or the 28 that you will have, assuming you stick with it. I guess it all depends on what else is out there and if you really do like the alternative, M135i being one in particular. For me there is nothing out there that touches the GTI in terms of looks, kit, refinement and general everyday balance. So, I'd have waited no matter what.
Nothing does touch it in terms of looks I agree, and the M135i for eg is more expensive to run - but it is more refined and has a better cabin, and is obviously quicker. I don't want to change as I love GTI's, and this one is special, but 28 weeks - really?? Anyway, I'll stop moaning now as I'm boring myself! :laugh:
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Mh. How long does it say for your in transit, 4,3 weeks, or 10 days.
Mine is still on 3 weeks
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Mine has been stuck on being built for over a week now,is it actually being built ?Like most of you I have totally lost interest and come to terms with the fact that all you can do is vote with your feet, if I didn't have a locked in part exchange price and a perfectly good MK6 GTI to drive then I would have cancelled weeks ago.I think this will be the last new VW I buy. :smiley:
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And don’t the f**k*rs know it!
Yup, they do, but I guess the one thing to come from the long lead times and people jumping ship is that it will make the GTI feel that bit more special when it does arrive.
Nothing does touch it in terms of looks I agree, and the M135i for eg is more expensive to run - but it is more refined and has a better cabin, and is obviously quicker. I don't want to change as I love GTI's, and this one is special, but 28 weeks - really?? Anyway, I'll stop moaning now as I'm boring myself! :laugh:
At the end of the day we are comparing two class-leading cars, and while I can't speak for overall refinement in the BMW with regards to how it drives, I'm not that keen on the cabin. Raw speed and acceleration don't do that much for me at this end of the scale either, with the GTI being more than adequate for my everyday driving needs.
I guess part of it is me having had a GTI for the past 8 years too - it's been the most desirable car I've ever owned, and always brings a smile to my face. For me there is more to this purchase than "just the car", and the GTI is such an icon.
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Nothing does touch it in terms of looks I agree, and the M135i for eg is more expensive to run - but it is more refined and has a better cabin, and is obviously quicker. I don't want to change as I love GTI's, and this one is special, but 28 weeks - really?? Anyway, I'll stop moaning now as I'm boring myself! :laugh:
I'd say the beemer's looks grow on you a lot when you sign on the dotted line (ha!), and likewise the GTI starts to look less special (but then the GTI is the one with the heritage). This makes sense as owners of both cars will typically tend to see them in a better light than others will I think. That said if a requirement is you want people to notice the car then don't get the beemer cause its a sleeper!
However, the running costs there are no getting around. Its gonna be 30mpg in the M instead of 40mpg in the GTI, and the tyre costs are probably £750 ish for a full set, hopefully only every 2 years :embarrassed: Anyone know what the GTI tyre costs are? I imagine they are lower but the fronts need replacing slightly more often?
So I wouldn't worry about the looks, but the running costs should be properly considered I'd say. Insurance is up a little (insignificant), tax is the same.
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Well, I just rang VW UK to ask what was happening with my car, hoping to find out shipping status.
Before the rep went away and chased up status with VW sales she said “they are currently working a skeleton crew in Wolfsburg as they are coming to the end of their 6 week holiday” I asked whether I could apply for a job there and how long did they get off for Christmas.
She put me on hold for a while and then came back to confirm that it was “build is complete, it is leaving the plant today”.
I was hoping for them to say “it is at Emden and about to be loaded onto the city of Rome ship”. Looks like pick-up of at least the 10th is on the cards, as there is no ship from Emden to port of Tyne until at least after the 2nd.
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Woah woah, wait a minute.... is she saying the shutdown has been for 6 weeks not 4? (and originally it was supposed to be only 3) ???
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Nothing does touch it in terms of looks I agree, and the M135i for eg is more expensive to run - but it is more refined and has a better cabin, and is obviously quicker. I don't want to change as I love GTI's, and this one is special, but 28 weeks - really?? Anyway, I'll stop moaning now as I'm boring myself! :laugh:
I'd say the beemer's looks grow on you a lot when you sign on the dotted line (ha!), and likewise the GTI starts to look less special (but then the GTI is the one with the heritage). This makes sense as owners of both cars will typically tend to see them in a better light than others will I think. That said if a requirement is you want people to notice the car then don't get the beemer cause its a sleeper!
However, the running costs there are no getting around. Its gonna be 30mpg in the M instead of 40mpg in the GTI, and the tyre costs are probably £750 ish for a full set, hopefully only every 2 years :embarrassed: Anyone know what the GTI tyre costs are? I imagine they are lower but the fronts need replacing slightly more often?
So I wouldn't worry about the looks, but the running costs should be properly considered I'd say. Insurance is up a little (insignificant), tax is the same.
Tax is the same for a GTI and an M135i? Surely not. Lower mpg = higher CO2 = higher tax. £125 for the GTI is it? Not sure what the M315i is, but it cannot scrape under the 140g/CO2 band surely?
225/40 R18 Tyres on the Golf can be had quite reasonable. About £120 a corner for Michelin Pilot Sport 3s in Costco fully inclusive of fitting/valve/balance etc.
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Oh, my bad! Beemer is 175g. So its £75 more per year.
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This makes sense as owners of both cars will typically tend to see them in a better light than others will I think.
It’s fair to say that whatever car people choose, they will defend over the other, and it really is like splitting hairs when you consider what you are actually getting. I genuinely think the BMW 1 hatch is one ugly car, can’t quite pin it, but the coupe is a real looker in comparison.
Anyways, I’m sure you’ll have plenty of fun with the beemer, just as I will with the GTI. Two cracking cars, but like I’ve said, don’t challenge me to a drag race at the lights! :grin:
Edit: Woop, just got the phone call I wanted - collection will be Sunday 1st September, 09:30 :laugh:
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This makes sense as owners of both cars will typically tend to see them in a better light than others will I think.
It’s fair to say that whatever car people choose, they will defend over the other, and it really is like splitting hairs when you consider what you are actually getting. I genuinely think the BMW 1 hatch is one ugly car, can’t quite pin it, but the coupe is a real looker in comparison.
Anyways, I’m sure you’ll have plenty of fun with the beemer, just as I will with the GTI. Two cracking cars, but like I’ve said, don’t challenge me to a drag race at the lights! :grin:
Edit: Woop, just got the phone call I wanted - collection will be Sunday 1st September, 09:30 :laugh:
We should meet to play spot the difference and call each other tits. :whistle:
On a more serious note, I hope you have a :grin: a long as I did when you collect.
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Edit: Woop, just got the phone call I wanted - collection will be Sunday 1st September, 09:30 :laugh:
Congratulations! The perfect delivery date/time!
Gonna be posting some pics and review ... when you finally pull yourself away from it?
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We should meet to play spot the difference and call each other tits. :whistle:
On a more serious note, I hope you have a :grin: a long as I did when you collect.
Haha, that's a good idea! :grin: But no, seriously, cheers mate, and I certainly will be sporting a big grin that day!
Congratulations! The perfect delivery date/time!
Gonna be posting some pics and review ... when you finally pull yourself away from it?
Cheers Bear, and yup, I'll definitely take some snaps (probably at the showroom while it's still clean!) and post my comments. I've got a few places to be that day, with mixed roads and a good 40'odd mile round trip on the night.
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With regard to tyres it depends on the type of driving, but I've read that the M135i uses a soft compound which means you'll be replacing them much more often than if you had the GTI.
I'm expecting to get similar mileage out of the new GTI as my previous car(s) with 18's (long journeys - lots of motorway miles), around 25-30k fronts / 40-45k rears. I think you'll struggle to get anywhere near that with the (hard to find?) BMW tyre.
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With regard to tyres it depends on the type of driving, but I've read that the M135i uses a soft compound which means you'll be replacing them much more often than if you had the GTI.
I'm expecting to get similar mileage out of the new GTI as my previous car(s) with 18's (long journeys - lots of motorway miles), around 25-30k fronts / 40-45k rears. I think you'll struggle to get anywhere near that with the (hard to find?) BMW tyre.
Bl0ody hell, I was lucky to get 15k out of my last GTI :shocked:
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Like I said - lot of motorway miles :tongue:
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Like I said - lot of motorway miles :tongue:
Motorway miles at scool run speeds! ;) Just kidding mate! :tongue:
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In transit changed from 3weeks to 10 days this morning
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Mine changed from 3 weeks to 10 days on Monday morning (26th) and has now changed to this just now!!!! :smiley: I'm surprised how quickly things move along once the car is built... Happy Days!!!
(http://i582.photobucket.com/albums/ss268/Gung-Ho_2009/image-1.jpg) (http://s582.photobucket.com/user/Gung-Ho_2009/media/image-1.jpg.html)
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Great news!! Yours must have been on a speedboat! :laugh:
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Mine changed from 3 weeks to 10 days on Monday morning (26th) and has now changed to this just now!!!! :smiley: I'm surprised how quickly things move along once the car is built... Happy Days!!!
(http://i582.photobucket.com/albums/ss268/Gung-Ho_2009/image-1.jpg) (http://s582.photobucket.com/user/Gung-Ho_2009/media/image-1.jpg.html)
Nice one pal. Won't be long now
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:grin: Cheers fella's.... I'm quite surprised myself. I've got a funny feeling it arrived in the UK last week as I had originally anticipated, but there must have been a delay with the processing due to the Bank Holiday weekend.
I noticed there weren't any boats leaving Emden on Monday, so it must have been last week.
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Hey guys, I'm BW33, and this morning mine changed to In Transit. But says on average it takes 4 weeks to arrive at the dealer, that's it. So in what part/where do you see the countdown on? Is it at the bottom? So hopefully my text will change over time to an eta?
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Hey guys, I'm BW33, and this morning mine changed to In Transit. But says on average it takes 4 weeks to arrive at the dealer, that's it. So in what part/where do you see the countdown on? Is it at the bottom? So hopefully my text will change over time to an eta?
"In Transit" the text changes from 4 weeks to 3 weeks to 10 days if I remember correctly. After that it's in the UK where it can take 7 days to get to the dealer. You won't get a collection date until it's at your dealer and you speak to them about the handover.
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I'd take any kind of in transit right now lol... 33bw and still "building" urgh.
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Bear I totally apologise... I was being a dick. :embarrassed:
For some reason I took your previous sign off pic like a red rag to a bull and totally overreacted.
I should have thought more about your overall contribution to the forum than just reacting to that :sad:
Totally my bad.
After my conversation with VW UK today I'm tempted to join you in the BMW 135 club.
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Bear I totally apologise... I was being a dick. :embarrassed:
For some reason I took your previous sign off pic like a red rag to a bull and totally overreacted.
I should have thought more about your overall contribution to the forum than just reacting to that :sad:
Totally my bad.
After my conversation with VW UK today I'm tempted to join you in the BMW 135 club.
What did they say?
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Bear I totally apologise... I was being a dick. :embarrassed:
For some reason I took your previous sign off pic like a red rag to a bull and totally overreacted.
I should have thought more about your overall contribution to the forum than just reacting to that :sad:
Totally my bad.
After my conversation with VW UK today I'm tempted to join you in the BMW 135 club.
Takes a big man to admit when they've cocked up. Well done :smiley: :smiley:
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It was an odd conversation.
Was calling to find out where my car was, BW32 apparently built BW33 according to them a week ago.
Change of story today, now say it was built BW32 and has been sat at Emden docks for just over two weeks. Said it can take several weeks to ship a car because of necessary security checks (no idea what that's meant to really mean), but they 'hope' to have it on a boat by Monday. (If all that's true, the tracker is useless, none of that matches up with what the dealer has said either).
