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monkeyhanger wrote: Sat Nov 06, 2021 9:37 pm
Smitten wrote: Sat Nov 06, 2021 8:31 pm

In which case I look forward to receiving my ID3 in Dec and handing back my existing lease car 3 months early!

Somehow, I think it unlikely...although I love a surprise!! There aren't masses (or indeed any) ID3's just sitting around waiting to be delivered. If so, tell me where they are? This is why the nearly new 2nd had price is so high and higher than the new price. Unfortunately it doesn't matter whether you lease, PCP or buy, there aren't enough chips to go around and these are the items in short supply. Appreciate it may have been different in the past.
You've totally misconstrued what I've said. I'm not saying there are fields of cars already built and waiting for lease companies to pick them up.

I'm simply saying that there are retail channels and fleet channels for dealerships to order and supply cars and that fleet allocations are more generous and fulfilled quicker. That has always happened and it still happens now . My DTD ordered 2018 Polo GTI+ was supplied by the fleet sales arm of Listers Nuneaton, as was our 2019 Polo GTI+. They were built and delivered in about 2/3 of the time that others on the Polo forum were reporting theirs being built and delivered from.point of order.

If a lease company were to order 10 ID3s today via the fleet channel and Joe Bloggs was to order one through the retail channel today, the fleet ordered ones would be built and shipped quicker.

VW orders as a whole aren't dealt with on a first come first served basis, chip shortage or no chip shortage.
Yes understood. I am sure Lex Autolease is ordering/financing 1,000's of cars a week and a lot of those will be VW, so as volume customers they and other leasing firms are treated differently. My point was I don't think it is going to make a lot of difference as I still expect to be waiting 6 or 7 months.
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For info, ordered mine 1st September as a factory order and just been told its been built and is on its way to UK with handover to me in December.

Might be missing a few chips:)
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Mine was ordered 9 days after your one and vertu estimate June. What are your 1st 4 digits on the order No? Are you on Utumno's spread sheet?
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sausageroll wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 9:33 pm
Gjrosser wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 9:30 pm Ordered mine at end of August this year. Was initially told just before Christmas, then just after Christmas, then got the dreaded call yesterday that it’s now not before the end of February!! Some rubbish about a shortage of steel now as well.

I think VW are just pulling these times out of a hat.
Can't see it as VW, personally. Sounds more like certain salesmen/dealers.

My logic for this is because I ordered mid-July and was told 5 months (mid-December).

Anyone who has ordered after mid-July and was told less than 5 months was either already picking up an order in the queue, or must surely have had a far too optimistic dealer.

Had a call now to say instead of week 7 next year, it’s week 50 this year - confirmed. I resisted the urge to laugh but said I’d believe it when I see the car…
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Gjrosser wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 11:37 am
sausageroll wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 9:33 pm
Gjrosser wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 9:30 pm Ordered mine at end of August this year. Was initially told just before Christmas, then just after Christmas, then got the dreaded call yesterday that it’s now not before the end of February!! Some rubbish about a shortage of steel now as well.

I think VW are just pulling these times out of a hat.
Can't see it as VW, personally. Sounds more like certain salesmen/dealers.

My logic for this is because I ordered mid-July and was told 5 months (mid-December).

Anyone who has ordered after mid-July and was told less than 5 months was either already picking up an order in the queue, or must surely have had a far too optimistic dealer.

Had a call now to say instead of week 7 next year, it’s week 50 this year - confirmed. I resisted the urge to laugh but said I’d believe it when I see the car…
Considering they are saying there's a 3 week christmas shutdown, I wouldn't anticipate week 50 being this year tbh
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I have heard via a roundabout route, so may be baloney, that the annual shut down will be of the production line, but that some of the staff will be redeployed to complete the part built vehicles. From a colleague who has a relative contracting for VW.
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Its quite strange that they give out build weeks for weeks the factory would be closed. Unless I'm misunderstanding what build weeks truly mean or unless these closures aren't scheduled until closer to the time but nevertheless, strange 🤷
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ksoni94 wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 1:43 pm Its quite strange that they give out build weeks for weeks the factory would be closed. Unless I'm misunderstanding what build weeks truly mean or unless these closures aren't scheduled until closer to the time but nevertheless, strange 🤷

Build weeks used to mean that all the parts are ready and build is intended to commence within that week.

Now they’re just week numbers indicating the first available opportunity that build might start, maybe.
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Had an update from my dealer today and apparently mine is in the paintshop. So obviously nothing is built on the car yet. When he spoke to the guys in Leeds (VW team in contact with the factories) they could not say either way if it will be a MY22 or MY22.5.
At least I know where mine is currently.
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Utumno wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 2:16 pm
ksoni94 wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 1:43 pm Its quite strange that they give out build weeks for weeks the factory would be closed. Unless I'm misunderstanding what build weeks truly mean or unless these closures aren't scheduled until closer to the time but nevertheless, strange 🤷

Build weeks used to mean that all the parts are ready and build is intended to commence within that week.

