New GTI + delivery

[barrywi]

Got it thanks , I did not have tugs selected.....how sad am I!

[Cadwest]

Well Barry it’s underway so let’s hope our cars are onboard, I believe it can hold between 6,000 and 8,500 cars so there’s a chance.

[barrywi]

Yes indeed ,I will chase up the possibility on Monday when they all start work at VW.

[stevereeves]

Well Barry it’s underway so let’s hope our cars are onboard, I believe it can hold between 6,000 and 8,500 cars so there’s a chance.

You sure it's that many, I've seen one of those carriers and there are freaking huge, but wouldn't have thought one could carry that number of cars. Either way hope they are all Polos ....

[Cadwest]

Well Barry it’s underway so let’s hope our cars are onboard, I believe it can hold between 6,000 and 8,500 cars so there’s a chance.

You sure it's that many, I've seen one of those carriers and there are freaking huge, but wouldn't have thought one could carry that number of cars. Either way hope they are all Polos ....

According to a write up of similar vehicle carrier built about the same time and tonnage, apparently they have thirteen decks, I’ve got to say I was surprised about the amount of vehicles.

[PilotRoss91]

Afternoon all. I’ll be placing my order this coming week after a bit of time thinking over what options I want for sure. Drove a pretty bog standard GTI today and it felt superb. Some of the plastic quality is something left to be desired however overall great little car.

Going for a GTI+ in Reef Blue with most of the option boxes ticked apart from park assist and voice activation (absolutely nothing works for us Scots!). Still undecided about the pan roof.

Coming from a Mk7 Fiesta ST which is a pretty hard car to beat in my honest opinion but the Polo certainly is a lot of fun with a touch of maturity.

[RUM4MO]

PilotRoss91, Ha Ha!
Sadly, it looks like you have just lost the right to claim to have "the largest disco ball" either in the world or in Europe (O2)

[roywolfey]

Green Ridge, a car transporter is parked in Port Elizabeth ...does anyone know where it is heading next? Emden via Vigo etc , hopefully with our cars on board!

Green Ridge is getting ready to leave port and is heading for Spain and should be there by 02/07 so good news.

And it’s a relatively quick vessel too. The ship mines on is averaging less than 15 knots

[MrLems]

Afternoon all. I’ll be placing my order this coming week after a bit of time thinking over what options I want for sure. Drove a pretty bog standard GTI today and it felt superb. Some of the plastic quality is something left to be desired however overall great little car.

Going for a GTI+ in Reef Blue with most of the option boxes ticked apart from park assist and voice activation (absolutely nothing works for us Scots!). Still undecided about the pan roof.

Coming from a Mk7 Fiesta ST which is a pretty hard car to beat in my honest opinion but the Polo certainly is a lot of fun with a touch of maturity.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love my new GTI+, but there does seem to be more cheap plastic used in the new model. But this is me being very picky. I can't complain, what it lacks in 'better' plastics it gains in tech, extras and overall quality. Plus I bought it to drive it and it does that VERY well and it's only early days yet. It will certainly be worth the wait!

[barrywi]

Green Ridge, a car transporter is parked in Port Elizabeth ...does anyone know where it is heading next? Emden via Vigo etc , hopefully with our cars on board!

Green Ridge is getting ready to leave port and is heading for Spain and should be there by 02/07 so good news.

And it’s a relatively quick vessel too. The ship mines on is averaging less than 15 knots

Green Ridge is only doing 16.5 mph at the moment so not that fast yet

[samehall]

I got the notification that my polo was in trasnsit last Wednesday on 13th June....When would people expect it to be in the UK?

[barrywi]

It depends on which ship it is on.
The VW uk chat line just told me that they cannot say where my car is untill it gets to Emden in Germany. The Green Ridge left Port Elizabeth on the 15 th so it could be on that ...or not.

[Cadwest]

It depends on which ship it is on.
The VW uk chat line just told me that they cannot say where my car is untill it gets to Emden in Germany. The Green Ridge left Port Elizabeth on the 15 th so it could be on that ...or not.

Guess it’s a waiting game then for us Barry, I was hoping to get an owners manual in the mean time but VW are that stupid you can’t download without a vin number, never had that problem with Seat or Volvo.

[SRGTD]

It depends on which ship it is on.
The VW uk chat line just told me that they cannot say where my car is untill it gets to Emden in Germany. The Green Ridge left Port Elizabeth on the 15 th so it could be on that ...or not.

Guess it’s a waiting game then for us Barry, I was hoping to get an owners manual in the mean time but VW are that stupid you can’t download without a vin number, never had that problem with Seat or Volvo.

You can also use registration number as an alternative to VIN to view manuals on line.

I know you won’t have a reg no. for your forthcoming car yet, but it used to be possible to take the registration number from one of the nearly new used cars for sale on VW’s website (or the reg no. from any new model Polo for that matter) and input it (with no spaces) into the field at the link below. Don’t know if that still works but it’s worth a try;

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/owners/manuals

It works for my previous generation Polo.

[Cadwest]

Cheers SRGTD will try and obtain a number from somewhere.

Update: Tried a couple of reg numbers but all I got was “this service is not available at the moment“ so it’s good to know it works as well as the tracker app.