Next shipload of SEATs - when it is due??

[seadragon]

I am waiting agonisingly for my car to be shipped, has been sitting at the docks or whereever for about 2 weeks now and my delivery time has now been delayed for a few weeks longer.

Does anyone know when the next ship is to be loaded and when its heading off to the shores of good old Blighty, many thanks.

 

[chrisboyle999]

Does anyone know when the next ship is to be loaded and when its heading off to the shores of good old Blighty, many thanks.

afraid not.
it would also be interesting to know if it comes direct to the uk (would take longer to fill), or if it stops on the way round (portugal, france, holland, germany, denmark etc.)

any ship spotters read these threads?

 

[Cupra R]

Sooner rather than later I hope.

 

[tommy-cupra]

my cupra will be in CZ in first week in june, do you think that is already built?

 

[seadragon]

I would guess your car is already built and if it is then your dealer will be able to tell you exactly when, my dealer told me, I even know the registration number although the car hasnt been shipped yet.

 

[INSIDER]

how can he give you a reg number when the car will not apear on the AFRL database until it consigns into his stock and it can only do this once the vehicle has landed unless you have a private plate? i would seriously question this!!!!

 

[Tam]

To get a registration it needs to be in the UK I thought

Whoohoo.. Mines here

At a dealers in Glasgow at the moment will be transported down sometime this week coming so perhaps i might have it by next weekend

 

[DPJ]

I think the shipments are weekly or less. They come into Hartlepool. (My offices are in Hartlepool.) They do a lot of prepping there before loading onto transporters for delivery to the dealers. The shipments seem to be increasingly fully mixed VAG, as are the road transporters. There are never a lot of cars sitting at the docks.

I've been on one of the boats a few years ago. (but at Teesport, not Hartlepool). They are like a floating multistorey carpark - incredible operation!

 

[Michael B]

I seen one of tv once, its amazing cars come off without marks lol!

 

[seadragon]

how can he give you a reg number when the car will not apear on the AFRL database until it consigns into his stock and it can only do this once the vehicle has landed unless you have a private plate? i would seriously question this!!!!

I simply asked the dealer if he knew the reg as I want to get insurance quotes and this it what he told me verbatim, ie word for word.

''Your car is still waiting to be shipped but this is the registration number that has been assigned to your car, KH07*** ''(obviously I wont put down the last 3 letters).

 

[seadragon]

I dont really care what the reg is to be honest, I am not going to buy new insurance until I know the car has arrived in the UK anyway, so if the dealer has pulled the reg number out of his a**e then it doesnt really matter.

I wasnt expecting him to give me the reg either as it wasnt in the UK yet but he was very specific that the reg was for my car.

On another point how are reg's usually assigned anyway, do the dealer have some they hold onto or are they assigned by some other way/database.

If the shipments are weekly then I am confused as to why car is still sitting there since it was built on 26 April :-(

 

[Cupra R]

My dealer said the reg's are done online now, again, not sure how true this is.

 

[Cupra R]

I seen one of tv once, its amazing cars come off without marks lol!

By all accounts, quite often they don't. It is surprising how many new car's get paint on them before being picked up.

 

[DPJ]

My dealer said the reg's are done online now, again, not sure how true this is.

I was always under the impression that dealers were allocated new regs in blocks. With computerisation these days, I suppose they can match an order to a VIN to a registration at quite an early stage.

Years ago, when I got my Alpine GTA, the Renaultsport dealer registered all the Alpines with a 00 reg so they were all 200, 300, 400, etc.

 

[Cupra R]

I had asked if I could pick out a reg from there listings, this is when he told me this, but also I think you are correct, as he said he will have so many to choose from

 

[INSIDER]

it is an on line system linked directly to the dvla through a system called afrl once the car has landed all its details are loaded on the the afrl system which is then accsed by the dealer who will then load all the customer details against the chasis number this will then randomly generate three reg numbers you can then pick one and asign it to the car although you can keep clicking refresh so it brings up three different regs each time

 

[Cupra R]

it is an on line system linked directly to the dvla through a system called afrl once the car has landed all its details are loaded on the the afrl system which is then accsed by the dealer who will then load all the customer details against the chasis number this will then randomly generate three reg numbers you can then pick one and asign it to the car although you can keep clicking refresh so it brings up three different regs each time

Cheers mate, thanks for the head's up. I may go to my dealer's then and keep hitting refresh until I see a plate I like.

 

[pskinz]

I am waiting agonisingly for my car to be shipped, has been sitting at the docks or whereever for about 2 weeks now and my delivery time has now been delayed for a few weeks longer.

Does anyone know when the next ship is to be loaded and when its heading off to the shores of good old Blighty, many thanks.

My dealer told me my fr had just arrived in the country at the end of last week and sould be with him at the end of this week. Not sure how often they ship or what models are shipped together, but hope you get lucky and recive it soon.

 

[Cupra R]

Was told today that my car is on the boat, in the middle of the Ocean mate. So, hopefully if it is true, then maybe yours is with it.

 

[ChrisBowe82]

Hi, dunno if this helps but my beezer is in the country, arrived last friday and is gonna be in Manchester by friday 18/5, so probably a few on the same ship