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Cheers Andy.
And congratulations to anyone about to get their car.

For anyone that has a car on the RCC Europe (that's me that is ) ... according to marinetraffic.com it's just entered the English Channel. Scheduled to reach Emden on the 18th August. Getting closer

@mike
Do you mean the 18th August?!

johnpolo2 wrote: Tue Aug 16, 2022 6:17 pm @mike
Do you mean the 18th August?!

Indeed
Post edited.
Typing too fast due to my excitement

That's good. I did wonder if the ship was going on a sight seeing tour of the British Isles.

MikeDO wrote: Tue Aug 16, 2022 5:47 pm For anyone that has a car on the RCC Europe (that's me that is ) ... according to marinetraffic.com it's just entered the English Channel. Scheduled to reach Emden on the 18th August. Getting closer

I’m also tracking it and it says just before midnight tomorrow. Just need to then work out which boat it takes to hull.

@andygti I’ve got the same pic!

lancslad1985 wrote: Tue Aug 16, 2022 9:16 pm
I’m also tracking it and it says just before midnight tomorrow. Just need to then work out which boat it takes to hull.

@andygti I’ve got the same pic!

Indeed. 2022-08-18 01:00 LT (UTC +2) ... so that's 10PM tomorrow.

Depends if it can dock straight away. I wonder how long it will take to pick up a boat to Blighty?

Think last time it was a week or so before it got a boat to the UK. Then another week before it was at the dealer. I’m happy to wait, don’t want mine until 5/9 at the earliest and my wax isn’t here yet.

If it arrived on the Silver Ray, ours took 3 weeks exactly, from Emden to dealership.

August 1st my dealer messaged to say status 30 left the factory.
Update today after my enquiry, it still says the same. 30 left the factory.
Has the transporter broken down.

johnpolo2 wrote: Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:08 pm August 1st my dealer messaged to say status 30 left the factory.
Update today after my enquiry, it still says the same. 30 left the factory.
Has the transporter broken down.

That's normal don't worry. The status doesn't get updated once it leaves the factory, well not until it gets to a port in the UK.

Your car is most likely on the RCC Amsterdam ship which left Port Elizabeth on the 10th of August. Its due into Emden on the 4th of September.

The ship with my car came into Emden on 4th August. There were then two ships Emden to Sheerness (Malacca Highway arrived Tues 9th Aug, Thames Highway arrived Friday 12th Aug) Then Dealer let me know car was at UK Port on Friday 12th Aug. So looks like second ship for delivery.

So I see RCC Europe is getting in tonight to Emden. Well best be on look out for "xxxxx Highway" ships to Sheerness, Grimbsy or Tyne over next week.

As someone said above, there seems to be a lot of cars coming through now.

@ohvalley
Thanks.
I think I'm missing the status/delivery app of previous years, that gave you a pretty good idea of what was going on.

Well the RCC Europe arrived early hours of the morning in emden with the main highway arriving from Grimsby 40 minutes later. Probably too soon for them to unload straight onto the other ship but who knows.

Considering I don’t want mine until 5/6th September, knowing my luck mine will get loaded onto the main highway and through port in a day!

lancslad1985 wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 5:53 am Well the RCC Europe arrived early hours of the morning in emden with the main highway arriving from Grimsby 40 minutes later. Probably too soon for them to unload straight onto the other ship but who knows.

Considering I don’t want mine until 5/6th September, knowing my luck mine will get loaded onto the main highway and through port in a day!

In my experience above the delivery reached Emden on Thursday 4th and by Friday the 12th Dealer was aware it had reached UK port. So good chance it shoul reach UK by next Friday. I think the dealers are use to people pushing collection into Sept so 5/6 should be fine