Ended with a very long winded version of 'Until your car has been in transit for over four weeks, there is no problem and you should should contact your retailer rather than ourselves'... (Erm, car was meant to be here before July!)...
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More VW bullsh1t shocker :rolleyes:
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Good on ya' GtG :)
Regarding your car, as annoying as it is, at least your car is built and will be on a boat soon I'm sure. It's a few short weeks away, so why not just accept the worst-case scenario (which admittedly is an unknown quantity!) and manage your own expectations? I actually got fed of feeling negative about it all the time, so just assumed I'd be getting mine mid-late September. As it happens, I'm getting it a lot sooner, but if it had gone the whole hog I wouldn't have been too disappointed.
For the past couple of weeks my dealer has been fantastic, so some faith restored, if a bit late.
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so . . . for those of you whose cars are in transit recently. Are they coming with the reverse camera if you had specified one?
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so . . . for those of you whose cars are in transit recently. Are they coming with the reverse camera if you had specified one?
How would they know? But, it's fair to say that if they ordered the camera, it will be there. If mine doesn't have it when I collect on Sunday I'll be taking it as a loan car, insisting on a rebuild, and some financial compensation for the extra wait :grin:
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so . . . for those of you whose cars are in transit recently. Are they coming with the reverse camera if you had specified one?
How would they know? But, it's fair to say that if they ordered the camera, it will be there. If mine doesn't have it when I collect on Sunday I'll be taking it as a loan car, insisting on a rebuild, and some financial compensation for the extra wait ;D
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but you could've checked when you saw it mate, when you lift the badge you can see the flap that covers the camera, never mind i'm sur it'll be there. :)
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing but you could've checked when you saw it mate, when you lift the badge you can see the flap that covers the camera, never mind i'm sur it'll be there. :)
Yeah I thought that as we were walking back to the showroom, but it wouldn't have changed the outcome either way! As you say, I'm sure it'll be there :)
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so . . . for those of you whose cars are in transit recently. Are they coming with the reverse camera if you had specified one?
How would they know? But, it's fair to say that if they ordered the camera, it will be there. If mine doesn't have it when I collect on Sunday I'll be taking it as a loan car, insisting on a rebuild, and some financial compensation for the extra wait :grin:
If your camera wasn't on there i'm sure they'd offer you the retro fit route at their expense (if it didn't involve some non-standard alteration of the wiring to accomodate it).
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If your camera wasn't on there i'm sure they'd offer you the retro fit route at their expense (if it didn't involve some non-standard alteration of the wiring to accommodate it).
Aye, I'm sure they would, though I'm also sure I won't be put in such a position!
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Just received a phone call in response to my email to Simon Thomson’s office last week (or was it the week before?).
A “Mr Kitchen” (either Ganor or Gavin, sounded like Ganor) rang to discuss the main points of my email i.e. why the delay?
He had a sympathetic voice, but seemed very careful not to directly apologise and admit blame. First of all he said that acceptance of order by VW UK (when you get your tracker number) may happen weeks before the factory accepts the order (when the true count begins, as far as VW is concerned). Then he says the factory accepted the order on April 5th, 5 days after VW UK order acceptance – so no real mitigation there, my unofficial lateness is only 5 days less than my unofficial lateness.
He starts rambling about high demand for GTD and GTI, talking allocation etc. So I ask him why I wouldn’t be at the front of any allocation queue if I was the first to order from my dealership, and my dad (who ordered 3rd from the same branch) got his on July 1st. I’d provided my dad’s tracking number in the email, so I think he’s looked into it a little. Maybe it’s the options. Nope, didn’t have any options on mine, neither did my dad. Maybe it’s the DSG box, there have been some delays for DSG boxes. Nope, mine was manual, my dad’s was DSG, the DSG came first.
Maybe your dad grabbed a build that wasn’t allocated? Nope, he ordered on BW14, long before any UK cars were built (they started BW22, in MY14), and his tracking number didn’t change throughout the process. Is it possible to detag a car order from a tracking number and apply a different car to it? No it isn’t he confirms.
At this point he realises that with April 5th factory acceptance, I have passed the 20 weeks mark at which they are obliged to offer a courtesy car. He offers me a car and I say that as my dealer hasn’t reeled in my part-ex yet, I don’t need one. This would lead me to believe that VW UK are responsible for getting you in a courtesy car after 20 weeks. How could he offer me one without checking with my dealer first for availability if the dealer is obliged to provide it?
I told him that this would be my 7th VW from new and I have never previously waited more than 12 weeks for one. If I had been treated the same way as my dad, I’d have had one within 13 weeks. Again he talked about high demand and low allocation, and again I reminded him that my timing regarding ordering should have put me at the front of any queue.
I keep politely heaping the excessive wait stuff onto him, hoping for a goodwill gesture, but he’s not taking the bait.
He tells me that my car being built 2 weeks later than schedule is something he’s never before experienced in his years at VW, but now it is on it’s way to Emden from the plant and should be there today. He has put into motion a request for my car to get priority shipping. It should not be hanging around at the port at all. He has just sent an email. Apparently they can’t request priority shipping until the car is at port and officially received by them. I ask why is the email already sent then? He says he has sent it to give them advance warning and will send the priority shipping request again officially when it has arrived at Emden. He says that it should then be on the next available ship. I should’ve asked whether that was the next ship to port of Tyne, or the very next UK bound ship.
If it is the next port of Tyne ship, not sure when that is leaving Emden, there is nothing scheduled within as far as I can look on the relevant websites (scheduling only available to 3rd Sept).
He’s quietly confident that upon arrival in the UK, it should be at my dealership within 3 days, and that I should get my mitts on it within 2 weeks.
He was fully aware of my enquiries with VW CS, knew a bit about my dads order as well as his own – it seems that he’d done a bit of homework on the case.
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I think I'll be asking for priority delivery as I'm even longer than you now MH
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Just received a phone call in response to my email to Simon Thomson’s office last week (or was it the week before?).
A “Mr Kitchen” (either Ganor or Gavin, sounded like Ganor) rang to discuss the main points of my email i.e. why the delay?
He had a sympathetic voice, but seemed very careful not to directly apologise and admit blame. First of all he said that acceptance of order by VW UK (when you get your tracker number) may happen weeks before the factory accepts the order (when the true count begins, as far as VW is concerned). Then he says the factory accepted the order on April 5th, 5 days after VW UK order acceptance – so no real mitigation there, my unofficial lateness is only 5 days less than my unofficial lateness.
He starts rambling about high demand for GTD and GTI, talking allocation etc. So I ask him why I wouldn’t be at the front of any allocation queue if I was the first to order from my dealership, and my dad (who ordered 3rd from the same branch) got his on July 1st. I’d provided my dad’s tracking number in the email, so I think he’s looked into it a little. Maybe it’s the options. Nope, didn’t have any options on mine, neither did my dad. Maybe it’s the DSG box, there have been some delays for DSG boxes. Nope, mine was manual, my dad’s was DSG, the DSG came first.
Maybe your dad grabbed a build that wasn’t allocated? Nope, he ordered on BW14, long before any UK cars were built (they started BW22, in MY14), and his tracking number didn’t change throughout the process. Is it possible to detag a car order from a tracking number and apply a different car to it? No it isn’t he confirms.
At this point he realises that with April 5th factory acceptance, I have passed the 20 weeks mark at which they are obliged to offer a courtesy car. He offers me a car and I say that as my dealer hasn’t reeled in my part-ex yet, I don’t need one. This would lead me to believe that VW UK are responsible for getting you in a courtesy car after 20 weeks. How could he offer me one without checking with my dealer first for availability if the dealer is obliged to provide it?
I told him that this would be my 7th VW from new and I have never previously waited more than 12 weeks for one. If I had been treated the same way as my dad, I’d have had one within 13 weeks. Again he talked about high demand and low allocation, and again I reminded him that my timing regarding ordering should have put me at the front of any queue.
I keep politely heaping the excessive wait stuff onto him, hoping for a goodwill gesture, but he’s not taking the bait.
He tells me that my car being built 2 weeks later than schedule is something he’s never before experienced in his years at VW, but now it is on it’s way to Emden from the plant and should be there today. He has put into motion a request for my car to get priority shipping. It should not be hanging around at the port at all. He has just sent an email. Apparently they can’t request priority shipping until the car is at port and officially received by them. I ask why is the email already sent then? He says he has sent it to give them advance warning and will send the priority shipping request again officially when it has arrived at Emden. He says that it should then be on the next available ship. I should’ve asked whether that was the next ship to port of Tyne, or the very next UK bound ship.
If it is the next port of Tyne ship, not sure when that is leaving Emden, there is nothing scheduled within as far as I can look on the relevant websites (scheduling only available to 3rd Sept).
He’s quietly confident that upon arrival in the UK, it should be at my dealership within 3 days, and that I should get my mitts on it within 2 weeks.
He was fully aware of my enquiries with VW CS, knew a bit about my dads order as well as his own – it seems that he’d done a bit of homework on the case.
If this situation remains the same as when I was in the same position with my MK6, VW UK have a direct deal with Europacar and all the dealership needs to do is phone through the order to Europacar quoting an authorisation code from VW UK.
When do you expect to collect? Im thinking Monday 23rd September (25 weeks in all)
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If it’s 23rd Sept, they can keep hold of it for another 2 and a half weeks. I’m off on my hols to Mexico as of the morning of the 24th.
No way I’m accepting that car the day before I go away and not having time to get the G-techniq stuff on before I go, to guard against seagull sh!te. I want to pick it up a good few days before to ensure I get a dry day to apply the C2V3. If it turns out that way then me and mcmaddy could both pick up about the same time. If “priority” shipping means it is available on the 23rd then I don’t think it’ll be much of a priority at all. My dad’s car was 11 days from end of build to pick-up (albeit with a few days saved by the dealership’s extraordinary actions once it had arrived in the UK).
I think you have to moan to the top to get priority shipping or any special treatment. Having some extraordinary circumstances helps too – like being able to compare my dad’s being available 10 or 11 weeks before mine or mcmaddy’s, despite getting an order in and accepted before his.
I am assuming that I will actually see some kind of transport priority, but it could just be a tactic to shut me up seeing as the next ship to Tyne is a minimum of a week away, beyond the current available shipping data that I can look into.
Just had a phonecall again, by the normal VW UK contact “Jane”, following up a previous enquiry before the Simon Thomson email. She has informed me that my car did leave the factory yesterday and has arrived at Emden port. Tracker doesn’t currently reflect this (wait should drop from 4 weeks to 3 weeks on text in the “in transit” status). She will phone again when it arrives in the UK.
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Gone into Transit this morning finally! Now to learn how to find out all the shipping schedules so I can click refresh on that :grin:
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No problem GtG.
@MH
I wrote a (unfortunately long) letter to the head of VWUK explaining the woes of the ordering process. Its was more to get it off my chest than anything else. Perhaps I should email it to the address you used. As I'm not dealing with VW any more I neither want nor expect a reply but at least I feel like I've done all I can to try to change things for the future that way. If you don't pressure these companies they'll just continue to give poor service with no reason to change.
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If you don't pressure these companies they'll just continue to give poor service with no reason to change.
Too right, and it works both ways as I've said - I'm quick to praise too. But, if you aint' vocal, they will never change.
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If you don't pressure these companies they'll just continue to give poor service with no reason to change.
Too right, and it works both ways as I've said - I'm quick to praise too. But, if you aint' vocal, they will never change.
They probably won't change anyway because we complain but continue to buy their products (except Bill and a few others) because despite the wait, they are good.
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They probably won't change anyway because we complain but continue to buy their products (except Bill and a few others) because despite the wait, they are good.
