New T6.1 order delays

[OxonCalifornia]

So to answer my own question, our Ocean was at the uk port after arrival by ship, for around 10 days. Dealer confirmed today that they’ll get it Monday and we can collect on Friday. A tad excited to say the least.

Exciting stuff!...I think mine must have been on the same boat as was also notified by dealer that its arriving with them on the transporter on Monday too. Does anyone know how long you have as a customer before collection / registration is required currently? Is there any policy by VW?

 

[Brendan eldridge]

Mine was confirmed build week 40 but who’s to say it doesn’t get stuck in the port for 2-4weeks waiting for a boat?

I got an email from VW on the 15/11/22 to say my Cali had left the factory and I have just received a call from my dealer today to say it will be ready for collection Thursday next week.
It’s come a month early which has upset my finance manager (wife) so we are raiding the daughters piggy bank.
So all in all 8 months since ordering.

 

[OxonCalifornia]

I got an email from VW on the 15/11/22 to say my Cali had left the factory and I have just received a call from my dealer today to say it will be ready for collection Thursday next week.
It’s come a month early which has upset my finance manager (wife) so we are raiding the daughters piggy bank.
So all in all 8 months since ordering.

Exciting ...the flurry of Cali's arriving appears to be a lot of 204 4M's

 

[Corradobrit]

Exciting ...the flurry of Cali's arriving appears to be a lot of 204 4M's

Including LHD ones too

 

[Deadsquirrel!]

Had an email to say ours is being built. 204 ocean 4motion, diff lock, with sports, tow bar, and a few other bits (no lane assist)

Ordered end of match through DTD and dealing with Ben in crawly.

Will this be the slightly updated model?

 

[OxonCalifornia]

Had an email to say ours is being built. 204 ocean 4motion, diff lock, with sports, tow bar, and a few other bits (no lane assist)

Ordered end of match through DTD and dealing with Ben in crawly.

Will this be the slightly updated model?

 

[OxonCalifornia]

Yes - it will have the upgrade canvass for the pop up roof and have the nav streaming facility, can quite remember what its called but it used to be a cost option. Out of interest what % discount did you end up with DTD?

 

[OxonCalifornia]

Had an email to say ours is being built. 204 ocean 4motion, diff lock, with sports, tow bar, and a few other bits (no lane assist)

Ordered end of match through DTD and dealing with Ben in crawly.

Will this be the slightly updated model?

You also may be lucky and by the time its delivered to dealer will be in time for the 2023 reg plate from 1st March??

 

[Corradobrit]

Yes - it will have the upgrade canvass for the pop up roof and have the nav streaming facility, can quite remember what its called but it used to be a cost option. Out of interest what % discount did you end up with DTD?

I hope so too but I have yet to hear of anyone (UK or Germany) getting the new canvas as of mid Nov.

 

[Brendan eldridge]

Had an email to say ours is being built. 204 ocean 4motion, diff lock, with sports, tow bar, and a few other bits (no lane assist)

Ordered end of match through DTD and dealing with Ben in crawly.

Will this be the slightly updated model?

Mine is the 204 4m with sports pack, tow bar, high spec navigation, leather look etc so even with all this they are coming through quicker than expected.
Also confirmed y23 model and also from Crawley eurovans.

 

[Deadsquirrel!]

Yes - it will have the upgrade canvass for the pop up roof and have the nav streaming facility, can quite remember what its called but it used to be a cost option. Out of interest what % discount did you end up with DTD?

It was about 8-10% from memory! Was quite surprised to be honest.

 

[PhilR]

Had confirmation from Ben at Eurovans that ours has arrived with them. He even sent a little video of it in the yard, along with loads of other Cali’s! We’re picking up next week, 13 months after ordering. Very excited.

 

[Brendan eldridge]

Had confirmation from Ben at Eurovans that ours has arrived with them. He even sent a little video of it in the yard, along with loads of other Cali’s! We’re picking up next week, 13 months after ordering. Very excited.

