GTI/GTD Order Date vs. Build Week Analysis

[Nuggsy71]

unless your the first person to order from the Durham branch? gives me a bit of hope that mine will come forward if you've been quoted WK 28. ordered mine 2nd April from Sunderland. have you been to see the red gti at Pulman yet?

I went through at the weekend to have a look, but seems a manager had taken it home for the weekend !

[lambo1984]

Just to add my bit.
Placed my order on the 6th May, and spoke to VW Uk today, and they have given me an estimated build week 28 - which after reading this board, doesn't seem too bad ! even if time seems to have stood still since the day the order went in.

I ordered mine around the same time as u at VW Swindon and stil havnt been given a BW date but the leasing company are saying around end of August- September, anyone help me out here on how i can get more info about it?

[mcmaddy]

unless your the first person to order from the Durham branch? gives me a bit of hope that mine will come forward if you've been quoted WK 28. ordered mine 2nd April from Sunderland. have you been to see the red gti at Pulman yet?

I went through at the weekend to have a look, but seems a manager had taken it home for the weekend !

yeah he did. it was in today when I went to pick my car up. very very nice.

[Nuggsy71]

unless your the first person to order from the Durham branch? gives me a bit of hope that mine will come forward if you've been quoted WK 28. ordered mine 2nd April from Sunderland. have you been to see the red gti at Pulman yet?

I went through at the weekend to have a look, but seems a manager had taken it home for the weekend !

yeah he did. it was in today when I went to pick my car up. very very nice.

Glad I didn't see it, as I would have probably ended up changing the colour !

[OF1]

My dealer has strongly emphasised to me also, that build weeks will come forward from the estimate.

Mine is a GTD however with a provisional BW of Wk 36!

Wait! Wat? According to my data your provisional is Wk24...! You been telling me porkies?

Anyway, better if its 36, I've spent way longer than I should have puzzling over why your estimated BW is before MkVIIGTD and others who picked the same car as you a month before you and yet won't be built until a month later.  Well now I know! 

EDIT:
By better I mean more logical.  I honestly hope you get moved forward from wk36.  I'm also hoping to move out of the 30s.

Whatever I put into the sheet was correct, I can't remember it 100% off the top ofmy head though!

[Kendo44]

Hi Guys,

Please follow the below link to a form you can fill in with your order details.  Don't worry there is nothing personal asked for on the form.  This should help us put some stats together to understand what might be causing the delays in some/all orders.  I may post some graphs as a result of this but I won't post any specific details such as names/dates/order numbers.  I don't believe this information is sensitive but I won't post it anyway.  Giving a unique nickname is important to ensure there are not duplicates, and giving as much detail on dates and numbers is helpful, but don't feel you have to!

http://billthebear.wufoo.com/forms/mk7-gtigtd-order-analysis/


Some initial analysis.  Looking at the order numbers, with a couple of odd exceptions (and I also corrected what appeared to be some typos, its not 2012 any more guys!), there is a correlation between when you order and the number you get.

However, there is no correlation between the order you get and your estimated BW!

Thanks to those who provided the entire order number.  This is very helpful and soon I should be able to compare order number to website status and see if there is a correlation there.




I am aware much of this info has been posted in threads and one of the stickys, but we're having a hard time keeping track of it so this would help a lot.

UPDATE: I noticed one or two of you have gone back and filled the form in again with more data.  This is good!  As long as you use the same nickname you can do this and I can see that additional information has been added, rather than a duplicate entry.

Bear.

Hi Bear, apologies if I am being thick, my dealer estimated that I would get my car either August or September but did not give me a date. I went to complete your form, however although my order number is showing build week confirmed on the tracker it does not give me an actual week number, should it? If not then how do I get the information to complete your form, do I have to contact the dealer.
Once I am clear on this I will complete the form, thanks for all your effort:-)

[Bill_the_Bear]

Hi Bear, apologies if I am being thick, my dealer estimated that I would get my car either August or September but did not give me a date. I went to complete your form, however although my order number is showing build week confirmed on the tracker it does not give me an actual week number, should it? If not then how do I get the information to complete your form, do I have to contact the dealer.
Once I am clear on this I will complete the form, thanks for all your effort:-)

If you've got BW confirmed on the website we're relatively confident that means the car will be built in about 4 weeks time.  Did it just switch recently?  So in this case I'd expect wk26.  How long ago was the order placed?  Seems odd they estimate Aug/Sept if the website had updated, unless they are being conservative.  The caveat is that it's not clear how the wk22 update going on will affect this, they might be updating things further out than usual.  If they are we could be seeing the start of many of us getting BW confirmed but the BW being more than the usual 4 weeks away.  The website doesn't give a specific week unfortunately.  You should have an order form from your dealer with the number on, in my case I had to sign and return it so I took a copy for my records.  If you are BW confirmed now I can manually update your entry if it is obvious which one it is, I'll check tomorrow.

There are a few unknowns here.  I'm expecting an email about my order from VW tomorrow and I think I will try to wring some info out of them on how this process works as it would make it a lot easier for all off us if we were confident of what things mean!

[Bill_the_Bear]

Hi Bill_the_Bear iv order the golf gtd i got my order number today and filled in your chart. im guessing i ordered mine around the 4th of May (dnt really no the exact date but around that) any chance u could tell me what my build date would be or an estimate? thanks

P.S - I didnt add any extras as i thought i was happy what it inculded. But looking on changing the colour to carbon grey would it send me back down the line?

ordered - GOLF GTD 5 DOOR MANUAL PEARLESENT BLACK

I'll have a look for the closest match to your tomorrow.  Things to keep in mind though, we're working on a theory that regional or dealer variations can give different lead times and this may not become clear for a few weeks so while I can probably tell you the average of what others have got there is potentially a big variation between what now long each of us has to wait.  Hopefully in a few weeks we'll get better at guessing these things.

A couple of us think a colour change has bumped them down the list by one or two weeks.  It's currently impossible to be sure about this.  I think you should get the colour you want, but if you are very very desperate to minimise the wait then potentially this would increase it...

[CraigW]

September delivery 

On the bright side that should just about coincide with summer up here 

Nice work Bill

[monkeyhanger]

Last Thursday was when my dad's order status changed to "build week confirmed", so with me supposedly having a BW26 im expecting BW22 notification tomorrow or Friday to change my tracker status. It might be too early in BW22 for BW26 people to receive their notification - might have to give it a few days.

I do wonder whether people with the longest quoted BW are 3rd/4th/5th in their dealership allocation queue. That would certainly seem the case for Pulman Sunderland on the assumption that both me and mcmaddy have been bumped behind my dad for order changes made.