Anyone else with a build date of week 5?

[nicandlance]

So yours should be ready at the end of next week as well. I'm expecting to hear from the dealer Friday or Saturday to let me know it's in. I'm going in to have a look over it before they register it.

[AdamD]

So going by that my car is due for a week 14 build... which means that it would have been built today?

Assuming my interpretation of the build week is right, week 14 would be March 29-April 4. So if your car ends up being a week 14 build car, it may well have been built already.

Mine was slated for a week 6 build, but was delayed - quite possibly due to demand both in Australia and overseas. As Mav says, I don't think there are any guarantees until you have confirmation and a VIN from your dealer.

[AdamD]

For what it is worth, my US spec. GTI was built on Jan 20, and was delivered on March 1. I wonder if the ships unload in the US first and then go onto Australia and NZ after that?

One of the routes is from the UK to Boston, then through the Panama Canal and across to NZ and Australia. My father's CC went that way. But most of the voyages I've noticed tend to head down the west coast of Africa to South Africa, before sailing across the Indian Ocean to Fremantle (WA), and then on to the eastern states.

[Christopher]

Yeh, it depends on the size of the ship... Most of the really big ships can't fit down the Panama Canal and go around Africa instead. If it can go through the Canal, I believe that it does cut down a fair bit of time... as well as bypassing most of the pirates...

[jj77]

Hi Nic,

I recall reading that week 1 in VW terms was just January 1-3 (Fri-Sun), and by that calculation Week 5 was January 25-31. By that calculation, I struggle to believe that your car was built in week 5 and left the docks on the 27th - we're talking less than 3 days to build, transport from Wolfsburg to Bremerhaven, and load on board ship.

My car was built on the 6th day of week 10 - which I believe was Fri or Sat, March 5 or 6. It didn't leave the port at Bremerhaven until March 29.

The tracker site shows that my Golf 118 TSI was loaded on vessel at Bremerhaven on 29th March. As my dealer is less than talkative person I couldn't get much information about my car order. From your information my car is also maybe week 10 or 11 build?

Before I signed the contract (10th March), the dealer told me that my car will be one of the Golfs shipped on 9th March - I guess the dealer did not give me accurate information.

[Brendan_A]

The ship I'm tracking atm went UK, US, Panama, NZ then off to Brisbane. It docked at Manzanillo Panama today.

[ctan]

Has anyone who is on the Week 14 built (guessing it is around March 29-April 4) been given a VIN number yet? I am on the week 17 built which is coming up soon hopefully w/o any delay.

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[Brendan_A]

My Brother has a week 14 build GTI and has a Vin number. Its meant to be at the docks today awaiting for the ship.

[ctan]

Thanks for the update. Good to hear. Looks like they are running on schedule. Now you can have the joy (or pain) of tracking the journey. All the best, hopefully you won't have too long before it gets here.

[hcvo1]

Has anyone who is on the Week 14 built (guessing it is around March 29-April 4) been given a VIN number yet? I am on the week 17 built which is coming up soon hopefully w/o any delay.

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My dealer has quoted me a week 14 build but no VIN as yet. According to the schedule they gave me the car was handed over to production on the 31/03/10 and the next stage being body shell workshop... I received the schedule 2 days ago and there has been no date entered in for that stage. But what I do know is that the car itself is due to leave the production plant on the 27/04/10 and sit at the port on the 30/04/10 where there is a 10 day wait to get onto the boat...