Maybe, maybe not, but at least if I say my piece it stands a chance of having more impact that not saying anything at all. But, you are right, generally speaking we will continue to buy their products because in the case of GTI/GTD certainly, they are more than worth the wait. To be fair, it's not the wait that bothered me, it's the lack of clarity throughout it.
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Good stuff MH - glad you got a response and it appears your car will be on a boat sharpish! I'm hoping mine will be right behind yours if not on the same boat but I'm not holding my breath (I haven't received f7ck all response from my email to Mr Thomas :laugh:)
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Tracker "in transit" text has dropped to 3 weeks. My car has officially been recognised as being at Emden and thumbing for a lift on a passing boat.
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Nice one monkeyhanger, the wait gets easier from this point! ;)
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Tracker "in transit" text has dropped to 3 weeks. My car has officially been recognised as being at Emden and thumbing for a lift on a passing boat.
Great News MH! Hopefully it's plain 'Sailing' from here on in :grin: (excuse the pun).
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Tracker "in transit" text has dropped to 3 weeks. My car has officially been recognised as being at Emden and thumbing for a lift on a passing boat.
Great News MH! Hopefully it's plain 'Sailing' from here on in :grin: (excuse the pun).
Just hoping there isn’t a hailstorm at Emden in the foreseeable future!
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Just hoping there isn’t a hailstorm at Emden in the foreseeable future!
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/world-forecasts/emden-germany#?tab=fiveDay
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Changed this morning to now in uk..
2 days after 10 day notice.
Does say can take seven days to retailer?
I guess I should call, since he never calls me!
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Good stuff chaps, glad to see some of you are getting movement!!
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Mines in the UK to :smiley:
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My car has just gone to "in transit",now all i need is DVLA to pull their finger out on my number plate retention they have only had the paperwork for three weeks and are not even sure if they have received it :angry:,does anyone do their job efficiently nowadays :undecided:
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My car has just gone to "in transit",now all i need is DVLA to pull their finger out on my number plate retention they have only had the paperwork for three weeks and are not even sure if they have received it :angry:,does anyone do their job efficiently nowadays :undecided:
Mine was turned around in 8 days! Posted on the monday and got it back the following tuesday, my dealer kept saying it can take up to 6 weeks! :rolleyes:
Have you sent it to Swansea or your local office?
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got mine back about 14 days later as the form said at the time for me. Not supposed to get the v5c back until another 2 - 4 weeks but I got that at the same time, so I was pleasantly surprised by their efficiency!
They are closing all the satellite offices now though and operating online out of Swansea, so may be a little snowed under at the moment.
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Inevitably my dealer is on hols till Monday. Admin say they will email with reg number when available. Couldn't be bothered telling them number transfer etc. will wait till Monday and talk to 'Dane'
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My car has just gone to "in transit",now all i need is DVLA to pull their finger out on my number plate retention they have only had the paperwork for three weeks and are not even sure if they have received it :angry:,does anyone do their job efficiently nowadays :undecided:
Mine was turned around in 8 days! Posted on the monday and got it back the following tuesday, my dealer kept saying it can take up to 6 weeks! :rolleyes:
Have you sent it to Swansea or your local office?
Dealer is doing it,says he sent it to he local office where they check it first then send it on.ITs been three weeks and one day
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Looks like there will be a few 63 plates on the road soon.
Will make mine look old.
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Like a mark 6 :smiley:
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Looks like there will be a few 63 plates on the road soon.
Will mine look old.
A private plate would sort that out
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That's the only bonus people get who've had to wait so long for their cars, a nice new plate! As said though, it's easy to sort out if you really fancy. I won't have the pleasure of driving around with a 63 plate on when I collect tomorrow morning as I've got a private plate going straight onto it.
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Mine's now showing as In Transit (must of changed sometime after 2am!) - I can officially now start getting excited, only 4 weeks to go! :laugh:
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Mine's now showing as In Transit (must of changed sometime after 2am!) - I can officially now start getting excited, only 4 weeks to go! :laugh:
Brilliant pal!! :smiley: :smiley:
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Mine's now showing as In Transit (must of changed sometime after 2am!) - I can officially now start getting excited, only 4 weeks to go! :laugh:
Brilliant pal!! :smiley: :smiley:
Mate, I'm so excited, like a kid at Christmas :grin:
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Mine's now showing as In Transit (must of changed sometime after 2am!) - I can officially now start getting excited, only 4 weeks to go! :laugh:
Brilliant pal!! :smiley: :smiley:
Mate, I'm so excited, like a kid at Christmas :grin:
Can totally understand pal. As you say the excitement really begins now. :smiley:
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Mine's now showing as In Transit (must of changed sometime after 2am!) - I can officially now start getting excited, only 4 weeks to go! :laugh:
Couldn't be more pleased for you mate!!! Not before long though. You'll be surprised how things move swiftly on, now you're in transit.
Mines apparently arrived at dealer today???
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Story so far...
On Order: 5dr GTi Performance Pack DSG, Pure White, ACC (or DCC), 19" Santiago's
Ordered: 29th March 2013
Expected BW: 37.. 27.. 25.. 28
Confirmed BW: 32 W/c 5th August
In Transit: Thursday 15th August
10 Days: Monday 26th August
Arrived in UK: Wednesday 28th August
Arrived at Retailer: Saturday 31st August
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Mine's now showing as In Transit (must of changed sometime after 2am!) - I can officially now start getting excited, only 4 weeks to go! :laugh:
Brilliant pal!! :smiley: :smiley:
Mate, I'm so excited, like a kid at Christmas :grin:
Now the tracker checking really starts - looking to 3 weeks and then 1. Yours might arrive before mine, there seems to be nowt coming to port of Tyne for the forseeable.
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The City of Rotterdam is now in port of Tyne's schedule, to arrive at Tyne dock 4pm tomorrow, so it must be setting off from Emden this evening. Not sure if my car will be on it. Whilst trying to sort out VW finance (settling the Scirocco finance), I came in through VW UK to see if they could put me through any quicker than sitting in a queue for an hour (which I had done twice that day). Whilst I had them on the phone, I enquired about my GTD – did they know whether it was going to make it onto the City of Rotterdam, was it scheduled for loading etc.
They didn’t know whether it would or wouldn’t be on that ship, when they put me on hold to talk to sales, it seems that the sales team didn’t know whether it would be on that ship, or any particular ship. All they could tell me was my car has been at Emden since last Tuesday and anything up to a 15 day wait at dockside for a ship is normal.
The tracker hasn’t updated from 3 weeks. Not sure whether this would update to “1 week” when the ship is loading and your car’s place on it is confirmed, or when the car is loaded, or when the ship leaves port. I think I should find out tomorrow if it is on there, and if not I’ll have to assume that the whole “priority shipping” line that Simon Thomson’s office rep fed me was sh!te.
Looks like the "city of Paris" will be coming from Emden to Tyne on 6th Sept (it is on Tyne's arrivals itinery from Emden, but isn't on Emden's arrivals - should get there later today from Amsterdam), so maybe it'll be on that it it doesn't make it onto city of Rotterdam.
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I think I should find out tomorrow if it is on there, and if not I’ll have to assume that the whole “priority shipping” line that Simon Thomson’s office rep fed me was sh!te.
I think we both know this is the case. I was also told I would get 'priority shipping' however mine as been 'In Transit' since Sunday morning (not long, I know) but still says 4 weeks and not 3 like you. So if your experience is anything to go by it'll still be sitting by the dock this time next week. Priority my hairy ar7e.
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Getting my hands on mine Friday night :laugh:
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Getting my hands on mine Friday night :laugh:
Nice one mate, congrats! :)
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Just for info, mine went to 'In Transit' on Sunday morning. According to VW EO it arrived at Emden today (so, that's 2 days from factory to port). He's estimating end of September delivery. He's asked for priority shipping - but that smells like more VW bullsh!t to be honest as I've never heard of that - 4 weeks from port to dealer though, really? Oh well, nowt I can do about it.
That also would make it 26 weeks from order to delivery :rolleyes:
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Getting my hands on mine Friday night :laugh:
Excellent news Dirvy. Bet you cant wait :smiley:
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Just for info, mine went to 'In Transit' on Sunday morning. According to VW EO it arrived at Emden today (so, that's 2 days from factory to port). He's estimating end of September delivery. He's asked for priority shipping - but that smells like more VW bullsh!t to be honest as I've never heard of that - 4 weeks from port to dealer though, really? Oh well, nowt I can do about it.
That also would make it 26 weeks from order to delivery :rolleyes:
Aha, since you decided to stay true while I went to the dark side, and since I also have estimated delivery of end of September, we now can have a race to see which comes sooner! :evil:
My money is on yours arriving one week in advance of mine.
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My money is on yours arriving one week in advance of mine.
:grin: :grin: That's never gonna happen!!!
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Well yours is already in transit... mine should be soon I should think.
I wonder what port BMW use. I imagine they don't mix brands on these ships, but would be amusing if both our cars were on the same ship after all!
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Well yours is already in transit... mine should be soon I should think.
I wonder what port BMW use. I imagine they don't mix brands on these ships, but would be amusing if both our cars were on the same ship after all!
Ha! The irony if that happened! To be honest if they do 'boat share' that would make sense given you're only 20-30 miles from me!
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Well yours is already in transit... mine should be soon I should think.
I wonder what port BMW use. I imagine they don't mix brands on these ships, but would be amusing if both our cars were on the same ship after all!
They do mix brands: VAG, BMW, Porsche, Merc cars made in Germany/Poland/Czech republic/Austria are all possible (and probable) to be in a ship from Emden to the UK There is no VW only ship and a BMW ship. It’s the most direct sailing port from Germany to the UK – any further east of Emden within Germany and the ship would have to negotiate all the way around the Danish peninsula – an extra 13 hours on a ship for the sake of saving no more than 40 miles by road or rail. I suppose that may make it more difficult to give any given car (mine!) priority shipping on a ship that is full and they may only have half the occupancy or less on any given ship.
Could see a few M135is get here alongside the GTIs of the unwavering, although I suspect the BMW dealers would generally get theirs from the dockside before the VW dealers.
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Dude I think you know everything there is to know about these ships!
I had thought different companies would charter separate ships but if they are all on the same one I can only assume BMW are much more "hand to mouth" than VW, and VW have a large buffer of cars awaiting transport at any one time because BMW seem to think they can hand over keys 2 weeks after the car leaves the factory but lots of GTIs seem to have spent near to that just waiting for a ship at Emden...
Ok there is another explanation... BMW are being hopelessly optimistic! Guys getting their cars now seem to be achieving this 2 week delivery though. Like I say I had assumed BMW had a different ship and it was under less load than VW. After all VW are one of the top three manufacturers in terms of volume but BMW are a relative minnow.
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According to my dealer mine is on the boat now and landing uk side(Grimsby) on thursday,i think i was build week 33 but to be honest i lost total interest long time ago. :smiley:
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Well The ship mine was on arrived in Tyne an hour early – just saw it chugging up the Tyne as I was driving along the top of the Fish Quay to get home. It has either unloaded or is in the process of being unloaded now (and the tracker has an error when I put my number in – must be between “in transit – 10 days” and “arrived in UK”.
Hopefully my dealer will be able to get a hold of it this afternoon or tomorrow due to how my dad’s delivery panned out (ship arrived 8pm on a Friday night, nothing much seemed to happen over the weekend and the dealer was able to get it Monday afternoon for a late afternoon PDI and a 6pm pick-up for my dad). Looks like it is going to hoy it down Fri/Sat/Sun up here, so the G-Techniq treatment might have to wait.
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Dude I think you know everything there is to know about these ships!
I had thought different companies would charter separate ships but if they are all on the same one I can only assume BMW are much more "hand to mouth" than VW, and VW have a large buffer of cars awaiting transport at any one time because BMW seem to think they can hand over keys 2 weeks after the car leaves the factory but lots of GTIs seem to have spent near to that just waiting for a ship at Emden...
