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peeceeuk wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2019 2:06 pm Well, another call to the dealer to check whether mine has crossed into the UK yet and...it has not.
It is still sat in Emden waiting for a ship.
It was not my regular sales guy that I spoke to today but I think it was who he would usually turn to for assistance with such tracking queries. He seemed more familiar with the end to end process.
On behalf of myself and a couple of other people waiting for GTi's from this branch, he is going to email a query off to see if he can get any more details about when we are likely to see our cars on these shores.
He said that he is hopeful that I will be in it before May is out.
My guess is that it will arrive in the week of May that I am away from home. That would be typical.

gnome wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:48 pm

Surface36 wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:46 pm mine took two weeks from arrival at Emden until it got on a UK bound ship, then two weeks to get a transporter.........still in Sheerness

Cool, cheers for that How long did it take for the 5b notification?

monkeyhanger wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2019 9:58 am After giving detail about what ship our white GTI+ might be on, based on other BW13 people here (Glovis Sunlight) and asking for confirmation of whether the car made it to Emden yet or is on another ship, I got a generic response... "yes, your car has been built and is on it's way from South Africa - we expect it within this month". So it must be arriving today then?

Didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know - that it's built and has left SA to be somewhere on the way here.

Dealers, eh?

Now to decide whether to buy some tyres for the new one from my local supplier on the last day of the Michelin Cashback (but not pick them up yet).

No way I'm going to let the wife suffer on the Bridgestones, knowing how crap they are and how much better PS4s are. She's got a heavier right foot than me and is used to unflappable traction on the Golf R from standstill - she'll have to get reintroduced to tramping!

Griff74 wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:29 am

monkeyhanger wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2019 9:58 am After giving detail about what ship our white GTI+ might be on, based on other BW13 people here (Glovis Sunlight) and asking for confirmation of whether the car made it to Emden yet or is on another ship, I got a generic response... "yes, your car has been built and is on it's way from South Africa - we expect it within this month". So it must be arriving today then?

Didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know - that it's built and has left SA to be somewhere on the way here.

Dealers, eh?

Now to decide whether to buy some tyres for the new one from my local supplier on the last day of the Michelin Cashback (but not pick them up yet).

No way I'm going to let the wife suffer on the Bridgestones, knowing how crap they are and how much better PS4s are. She's got a heavier right foot than me and is used to unflappable traction on the Golf R from standstill - she'll have to get reintroduced to tramping!

That is odd that your dealer hasn't\wont got a confirmation and a ship name for you, it takes the them about 30 seconds to look it up and they tend to have the app open on their PC's all the time. Maybe your car missed the first 2 ships like mine did and is on the Glovis Crystal?

MattHGR wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:33 am GTi+ ready to be picked up !
I'll be collecting Thurs evening.

Ordered 21st July and built 13th March.

johnpolo2 wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2019 8:56 pm All tedious really.
My next car will be something I see on a forecourt.


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