Just seen this on the web site of my lease company:

Volkswagen are experiencing some shipping delays due to falling numbers and boats are waiting to be filled before departing for the UK. Production is also slowing down due to falling demand at the present time.

I've got a build date of the 16th March and a supposed delivery date of the 18th April. I suspect I may be dissapointed.

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Just seen this on the web site of my lease company:

Volkswagen are experiencing some shipping delays due to falling numbers and boats are waiting to be filled before departing for the UK. Production is also slowing down due to falling demand at the present time.I've got a build date of the 16th March and a supposed delivery date of the 18th April. I suspect I may be dissapointed.

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I wonder why VW persist in shipping their cars to the UK by sea instead of using rail car carriers through the "Chunnel".

Perhaps there is some "cross-subsidisation" of long-haul shipping costs by the short delivery voyages.

Can you arrange to take delivery of your car in Europe and bring it back to the UK - VW used to provide this service for tourists buying a car for eventual shipment to their home country and using it to tour Europe beforehand.

I wonder why VW persist in shipping their cars to the UK by sea instead of using rail car carriers through the "Chunnel".

Perhaps there is some "cross-subsidisation" of long-haul shipping costs by the short delivery voyages.



Many reasons but probably price is the main one. Also they have huge storage/distribution areas in Grimsby and Sheerness which are probably not available near the Chunnel ports.

Mind you, VW are caught up in this back-dated Port Business Rates fiasco (our Government are charging port companies huge Business Rates going back to 01/04/2005 but that they omitted to tell us we were going to be charged until 2008!! I have a bill for over £0.25 million I didn't know was coming and have not been given the opportunity to build in to charges to my customers over the 4 years since 05) and have a bill for nearly £3 million they were not expecting. They have joined our Port User Group and are threatening to relocate their distribution centres to the Continent and make everyone at their UK depots redundant. Another brilliant UK Government initiative...

That may be why I've had to wait over a month for a bit of bloody carpet :mad:

Bloody economy :rolleyes:

DLG,you might be better off getting a cheap flight to Germany and picking up the carpet yourself ?!!!
Gary

DLG,you might be better off getting a cheap flight to Germany and picking up the carpet yourself ?!!!
Gary

I'm not kidding when I say that I did actually offer to do this....obviously I wouldn't fly though, I'd use the piece of crap Polo they gave me as a "courtesy" car and waste thousands of miles as I'm nowhere near using my "150 miles a day" allowance! :rolleyes: :eek:

By all accounts, my Eos is now 'At the Docks' waiting to be shipped. It still could be ages before the boat sails.....

By all accounts, my Eos is now 'At the Docks' waiting to be shipped. It still could be ages before the boat sails.....
RIchard, when did you order your new Eos? I haven't been given the 'at the docks' message yet. Sun is shining, all this waiting ... sigh!

I put the order in back in January but it took a while to filter through the lease company. I think it was about the 10th February when it was placed with VW. The build date I got was the 10th March. It should be a 8-10 week order time. I had to hassle to get the info so it may be worth giving you dealer a call as they should be able to track it.

Richard

Well, forget about anything I said about delays. I've just been given a delivery date (I assume to me) of the 16th April. Thats just one more week to wait.

How exciting.......

Lucky lucky you. I'm going to phone my dealer today.

I think I scared someone at a junction the other day - couldn't take my eyes off his Eos!!!

I think I scared someone at a junction the other day - couldn't take my eyes off his Eos!!!
There's gotta be a joke there somewhere CIB !

There's gotta be a joke there somewhere CIB !
That's what I was hoping! But it was the middle of the night when I posted!