Tracking Progress on your Polo and Polo GTI

[GTI JOE]

Hey Frostee,
What status is your Polo at buddy? Can you supply your NADCON screen dump?

[Gambit]

Yep don't worry it will all even up in the end stoked i have it now, and its great !

[Frostee]

Just go back from a few days away and had a most enjoyable e-mail from my Dealer. My GTI is built and rolling around! (the little dot is on Exit Production Plant 9/03/11).
Looks like it will be on a ship next week and arrive here third week of May. If all goes well I reckon I might see it end May/early June.



ETA Data

Commission 2010 / 166207
Customer Contract Date 4/12/10
Order Entry Dealer System 8/10/10
Order Entry NADIN 8/10/10
Order Registration IFA 21/01/11
Buildability Check 21/01/11
SGW Rebooking 16/02/11
Current SGW Determination 4/02/11
Allocation of product plant 9/02/11
Handover to production 16/02/11
Start Body Shell Shop 2/03/11
End Body Shell Shop 2/03/11
Start Paint Shop 3/03/11
End Paint Shop 3/03/11
Start Final Assembly 3/03/11
Checkpoint 8 Handover to Sales 9/03/11
Start Service Shop
End Service Shop
Exit Production Plant 9/03/11
Arrival Port of Shipment 11/03/11
Departure Port of Shipment 18/03/11
Departure last Port of Transit 12/04/11
Arrival at Port of Destination 23/05/11
Departure from Port of Destination 23/05/11
Arrival at final Destination 24/05/11
Departure from final Destination
Arrival at Dealer
Delivery to Customer

[payno]

Looks like it will be on a ship next week and arrive here third week of May. If all goes well I reckon I might see it end May/early June.

Excellent news Frostee!

I'm going to check with my dealer this week sometime for an update. I've been patient and haven't bugged them for almost a month so hopefully I might have a VIN now too .

[Frostee]

Excellent news Frostee!

I'm going to check with my dealer this week sometime for an update. I've been patient and haven't bugged them for almost a month so hopefully I might have a VIN now too .

I so hope you have a VIN surprise when you contact your Dealer, as too do I hope same for GTI Joe and Gavs.

Keep us posted and fingers crossed for you all!!!

[GTI JOE]

Great news Frostee, thanks for the update (damn you). I hope I will have some good news this week, pretty sure Gav and I are on the same schedule. Have you been able to start tracking yet?

[Frostee]

I hope you guys get good news next week - as discussed previously it would be great if we're all on the same ship.

Re tracking, nothing yet. VIN comes up blank when put in the tracker. I suspect that will change next week.

[Corey_R]

Re tracking, nothing yet. VIN comes up blank when put in the tracker. I suspect that will change next week.

Yep... the VIN doesn't appear on the tracking site until the car is on the boat. Each car is literally stopped in front of the ramp, where a barcode (or RFID) is scanned, and then it continues to be driven up the ramp onto the ship to be parked and strapped down...

[gavs]

Frostee man, that's great news, but unless yours misses a boat, I think yours will be arriving 2 weeks before Joe and I. Not such a bad thing because it means that we can both work out pretty accurately when our will arrive!

Jow, frostee's started body the day ours was handed over and it seems that it is bang on 2 weeks to the day from handover to build start, so that means as of wednesday 16/03, our cars should be getting built and then leaving production as of the 22/3rd, that will be a good birthday present, my car will be rolling out of the factory due to the time difference!

Frostee, yours might be waiting at the dock a while to be shipped, it looks to be sitting on hold there for 5 days... wonder if Joe's and mine will catch up to it.....

[snedden9485]

Apparantly my one is built and sitting on the docks awaiting shipment. Shipping time ~8 weeks (maybe a little more due to Japan situation apparantly). Mine was ordered on 8/1/2011.

[themmc]

Apparantly my one is built and sitting on the docks awaiting shipment. Shipping time ~8 weeks (maybe a little more due to Japan situation apparantly). Mine was ordered on 8/1/2011.

Lucky you. Still don't understand how I ordered in late December and my car won't arrive before August.

[gavs]

Apparantly my one is built and sitting on the docks awaiting shipment. Shipping time ~8 weeks (maybe a little more due to Japan situation apparantly). Mine was ordered on 8/1/2011.

They generally give the estimate of 8 weeks to factor in any unforseen issues, it only takes 6 weeks from the port in Bremerhaven, Germany to Melbourne. To sydney, add a couple of days, then knowing the stupid layout of Sydney, add another day to take a journey up to Newcastle, which should realistically only take 2 hours

[gavs]

Lucky you. Still don't understand how I ordered in late December and my car won't arrive before August.

Whatever you do, don't believe a thing head office says, they still believe my car gets handed to production in week 18, AKA last week of april, yet it's (hopefully) being started tomorrow....

[Frostee]

They generally give the estimate of 8 weeks to factor in any unforseen issues, it only takes 6 weeks from the port in Bremerhaven, Germany to Melbourne. To sydney, add a couple of days, then knowing the stupid layout of Sydney, add another day to take a journey up to Newcastle, which should realistically only take 2 hours

Given that the Polo's are produced in Spain, don't they ship from there directly?

[gavs]

Nope, like yours would have done last wednesday, it will take a 2 day train trip from Pamplona to Bremerhaven to be loaded onto the ships