Page 1 of 1
Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:13 pm
by Chris G
Hopefully my dealer will confirm after the holiday season but does anyone have an idea of how long after the assigned build week delivery to dealer will be?
Chris
Re: Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:16 pm
by 535dboy
Depends on the boats!
I was told that it takes longer for RS cars to get here than normal cars.
I never got reliable info from dealer (not their fault) or the contact I had at Audi UK
It was probably about 4 weeks though.
Re: Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:31 pm
by Chris G
Cheers, my dealer has always been reluctant to commit to delivery dates.
Re: Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 8:56 pm
by 535dboy
Chris G wrote:Cheers, my dealer has always been reluctant to commit to delivery dates.
VAG are rubbish at this
We could never get a decent answer on the porker either. Dealer ended up putting me in a 991 cab for about a week whilst we waited for the new one to come.
I find the dealers are massively let down by HQ but I have to say both my Audi and Porsche dealers were brilliant in the way that they dealt with the situation and frustration.
Re: Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 9:35 pm
by xxx_mojo_xxx
from build completed to delivery...2 weeks should be possible right? How frequently do Audi ship over their cars by ferry?
Re: Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 9:44 pm
by 535dboy
xxx_mojo_xxx wrote:from build completed to delivery...2 weeks should be possible right? How frequently do Audi ship over their cars by ferry?
In theory yes
Reality no
My dealer have me the schedule of boats due in December with the car sat at Emden ready to go. It missed 5 boats!!!
Re: Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 9:48 pm
by Chris G
So is build week (week 2) the week of build completion?
Re: Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 9:49 pm
by 535dboy
Chris G wrote:So is build week (week 2) the week of build completion?
I thought build start but I'm not sure
Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 9:51 pm
by doodlebug
Build start...
Re: Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 10:46 pm
by RSphantom
Yeah, build week is the start of the build. When I ordered mine my dealer told me they had a contact at Audi UK and could maybe speed things up. Looking at the dates of other orders he wasn't bulling me. Ordered my on 13th December, got a call the following day with a confirmed build date of week 6 2013 with delivery around week 12 to 13 2013. So in answer to build week to delivery I would suggest its around 6 -7 weeks.
Re: Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:54 pm
by hammy969
6-7 weeks seems a lot. My RS3 was 3 weeks from build week to delivery to the dealer in the north of England.
Re: Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 7:14 pm
by ecav
Mine took 3 weeks from build week to arrive to the dealer. This was probably the fastest it can get here. It does depend a lot on boat schedules(rest of te process is fairly standard)
Re: Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 11:46 pm
by RSphantom
hammy969 wrote:6-7 weeks seems a lot. My RS3 was 3 weeks from build week to delivery to the dealer in the north of England.
You may well be right and my dealer will hopefully tell me my car is being delivered early (not putting much hope on that though).
Out of interest, does anybody know how long it actually takes them to "build" a car?
Re: Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:00 am
by P_G
They can build a standard A6 in 3 minutes....
Re: Lead time from build week to delivery?
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:17 am
by xxx_mojo_xxx
Surely, not!
P_G wrote:They can build a standard A6 in 3 minutes....