How to track the car you have ordered?

[AdamD]

My original response yesterday seems to have disappeared into the ethernet - did it about the time the website went into maintenance.

My answer was effectively same as Limas and this was confirmed with Dealer sometime ago as both my Mark5 Golf GTI and my son's Polo GTI came the same way through Melbourne.

Do you know what Checkpoint 8 actually is?

And my response to your response was also lost.

I posted that, according to my dealer, VW stock for Adelaide is shipped to Port Kembla currently, not Melbourne:

The cars arrive in Sydney and then pass quarantine and customs, then they get trucked to Melbourne where they undergo the compliance plating, then once all of that is complete they will be trucked to our holding compound in Port Adelaide.

I have no idea what checkpoint 8 is... I guess it's a holding yard somewhere... Wolfsburg, on the way to the coast, who knows. Hopefully it's the last checkpoint before it's loaded on the boat.

Just out of interest, what site did you check to find the boats/routes/dates, and the vehicle VINs on each?

[Brandon89]

hey guys, those of who have week 10 builds , i just spoke to my dealer and was told the car is sitting at the harbour waiting to be loaded, so hopefully it will be on the next ship.so i guess thats what checkpoint 8 could mean, also i dont know why but they tell me i will only get the car in June. dont know what takes so long hey.

[GTi Crow]

Just out of interest, what site did you check to find the boats/routes/dates, and the vehicle VINs on each?

Same site that you check your own VIN except through Customer Centre dropdown and select Schedules and then select Search By Port. Input Germany to Australia and then select Bremerhaven to Melbourne (or Brisbane etc.). Input either leaving after date or arriving before date and hit enter. It will give you all ships heading our way and when they are leaving and arriving and days taken.

Here is a shortcut to the site http://schedule.2wglobal.com/AppSchedules/

When checking volume VIN on the Track and Trace page use a % sign for searching. In other words if you want all VIN number that start with WVWZZZ1KZAW34 and the sign to the end like this WVWZZZ1KZAW34% and it will bring up all VINs with that as their first numbers. At the moment that is none, but if you do a 3 instead of 4 before the % sign you will get a list of VINs for cars already loaded and it shows the date they have been loaded or date already delivered to relevant port.

Shortcut to Track & Trace page https://att.2wglobal.com/gstattweb/o...uickSearchPage

Have fun searching.

[shori]

Same site that you check your own VIN except through Customer Centre dropdown and select Schedules and then select Search By Port. Input Germany to Australia and then select Bremerhaven to Melbourne (or Brisbane etc.). Input either leaving after date or arriving before date and hit enter. It will give you all ships heading our way and when they are leaving and arriving and days taken.

Here is a shortcut to the site http://schedule.2wglobal.com/AppSchedules/

When checking volume VIN on the Track and Trace page use a % sign for searching. In other words if you want all VIN number that start with WVWZZZ1KZAW34 and the sign to the end like this WVWZZZ1KZAW34% and it will bring up all VINs with that as their first numbers. At the moment that is none, but if you do a 3 instead of 4 before the % sign you will get a list of VINs for cars already loaded and it shows the date they have been loaded or date already delivered to relevant port.

Shortcut to Track & Trace page https://att.2wglobal.com/gstattweb/o...uickSearchPage

Have fun searching.

Thanks a lot.....mine is WVWZZZ1KZAW33%....keeping a close eye on website & counting days.....

[Christopher]

Sounds like what my days have been like for the past 16 days since it was loaded up.....

[Kwoka]

Got informed from the dealer today the my GTI was completed on 11/03/10 and is now waiting to go on the boat.
Was wondering how long is takes for it to arrive? I've been quoted a delivery date of 23/04/10. Do you guys think it'll make that date?

[gregozedobe]

Do you guys think it'll make that date?

I would be EXTREMELY surprised if you had it by then. Generally seems to take a fair bit longer than that.

[Christopher]

I recon that would be around th dates that it arrives at th docks. Then add around another 2-3wks for customs clearance and dealer prep.

[niulf]

Picked my car today. Long waiting period finally ends.

[GTi Crow]

Got informed from the dealer today the my GTI was completed on 11/03/10 and is now waiting to go on the boat.
Was wondering how long is takes for it to arrive? I've been quoted a delivery date of 23/04/10. Do you guys think it'll make that date?

Believe it highly unlikely unless they are flying it out. No ship has left Bremerhaven since the Torino on the 10/3/2010 that I can find and there are 3 ships leaving shortly with arrival in Port Kembla is 29/04/2010 at the earliest. Even if it was on the Torino a day before it was finished it still would only hit Pt Kembla on 24/4.

So ask the dealer what plane it is on.