GTD delayed again !

[jkp]

Was out and about today and dropped into a VW dealer in Edinburgh for a look as I knew they had 2 used GTD's. I also asked about lead times for new ones and they are looking at approx 8 months due to allocation restrictions. They are not able to order until their next allocation which is in October at present, where he said they would get it approx 8 weeks after that, but until allocation time Vw are not interested.

Just wondering if thats what holding my dealer up

[JoeGTI]

My car is now built and "awaiting Shipment"   

I'm thinking it will surely now only take a couple of weeks to get to the dealers, but the dealer says it could take 4-5 weeks... grrrrrrrr! Said something about there being only 2 ships per month and if mine misses one, then its waiting for the next one. I hope he was being overly pessimistic!

[noel]

Good result. Let us know when it arrives.

[Damion]

Joe, boats every Wed and Friday, you will have it no later than next week i'd say, had mine 5 days after build completed.

[JoeGTI]

Joe, boats every Wed and Friday, you will have it no later than next week i'd say, had mine 5 days after build completed.

Wow, that's pretty good! I'd be pleasantly surprised if I got it that quick.

This very useful thread here (http://www.sciroccocentral.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4016) seems to indicate that Ireland only gets 2-3 shipments per month at most! I can't imagine that a small market like Ireland would be getting ship-loads every few days? This would kinda confirm what my dealer told me (although I'd take whatever the dealer tells me with a large dose of salt!)

[Damion]

They use the France/Rosslaire boat, one loader at a time, VW is Irelands second biggest seller by volume I hope they can sell more than one loader full a month, (im sure they only fit about 8 cars on them!)

Fingers crossed for you anyway.

[JoeGTI]

They use the France/Rosslaire boat, one loader at a time, VW is Irelands second biggest seller by volume I hope they can sell more than one loader full a month, (im sure they only fit about 8 cars on them!)

Fingers crossed for you anyway.

Thanks Damion... i'm on the final hurdle anyway, it's been a long wait, 12 weeks so far - what's another 2 or 3!

[noel]

Thats not long!!! I am waiiting 35 weeks and my GTD is not due to be built until the start of JULY so you pretty lucky

[Mr_F]

At what point, if any, can you say to your dealer, actually, your $%£% give me my deposit back, as a VW dealer, you cannot deliver, you are just Used Car Salesman....because that's the only thing you sell!

35 WEEKS, I'm only 3 weeks in and no news of the order being confirmed, I'm going to be itching by Week 35.

[JoeGTI]

35 weeks, that's just nuts lads, totally unacceptable to me at least.

Mr_F, I remember calling into my dealer at around week 3, and at that stage it was penciled in for a week 20 build. It was eventually built on week 21 (last week). Of course, it hadn't occurred to me until yesterday that there can be a fair wait between build week and delivery week... grrrrr!