Ok there is another explanation... BMW are being hopelessly optimistic! Guys getting their cars now seem to be achieving this 2 week delivery though. Like I say I had assumed BMW had a different ship and it was under less load than VW. After all VW are one of the top three manufacturers in terms of volume but BMW are a relative minnow.
There’s quite a mix on these ships. The Emden>Tyne>Amsterdam>Emden route ships drop off German cars of all marques for the north of England and Scotland, pick up Nissans that were built at Sunderland, and drop them off in Amsterdam/Ijmuiden for north mainland Europe distribution, then come back around to Emden and start again. I'm sure a similar situation occurs whereby Swindon Hondas get picked up from Sheerness or Grimsby etc after dropping off German cars.
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My tracking number is no longer recognised on the system (tried for 4 hours).
I think this is due to the “priority shipping”. VW UK rep said they had to unallocate it for VW road transport to the dealer once it arrived in the UK, so that my dealer could come and collect it when it had cleared customs/dock security. Maybe it drops off the tracking system because VW UK are no longer responsible for transporting it?
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My tracking number is no longer recognised on the system (tried for 4 hours).
I think this is due to the “priority shipping”. VW UK rep said they had to unallocate it for VW road transport to the dealer once it arrived in the UK, so that my dealer could come and collect it when it had cleared customs/dock security. Maybe it drops off the tracking system because VW UK are no longer responsible for transporting it?
Yeah, that sounds sensible to me. Not long to wait for you either way though!!
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Sounds good that you are getting the priority promised MH!
Mine changed to in UK this morning as I expected due to all the information gathered from you guys on this forum. Not long for me now either I hope :smiley:
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Sounds good that you are getting the priority promised MH!
Mine changed to in UK this morning as I expected due to all the information gathered from you guys on this forum. Not long for me now either I hope :smiley:
Heard nowt from my dealer today.Maybe he's just giving it a day to clear all port authority checks - hopefully i'll have some news off him tomorrow, like "it's here, been PDI'd, come and get it". My order number has definitely gone off the grid now for updates.
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Sounds good that you are getting the priority promised MH!
Mine changed to in UK this morning as I expected due to all the information gathered from you guys on this forum. Not long for me now either I hope :smiley:
Heard nowt from my dealer today.Maybe he's just giving it a day to clear all port authority checks - hopefully i'll have some news off him tomorrow, like "it's here, been PDI'd, come and get it". My order number has definitely gone off the grid now for updates.
The good thing is that you know that the car should be in your hands within the next few days now :smiley:
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Am week 33, and changed to Arrived in UK today!! :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
Fingers crossed for a collection end of next week.
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I'm picking mine up on Wednesday :smiley:
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The priority treatment by VW has ended at the docks. My dealer has informed me by email yesterday afternoon that the car has cleared customs (so it is available for them to pick up from the docks any time, as per "priority") but i'm having to wait until Weds for it. :huh:
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The priority treatment by VW has ended at the docks. My dealer has informed me by email yesterday afternoon that the car has cleared customs (so it is available for them to pick up from the docks any time, as per "priority") but i'm having to wait until Weds for it. :huh:
Reason?? That doesn't make sense?? :undecided:
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The priority treatment by VW has ended at the docks. My dealer has informed me by email yesterday afternoon that the car has cleared customs (so it is available for them to pick up from the docks any time, as per "priority") but i'm having to wait until Weds for it. :huh:
Reason?? That doesn't make sense?? :undecided:
There are one of 2 reasons I can think of:-
1. He hasn’t realised that the onus for delivery is now on the dealership to come and collect due to VWs “priority delivery” actions, and he’s estimated it arriving Tues or Weds because maybe that’s when VW UK are bringing over other cars to the dealership that arrived on the same ship.
2. He can’t be arsed to do it any quicker, maybe he’s requested VW UK to reinstate normal delivery service so that he doesn’t have to come and get it from dockside. He works the weekends and usually takes Monday off, so Monday is out of the question anyway if he wants to hand it over.
I seriously hope it is 1 rather than 2. I’ve bought from him before and introduced my dad to the dealership group, so he’s got 2 sales out of me this time and not 1. Was hoping that and the wait would mean some preferential treatment.
His main point of email was to tell me my reg number and get me to sign a form he sent electronically that confirms my details for arranging the taxing of the car and 7 day insurance cover.
I’ve politely reminded him that they are supposed to be collecting the car from dockside rather than VW delivering the car to them. Maybe this will prompt him to get it sorted for me quicker than Weds if it’s reason 1 rather than 2.
If he did for me what he did for my dad (picked up from dockside as soon as it had cleared customs then PDI’d same day for same day pick up), I’d be having that car this evening.
Maybe he’s taken the hump as my car is now going to be privately financed (he only found this out the other day and he didn’t seem overly impressed). “it’s only another 5 days” I’m sure someone here would say, but it’s 5 unnecessary days after an epic wait for a car that shouldv’e been at the front of my dealers allocation queue.
I thought I was finally done with moaning :whistle: once I heard VW UK were fast-tracking my shipping, but looks like it is getting tripped up at the last hurdle.
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Basically he can't be ar7ed to go and get it. Bottom line is that if its cleared customs why isn't he driving up there now? I think you've hit the nail on the head though - if you're not financing through him he basically can't be f7cked - another example of cracking customer service :rolleyes:
I'd phone him up now MH - tell him the car is ready to be picked up so can you go and get it today please, I've waited too long for this car so go and get it and get it ready for me to collect on Sunday. These jokers get on my nerves! :laugh:
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Basically he can't be ar7ed to go and get it. Bottom line is that if its cleared customs why isn't he driving up there now? I think you've hit the nail on the head though - if you're not financing through him he basically can't be f7cked - another example of cracking customer service :rolleyes:
I'd phone him up now MH - tell him the car is ready to be picked up so can you go and get it today please, I've waited too long for this car so go and get it and get it ready for me to collect on Sunday. These jokers get on my nerves! :laugh:
He responded to my reminder that the car is to be collected from the docks by them by saying he would get admin to check out the delivery status and get back to me. Hopefully this means that it was situation 1 (above) and he will pull his finger out to go and get it for PDI and handover ASAP. I took both keys and my V5 to work on the off-chance (fat chance) that it might be ready to pick up on the way from work.
I wonder how much the finance option is personally worth to the salesman or the dealership as a whole –10% of the interest paid (total interest is about £3k) on the average £26k car over a 3 year term via VW solutions.
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Basically he can't be ar7ed to go and get it. Bottom line is that if its cleared customs why isn't he driving up there now? I think you've hit the nail on the head though - if you're not financing through him he basically can't be f7cked - another example of cracking customer service :rolleyes:
I'd phone him up now MH - tell him the car is ready to be picked up so can you go and get it today please, I've waited too long for this car so go and get it and get it ready for me to collect on Sunday. These jokers get on my nerves! :laugh:
He responded to my reminder that the car is to be collected from the docks by them by saying he would get admin to check out the delivery status and get back to me. Hopefully this means that it was situation 1 (above) and he will pull his finger out to go and get it for PDI and handover ASAP. I took both keys and my V5 to work on the off-chance (fat chance) that it might be ready to pick up on the way from work.
I wonder how much the finance option is personally worth to the salesman or the dealership as a whole –10% of the interest paid (total interest is about £3k) on the average £26k car over a 3 year term via VW solutions.
I don't actually know what they get, but I'm sure they do get something! That's good news - at the end of the day the car is ready to be picked up, so he should go get it! 3 hours to PDI, you should be able to collect at 5pm - or that's what should happen.... :rolleyes:
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Just make sure it doesn't get to Wednesday only for them to contact you all confused saying all the other cars have arrived but your is for some unknown reason still at the docks!
Its simply phenomenal the amount of times I've been in contact with a company, any company, who've "assured" me all is going to plan for it to later not go to plan. I'm convinced whoever answers the phone just gives the impression they are all over something and then hangs up and couldn't care less any more.
I'd hound them until they get on with it if I were you. They might get the hump but f**k it, its about time they had to put up with some sh!t given that its been the customers putting up with everything up to now.
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Just been on the phone to my dealer.
Basically they can’t be arsed to make the arrangements to collect and make it happen. They’ve defaulted back to VW delivering the car to the dealership rather than them going and getting it from the dock, and so the car is probably going to be in branch Tuesday, possibly Wednesday.
I have been advised to arrange for my VW Insuurance 7 day policy to start next Weds, so they have no intention of taxing and handing over before Weds.
All VW UK’s “priority delivery” arrangements have gone to waste. When the rep from Simon Thomson’s office rang me on Weds to let me know it had shipped, he also said that the dealership were under instruction to go and collect the car to speed the process up their end as soon as they knew it had arrived at dockside and had cleared customs. So the one good deed VW UK seem to have performed were all in vain.
I got some story how the workshop are backed up and too busy to fit a last minute PDI in, the collection of the car from dockside is a paperwork nightmare (I’m sure it is less of a pain when VW made the arrangements for them this time, rather than when they had to go against the system to get my dad’s).
He seemed a bit flustered when I challenged that, saying that VW seemed to have already made all the arrangements to allow it to happen so it should be easier to do this time around.
He finally came back with the story that even though I settled my finance on Weds, and even though I had verbal confirmation over the phone from VW finance that the money had been applied to my agreement so that the balance is effectively nil now, so I could cancel the imminent direct debit, it would still not officially clear a HPI check for 4 working days. So he won’t take the word of a VW finance rep that the finance is clear if he were to get the handover done earlier than Weds? Absolute bullsh!t.
My next car (if it is a VW) will probably not be coming from that dealership.
So Wednesday it is…..and my colleague just reminded me that we start our NEBOSH course at Northumbria Uni Wednesday 5:30pm. If he can’t do Weds lunchtime it’ll be a Thursday pick-up. sh!te!
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Wow, the VW incompetence continues. Hit 'em where it hurts MH, when you get the VW call after taking delivery asking you to do the survey on which their bonus is based, make sure you be honest and therefore give them a pants review. That's what I would do, sorry, I'm happy to give credit where its deserved but they are taking the p1ss and basically being lazy a f7ck.
Shocking (but not surprising).
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Just make sure it doesn't get to Wednesday only for them to contact you all confused saying all the other cars have arrived but your is for some unknown reason still at the docks!
Its simply phenomenal the amount of times I've been in contact with a company, any company, who've "assured" me all is going to plan for it to later not go to plan. I'm convinced whoever answers the phone just gives the impression they are all over something and then hangs up and couldn't care less any more.
I'd hound them until they get on with it if I were you. They might get the hump but f**k it, its about time they had to put up with some sh!t given that its been the customers putting up with everything up to now.
Bill – that had crossed my mind! I do have visions of that transporter being loaded on Tuesday with every car but mine as it is still tagged as “dealership collection arranged”. If that happens, they can wait until I get back from my hols for my pick-up (and their money) – I will go without for another 10 days before my hols to delay them their money a month.
I really do think the finance issue has given him the hump. He was under the impression right the way to pick-up that my dad would be taking VW finance out (after providing a quote) and was surprised when he wasn’t – to the point that he charged my dad the difference between VW finance price service pack (£249 at the time) and non-financed service pack (£359) for his “free servicing negotiated as part of the deal. If I had been with my dad it the time I’d have put a stop to that. The “freebie” was in no way conditional on taking out the finance when the deal was struck, nor was a commitment made to take out the finance – but he shelled out the £110 anyway. Then he found out last week that my dad was loaning me the money I need and so I wasn’t taking out finance either.
