Ten months I will have to wait for my Cali

Amarillo · Dec 20, 2016

With all these people posting lists of then things they love/hate about their Cali, I feel a little left out, so here's my list.

1. April 2016
2. May 2016
3, June 2016
4, July 2016
5, August 2016
6. September 2016
7. October 2016
8. November 2016
9. December 2016
10. January 2017

In contrast, I waited 9 months for my first son, and 7½ months for my second son.

Eldest is 3 today -

Perhaps we can do a campervan cake next year,

snowy55 · Dec 20, 2016

Happy birthday :thumb

Lovin' the cake.

zerofour · Dec 20, 2016

Why such a long wait?

Tony Beretta · Dec 20, 2016

Looking at your lovely kids we can conclude that lighter colors take less time to arrive.

Tony Beretta · Dec 20, 2016

By the way, I was also told 10 months and if things go right, I will get it in 7. So it might not be that bad.

Hotel California · Dec 20, 2016

There was one who posted a very lovely VW campervan cake on the forum!

Need to try and search that topic....

Ten months is a looooong wait!

Amarillo · Dec 20, 2016

hotel california said:
Ten months is a looooong wait!

It is partly a self-inflicted long wait. We ordered our van to be used as a demonstrator for up to 3 months prior to delivery in return for an extra discount. We suspect that the dealer was able to re-allocate our week 41 build slot to another customer because ours was a demonstrator order, so our build was pushed back to week 4.

To compensate, our dealer is going to loan us the van for the 3 months between build and delivery , so we are very content, even though it has been a very long wait. Even if the van had been built in Week 41, we would still have had to wait for the three months demonstrator time to expire, so we wouldn't have had it much earlier.

Amarillo · Dec 20, 2016

Tony Beretta said:
Looking at your lovely kids we can conclude that lighter colors take less time to arrive.

Clare was in hospital with her pregnancy constantly monitored for six weeks before delivery. It was during those very difficult six weeks that we decided to buy a campervan and tour Europe for a year before the children (we didn't know our second child was to be a boy at that time) started school.

Amarillo · Dec 20, 2016

hotel california said:
There was one who posted a very lovely VW campervan cake on the forum!

motacyclist · Dec 20, 2016

Not long to go now though!

B J G · Dec 20, 2016

Disadvantage of buying that way is that you become the second owners in the eyes of Insurance values and VW for any future claims. Warranty included.

Days out · Dec 21, 2016

Crispin Family said:

Three things I have noticed about the cake.

1) Has the person next to the camper van fallen over whilst reading about the expected lead times after ordering a California?

2) that has to be the lowest suspension setting ever seen. That van is slammed!! But I would have spaced those rims out a bit more.

3) the roof doesn't look realistic as it's missing some corrosion around the windscreen header.

Other than that Nice attempt.