Mine might have been on that video as picking mine up Thursday afternoon.
Didn’t get such service from Mike who I’m dealing with.

 

[two-saabs]

We ordered our new 4Motion, "without lane change assist", on 31/07/22 with an Estimated Delivery Date, 01/04/23 given by the dealer. Email from VW last Monday 7th, saying it's left the factory. So it looks like it's going to be 3 1/2 months, order to being at the dealers.

I would like to mention, lane change assist on the California to rubbish, we never use it

 

[MDY__________]

A GC is different than a T6.1 california

Thanks for the insight. I guess you missed my initial post.

 

[christopherdavis]

Thanks for the insight. I guess you missed my initial post.

I’ve been told I must pay by end of November to avoid price increase

Anyone else heard about this? Many thanks

 

[Dell]

I would like to mention, lane change assist on the California to rubbish, we never use it

I think it is good to have as a Safety feature. It could help in heavy fog and or if driver over tired also Roger with side assist it also helps if you are going to overtake and there is a blind spot of another vehicle passing.

 

[two-saabs]

I think it is good to have as a Safety feature. It could help in heavy fog and or if driver over tired also Roger with side assist it also helps if you are going to overtake and there is a blind spot of another vehicle passing.

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There’s blind spot assist (your picture), and then lane change assist (I might be mixing up the terms here can’t remember).

One is the flashing part which tells you someone is about to overtake, that’s useful and works well.

The other is to keep you centered in the lane, good for long journeys where you can just cruise along with one finger on the bottom of the steering wheel… does not work well on the California (but was brilliant on my previous car).

 

[Adamocean1989]

I’ve been told I must pay by end of November to avoid price increase

Anyone else heard about this? Many thanks

Which dealer has told you about a price increase?

 

[Corradobrit]

I’ve been told I must pay by end of November to avoid price increase

Anyone else heard about this? Many thanks

Sounds like the dealer wants you to complete the contract ASAP and not think about cancelling. I bet given the current recession, orders are being cancelled left, right and centre.

 

[Hawthorn37]

There’s blind spot assist (your picture), and then lane change assist (I might be mixing up the terms here can’t remember).

One is the flashing part which tells you someone is about to overtake, that’s useful and works well.

The other is to keep you centered in the lane, good for long journeys where you can just cruise along with one finger on the bottom of the steering wheel… does not work well on the California (but was brilliant on my previous car).

You‘re in the right area with that. The blind spot assistance via the orange light is just that, a visual warning. ‘Side Assist’ will actively steer you back into your lane if you’ve missed a vehicle coming past you when overtaking (also has an audible alarm and message on the central dash display), and it works in conjunction to Lane Assist. If you turn off Lane Assist you also turn off Side Assist.

(Edit) For clarity - The last sentence above is true if you use the steering wheel buttons to turn off Lane Assist, but you can turn it off via the screen menu system, which takes 4 selection actions.

 

[christopherdavis]

Which dealer has told you about a price increase?

Eurovan crawley

 

[Hawthorn37]

I’ve been told I must pay by end of November to avoid price increase

Anyone else heard about this? Many thanks

That’s interesting. VW normally go by the registration date of a vehicle, and that was the core of the price hike threat that was around end of May 2022.

 

[Adamocean1989]

Eurovan crawley

I’ve not seen anything about a price increase yet and we would normally have a few weeks notice about one so I’d say that might be a little bit of a fib personally.

 

[Californication69]

I’ve been told I must pay by end of November to avoid price increase

Anyone else heard about this? Many thanks

Same here. Was told my California is in the UK port and it’s due to be in EV next week some time. But I can pay the deposit and setup the Finance online and telephone to miss the price increase, as of 1st December.
I have googled it and also rang another couple of VW commercial dealers around the UK and non know of a price increase in December 2022. I think it’s EV wanting to have a very productive November figures.