In the past me and mcmaddy have discussed our situations and I had been quite defensive of the dealership, heaping any blame on VW UK. I had a good relationship with my dealer up until the point at which he must had been aware I had been chasing VW UK up, he seems to be royally screwing me over now.
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Wow, the VW incompetence continues. Hit 'em where it hurts MH, when you get the VW call after taking delivery asking you to do the survey on which their bonus is based, make sure you be honest and therefore give them a pants review. That's what I would do, sorry, I'm happy to give credit where its deserved but they are taking the p1ss and basically being lazy a f7ck.
Shocking (but not surprising).
That is a given on the survey – going to slate them on “delivery” as they had the power to shave 5 days off a very long order to delivery and couldn’t be arsed.
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Wow, the VW incompetence continues. Hit 'em where it hurts MH, when you get the VW call after taking delivery asking you to do the survey on which their bonus is based, make sure you be honest and therefore give them a pants review. That's what I would do, sorry, I'm happy to give credit where its deserved but they are taking the p1ss and basically being lazy a f7ck.
Shocking (but not surprising).
That is a given on the survey – going to slate them on “delivery” as they had the power to shave 5 days off a very long order to delivery and couldn’t be arsed.
I really am shocked by the p!ss poor service. I take into account there is very little the dealers can do about delays etc (that's all Germany and VW UK) but the delivery process is where they can earn their keep as it were, and redeem VW in the eyes of the customer - but they clearly don't give a sh!te about that either. Pathetic service, yet again.
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Wow, the VW incompetence continues. Hit 'em where it hurts MH, when you get the VW call after taking delivery asking you to do the survey on which their bonus is based, make sure you be honest and therefore give them a pants review. That's what I would do, sorry, I'm happy to give credit where its deserved but they are taking the p1ss and basically being lazy a f7ck.
Shocking (but not surprising).
That is a given on the survey – going to slate them on “delivery” as they had the power to shave 5 days off a very long order to delivery and couldn’t be arsed.
Sorry to hear that MH, really surprised the dealer aren't bothered about keeping their side of the priority movement for you. At least its almost over now though I guess, should hope they can get it for you early Wednesday then so you don't have to wait even longer!
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Wow, the VW incompetence continues. Hit 'em where it hurts MH, when you get the VW call after taking delivery asking you to do the survey on which their bonus is based, make sure you be honest and therefore give them a pants review. That's what I would do, sorry, I'm happy to give credit where its deserved but they are taking the p1ss and basically being lazy a f7ck.
Shocking (but not surprising).
That is a given on the survey – going to slate them on “delivery” as they had the power to shave 5 days off a very long order to delivery and couldn’t be arsed.
Sorry to hear that MH, really surprised the dealer aren't bothered about keeping their side of the priority movement for you. At least its almost over now though I guess, should hope they can get it for you early Wednesday then so you don't have to wait even longer!
Hope it’s not a ruse to buy some time to fix some transit damage – that really would be the icing on the cake. Doubtful, I’m sure it’s just the dealer not giving a sh!t.
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Given that VUUK exec "promised" this would happen can you not contact them to give the dealer a kick up the arse? You could either contact them and just tell them that they had assured you of a priority pick up and its not happening, or you could take the 'innocent' approach and have a 'friendly' contact where you ask them to check with the dealer that exactly when the priority pick up will be happening... such that when they do check and the dealer says they won't do it they will be the ones on the phone to the dealer and left in the situation of either putting pressure on the dealer or calling you to say they are going back on their word. I'd go for this option personally. Its appalling how they can dish out so many promises only for things to not materialise, don't let them get away with this!
Oh yeah, and give them the bottom possible score on the survey anyway. I wish I had got a survey but apparently if you cancel they don't give a damn what you think (presumably because they know you won't be giving out good scores... but if the survey was meaningful then bad scores should be collected as well!).
I was actually called by the dealer head office a couple of days after I cancelled and was asked "Was I happy with the hand over of my car?"
So my answer was "Err... no not really."
"Oh dear, what was the problem."
"Well... I cancelled the order."
"Oh I'm sorry to hear that, goodbye then."
WTF? Seriously you don't give a damn why I cancelled? Don't want to improve your service then? Only interested in answers that make you look good?
Well... just goes to show. Good customer service will only get better, while poor service doesn't even understand why its poor and will only get worse.
But back on topic, don't take no for an answer MH! They promised you so they damn well better do it!
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I never got a survey after I took delivery of my Mark 6. After they lost the original order and had to re-order without telling me, I was looking forward to giving them poor marks for everything.
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Given that VUUK exec "promised" this would happen can you not contact them to give the dealer a kick up the arse? You could either contact them and just tell them that they had assured you of a priority pick up and its not happening, or you could take the 'innocent' approach and have a 'friendly' contact where you ask them to check with the dealer that exactly when the priority pick up will be happening... such that when they do check and the dealer says they won't do it they will be the ones on the phone to the dealer and left in the situation of either putting pressure on the dealer or calling you to say they are going back on their word. I'd go for this option personally. Its appalling how they can dish out so many promises only for things to not materialise, don't let them get away with this!
Oh yeah, and give them the bottom possible score on the survey anyway. I wish I had got a survey but apparently if you cancel they don't give a damn what you think (presumably because they know you won't be giving out good scores... but if the survey was meaningful then bad scores should be collected as well!).
I was actually called by the dealer head office a couple of days after I cancelled and was asked "Was I happy with the hand over of my car?"
So my answer was "Err... no not really."
"Oh dear, what was the problem."
"Well... I cancelled the order."
"Oh I'm sorry to hear that, goodbye then."
WTF? Seriously you don't give a damn why I cancelled? Don't want to improve your service then? Only interested in answers that make you look good?
Well... just goes to show. Good customer service will only get better, while poor service doesn't even understand why its poor and will only get worse.
But back on topic, don't take no for an answer MH! They promised you so they damn well better do it!
A VW UK rep from Simon Thomas' office rang just after lunch to tell me the car was in the UK and cleared customs, waiting on VW UK delivery to the dealership "that will be no longer than a week". I said I knew all that, and that the arrangement had been for the dealership collect it from the docks to speed things up as part of the "priority delivery", but they'd decided themselves not to bother so as to prolong delivery 5 extra.
She didn't seem bothered in the slightest at that news.
By the dealer telling me not to arrange the free insurance until Wednesday, they're not even giving a chance for early pick-up, say if the transporter turned up at the dealership Monday with my car. Going to arrange insurance for Monday - just in case, I will not need the whole 7 days (assuming I can pick up Weds lunchtime as I can't do Weds evening).
It's unbelievable that after all the delay, they have the ability to partially redeem themselves and totally ruin the opportunity.
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My car arrived at the dealership today so I told them I would be arriving Monday to collect. Blah, blah, i don't care, sort it. Told the registration and tax, finance clearance means Thursday best, I settled on Friday, have a reg number and a promise of a full fuel tank of diesel, roll on Friday.
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Getting mine Tues, got to nip in Monday to do some paperwork for the tax now that how the taxing a new car has changed slightly, but least its soon :smiley:
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At last, progress! Just checked the order tracker and finally my car is in transit!!! :grin:
The long wait is almost over, now I am excited again!
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At last, progress! Just checked the order tracker and finally my car is in transit!!! :grin:
The long wait is almost over, now I am excited again!
Don't want to p1ss on your parade, but mine enters week 5 of being 'In Transit' today :sad:
Apparently due to my 1st week in April order, I'm getting 'priority' delivery! (Yeah right, I believe you VW UK) Would hate to know what standard delivery is then.
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Don't want to p1ss on your parade, but mine enters week 5 of being 'In Transit' today :sad:
Apparently due to my 1st week in April order, I'm getting 'priority' delivery! (Yeah right, I believe you VW UK) Would hate to know what standard delivery is then.
Is yours in the UK yet GtG? Proximity of dealership to port can have a big bearing on how long it takes to get to the dealership from the port, and which port it comes to (some are busier than others - i'd expect Tyne to be the quietest).
Mine cleared customs 24 hours from arrival at dock. The main reason i've been given that my car wasn't collected from the dock by the dealership as part of the "priority shipping" is that standard transporter delivery to my dealership from dock by VW UK is generally done within 4 working days (due to proximity to port - 8 miles).
The same car on the same ship to Tyne, but going up to a Scottish dealership can expect a longer wait for VW UK delivery from the port. I'm sure same can be said of any dealership close to Grimsby or Sheerness getting delivery quicker than destinations further inland.
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Mine has been in the UK since last Saturday.
Do we believe this whole 'Priority thing?' I'm not sure I do, I certainly haven't seen anything positive from it. Wondering if should be on the 'Things VW say list'. To be fair I don't think there can be many dealers in the south further away from Sheerness to mine. I notice in the expanded detail on the VW tracking page it now says it can take 14 days to deliver to the dealer, sometimes longer... Clear as mud as always.
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Interestingly, the 'Emden' vessel is due into Sheerness this evening from Emden, and the 'Shelde Highway' has just left Emden on its way to Grimsby. Hopefully some of our cars will be on these boats, I'm particularly interested in the Sheerness arrival for obvious reasons! :laugh:
Fingers crossed....
And for those speculating on priority shipping, apart from MH's treatment, it's a load of old sh1te - it'll turn up as normal - I was promised this too and mine was at Emden for 7 days (hopefully its left now but I can't be sure of that, particularly as the tracker won't update till tomorrow).
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Mine has definitely left (according to the dealers system).. thus my concern about that bridge pile up! I would hope if that was a factor the dealer or myself would have been informed. Will try and kick some a55 tomorrow...
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And for those speculating on priority shipping, apart from MH's treatment, it's a load of old sh1te - it'll turn up as normal - I was promised this too and mine was at Emden for 7 days (hopefully its left now but I can't be sure of that, particularly as the tracker won't update till tomorrow).
Not even sure if I even got priority shipping - maybe mine was always headed on the boat it got on anyway (maybe there was plenty of room on mine). I'd expect cars to be waiting at Emden for less time now than they would've been a month ago, when making it for Sept 1st delivery was a possibility. I'd guess (or should that be deduce? :whistle:) that the Sept rush has mostly been fufilled now for the standard VWs and other cars in general.
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Yeah mine was at Emden 3 weeks.
September 1st was the promised delivery date (well after the July 1st original!)
Apparently a load of transporters take cars for certain parts of the south to Portsmouth, where they can sometimes sit waiting for a smaller transporter to take them to individual dealers or boats to the Channel Islands. Hopefully mine is sat there (and hopefully not for long).
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Interestingly, the 'Emden' vessel is due into Sheerness this evening from Emden, and the 'Shelde Highway' has just left Emden on its way to Grimsby. Hopefully some of our cars will be on these boats, I'm particularly interested in the Sheerness arrival for obvious reasons! :laugh:
Has the "in transit" tracking status updated to 10 days for yours yet MB? If not updated to that overnight from the ship leaving Emden, it'll probably not be on it. My tracking didn't update anywhere near "real time" for it to be on a ship, it updated overnight following the ship setting sail.
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Interestingly, the 'Emden' vessel is due into Sheerness this evening from Emden, and the 'Shelde Highway' has just left Emden on its way to Grimsby. Hopefully some of our cars will be on these boats, I'm particularly interested in the Sheerness arrival for obvious reasons! :laugh:
Has the "in transit" tracking status updated to 10 days for yours yet MB? If not updated to that overnight from the ship leaving Emden, it'll probably not be on it. My tracking didn't update anywhere near "real time" for it to be on a ship, it updated overnight following the ship setting sail.
No it hasn't, which is why I'm not hopeful it's on that ship. If it doesn't change to 10 days overnight tonight then it's definitely not on the boat, which will p1ss me off but there's nowt I can do about it!
