Current delivery times?

[JB GTI]

Weser Highway is in Emden now. Due to arrive back at Grimsby 01:00 3/12/17

And is that where Golfs pass through? Friends Audi went to Sheerness last week.

Grimsby is one of a number of ports Volkswagen use. What part of the country your dealer is will most likely determine where your car arrives in the U.K. Sheerness and Port of Tyne are others.

[CocoPops]

It’s going to VWHQ in MK.

[JB GTI]

It’s going to VWHQ in MK.

Flip a coin then between Sheerness and Grimsby   

[CocoPops]

Yep, now confirmed as not on Weser Highway. Still “awaiting ship” 

[TobyT]

My GTI has a build week of 50 confirmed, just checked the tracker and it’s already skipped ‘build in progress’ and gone straight to ‘in transit’ yessssss! Way ahead of schedule 

 I hoping it’s early enough not to get delayed in shipping/transport/customs by the Christmas break.

[CocoPops]

FFS!!

My car arrived at Emden on 9th November... was "Released to Ship" on 1st December, yet still hasn't boarded a bloody boat yet! 
Apparently it can sit in "released to ship" for 14days, so it might not even board a ship until 15th December.

Have to say, it's not looking like a preChristmas delivery

[TobyT]

FFS!!

My car arrived at Emden on 9th November... was "Released to Ship" on 1st December, yet still hasn't boarded a bloody boat yet! 
Apparently it can sit in "released to ship" for 14days, so it might not even board a ship until 15th December.

Have to say, it's not looking like a preChristmas delivery

Oh no, that's an awfully long time to have to wait without any progress, I'll keep my fingers crossed yours gets shipped soon.

[JB GTI]

So what would you do??
I ordered my next car at the end of September based on a 16week lead time for a March delivery. To cut a long story short my car is built much sooner than expected and is now in this country as of last week and I am in two minds whether to stand firm and stick to March delivery or get it the first week of January instead??
My thinking on March was that the worst of the winter would hopefully be over by then and not long to wait until the lighter nights came along rather than only seeing it in the dark of January and February and constantly trying to keep it clean of the worst of the salt infused winter road grime!
I don’t think it will make too much difference come resale time either whether it is a 67 or 18 plate now there are two plate changes a year. I can also re jig my finances to make it work for January too so it all comes down to whether I want to leave my new car Nearly 3 months doing nothing or letting the “I want it now” urges take over    

[physio]

So what would you do??
I ordered my next car at the end of September based on a 16week lead time for a March delivery. To cut a long story short my car is built much sooner than expected and is now in this country as of last week and I am in two minds whether to stand firm and stick to March delivery or get it the first week of January instead??
My thinking on March was that the worst of the winter would hopefully be over by then and not long to wait until the lighter nights came along rather than only seeing it in the dark of January and February and constantly trying to keep it clean of the worst of the salt infused winter road grime!
I don’t think it will make too much difference come resale time either whether it is a 67 or 18 plate now there are two plate changes a year. I can also re jig my finances to make it work for January too so it all
comes down to whether I want to leave my new car Nearly 3 months doing nothing or letting the “I want it now” urges take over    

If you don’t take delivery until March it will be sat in the dealers compound  getting covered in bird poo etc
Plus risk of it getting scratched or damaged
I think I would take it in January

[I wanted a GTi]

I done the deal on mine between Christmas and the new year last year and waited until 1st March to pick it up. It was put into storage(I'm guessing put in a corner) at Grimsby port until the middle of February.