Now they’re just week numbers indicating the first available opportunity that build might start, maybe.
Even then surely you'd want to exclude weeks where the factory is due to be shut 🤔 logistically you'd end up with a backlog of cars that were due to be build after you re-open which sounds like a nightmare! Although maybe before the chip shortage the factories were efficient enough to overcome the backlog quite quickly so it didn't really matter but still !
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ksoni94 wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 2:32 pm
Utumno wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 2:16 pm
ksoni94 wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 1:43 pm Its quite strange that they give out build weeks for weeks the factory would be closed. Unless I'm misunderstanding what build weeks truly mean or unless these closures aren't scheduled until closer to the time but nevertheless, strange 🤷

Build weeks used to mean that all the parts are ready and build is intended to commence within that week.

Now they’re just week numbers indicating the first available opportunity that build might start, maybe.
Even then surely you'd want to exclude weeks where the factory is due to be shut 🤔 logistically you'd end up with a backlog of cars that were due to be build after you re-open which sounds like a nightmare! Although maybe before the chip shortage the factories were efficient enough to overcome the backlog quite quickly so it didn't really matter but still !

I don’t disagree at all, but I’m basically considering any “build week” given by VW as pure fabrication and fantasy now. You only have to look at the delivery spreddy to see that not much has arrived in the UK in November so far, and given Covid ripping through Germany on top of the component shortages I don’t think much else will.

(Cue VW shipping everyone’s cars next week …. 😂)
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Utumno wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 3:36 pm
ksoni94 wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 2:32 pm
Utumno wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 2:16 pm


Build weeks used to mean that all the parts are ready and build is intended to commence within that week.

Now they’re just week numbers indicating the first available opportunity that build might start, maybe.
Even then surely you'd want to exclude weeks where the factory is due to be shut 🤔 logistically you'd end up with a backlog of cars that were due to be build after you re-open which sounds like a nightmare! Although maybe before the chip shortage the factories were efficient enough to overcome the backlog quite quickly so it didn't really matter but still !

I don’t disagree at all, but I’m basically considering any “build week” given by VW as pure fabrication and fantasy now. You only have to look at the delivery spreddy to see that not much has arrived in the UK in November so far, and given Covid ripping through Germany on top of the component shortages I don’t think much else will.

(Cue VW shipping everyone’s cars next week …. 😂)
Yeah absolutely, also think they're just fantasy now and as someone mentioned, probably not tied to calendar weeks anymore! Hopefully the reverse jinx works 😉🤞🏼
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ksoni94 wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 3:49 pm
Utumno wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 3:36 pm
ksoni94 wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 2:32 pm

Even then surely you'd want to exclude weeks where the factory is due to be shut 🤔 logistically you'd end up with a backlog of cars that were due to be build after you re-open which sounds like a nightmare! Although maybe before the chip shortage the factories were efficient enough to overcome the backlog quite quickly so it didn't really matter but still !

I don’t disagree at all, but I’m basically considering any “build week” given by VW as pure fabrication and fantasy now. You only have to look at the delivery spreddy to see that not much has arrived in the UK in November so far, and given Covid ripping through Germany on top of the component shortages I don’t think much else will.

(Cue VW shipping everyone’s cars next week …. 😂)
Yeah absolutely, also think they're just fantasy now and as someone mentioned, probably not tied to calendar weeks anymore! Hopefully the reverse jinx works 😉🤞🏼
Mine is currently in the paintshop which means the build has only just begun. My build week was 39 and we are now in 46. Currently build weeks mean diddly squat.
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To be honest, I think this forum has more accurate information on delivery dates than the dealers at the moment! ....
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Following the shipping app of car carriers leaving emden, there has been at least 6 deliveries to various ports in the UK over the last fortnight and one on the way now.
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Newfie wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 3:56 pm Mine is currently in the paintshop which means the build has only just begun. My build week was 39 and we are now in 46. Currently build weeks mean diddly squat.

Ouch. Maybe I’m going to get a MY22.5 after all at this rate!
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Jase4122 wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 5:13 pm Following the shipping app of car carriers leaving emden, there has been at least 6 deliveries to various ports in the UK over the last fortnight and one on the way now.
For the most part, I'd expect only people who know theirs is built will be getting excited.

I've had emails about different stages, but not one to say it's built or left the factory, so all hope of a sudden call from the deal is very distant
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Do not forget the Emden is the port for all of the Volkswagen Group there is also a VW factory there building the Passat. So that's Audi's, Skoda's, Seat as well as VW.
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Newfie wrote: Fri Nov 19, 2021 8:05 pm Do not forget the Emden is the port for all of the Volkswagen Group there is also a VW factory there building the Passat. So that's Audi's, Skoda's, Seat as well as VW.
I get what your saying, however some of these vessels carry up to 8 thousand cars.
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Reading all the comments on this site and elsewhere about delivery, it almost seems that the less information being officially transmitted the more information that provides relevant to an order number and status, i.e. no one really knows. What I would say is that all those with order numbers and at least getting updates of a sort, however infuriating or disappointing, at least you have the comfort your order is in the VW system. It appears we cannot even get our dealership (Herritage Gloucester) to place the order on VW. Making our estimated delivery date of end June 22 looking more and more iffy as the days progress. Who knows.
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