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As a purposeful review off the VW sales experience, I have one word, torturous.
Shout to MH for the Gtechniq advise, I'm sorted....looking forward to Friday....
I think I'm gonna be sick............. :sick:
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Just so I am clear, is there a further update to the order tracker that it changes from in-transit to 10 days?
How are you guys all able to determine if your particular car is in the UK or not?
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Just so I am clear, is there a further update to the order tracker that it changes from in-transit to 10 days?
How are you guys all able to determine if your particular car is in the UK or not?
When it changes to 10 days it means its on the boat. The journey only takes a day across the North Sea but it'll only change to arrived in the UK once it's been checked in, which could take a few days longer.
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Just so I am clear, is there a further update to the order tracker that it changes from in-transit to 10 days?
How are you guys all able to determine if your particular car is in the UK or not?
There is a text prompt within “in transit”, below the box that says either:-
4 weeks (which means that your car is finished but hasn’t officially been received at emden yet.
3 weeks (your car is officially received at Emden but hasn’t got on a ship yet)
10 days (your car is on a ship on its way to the destination port. For the UK, it’ll arrive within 24 hours if it is going to an east coast port).
As soon as your “in transit” status changes from “3 weeks” to “10 days”, it has left Emden and you can look up recent departures for Emden port to determine which ship it was on by the destination of the ship (assuming you know which port your car is going to: Sheerness/Grimsby/Tyne).
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Finally got the call. Arrived at the dealer this morning :cool:
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Just had VW UK phone me up (the rep from Simon Thomas’ office).
They have informed me that as of 9:30am this morning, my GTD was on a transporter and headed to the dealer, they will definitely have it today.
He also said to expect a “goodwill gesture” upon pick-up from the dealer, the sales manager is fully aware of this. He wouldn’t disclose what this goodwill gesture would be – hope it isn’t rubber mats, I already bought some from TPS last week (equally I hope it isn’t a poxy pen or keyring!).
I am unsure as to the motivation behind the goodwill gesture. Is it for my car being built almost 3 weeks behind schedule (BW35) or did they dig around why my dad got his 2 months early and discover the colour change cock-up between mine and my dad’s GTDs which was down to an admin error at the dealership? If it is the former rather than the latter then I’m not sure why the dealership should pick up the tab (unless they get an invoiced discount against VW UK for whatever the dealership give me).
I just arranged the 7 day free cover so it can get taxed. Salesman isn’t in today, so it looks like tomorrow for collection. Complimentary cover came with an annual quote that is 2.5x higher than my cheapest renewal quote for the GTD, and you don’t even get a Meercat!
I think I just got my GTD buzz back!
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Just had VW UK phone me up (the rep from Simon Thomas’ office).
They have informed me that as of 9:30am this morning, my GTD was on a transporter and headed to the dealer, they will definitely have it today.
He also said to expect a “goodwill gesture” upon pick-up from the dealer, the sales manager is fully aware of this. He wouldn’t disclose what this goodwill gesture would be – hope it isn’t rubber mats, I already bought some from TPS last week (equally I hope it isn’t a poxy pen or keyring!).
I am unsure as to the motivation behind the goodwill gesture. Is it for my car being built almost 3 weeks behind schedule (BW35) or did they dig around why my dad got his 2 months early and discover the colour change cock-up between mine and my dad’s GTDs which was down to an admin error at the dealership? If it is the former rather than the latter then I’m not sure why the dealership should pick up the tab (unless they get an invoiced discount against VW UK for whatever the dealership give me).
I just arranged the 7 day free cover so it can get taxed. Salesman isn’t in today, so it looks like tomorrow for collection. Complimentary cover came with an annual quote that is 2.5x higher than my cheapest renewal quote for the GTD, and you don’t even get a Meercat!
I think I just got my GTD buzz back!
For a GTD it has to be a set of mudflaps and a free crop duster :grin: :grin:
Good news MH!!
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Mudflaps - no way i'd get those for free, have you seen the price of them?
It'll probably be a VW baseball cap that says "worth the wait!" :whistle:
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Good stuff MH! Time to get excited!
I got a call from VW EO this morning - there are 7 boats leaving Emden this week and mine will be on one of them. About friggin time! :laugh:
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Good stuff MH! Time to get excited!
I got a call from VW EO this morning - there are 7 boats leaving Emden this week and mine will be on one of them. About friggin time! :laugh:
Seven? It’s a German invasion! Bet they never saw 7 U-boats launch in a single week during WW2! :whistle:
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Good stuff MH! Time to get excited!
I got a call from VW EO this morning - there are 7 boats leaving Emden this week and mine will be on one of them. About friggin time! :laugh:
Seven? It’s a German invasion! Bet they never saw 7 U-boats launch in a single week during WW2! :whistle:
:grin:
I'm sure it's only a couple of boats really, we all know how VW are prone to an exaggeration regarding deliveries :rolleyes:
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I'm all set for tomorrow - not giving them any excuse not to make GTD delivery happen. The money is in the bank, got both keys, my V5 form, the service book and manual. Had a clear out of the car, there is nothing in the car that doesn't belong to the car, and I found about £4.50 in change, in and around the front seat rails.
Anything else i've forgotten that I need for the switch?
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MOT certificate if it has one?
Lol! Forget that just noticed it's a 2011! :embarrassed: ;D
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Definitely wont be mudflaps as they aren't available for GTI/GTD :smiley:
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I'm all set for tomorrow - not giving them any excuse not to make GTD delivery happen. The money is in the bank, got both keys, my V5 form, the service book and manual. Had a clear out of the car, there is nothing in the car that doesn't belong to the car, and I found about £4.50 in change, in and around the front seat rails.
Anything else i've forgotten that I need for the switch?
Cd/sd left in your scirocco? iPhone/USB lead taken out? Fluffy dice removed? :laugh:
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Had a clear out of the car, there is nothing in the car that doesn't belong to the car, and I found about £4.50 in change, in and around the front seat rails.
Happy days, some good news on the mk7 forum :whistle:
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I'm all set for tomorrow - not giving them any excuse not to make GTD delivery happen. The money is in the bank, got both keys, my V5 form, the service book and manual. Had a clear out of the car, there is nothing in the car that doesn't belong to the car, and I found about £4.50 in change, in and around the front seat rails.
Anything else i've forgotten that I need for the switch?
Cd/sd left in your scirocco? iPhone/USB lead taken out? Fluffy dice removed? :laugh:
Only ever used USB stick and lead, they're out. Big thing to remember - sunglasses in the ceiling console cubby, they're out. Checked that locking wheel nut key is in there (from when Costco changed the tyres).
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Definitely wont be mudflaps as they aren't available for GTI/GTD :smiley:
George: Any idea what the "goodwill gesture" might be? Any of the Durham branch customers GTIs and GTDs coming through thick and fast now? Deliveries on here definitely seem to be snowballing - shouldn't be long until everyone who ordered March/April gets theirs.
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No idea what you will get but let me know when you pick up. Still very few coming through, just delivered white GTD today which was our showroom model and had to modify mudflaps to fit as customer was promised them. Just had black 5 door GTI delivered today with 19's and PP but I think it's a demo
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No idea what you will get but let me know when you pick up. Still very few coming through, just delivered white GTD today which was our showroom model and had to modify mudflaps to fit as customer was promised them. Just had black 5 door GTI delivered today with 19's and PP but I think it's a demo
You seem to get more demos in than customers cars right now. Are they being kept as demos or available to those who don't like waiting? There might be a few people here interested in them. I was given first option on the 3 GTDs you got in initially, but I was too tight to pay for options I didn't specify! :grin:
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No idea what you will get but let me know when you pick up. Still very few coming through, just delivered white GTD today which was our showroom model and had to modify mudflaps to fit as customer was promised them. Just had black 5 door GTI delivered today with 19's and PP but I think it's a demo
You seem to get more demos in than customers cars right now. Are they being kept as demos or available to those who don't like waiting? There might be a few people here interested in them. I was given first option on the 3 GTDs you got in initially, but I was too tight to pay for options I didn't specify! :grin:
If only you knew that you had that £4.50 of loose change tucked away in the old car :grin:
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If only you knew that you had that £4.50 of loose change tucked away in the old car :grin:
Detailers get rich on that misplaced car change.
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We specced 2 GTI's when ordering opened and this is the first one to be delivered. We got a couple more than other dealers of launch cars as we are classed as a large dealer with a large through put of cars in both sales and service
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still would have been better to fulfill early orders rather than have demos sitting. waiting 24+ plus weeks for a car is ridiculous.
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still would have been better to fulfill early orders rather than have demos sitting. waiting 24+ plus weeks for a car is ridiculous.
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still would have been better to fulfill early orders rather than have demos sitting. waiting 24+ plus weeks for a car is ridiculous.
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That's pretty much on VW marketing rather than the retailer.
Trouble is, I don't think the retailers dare moan to VW about it because so much of their revenue is through discretionary bonuses and VW don't listen to their customers directly too much. They rely on customers coming back for their great cars and not for their poor customer service. If you want to run a moderately expensive new car comparatively cheap (via class leading residuals) you only really have the choice of a German car - and they know it!
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Week 33 build.. Picking mine up Friday, confirmed today.. That's exactly 24 weeks from order to collection!
What a wait!! Patience really is a virtue!!
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Left my mobile at home yesterday (oops!)... got back to loads of missed calls and messages.
My sales lady had been off until yesterday, turns out my car arrived at the dealer on Friday and is ready for collection this afternoon :smiley:
Now to somehow try and concentrate on getting some work done today before then (little is going to be achieved I feel).
Drove up there last night and found it in the collection area. The leather has the red stitching which I was told it wouldn't have, from what I could see through the window it looks great :smiley:
Feeling like a big kid :grin:
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Well the tracker moved to 'build in progress' on Sunday, today it's 'in transit'!
My lovely dealer called to confirm it's on it's way to the docks now!
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Well the tracker moved to 'build in progress' on Sunday, today it's 'in transit'!
My lovely dealer called to confirm it's on it's way to the docks now!
so does this prove that the tracker is a total waste of time?
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Well the tracker moved to 'build in progress' on Sunday, today it's 'in transit'!
My lovely dealer called to confirm it's on it's way to the docks now!
so does this prove that the tracker is a total waste of time?
I think it proves that they just give a general idea as supposed to an exact real-time progress report. If my car changed to build in progress on Sunday, then completed on Wednesday, that would mean 2 or 3 days to build. (Which is what's quoted).
I think the shocker was that it actually updated so quickly. (Perhaps it was built a few days prior, who knows)?
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Mine did the same this morning as yours Valenni :smiley:
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Mine did the same this morning as yours Valenni :smiley:
That's awesome news my friend! And If I remember correctly, yours is actually early?
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BW35 but still showing as "build in progress". Spoke to dealer last Sunday who said it had been built and on route to the docks, but would of thought the tracker whould have changed by now. Either dealer telling porkies (due to a delay he doesn't want to tell me about) or the tracker can't be arsed to change. In Greece at the moment so may have to have a word again when I get back.
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Mine did the same this morning as yours Valenni :smiley:
That's awesome news my friend! And If I remember correctly, yours is actually early?
I wouldnt exactly say early but at least it was started in the week it was confirmed for.
