Build week 42

[Papereyes]

Should be fairy quick on the ship. Looking at the schedules to Grimsby there's a lot of trips benign made between emden to Grimsby (to meet the new Sep registrations I think). Next trip out from emden to Grimsby is the 22nd so if u get to stage 38 (read to be shipped) before then it'll be on that trip. Mine is on 39 and due to dock into Grimsby today. Then onto Dundee I'll keep u posted on timings


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[Gyro]

So it's at stage '30' even though YourAudi shows it is at Quality Control I have had this email

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I got this on Wednesday - It's Alive!

Anyone want to give a steer as to when it is likely to arrive at my dealer in Edinburgh and then how long they need to PDI etc?

Jonathan

I ordered my car from Edinburgh Audi too, are you local? Hope you've had a smooth process with them so far as I have! Good luck!

[Papereyes]

So got a call from my dealer the car came in on the city of Rome into Tyne (not listed on the pwl )website

So for those coming in for the northern dealerships (Edinburgh). Maybe better tracking that ship instead

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[DrSteve]

I'm a little confused about the wait times for the Q7. I'm trying to work things so I time delivery with handing my current car back at the end of February '17. Local dealer is quoting 5 months from order to delivery so this would work out nicely. I contacted some of the brokers who told me to get in touch after 1/10/16 because orders placed now are based on Q3 deals for delivery in Q4 and since I wanted a Q1 2017 delivery I would need to order at the start of Q4. They said that Q7 orders from last week are getting a build date for late October which seems very quick compared to what folks here are quoting.

[Nemo78]

DrSteve it could be due to allocations that local dealer is quoting that far out?

[Papereyes]

Agree with nemo I was waiting for well over three months to even get the order accepted by Audi. Even then it's not guaranteed as I was initAlly told August before I place my order when I got to Jun had to escalate to get one of the dealers slots as was told that delivery was most likely to be end of September. I placed my order through a broker and noticed they were less accommodating in giving up one of their pre allocated dealer slots as effectively their making less margin because u went through a broker so beware.


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[Thakey17]

I was speaking with my dealer this week and his words were that they just can't get any Q7s from the factory until next year. Their next slot was build week 7 2017. They even had a customer walk in and buy their showroom car after 2 days of being in there at full list, no discount because the customer didn't want to wait that long.

Mine was ordered in April, should be getting it end Sept. So mine will be nearly 6 months.

Agree with Papereyes, be careful with Brokers. You'll definitely not get any preference with the dealer. Use the broker price to get the best discount possible through your dealer.

Good luck. Hope all goes well.


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[DrSteve]

Thanks for the advice guys. I'm up with the dealer again in about 10 days. He's not very forthcoming with the deal he has in mind and had just added in £2000 discount to play around with figures. I'm sure this is just the Audi UK discount since that's what's added automatically on the online calculator. Will need to see where I can get to coming up to end of quarter.

[dghdgh]

I was quoted 5 months in December so planned everything around that, then was told the car would be ready by the end of March. Needless to say the dealer had a storage problem until the end of May as that was what was agreed.
If they quote a delivery date that is what is agreed and the dealer will honour the date even if he has the car hanging about for a couple of months. Its a different case if he hasn't got the car as such I would always make sure the margin is flexible enough to meet your needs.
I would add the frustration knowing your car is ready sat there just waiting for you to wash it.

[DrSteve]

That would be my worry if waiting until October to place an order. I don't mind if the car comes early but if I'm aiming to pick up at the start of March and there's a 4 week delay then I'm going to get hit by the extra car tax from April.