The official I have ordered/received my new MKVI thread

[Prodigy]

Dealer just rang and said the VW Aust has advised that delivery of my R is now expected in April rather than Jan.

Jeez mate, that's a bloody long delay. I'm dreading the possibility of my car being delayed any longer than December.

[wooduck]

I ordered an R from dealers floor stock for week 37/38 build and I am hearing, from the dealer, that we won't see the cars til Jan 2011.

Anybody else hearing the same ?

[Corey_R]

Week 38 is now...
Most of us with week 37/38 builds are still being told late November/early December. If the car is truely being built now, I find it hard to believe that it wouldn't arrive until January...

[Mr_Bob]

My R is on a boat!
Scheduled to reach Port Kembla on the 13th Oct according to the tracking website.
With 2-3 weeks turnaround from there, i'm guessing an early Nov delivery.

My car only has SatNav and MDI, so perhaps the delays relate to certain options?

[Prodigy]

My R is on a boat!
Scheduled to reach Port Kembla on the 13th Oct according to the tracking website.
With 2-3 weeks turnaround from there, i'm guessing an early Nov delivery.

My car only has SatNav and MDI, so perhaps the delays relate to certain options?

You lucky bugger, when was it originally scheduled to be built/arrive?

[Mr_Bob]

The original NADCON printout shows Handover to production on 7/8, Exit Production Plant 15/9, arrival at port 10/11
so it's 4 weeks earlier than expected!

[giddleberry]

Just got a call from my dealer. Pushed from week 37 to 45.

[Klink1313]

woah man, that's a huge delay! did they say why?

Delay caused by the wordwide demand for the R and the difficulty of getting a production slot.

I ordered the car on 13 August and had to rush around and get all the financing documentation done in 3 days as the dealer told me if I left it for another week I wouldn't get the car in Jan (need it by the 18th of Jan to replace the current car that is under lease). Looks like it will be a 8 month wait for me and I guess i will extend the current lease by 3 months.

I thought about a GTI but decided to wait. I will only end up regret settling for a GTI

[darwinian]

Good information there fergus thanks.

received an emial from solitaire yesterday confirming car has been built.

Once dealers have advance "stock orders" in the system (as opposed to specific orders for customers), they can change the spec of the stock car up until the time the car moves to "frozen status" in the factory build schedule. Solitaire had a few cars (not allocated to customers) that were ordered on the factory back in January. They didn't move to frozen status until about a month ago, so because I got in and ordered my car just before then, they could change it to my spec. If everything went to plan, those cars should have been built last week (week 3.

[REXman]

I ordered an R from dealers floor stock for week 37/38 build and I am hearing, from the dealer, that we won't see the cars til Jan 2011.

Anybody else hearing the same ?

Hey I was week 37, and as of last week I got confirmed for end of Novemeber delivery.

That guy from wk 37 to 45.. Thats a huge change wonder what the reason was.

And the other guy who's R is on the BOAT!! DAMN THATS AWESOME GOOD!