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Has anyone received theirs yet? The wait is killing me and the other half is fed up of my forum stalking!
We were told last Thursday that it would be 10 days. So sometime next week. Doesn't matter - we are not collecting until the end of the month. The dealer wants the car registered in March for sales figures. Dealer is going to tax the car for a year and a week. Though as my wife pointed out, it is only £20 a year road tax. So that will save her the grand total of £1.66. Our reason for waiting is that the time changes at the end of March. Also less chance of black ice. The current car has winter tyres which are a bit better on ice.
my S3 SB was build week 8 and it arrived at the dealership yesterday. I will pick it up on Sat morning. Cant wait
Where are your dealers guys? I'm still waiting to hear from my dealer about my BW8 car - they say they have no info on whereabouts of the car - last known still at Emden... I'm in SW Wales.
Totally agreed, the waiting seems to be getting worse by the day!!
Would be useful to know which port your cars are coming into (especially those with week 8 already at the dealers). Mine was build week 7, and last I heard (Mon morning) it was still in Emden awaiting shipping to Sheerness. If anyone has a week 8 car that's been shipped via Sheerness, it'll give me some ammo to go and complain to the dealer with
Yep my car was at the dealership on Tuesday, it was in Emden on the 21-02-14 and the car was a wk 8 build.
Thanks acejas01. And it came via Sheerness?
Yep it came through sheerness and delivered to Bury St Edmunds Audi. get into there ribs Gazzz
Yep it came through sheerness and delivered to Bury St Edmunds Audi. get into there ribs Gazzz
FYI for all those with a week 8 build and possibly week 9? (which is me). MY African Highway has just arrived to Emden due to depart late this evening to the port of sheerness for southern dealers. Will week 9 make it onboard?
perhaps yours is on Viking Constanza then, do you think build week 9 will make it onto african highway?
So which port supplies South Wales?.. I assumed Sheerness but my dealer reckoned Grimsby but "couldn't check"...
Hopefullyperhaps yours is on Viking Constanza then, do you think build week 9 will make it onto african highway?
FWIW ACS told me yesterday that they have 3 ships which serve Sheerness (perhaps someone knows the name of the 3rd?). The cars are also moved in sequence as a priority (first in first out). They did say there was a bit of a backlog due to the time of year too.I've given up trying to work out their shipping system!! From what I can make out there's 2-3 sailings to Sheerness per week, but in addition they sometimes stop one of the long distance ships at Sheerness, presumably to drop some cars off. It does seem like it goes in waves though. For example, you'll get a few ships going to Sheerness, then you'll get quite a few going to Grimsby for a few days, and so on. There doesn't seem to be much logic behind which cars waiting at Emden get put on a given ship though. I did read ages ago that the shipping company have to ship within 2 weeks of it arriving an Emden, but that may just be internet rumour!
So which port supplies South Wales?.. ...
Interesting read here: http://www.automotivesupplychain.org/features/219/62/Planning-for-Success/
Particularly "Volkswagen Group UK uses three ports of entry. Grimsby handles around 50% of imports, Sheerness 32% and Tyne 18%" and "About 1.5% of the vehicles we import are damaged in transit"
Any idea why the boats arrive and then depart again shortly after just to come back later the same day? Are they waiting for a dock perhaps??
I think it's just where they stop in the port area waiting for the tugs, but the tracking system assumes because it's not moving that it's actually docked. Then when the tugs arrive and actually move it into place, it thinks it's another journey