Thread: Where are all the New Land Rovers Stored??

They used to be on the docks were the Navy is,don't know now. Pat

I occasionally see a few on the wharf down here at Fremantle just after they've come off a ship - but they are very quick to load them onto trucks and move them straight to the dealers. Given that there's only two dealers in Perth, both owned by Barbagallo, I assume that he has at least one yard or building somewhere where he stores them prior to pre-delivery etc.

It is interesting that after a car carrying ship comes in and unloads (and we see at least two ore three of them a week in Fremantle - there are two in right now), there's acres of Japanese, Korean and Thai imports sitting on the wharf for days, whereas anything from Europe, including the Land Rovers, seems to be moved out within hours - very rare to catch them sitting there.

Patrics have a dock in minto/lumeah/ingleburn with about a hundred thousand new cars and trucks, including LRs. You could probebly see it on google earth. I'd say most are stored there for a while. I remember seing a bright yellow 110 wagon there for about 4 months.

Andy

When we got our D2 from Austral here in Brisbane, they told us they had a white 1 on the docks so we took it, as to wich docks i have no idea and it still took 2 weeks for delivery

Hi all,

All vehicles brought into the country are taken in storage called "Processing Centres". The vehicles are placed in Bond & stored until called up (sold).
They are processed for many things like dents, scratches, missing components etc, including fitment of compliance plate & books placed into vehicles.

The company in charge of this now is called "Prix-Car".

I used to manage the Victorian Processing centre called "Car-Tech" for most years in the 90's, receiving many vehicles....ahh it was fun.

Prix-Car has lots of storgae at the docks now as faster processing is what is required so the vehicles miss a stage & go direct to the dealer for delivery.

Process would normally be Drop-off from Ship, wharf inspection, transport to processing centre, transport inspection, process & survey, dents or scratches to be repaired, build up (compliance plate, books etc) then ship to dealer.

PrixCar - Our Facilities

The link shows where they are located throughout Australia &

PrixCar - Our Clients

shows how many manufacturers go through the company.

I used to think looking after 20,000 vehicles was a handful....

Cheers

Used to deal with imported cars in Brisbane which were held in the processing centres until the dealers wanted them. One of the reasons for doing this was that you did not need to fit the compliance plate until you wanted to bring it into the country. which was the other side of the fence. Until it went through those gates it did not exist.

Advantage to the importer was that if a car was made in Australia it was dated at the factory gate. An import could be made, sit in a holding yard in the country of manufacturer, be on a ship for a month or 2, then be held in the processing centre for a few months more. The compliance plate with date on it was only applied when?

This plate was put up high where it could be easily seen to convince buyers that their car was brand new. They never questioned how it could have reached the dealer so soon after manufacturer while saying how you needed to be careful with locally made cars as they were often sitting around for ages in holding yards! Best I saw was 18 months old when compliance plate was put on it.

The true build date was of course there if you knew where to look.

Advantage to the importer was that if a car was made in Australia it was dated at the factory gate. An import could be made, sit in a holding yard in the country of manufacturer, be on a ship for a month or 2, then be held in the processing centre for a few months more. The compliance plate with date on it was only applied when?

When Daewoo finally caved they were selling cars that had sat on the docks for up to 3 years as current year models. Mitsubishi did it with the Mirages also - they brought in so many that 1999 build dates were still being stamped as 'new' in 2002.

Just because a cars 1 month 2 month, 1 year old, its still a new car regardless of when the plates put on, Sure one sitting therre for 3 years is taking the Pea a bit... I bet most people who buy a new car are getting one thats been sitting around for a while, unless of course you opt for some Factory extras, In the Uk the dealers loved to try and push a standard car on to you, as they had fields full of them, as soon as you said you wanted one with Sunroof, and satnav, they went mad, You dont need a sunnroof have this one etc etc etc.