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Just had confirmation from the VWEO.... it's on the mother f7cking boat woo hoo!! :laugh:
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Just had confirmation from the VWEO.... it's on the mother f7cking boat woo hoo!! :laugh:
Brilliant news Mark. :smiley:
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Mine also went to the In Transit status this morning, cant wait to get my hands on the car, just hope this isnt a long drawn out wait
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Just had confirmation from the VWEO.... it's on the mother f7cking boat woo hoo!! :laugh:
Not long now Mark!!!! It's definitely worth the wait mate... You'll be surprised how things quickly move from here on in.... :wink:
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Just had confirmation from the VWEO.... it's on the mother f7cking boat woo hoo!! :laugh:
Not long now Mark!!!! It's definitely worth the wait mate... You'll be surprised how things quickly move from here on in.... :wink:
Thanks chaps! I'm very, very excited :grin:
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Just had confirmation from the VWEO.... it's on the mother f7cking boat woo hoo!! :laugh:
Not long now Mark!!!! It's definitely worth the wait mate... You'll be surprised how things quickly move from here on in.... :wink:
Thanks chaps! I'm very, very excited :grin:
It's Christmas! :laugh: All the bad feeling about the wait starts to evaporate when the car is on the ship.
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Just had confirmation from the VWEO.... it's on the mother f7cking boat woo hoo!! :laugh:
Not long now Mark!!!! It's definitely worth the wait mate... You'll be surprised how things quickly move from here on in.... :wink:
Thanks chaps! I'm very, very excited :grin:
It's Christmas! :laugh: All the bad feeling about the wait starts to evaporate when the car is on the ship.
Wait? What wait?! :laugh:
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Just had confirmation from the VWEO.... it's on the mother f7cking boat woo hoo!! :laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NuUQp8nvxUU#t=1.5
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Yippeee tracker now gone to 10 days - car due into Sheerness at 12 today.. :laugh:
I think that Bill The Bear should cancel the BMW and go back to the car he really wants!!!! Come on BTB come back to the lovely GTI group!!!
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Yippeee tracker now gone to 10 days - car due into Sheerness at 12 today.. :laugh:
I think that Bill The Bear should cancel the BMW and go back to the car he really wants!!!! Come on BTB come back to the lovely GTI group!!!
I second that.
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My tracker changed to 3 weeks this morning. Does that mean its in Emden?
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mines the same valenni. ours are at Emden docks waiting for a ship.
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Just had confirmation from the VWEO.... it's on the mother f7cking boat woo hoo!! :laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NuUQp8nvxUU#t=1.5
:grin: :grin: And the tracker is now at 10 days just to reaffirm this!
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mines the same valenni. ours are at Emden docks waiting for a ship.
Happy days! It's moving really fast now.
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Yippeee tracker now gone to 10 days - car due into Sheerness at 12 today.. :laugh:
I think that Bill The Bear should cancel the BMW and go back to the car he really wants!!!! Come on BTB come back to the lovely GTI group!!!
I second that.
Haha! My car is currently on the way to the dealer, I should be picking it up next week... don't really fancy entering a new 6 month queue especially since I've sold my car and would therefore be without one for those 6 months!
Gonna need to replace my wife's car about a year from now and I'm hoping I can convince her she wants a basic spec GTI. :tongue:
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Yippeee tracker now gone to 10 days - car due into Sheerness at 12 today.. :laugh:
I think that Bill The Bear should cancel the BMW and go back to the car he really wants!!!! Come on BTB come back to the lovely GTI group!!!
I second that.
Haha! My car is currently on the way to the dealer, I should be picking it up next week... don't really fancy entering a new 6 month queue especially since I've sold my car and would therefore be without one for those 6 months!
Gonna need to replace my wife's car about a year from now and I'm hoping I can convince her she wants a basic spec GTI. :tongue:
The wife's one - order it now!!!
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Tracker changed to Arrived in the UK - that happened Saturday, tell me something I don't know :rolleyes:
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Getting beyond a joke now! Confirmed BW35, been in "build in progress" since then. Spoke to dealer beginning of wk37 and he said it had been built and was on the way to the port. Now wk38 and my tracker still hadn't moved, so thought I would give VWUK a ring. They said that it was still "building in progress" and did I order the rear view camera (which I didn't) then said it could be the Dynauido holding it back (first time I've seen the audio as an excuse). I asked them why my dealer said a week ago it was built and on its way to then a week later it's back to being built, and surprise surprise he couldn't (to busy spinning a line that these things can happen. I mentioned that people with build weeks after mine and are already in transit via the info on this forum and he said "are they friends you personally know?" I said what difference does that make, people on the forum have ordered the GTI/D and put their experiences down are you saying "that they are all lier's,and that nobody talks to each other" to which he didn't have an answer. Also mentioned about VWUK opening the books to soon to which again no answer. Told him that the way people have been treated or lied to is a disgrace and this whole process has soured what should be for me the best experience ever in getting the car I've wanted for years. He did get both barrels from me and to some it might seem like I'm throwing my teddy out of the pram but when you're told one thing and then a week later told another it gets frustrating. Rant over the wait continues
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Getting beyond a joke now! Confirmed BW35, been in "build in progress" since then. Spoke to dealer beginning of wk37 and he said it had been built and was on the way to the port. Now wk38 and my tracker still hadn't moved, so thought I would give VWUK a ring. They said that it was still "building in progress" and did I order the rear view camera (which I didn't) then said it could be the Dynauido holding it back (first time I've seen the audio as an excuse). I asked them why my dealer said a week ago it was built and on its way to then a week later it's back to being built, and surprise surprise he couldn't (to busy spinning a line that these things can happen. I mentioned that people with build weeks after mine and are already in transit via the info on this forum and he said "are they friends you personally know?" I said what difference does that make, people on the forum have ordered the GTI/D and put their experiences down are you saying "that they are all lier's,and that nobody talks to each other" to which he didn't have an answer. Also mentioned about VWUK opening the books to soon to which again no answer. Told him that the way people have been treated or lied to is a disgrace and this whole process has soured what should be for me the best experience ever in getting the car I've wanted for years. He did get both barrels from me and to some it might seem like I'm throwing my teddy out of the pram but when you're told one thing and then a week later told another it gets frustrating. Rant over the wait continues
I feel your pain Blades. Sounds like you are getting the exact same BS level of service and delays that a lot of us have had. If its any consolation it will get built and delivered - you'll just have to wait even longer than expected (eg. I'll be looking at 24 weeks). Hang in there and console yourself with looking at the reviews and pics that others have posted who have been lucky enough to get their hands on theirs - certainly kept me from going (even more) insane! :laugh:
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Woohoo :laugh: just got an email from my dealer saying that mine has arrived in the UK. Not long now... :whistle:
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Woohoo :laugh: just got an email from my dealer saying that mine has arrived in the UK. Not long now... :whistle:
Lucky swine! Let us know how long it takes from UK to ownership.
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Getting beyond a joke now! Confirmed BW35, been in "build in progress" since then. Spoke to dealer beginning of wk37 and he said it had been built and was on the way to the port. Now wk38 and my tracker still hadn't moved, so thought I would give VWUK a ring. They said that it was still "building in progress" and did I order the rear view camera (which I didn't) then said it could be the Dynauido holding it back (first time I've seen the audio as an excuse). I asked them why my dealer said a week ago it was built and on its way to then a week later it's back to being built, and surprise surprise he couldn't (to busy spinning a line that these things can happen. I mentioned that people with build weeks after mine and are already in transit via the info on this forum and he said "are they friends you personally know?" I said what difference does that make, people on the forum have ordered the GTI/D and put their experiences down are you saying "that they are all lier's,and that nobody talks to each other" to which he didn't have an answer. Also mentioned about VWUK opening the books to soon to which again no answer. Told him that the way people have been treated or lied to is a disgrace and this whole process has soured what should be for me the best experience ever in getting the car I've wanted for years. He did get both barrels from me and to some it might seem like I'm throwing my teddy out of the pram but when you're told one thing and then a week later told another it gets frustrating. Rant over the wait continues
I feel your pain Blades. Sounds like you are getting the exact same BS level of service and delays that a lot of us have had. If its any consolation it will get built and delivered - you'll just have to wait even longer than expected (eg. I'll be looking at 24 weeks). Hang in there and console yourself with looking at the reviews and pics that others have posted who have been lucky enough to get their hands on theirs - certainly kept me from going (even more) insane! :laugh:
True mate, it's nice to see the pictures and read about the joy that everybody is experiencing of their delivered cars. Except those who've had bits fall of them already! :whistle:
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Woohoo :laugh: just got an email from my dealer saying that mine has arrived in the UK. Not long now... :whistle:
Lucky swine! Let us know how long it takes from UK to ownership.
4 days if you are lucky. Hound your dealer into same day or next day PDI and handover.
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After 3wks of being "build in progress" it's finally moved to in Transit overnight!! If it gets on a ship quickly I might get it before the magical 24 weeks since ordering. :smiley:
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My dealer reckons that my car will be with me early next week, but I don't think that is going to happen as it has been at the "3 weeks" stage of in-transit for ages. If it is not even in the UK yet, there is no chance I will get it early next week.
Just have to have enough patience to last another week! :lipsrsealed:
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My dealer reckons that my car will be with me early next week, but I don't think that is going to happen as it has been at the "3 weeks" stage of in-transit for ages. If it is not even in the UK yet, there is no chance I will get it early next week.
Just have to have enough patience to last another week! :lipsrsealed:
If the Olympics ever did an event for patience, there would be several gold medal contenders on this forum! :laugh:
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Tracker Of Truth now changed overnight to "Arrived In UK", after 26 days in build stage the next steps have only taken 9 days to get it in UK :laugh:
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Tracker Of Truth now changed overnight to "Arrived In UK", after 26 days in build stage the next steps have only taken 9 days to get it in UK :laugh:
I bet you are buzzing right now!! :grin: :grin:
J
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Tracker Of Truth now changed overnight to "Arrived In UK", after 26 days in build stage the next steps have only taken 9 days to get it in UK :laugh:
I bet you are buzzing right now!! :grin: :grin:
J
I will believe it when I get my eyes on it, although I must admit that I am allowing myself to get a little giddy :grin:
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My car is in transit! Cant wait
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why are you people wasting your money on them new golfs??? have you not read how disastrous the mk6 was with its cam chain tensioner failures. what makes you think this new one will be any better?
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why are you people wasting your money on them new golfs??? have you not read how disastrous the mk6 was with its cam chain tensioner failures. what makes you think this new one will be any better?
:shocked: :shocked: does this mean if you had the money for 1 you wouldnt buy 1 :undecided:
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why are you people wasting your money on them new golfs??? have you not read how disastrous the mk6 was with its cam chain tensioner failures. what makes you think this new one will be any better?
My mk6 has been fine so far, i think i'll take my chances. ::)
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why are you people wasting your money on them new golfs??? have you not read how disastrous the mk6 was with its cam chain tensioner failures. what makes you think this new one will be any better?
:shocked: :shocked: does this mean if you had the money for 1 you wouldnt buy 1 :undecided:
not a chance in ell. vw have no idea how to build a durable car anymore. if I had the cash I would buy a Honda. but my mk2 will do me fine for the foreseeable future :smiley:
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why are you people wasting your money on them new golfs??? have you not read how disastrous the mk6 was with its cam chain tensioner failures. what makes you think this new one will be any better?
:shocked: :shocked: does this mean if you had the money for 1 you wouldnt buy 1 :undecided:
not a chance in ell. vw have no idea how to build a durable car anymore. if I had the cash I would buy a Honda. but my mk2 will do me fine for the foreseeable future :smiley:
A Honda :grin: :grin: :grin: Yeah they might be bullet proof but bloody hell they are dull cars
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why are you people wasting your money on them new golfs??? have you not read how disastrous the mk6 was with its cam chain tensioner failures. what makes you think this new one will be any better?
:shocked: :shocked: does this mean if you had the money for 1 you wouldnt buy 1 :undecided:
not a chance in ell. vw have no idea how to build a durable car anymore. if I had the cash I would buy a Honda. but my mk2 will do me fine for the foreseeable future :smiley:
A Honda :grin: :grin: :grin: Yeah they might be bullet proof but bloody hell they are dull cars
how do you figure they are dull? do you find breaking down on the hard shoulder fun? :grin:
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why are you people wasting your money on them new golfs??? have you not read how disastrous the mk6 was with its cam chain tensioner failures. what makes you think this new one will be any better?
