Build Week 21 is finally here

[monkeyhanger]

Got my 5a this morning, any updates on yours?

Excellent your car is now on its way to the Emden car park to join mine. I usually get my updates by 9am so it looks like i missed the City of Amsterdam.

I have seen people say that they have went from 5b to 6 though so i am waiting to hear if Monkeyhanger got his stage 6 today as his R was on that ship, don't know if you get this as soon as it clears customs or if it will be the next again day. Do they even send updates on a Saturday?

No stage 6. The ship is in though. Perhaps if the car is not off the ship and logged in to the receiving compound at Tyne by the time the daily texts go out, you have to wait until the following day for notification?

Or perhaps notification happens after the car has cleared customs, because it isn't officially in the UK until it has passed customs (in much the same way that you haven't officially landed at your holiday destination until you clear their customs and passport control at the airport)?

[Diehammer]

No stage 6. The ship is in though. Perhaps if the car is not off the ship and logged in to the receiving compound at Tyne by the time the daily texts go out, you have to wait until the following day for notification?

Or perhaps notification happens after the car has cleared customs, because it isn't officially in the UK until it has passed customs (in much the same way that you haven't officially landed at your holiday destination until you clear their customs and passport control at the airport)?

There is still hope yet then. I was tracking the ship coming in yesterday and it docked around half 4. It must take them a while to get all the cars off never mind clearing customs etc.

Are you getting a call from Ronald today?

[monkeyhanger]

Diehammer: I certainly did get a call....

Ronald called me up this morning just to tell me that my car was on a ship, on it's way over - would be arriving in port in a few days. I asked if it was coming over on a Pedalo as the distance will be in the region of 300 miles from Emden to Tyne and it set sail on Weds lunchtime. He seemed a bit embarassed, so I let him off the hook by telling him the ship arrived into Tyne yesterday afternoon around 4pm, that it would likely take 36 hours to be unloaded and cleared through customs and then it'll wait until VW UK's transport agents arrange for it to be transported to the dealership.

He seemed surprised I knew all that and said he would call me again on Tuesday to tell me when it was scheduled to move from Tyne to the dealership in Durham (about 22 miles). As he said he was calling back, I never pushed him about goodwill - I will be directly and bluntly be asking that question on Tuesday if he doesn't bring it up.

[Diehammer]

I take it nobody is getting any tracker updates today due to the Bank Holiday.

[monkeyhanger]

I have not had a stage 6, nor a stage 7 at this point. If cars move to dealerships any day of the week (including bank holidays), mine might actually be there now or getting there tomorrow. Never known a Tyne arrived VW take more than 4 days to get to Benfield or Pulman dealerships (i've had 7 new VWs from one or the other of these dealership groups), and one of those arrived at the dealership on a Sunday.

[Diehammer]

Just thinking the texts will be sent from VW UK so if they are closed today there will be no updates. Hopefully we both hear something tomorrow.

[TH91]

I got 5b e-mail on Saturday and 5c on Sunday. Dealer is away for a week so I can't get any more info out of him for the time being.

[Diehammer]

I got 5b e-mail on Saturday and 5c on Sunday. Dealer is away for a week so I can't get any more info out of him for the time being.

Your car might be heading for Grimsby, I am hoping that they have just missed 5c and its already at Tyne. I got my 5b last Wednesday.

[TH91]

I'll take your word for it, my knowledge of shipping routes is minimal!

[Diehammer]

Just called VW UK and was told that my car is still at Emden and that it usually takes 10 working days to get to the UK so it should be in Tyne by the 5th June. Must be taking the bank holiday yesterday into account as well but as far as I am aware shipping companies don't do holidays.

Worst bit is that I now know that it hasn't been put on a ship yet and the next one isn't due into Emden until Thursday but it might not even be heading to Tyne.