Thread: Watching for my D4 to come off the Asian Emperor in Fremantle

You can download an app called "marine traffic" and track the ship "live", if you know the name of the ship that is

Hi Keith. I'll post you a photo of what might be your car, later when I upload from my camera.

I don't know why you can't get some more information, both Perth dealers are part of the same company. On the day I signed up I was told "late November" and when the fellow AULROian, LR09WA who bought a D4 in the same sale told me his was on the wharf I rang up to find out if mine was too. I was given the bad news but the salesman kindly looked up my order and told me the VIN of the car, the name of he ship, docking date and the delivery date.

They take 14 days from landing to clear customs and do pre-delivery prep. I'm going to call them next week to see if by some lucky chance it will be ready a few days early for next weekend. They told me they would at least be able to give me all the numbers and licence plates so I can pre-arrange insurance.

So you have a white/ebony SE coming too? What features? Mine has everything I wanted except rear E-diff. It's got Hi-line sound, reversing camera, bi-xenon headlights so . It also has third row air-conditioning which I have zero use for. If you want rear air-conditioning and can offer me E-diff perhaps we can swap.

Pushed hard and finally got some information out of my dealer.

Car is due to arrive on the 17th Nov, then a week for pre delivery so the 23rd/24th is potentially my pick up date.

Timing sort of co incides with the shipping destination out from WA, clearance the delivery to the dealer, so maybe it was on that ship in Perth?

JayBee, the Asian Emperrr is docking in Melbourne as we speak.

James

My SE does not have a rear diff lock either a feature I was ideally wanting on mine also. From reading the forum, you can't retrofit them so that's a bit of a downer, but the savings on the run-out 2012 models was too good to pass on, so will have to make do...as I wanted the White with Black leather, limited choice.

Have been away for work, got back to the office today and have a message from LR...still to touch base, but my guess is my car has landed.

Cheers, Keith

Originally Posted by JamesH

JayBee, the Asian Emperrr is docking in Melbourne as we speak.

James that would surely make sense that my car is on it then? Today is the 9th, sat/sun tomorrow then by the time it's offloaded, sits around, cleared, trucked out with other vehicles then delivered to the dealer end of next week aligns with the dates. Then 1 week delivery ( hopefully quicker) in two weeks I should have my D4. Then straight off to prestige for a sunroof...

Originally Posted by Cambo

Have been away for work, got back to the office today and have a message from LR...still to touch base, but my guess is my car has landed.

Okay, so now I'm upset. Where's my message?

Could it be that yours came off the boat with Mick's late in October two weeks ago and is ready now? I saw three white D4s on the dock that day too. I had hoped one was mine but they said it wasn't. They were due to finish prepping those today. I'd be in there tomorrow morning at opening time with a big bag of money if I was you.

Order the GOE handbook on getting the most out of the offroad tools on modern Landies. It's a useful book. Ive read Gordon's posts on E-Diffs and he says unless youre doing serious rock crawling etc the standard setup is still really good and an E-Diff won't be missed.

Originally Posted by JamesH

JayBee, the Asian Emperrr is docking in Melbourne as we speak.

Interesting. I'm wondering if the D4 that we're waiting on is also on this boat... Have been getting the runaround about delivery date too. Latest we've heard is that we should take delivery mid Nov, and then when pressed some more, the story moved to 21st Nov. This was after being originally told that the car was arriving in "about a week" at the time of purchase.... That was on the 27th of September. I get the impression that people aren't being upfront. It is possible that the dealer doesn't have any extra information, but if that's the case, it looks as thought their system needs to be fixed. OK. Enough ranting!

Whilst on the topic of new D4's, I'd be interested to hear from you all as to whether you think the deal we received is on par with what you'd expect.

We bought an D4SE 2012, Black on Black, Tech Pack and Rear Air. 85K.

Would have loved one with the edif, but none were specced that way with the other things we wanted and the prices for the 2012 seemed too good to miss.

I'd love to know your thoughts.

Cheers!