Genuinely new car?

[beatscience]

About to receive delivery of my MG 4.

It’s coming via salary sacrifice.

I have a suspicion based on a conversation with the company who fulfill the order before I even ordered the car that it was already in the UK when I ordered it though my delivery status changed to “released from factory” for nearly two weeks as though it was being shipped here to order.

I think the car will indeed be brand new though I would lose some faith in the process if the car was here already and “released from factory” was for show only.

Is there a way to find out more about when the car was assembled or arrived in the uk?

 

[siteguru]

If you're lucky there'll be a certificate of conformity in a plastic wallet in the glovebox - this gives the build date of the car.

For info, I collected my car on 25-Nov-22 and its build date was 28-Aug-22.

 

[beatscience]

Will look out for that.

In no doubt that the car will be new but I’m not buying the “released from factory” thing just.

Does anyone know how long a car would even take to make it to the uk after being “released from factory”?

 

[siteguru]

Before the current situation that means shipping is avoiding the Suez Canal we'd have said 3-4 weeks shipping and then 2-3 weeks PDI at the docks. However now it might be 6+ weeks shipping time.

 

[beatscience]

My concerns seem warranted then if that is indeed the case. 2 weeks from released from factory to pre delivery stage seems very short to me

 

[fnegroni]

Maybe a cancelled order so it was in stock.
Mine took a long time to arrive and I bet it had arrived a while ago but there were several delays in delivery at that time. It was delivered with 7 miles on the clock and has been perfect so far.

i wouldn’t be worried if I were you.

 

[Rolfe]

Mine was built on 8th January 2023 and I drove away in it on 13th April. However, it was already on the dealer's forecourt before then - I had my test drive and ordered the car only five days before getting it. It was just my good luck he had exactly the car I wanted already in stock.

 

[Ian Key]

When you get the registration number put it into the governments MOT checker and it will tell you the date it was first registered.
Check the MOT history of a vehicle

 

[siteguru]

Mine shows registered on date of collection, even though it arrived in the UK a few weeks earlier and then was at the dealer for a couple of days completing their PDI. If you get a result showing a much earlier date than your collection date then you need to be asking them some serious questions.

 

[Rolfe]

Yes. I just checked Caliban, and he's showing as registered on 13th April, which was the day I collected him from the dealer. This despite the fact that he was in the dealer's possession for some time before that.

 

[DaevM]

I ordered mine a week last Friday and was told they believed it would arrive in a couple of weeks and they'd keep hold of it ready to register as a '24 plate early March (1st? ?). I assume this means it's already in stock at the docks, which is fair enough. I wouldn't expect it to be built to order at the factory. By the same token I wouldn't expect to get one that's been sitting at the docks for a year or two ?.
Haven't heard anything yet but hoping next week things start getting a bit exciting ??

 

[Spinynorman]

If you're lucky there'll be a certificate of conformity in a plastic wallet in the glovebox - this gives the build date of the car.

For info, I collected my car on 25-Nov-22 and its build date was 28-Aug-22.

I’m not sure about the MG4 but the ZS EV had a plate inside the drivers door post that showed the VIN/Tyre pressure & date of manufacture…