New MG4 Shipment?

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Which colour/trim combo?

Smurf Trophy

TBF - I got an answer within 24 hours.

 

[tsedge]

Smurf Trophy

TBF - I got an answer within 24 hours.

Nice combo. I will admit I did not like the blue when I first saw it, but it has grown on me. Waiting for White Trophy myself. You might get lucky if your dealer is allocated one to replace your ordered one. But I think they did over order the orange paint, loads of those around.

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Nice combo. I will admit I did not like the blue when I first saw it, but it has grown on me. Waiting for White Trophy myself. You might get lucky if your dealer is allocated one to replace your ordered one. But I think they did over order the orange paint, loads of those around.

Luckily, I still have 18 months left on my Zoe's PCP.

 

[tsedge]

Excitingly, I now have the condition best described as "rumblings of the dealer". They have been in touch just now to say they are getting more regular shipments over the next few weeks and mine could be coming later this month.

 

[RichardC]

The Morning Lily is due to arrive at Portbury on Thursday at 9pm. It sailed from Shanghai but whether it has any MG’s on board is the big question.

 

[Deleted member 10041]

Stena Ebba is just off the coast of Tunisia, it's showing as next stop Gibraltar, is that not due to end up at Portbury?

 

[RichardC]

Stena Ebba is just of the coast of Tunisia it's showing as next stop Gibraltar, is that not due to end up at Portbury?

Yes on Monday 14th at midnight.

 

[AdeMcG]

Excitingly, I now have the condition best described as "rumblings of the dealer". They have been in touch just now to say they are getting more regular shipments over the next few weeks and mine could be coming later this month.

Just had the same telephone call, a new "to the dealership" sales person just called to introduce themselves and said it could be a November Delivery date, but no information on
VIN = vehicle identification number, the unique manufacturing number for the car (in the old days ‘chassis number’).
or
VRM = vehicle registration mark, better known as the registration number that goes on your number plate.

So in the absence of either VIN / Reg info, I don't know how realistic a November delivery actually is.

 

[Lucas Roper]

Our car arrived at the dealership yesterday! Collection booked in for Tuesday next week!

 

[AdeMcG]

A further mail confirmed that "the order is showing on our November log" but again, I don't know what that will actually mean in terms of delivery date.

 

[tsedge]

It probably means that they have a car allocated that matches your colour/spec combo, which could be allocated to you but it hasn't arrived yet off the boat and they can't be sure they will get it at a specific date. It is a good sign but things can easily change or get delayed.

 

[PHB2801]

Poo!

I emailed MG with my order number and got told "waiting for factory build".
This is despite pre-ordering!

Same here - cancelled my order

 

[HJC]

What's the best email address?

Same here - cancelled my order

 

[Sloucher]

Things are moving for me at last now. After a failed attempt at ordering through a local dealer, I paid the deposit on a Trophy on 11th November (last week) with another dealer and got the call today that collection will be 5th December.
The dealer already has the car in their new deliveries compound but the reason for the three weeks delay before pickup is that they have very long queue of vehicles awaiting PDI (now there's a surprise - not!).
I'm hoping I get the registration number in time to complete the PCP paperwork and arrange insurance (which is £289 with Aviva btw) and then hope I'm the rare example that doesn't get any of the gremlins!

 

[tsedge]

Our dealer continues to be in regular touch, no more news yet but they are due to get a lot of cars over the next 2-3 weeks.

 

[colsky]

Things are moving for me at last now. After a failed attempt at ordering through a local dealer, I paid the deposit on a Trophy on 11th November (last week) with another dealer and got the call today that collection will be 5th December.
The dealer already has the car in their new deliveries compound but the reason for the three weeks delay before pickup is that they have very long queue of vehicles awaiting PDI (now there's a surprise - not!).
I'm hoping I get the registration number in time to complete the PCP paperwork and arrange insurance (which is £289 with Aviva btw) and then hope I'm the rare example that doesn't get any of the gremlins!

Another example of differences between dealers. I ordered 24th August, the car I believe arrived on a boat around 21/22/23 October, but the dealer doesn't yet have an estimate for a delivery date to them, or a collection date for me! Also someone on here has mentioned that their car arrived with a dealer the other morning, and was able to pick up that afternoon, whereas you have been told 3 weeks from arrival at dealer to customer collection! Perhaps its because your dealer is bigger, so has more cars to PDI, perhaps its because your dealer is at Bristol and is overlooking the cars at the docks and considers that to be their new deliveries compound!

 

[Sloucher]

Another example of differences between dealers. I ordered 24th August, the car I believe arrived on a boat around 21/22/23 October, but the dealer doesn't yet have an estimate for a delivery date to them, or a collection date for me! Also someone on here has mentioned that their car arrived with a dealer the other morning, and was able to pick up that afternoon, whereas you have been told 3 weeks from arrival at dealer to customer collection! Perhaps its because your dealer is bigger, so has more cars to PDI, perhaps its because your dealer is at Bristol and is overlooking the cars at the docks and considers that to be their new deliveries compound!

In my particular case, my Bristol dealer informed me last week that my August order wasn't going to arrive until late February! I cancelled that order as I wanted a car this side of Christmas.
Luckily for me, another dealer 80 miles away had an unexpectedly early delivery of the exact model I wanted. The customer it was originally intended for changed their order, so I was just in the right place at the right time.
Certainly, this new (to me) dealer is part of a large dealer group, so I guess they have a larger allocation of vehicles than the Bristol dealer I had my original order with.

 

[RichardC]

The Stena Ebba has unloaded its cargo of MG’s and has moved to another part of the docks.
The next probable delivery is the Tambarra which is due on the 19th (originally the 17th) hopefully mine should be on this one.

The deliveries are arriving but the bottleneck is getting deliveries from the docks to the dealers.

 

[tsedge]

Yes, it is a PDIng nightmare at the moment.

 

[Sloucher]

Yes, it is a PDIng nightmare at the moment.

That's what is concerning me. With all those cars to get PDI'd for customers justifiably impatient to get their car, how can we be sure ALL aspects of the PDI are performed properly and not rushed through?