Thread: Delivery Dates//not happy

I ordered a D250 110 S in early April. Last update, a month ago was December 24th. I was told beginning of December when I ordered. Maybe I should check again.

Originally Posted by Summiitt

Has anyone ordered a vehicle, and paid a deposit and then had the delivery date continuously move? I ordered my D250 90 in early April, with a promised delivery in September, that blew out until the first week in December, and yesterday I was informed it will now be February 2022?
Im not sure I could be bothered waiting on the vehicle nor trust any delivery times given. I know delivery times have blown out on all vehicles, but anyone else had a similar 10 month blow out?

Yeah we ordered mid March original delivery was mid October, it has been pushed back to end of December, however I have no faith we will get it this year.

Until your dealer is able to give you a copy of the work order number, your car is technically not ordered...

Australian dealers are issued "build slots" and the clock on your order will only start running when your car is allocated to a build slot and that's when the Vista Order Number becomes available. Once you have the order number, Vista will give you estimate build dates and estimated delivery dates.

If your dealer is unwilling to give you a screen shot of the Vista report, they might not even have allocated it a build slot yet, which means its only on the dealer's books and the factory knows nothing about the car yet...

Originally Posted by Tombie

Garry,

There’s a global shortage on electronics / chipsets etc at the moment.

Then there’s IT equipment, we’re seeing 10-14 week lead times on a Desktop PC. Screens 16+ weeks and keeps blowing out.

Car electronics have been influenced same way.
Hence the key fob issues.

As for being f able to predict lead times, nobody seems to know in any industry.

Saw a delivery time of 19 weeks on a pretty standard Cisco switch (yesterday)
Chips/silicon for cars are more specialised and lower volume compared to traditional IT volumes.
I have heard stories of other brands offering their cars without all the electronic gadgetry not crucial in operation of the car e.g. heads up display, adaptive cruise control etc.
Also Electric cars use approx 5 times more chips than traditional ICE cars
Does not look like this issue will solved in a hurry Bosch says semiconductor supply chains in car industry no longer work

Feel for to those guys with orders in the system

My dealer mentioned to me (when I ordered in April) - that Australia gets 40 build slots a month. That's for the entire country.. Eeek

Originally Posted by grey_ghost

My dealer mentioned to me (when I ordered in April) - that Australia gets 40 build slots a month. That's for the entire country.. Eeek

The 40 build slots are also sub-divided into 110 and 90 as well as engine types and specification. There might literally on be one or two D300 110 slots in the 40 in any given month.

WA has 9 people waiting to order V8's and they've not been given a single slot yet...

It's not only cars, chemicals and fertilisers are hard to get as well our fert has gone from $635 to $1140 if you can get it. We have clients who have ordered Glyphosate we can't give them a delivery date because the actives come from China, The price has gone up from $3.70 a litre to $8.25 a litre. I ordered a post driver in Feb this year, told by supplier a couple of months, then September, rang them a week ago and they don't know when. I have had cancellations due to lack of supply and all the sales staff are working from home. I rang a sales lady yesterday re an order, she is working from home and she told me she had given the house a good clean and emptied the freezer and cleaned it out as well and we wonder why we cant get goods or parts. No one want to keep parts it stock and rely on "just in time" policies and in times like this you have no option but to wait.
So when you get numerous clients ringing your their orders all we can say is we will ring them, it is not easy.
Lindsay

One of our light tower orders from Feb 2020 has not even commenced being built yet - 80 units @ $25K each. The OEM simply can’t get engines to put in them.