How to track the car you have ordered?

[AusBob]

Except you can't...
Forum members are not dealers, and do not have a login or a booking number...

Surely the booking number would be obtainable from your friendly dealer? I am quite certain my dealer will happily give it to me as it will mean I am pestering someone other than him about current status!

[Corey_R]

Let me know if they can... I don't believe anyone has ever had that option.

From the information I've seen, the booking number is when you're an individual who has imported a car from overseas. The car dealers have their own login to look at the site, and thus far, everyone I've seen on VWwc has had to call their dealers to check the status through this portion.

Even then, it's not like the shipping tracking site. There is very limited information that they can tell you most of the time...

[Ranga]

The Manon has just docked

Now stevedores, you don't need a long weekend....get to it!

[sdhog2002]

My 3dr CW GTI is also on the Manon. I watched the Manon coming up the Yarra but unfortunately I will have to watch it sail out of Melbourne again to Port Kembla where it will be unloaded (was a dealer swap).

[GTi Crow]

Agree with Corey_R.

I was given the booking number for my first Mk6 GT last yearI, but it will not work on the Patrick site without using the dealer login - which I did not have. My current Mk6 GTI is sitting in Patrick's yard in Melbourne for a week now waiting to be shipped to Adelaide (last time it moved within a couple of days).

Isn't there a driver who wants to spend Easter in Adelaide - come on Patrick's - I want my GTI.

[JPanDAX]

All righty...

I have worked out how to use the tracking site now and realised that you don't enter your VIN number (Vehicle ID) you enter your Chassis Number which includes your VIN number in it.

My CW Golf GTI is on the MORNING CAROL and after having left BELGIUM only a short while ago has now just docked at SOUTH HAMPTON, ENGLAND. Next stop is South Africa, Fremantle, Melbourne and then Port Kembla (not far from me). Docks at Port Kembla late next month. SO in one month my GTI will at least be in the same country as me.

Amazing stuff this maritime tracking. It is quite interesting being able to view all those shipping movements around the wold.

Does anyone else have a car on this vessel?

At least I know that the delivery date is looking on track so far and I guess the ship is seaworthy as she was only commissioned in 2009, so a new ship..... so besides Pirates, tsunami or a stray meteorite we should be right for June delivery to me.

How excitement!

Cheers

JP

[Corey_R]

I have worked out how to use the tracking site now and realised that you don't enter your VIN number (Vehicle ID) you enter your Chassis Number which includes your VIN number in it.

To clarify here, the Vehicle ID is not your VIN. Chassis Number = VIN. They are interchangable terms....

So in other words, the first post is correct, you DO enter your VIN.

I haven't noticed any Golf people on the Morning Carol, but there are a couple Polo GTI people on the same boat

[m_f]

Toreador on the way to Australia!!! It's going to be a long 10 days as it disappears again in the Indian Ocean!

[SilvrFoxX]

Toreador on the way to Australia!!! It's going to be a long 10 days as it disappears again in the Indian Ocean!

not as long as the 10- 15 day wait while it goes through pre sales after arrives

[NiNo_LoCo]

wooo Topeka arrived in Auckland last night. Looks like the ETA is on the money to arrive in Sydney next Thursday. Not sure how many days after its ready for pickup.