More Uk-bound Ships?

[mmca22gr]

What did you order and where from? Also were you a reservation holder? I ordered the day before and have had a general call from them today saying to expect final invoice in a week or 2.

bookaka76 - Which car ordered?
booyaka76 ordered 8th aug to 25th Sept 48 days from order to delivery based in Ayrshire so assume Edinburgh SC delivery point
avendit ordered 104 says ago - I assume from the comments that is also Edinburgh SC but ordered a towbar

I ordered (through a lease company on 14th Aug) and not heard anything as yet.

 

[BriamM3]

Great to see a good volume of VINs being allocated & deliveries confirmed, but making me even madder sitting here in Ireland. Not one car delivered here yet or VIN allocated, even for original reservation holders (of which I am not)

 

[booyaka76]

bookaka76 - Which car ordered?

SR+ White ext, black interior.

 

[mmca22gr]

SR+ White ext, black interior.

Thanks

 

[dan223]

Just got my final invoice today - Scheduled delivery 25th September according to the invoice.

Ordered 8th August.

Invoice date is just a placeholder, I don't think anyone has actually picked up on the date there invoice said so far.

 

[Artiste]

I see from “the spreadsheet “ that Glovis Courage, currently heading to SFO, is now earmarked for Zeebrugge. That’s four carriers heading to Zeebrugge by the end of September, hopefully with lots of RHD M3s on board

 

[pmg102]

That’s four carriers heading to Zeebrugge by the end of September

Is there a chance there will then be break for a month, whilst they deliver local (US/Canada) cars to make sure they hit their end of quarter targets?

Really. Really. Really want mine by end of September. Fingers crossed my unicorn is on one of the 4.

 

[Mr Miserable]

I see from “the spreadsheet “ that Glovis Courage, currently heading to SFO, is now earmarked for Zeebrugge. That’s four carriers heading to Zeebrugge by the end of September, hopefully with lots of RHD M3s on board

Yes the Glovis Courage is pencilled in for a Panama Transit on 5 Sep but I personally think that date is either a little optimistic or it means the ship is not going to be loaded to capacity.
It's due to arrive at pier 80 on 27 Aug and allowing the normal 3 days to load means leaving around 30 Aug. Allowing 9 days to get to Panama means a transit on 8/9 Sep and subsequent Zeebrugge arrival around 20/21 Sep.
There will be a big effort to get all the vehicles on this vessel sold and delivered by 30 Sep to include in the quarterly results.

 

[Artiste]

There will be a big effort to get all the vehicles on this vessel sold and delivered by 30 Sep to include in the quarterly results.

That sounds encouraging. The RHD VIN ranges spreadsheet suggests that my car will “probably” be on the SFL Conductor or the Glovis Cosmos. If it isn’t then at least there are two other ships on the way.

 

[Stretchquaker]

I'm no expert at car deliveries but I have become pretty focussed on how Tesla operates - the sequencing of ships would indicate to me that Tesla will be throwing the kitchen sink at deliveries through September. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the orders aren't satisfied by end of Q3. It is likely to be chaotic, but may well be effective!

 

[ScottishRosco]

Do we know roughly how long it takes them to deliver a boat load of RHD cars?

The ten days to clear the Courage that will be left at the end of September doesn’t sound like much!

 

[phillcom3]

Yes the Glovis Courage is pencilled in for a Panama Transit on 5 Sep but I personally think that date is either a little optimistic or it means the ship is not going to be loaded to capacity.
It's due to arrive at pier 80 on 27 Aug and allowing the normal 3 days to load means leaving around 30 Aug. Allowing 9 days to get to Panama means a transit on 8/9 Sep and subsequent Zeebrugge arrival around 20/21 Sep.
There will be a big effort to get all the vehicles on this vessel sold and delivered by 30 Sep to include in the quarterly results.

what do they even do at zerbige? i read the cars in 3 parts but if its loaded into a car carrier there's no way its separate? and considering all teh mess-ups with quality we are reading about it can't be a quality check!

 

[Fullerene]

what do they even do at zerbige?

As far as I understand, unload and put cars onto car transporters. From there transporters are driven onto a ferry to UK and straight to SC.

 

[Avendit]

what do they even do at zerbige? i read the cars in 3 parts but if its loaded into a car carrier there's no way its separate? and considering all teh mess-ups with quality we are reading about it can't be a quality check!

It's the S and X that Ret re-assembled, the 3 is just driven off the ferry to a charge point. Pictures way up the thread.

Don't know if any checks are done, but pretty sure quality is sorted these days. Depends what you compare it too and what expectations you have set. By the standards some people are looking for I've been driving a misaligned panneled badly painted pile of (VW/Seat) junk apparently. But I've been happy. So as long as the M3 is mostly right or I can fix it with a quick buff at home I'll be happy.

 

[Roy W.]

As far as I understand, unload and put cars onto car transporters. From there transporters are driven onto a ferry to UK and straight to SC.

I believe they also do the PDI, and put some charge in. They’ve got a huge charging car park with hundreds of destination chargers.

 

[ME_UK]

I like to imagine this is what's going on at Pier 80 now, and mine is among them.... I hadn't really thought much about how they do this:

 

[Artiste]

I'm no expert at car deliveries but I have become pretty focussed on how Tesla operates - the sequencing of ships would indicate to me that Tesla will be throwing the kitchen sink at deliveries through September. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the orders aren't satisfied by end of Q3. It is likely to be chaotic, but may well be effective!

That sounds about right. Most “pundits” were expecting about one ship a fortnight, but we’re getting four ships in the next month.

 

[ME_UK]

Found this post on Twitter, and was sad enough to identify the ship as the SFL Conductor using Google Images (what has my life come to).

If yours is coming on this maybe you can spot your M3 on the pier......looking at all the white ones, I was hopeful, but no delivery estimate of VIN for me yet and it's only a few days from Belgium.

Mr.L on Twitter

 

[Yev000]

Found this post on Twitter

Hes tweeting a really old picture.

I've heard reports of a lot of white ones on the Glovis Cosmos.

 

[PB.Brown]

Hes tweeting a really old picture.

I've heard reports of a lot of white ones on the Glovis Cosmos.

NOoooooo. MSM surely!!