:shocked: :shocked: does this mean if you had the money for 1 you wouldnt buy 1 :undecided:
not a chance in ell. vw have no idea how to build a durable car anymore. if I had the cash I would buy a Honda. but my mk2 will do me fine for the foreseeable future :smiley:
A Honda :grin: :grin: :grin: Yeah they might be bullet proof but bloody hell they are dull cars
how do you figure they are dull? do you find breaking down on the hard shoulder fun? :grin:
I'd rather break down on the hard shoulder in a GTI than be seen in a Civic or Jazz. Name me one exciting Honda? Not even the Type R is up to scratch nowadays, Honda ruined those by making them to fat and to slow not to mention fugly
You could have at least came up with a decent alternative to try and wind us up :wink:
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I tried but I couldn't think of any decent cars :undecided:
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Honda ruined those by making them to fat and to slow not to mention fugly
Type Rs now drive like sh!te because they removed the multilink rear suspension from the latest gen to save money. Never liked the way you have to rev the nuts off them because they have no torque.
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Honda ruined those by making them to fat and to slow not to mention fugly
Type Rs now drive like sh!te because they removed the multilink rear suspension from the latest gen to save money. Never liked the way you have to rev the nuts off them because they have no torque.
I agree with this. You always had to rev them hard to get the best out of the fat but the latest gen Type R's took that to a whole new level. Plus they're dated now, and the previous gen looked better anyway.
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Honda ruined those by making them to fat and to slow not to mention fugly
Type Rs now drive like sh!te because they removed the multilink rear suspension from the latest gen to save money. Never liked the way you have to rev the nuts off them because they have no torque.
I agree with this. You always had to rev them hard to get the best out of the fat but the latest gen Type R's took that to a whole new level. Plus they're dated now, and the previous gen looked better anyway.
4 hours and counting :smiley:
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Honda ruined those by making them to fat and to slow not to mention fugly
Type Rs now drive like sh!te because they removed the multilink rear suspension from the latest gen to save money. Never liked the way you have to rev the nuts off them because they have no torque.
I agree with this. You always had to rev them hard to get the best out of the fat but the latest gen Type R's took that to a whole new level. Plus they're dated now, and the previous gen looked better anyway.
4 hours and counting :smiley:
Mate, I was up 1.5 hours earlier than normal cause I was so excited :grin: 2 hours till I leave to pick it up - I CAN'T WAIT!!
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why are you people wasting your money on them new golfs??? have you not read how disastrous the mk6 was with its cam chain tensioner failures. what makes you think this new one will be any better?
:shocked: :shocked: does this mean if you had the money for 1 you wouldnt buy 1 :undecided:
not a chance in ell. vw have no idea how to build a durable car anymore. if I had the cash I would buy a Honda. but my mk2 will do me fine for the foreseeable future :smiley:
:grin: :grin: a honda they are pish :laugh:
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How much longer do i have to wait guys do you think? on tracker its in transit 3 weeks it says but this is just an estimate at best, not feeling good at the moment and need a pick me up :sick:
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why are you people wasting your money on them new golfs??? have you not read how disastrous the mk6 was with its cam chain tensioner failures. what makes you think this new one will be any better?
:shocked: :shocked: does this mean if you had the money for 1 you wouldnt buy 1 :undecided:
not a chance in ell. vw have no idea how to build a durable car anymore. if I had the cash I would buy a Honda. but my mk2 will do me fine for the foreseeable future :smiley:
:grin: :grin: a honda they are pish :laugh:
don't be kidding yourself now. we all know you don't mean that :grin:
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I tried but I couldn't think of any decent cars :undecided:
of course! the chevette hsr :grin:
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How much longer do i have to wait guys do you think? on tracker its in transit 3 weeks it says but this is just an estimate at best, not feeling good at the moment and need a pick me up :sick:
Can't give you an answer to your question, but mine has been on the "3 Weeks" stage for about 3 weeks, and still not arrived in the UK. Was hoping to get the car this week (and dealer said that was when he was expecting it) but no such luck.
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Can't give you an answer to your question, but mine has been on the "3 Weeks" stage for about 3 weeks, and still not arrived in the UK. Was hoping to get the car this week (and dealer said that was when he was expecting it) but no such luck.
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:rolleyes:Thats annoying for you mate, so far my tracker status has updated every thursday, so if it doesnt change this week then i will be gutted. Going to end up getting this car in the middle of winter
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I was thinking the same actually. When I ordered I had hoped to be able to show off the Oryx White in the summer sun, no chance of that now!
A little update to the tracker would really cheer me up!
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My week 36 went to 10 days Friday evening and a ship docked in Grimsby this morning. Hoping that it was on that one. Not long to wait now. Not sure how long the journey from Emden to Grimsby takes, but a man can hope!
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My week 36 went to 10 days Friday evening and a ship docked in Grimsby this morning. Hoping that it was on that one. Not long to wait now. Not sure how long the journey from Emden to Grimsby takes, but a man can hope!
Nice one, my week 36 is still showing 3 weeks...
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There are a few GTI's sat in the Grimsby compound today.....I live in Grimsby.....They seem to come in batches usually twice a week.
Ken
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My week 36 went to 10 days Friday evening and a ship docked in Grimsby this morning. Hoping that it was on that one. Not long to wait now. Not sure how long the journey from Emden to Grimsby takes, but a man can hope!
While I am happy for you, also slightly annoyed that your week 36 has beaten my week 33 to the UK!
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Hey Ian , any idea which compound houses the gti's at Gy , is it the one near entrance to the recycling centre ? Or is it the one next to the Toyota / Suzuki compound was gonna have a look as I'm only in Louth myself & my gti is now iminant :laugh:
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They are not usually in the one near the recycle center....normally in the one next to scratch and match body shop which backs onto the railway line....
Thanx
Ian
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Either this one...
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=53.577887,-0.113842&spn=0.001774,0.003541&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=53.577887,-0.113842&panoid=Kp8c9cvOVjFXs9eq6KnVIA&cbp=12,214.98,,0,4.23 (https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=53.577887,-0.113842&spn=0.001774,0.003541&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=53.577887,-0.113842&panoid=Kp8c9cvOVjFXs9eq6KnVIA&cbp=12,214.98,,0,4.23)
Normally this one
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=53.575175,-0.119522&spn=0.003574,0.007081&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=53.575175,-0.119522&panoid=NLj-kwtsbdDsImi5kCcOtg&cbp=12,213.23,,0,1.09 (https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=53.575175,-0.119522&spn=0.003574,0.007081&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=53.575175,-0.119522&panoid=NLj-kwtsbdDsImi5kCcOtg&cbp=12,213.23,,0,1.09)
Ian
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My week 36 went to 10 days Friday evening and a ship docked in Grimsby this morning. Hoping that it was on that one. Not long to wait now. Not sure how long the journey from Emden to Grimsby takes, but a man can hope!
While I am happy for you, also slightly annoyed that your week 36 has beaten my week 33 to the UK!
There seems to be no reason behind the shipping rota. The fact that a BW 36 but not built till BW 38 can arrive before a BW 33 is farcical.
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Thanks for that Ian defo gonna have a nosey round , mind you I always think if I get seen they will set the dogs on me , or call the filth , oh we'll better make sure I take sum chuck steak & doughnuts with us :grin:
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Keep in touch as a fellow GTI owner in Lincolnshire....do you go on track days..? Ive done Cadwell quite a few times and plan taking the Golf when I eventually get it.
Ian
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My dealer just rang me to confirm that it is in Grimbsy. They have said that they are going to send a single transporter down to pick it up as my wait has been so long. As this is the only time they have actually had any influence over when I get the car I'm quite pleased with this. Said that if it goes to plan I could have it by the weekend. Not holding my breath but we shall see. They did however day that this is so they can also get the car off their books by the end of the quarter. Not sure who's doing who a favour but I'm not fussed as long as I get the thing! Fingers crossed!
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my dealer e mailed me today saying car is in the country :smiley:
so I am going to arrange to pick it up next Tuesday 1 st October
VW tracker says car is still on dockside in Germany and 3 weeks to go :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:
ordered 1st june so it will be about 18 weeks from start to finish
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my dealer e mailed me today saying car is in the country :smiley:
so I am going to arrange to pick it up next Tuesday 1 st October
VW tracker says car is still on dockside in Germany and 3 weeks to go :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:
ordered 1st june so it will be about 18 weeks from start to finish
If its in the country why are you waiting till next Tuesday? If you're happy waiting that's fair enough but basically once its cleared customs the dealer can have transport requested and have it within a day - then the PDI takes 2-3 hours. Depends on how long you've been waiting but harassing them gets you your car quicker ie. for the weekend!
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my dealer e mailed me today saying car is in the country :smiley:
so I am going to arrange to pick it up next Tuesday 1 st October
VW tracker says car is still on dockside in Germany and 3 weeks to go :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:
ordered 1st june so it will be about 18 weeks from start to finish
If its in the country why are you waiting till next Tuesday? If you're happy waiting that's fair enough but basically once its cleared customs the dealer can have transport requested and have it within a day - then the PDI takes 2-3 hours. Depends on how long you've been waiting but harassing them gets you your car quicker ie. for the weekend!
got a load of rubble to take to the council tip this weekend so may as well use my old car
, save getting the new one full of dust and crap
so 1 oct suits me fine :smiley:
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my dealer e mailed me today saying car is in the country :smiley:
so I am going to arrange to pick it up next Tuesday 1 st October
VW tracker says car is still on dockside in Germany and 3 weeks to go :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:
ordered 1st june so it will be about 18 weeks from start to finish
If its in the country why are you waiting till next Tuesday? If you're happy waiting that's fair enough but basically once its cleared customs the dealer can have transport requested and have it within a day - then the PDI takes 2-3 hours. Depends on how long you've been waiting but harassing them gets you your car quicker ie. for the weekend!
I wouldn't bet on 1 day transport. mines been sitting less than 8 miles away at port of Tyne since Wednesday and I still haven't got it. dealer doesn't seem to want to put themselves out to get it either.
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Finally another tracker update - I am on the "10 days" part of the process now.
Based on the other estimates that the tracker has provided, I will have to allow 25 days to avoid disappointment.
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I'm pretty sure my car must be on this ship which is just about to dock:
(http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab108/pauliem78/sheerness_zps7d3226f2.png) (http://s854.photobucket.com/user/pauliem78/media/sheerness_zps7d3226f2.png.html)
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?mmsi=565150000¢erx=0.7361383¢ery=51.43908&zoom=10&type_color=7
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nice one mate, tracker hasnt changed for me for what seems like an age :rolleyes:
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Mine is in transit 3 weeks to go dealer phoned yesterday said up to 11 boats leaving Germany today hopefully it is one one of those if neo next boats are 6th October :cry:
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That maybe means that mine was not on the ship that I thought it was, if not hopefully it will be on one of the same boats that yours is on.
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Yay! Mine arrived in the UK Yesterday
Hopefully I should have it this time next week. :cool:
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Well my week 37 still hasn't been built. Not that I care as I've got a build amendable slot on a BMW instead. Just fascinating to watch it still sitting there not doing anything. :grin:
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Yay! Mine arrived in the UK Yesterday
Hopefully I should have it this time next week. :cool:
My tracker says 7 days, but it has to drive from Grimsby to Liverpool, then boat to Belfast. That would most likely take 7 days. (Including the registration change which is causing delays)
So you will most likely get yours before me.