Anyone got their GTD yet?

[mcmaddy]

@sam & valenni - Im due for build on 1st September and ive got pure white gtd too. Have they batched pure whites together??

[MkVIIGTD]

My Tornado Red GTD is also due for build 1/9/13 (BW36)... fingers crossed there is a transporter bringing all our GTD's over to NI at once! 

[Bill_the_Bear]

Mine is finally in transit, as of this morning (checked tracker 11pm last night and was “in build”, checked this morning at 6am and it has changed). If it didn’t change over at midnight following actual status change earlier in the day, then it would appear that the tracker updated in real time and my car would’ve been built Sun to Mon over the 30 hour construction time. In that case it was a full 2 weeks late – not looking good for those expecting theirs to be built on their actual stated build week.

Glad to hear MH.  Don't know how you and the others who entered BW only to see nothing happened have coped, but good to see your car has made it through finally!

[rick2b]

Mine is finally in transit, as of this morning (checked tracker 11pm last night and was “in build”, checked this morning at 6am and it has changed). If it didn’t change over at midnight following actual status change earlier in the day, then it would appear that the tracker updated in real time and my car would’ve been built Sun to Mon over the 30 hour construction time. In that case it was a full 2 weeks late – not looking good for those expecting theirs to be built on their actual stated build week.

Good news.

I found the tracker was up to 5-7 days out of sync with the info my dealer was able to get. Depends on when the next person scans a barcode that the status will change. As it turned out it took about 4 weeks from build to keys in hand.

Hopefully you get lucky with boat consignments and its not sat in the dock yard for weeks !!

[monkeyhanger]

I suppose coping is relative to what you already have. I don’t feel short-changed with the Scirocco I already have. If I was sitting in something I wasn’t enjoying then the wait could’ve been a lot worse. At times though, I have thought, “should I just keep the Scirocco another year?”.

Anyway, the wait isn’t over until it’s ready to pick up.

If a miracle were to happen in that it got on the “city of Rome” today, was in port of Tyne tomorrow as a result and my dealer got through the red tape at dockside to get it to the dealership for Friday/Saturday like he did for my dad’s – Sunday 1st Sept pickup is possible.

More likely it’ll get to Emden for the middle of next week, get on a ship sometime around the 20th September and be available on Sept 24th. I go on holiday to Mexico for 2 weeks on Sept 23rd.

Hoping the tracker is 5-7 days out of sync with reality. Doubt it though. As of last Tues or Weds (can’t even remember when I last bothered VW UK) the car hadn’t even been started, so I think completion Friday night, 23rd Sept was the best I could hope for (if it was started immediately after my phone call).

[RikWebb]

Well just called VW.

Now being told WK39 - still unconfirmed
That's 2 weeks delay from when I last asked

~Where is the 'Bangs head against wall' smiley?

[sam67GTD]

@sam & valenni - Im due for build on 1st September and ive got pure white gtd too. Have they batched pure whites together??

I think they have ran out of the oryx white undercoat and have cleared the painting tanks and added pure white premium paint! 

[Valenni]

@sam & valenni - Im due for build on 1st September and ive got pure white gtd too. Have they batched pure whites together??

It's either a colour thing, a location thing or a dealer thing. :-)

I can't see it being colour related as I thought the frames were sprayed in another part of the factory and are in fact just another 'part'. The assembly just takes the parts and builds them.

Looking at that VW factory video all different cars of different colours were being built.

I also can't see it being a location thing, as building cars destined for Northern Ireland seems a bit silly.

But dealer allocation could be a factor as Sam and I ordered from the same dealer.

[sam67GTD]

@sam & valenni - Im due for build on 1st September and ive got pure white gtd too. Have they batched pure whites together??

It's either a colour thing, a location thing or a dealer thing. :-)

I can't see it being colour related as I thought the frames were sprayed in another part of the factory and are in fact just another 'part'. The assembly just takes the parts and builds them.

Looking at that VW factory video all different cars of different colours were being built.

I also can't see it being a location thing, as building cars destined for Northern Ireland seems a bit silly.

But dealer allocation could be a factor as Sam and I ordered from the same dealer.

Well as Valenni says we ordered from the dealer who claim to have 60% of all VW sales in NI. My dealer told me that I was the first person to order a GTD from them, so in theory, mine should be one of the first GTD's in NI.

[dippy_x]

Well just called VW.

Now being told WK39 - still unconfirmed
That's 2 weeks delay from when I last asked

~Where is the 'Bangs head against wall' smiley?

Rik - I take it you are still on with factory status on the tracker then?  I would expect BW39 to get confirmed on tracker this Friday...