MG ZS EV Shipping Updates

Whatsthepoint said:
That's what the guy said. And I asked if my car is specifically allocated to me as in can the supplying dealer pick and choose who gets what and he said its not possible, it all has match the order number. Different for cancelled orders though. I'm sure others have been told the same, TBA then your car is in the country.
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Ok cool, I was expecting TBA to turn into awaiting build date & then awaiting shipping etc. Good to know that they can suddenly just turn up after TBA.
 
AreFriendsElectric said:
Ok cool, I was expecting TBA to turn into awaiting build date & then awaiting shipping etc. Good to know that they can suddenly just turn up after TBA.
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I'm not sure what's going on, I have been told by supplying dealer that I have to wait on build slot etc but yeah there have been more that have just turned up. So fingers crossed.
 
Phoned my dealers yesterday my car also now showing TBA he said it may turn up any time now ordered 5th December.
 
It is all starting to look a bit more positive for deliveries.
MG are not cancelling cars.
TBA does not mean you have to wait for AWAITING PRODUCTION / AT SEA etc - our cars could be already manufactured and be with us within a few weeks.
Some dealers are getting deliveries already of LR cars.
Fingers crossed for better news for everyone next week. 🤞
 
Hi All. I ordered a MG ZS LR trophy in blue back in mid January.
Originally told delivery would be may. Rang early may, told it would now be September, rang yesterday and told there was now showing TBA and would most likely be next year and asked if I wanted to cancel.
Reading these forums it sounds like TBA could mean delivery could in fact be soon and wondering if the dealer just wanted me to cancel so they could sell the car to someone else at a higher margin.
 
Graham83 said:
Hi All. I ordered a MG ZS LR trophy in blue back in mid January.
Originally told delivery would be may. Rang early may, told it would now be September, rang yesterday and told there was now showing TBA and would most likely be next year and asked if I wanted to cancel.
Reading these forums it sounds like TBA could mean delivery could in fact be soon and wondering if the dealer just wanted me to cancel so they could sell the car to someone else at a higher margin.
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I think most people’s orders are TBA at the moment. Every order on my dealers books is TBA. I don’t thinks this means these orders are imminent and just indicates MG have no idea when they’re going to supply it or aren’t updating the system accurately. For some people it has just been a lucky coincidence that MG had sent the car to fulfil the order. It’s not surprising, I don’t think the system they have for UK orders is set up to deal with volume. My dealer didn’t offer for me to cancel when mine changed to TBA, he just said it’s sit and wait, but there is no guesstimate of when yours is arriving.
 
Graham83 said:
Hi All. I ordered a MG ZS LR trophy in blue back in mid January.
Originally told delivery would be may. Rang early may, told it would now be September, rang yesterday and told there was now showing TBA and would most likely be next year and asked if I wanted to cancel.
Reading these forums it sounds like TBA could mean delivery could in fact be soon and wondering if the dealer just wanted me to cancel so they could sell the car to someone else at a higher margin
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Graham83 said:
Hi All. I ordered a MG ZS LR trophy in blue back in mid January.
Originally told delivery would be may. Rang early may, told it would now be September, rang yesterday and told there was now showing TBA and would most likely be next year and asked if I wanted to cancel.
Reading these forums it sounds like TBA could mean delivery could in fact be soon and wondering if the dealer just wanted me to cancel so they could sell the car to someone else at a higher margin.
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I think you are spot on with that, I believe dealers would love it if you cancel. They can sell it for a premium right now.
 
Graham83 said:
Hi All. I ordered a MG ZS LR trophy in blue back in mid January.
Originally told delivery would be may. Rang early may, told it would now be September, rang yesterday and told there was now showing TBA and would most likely be next year and asked if I wanted to cancel.
Reading these forums it sounds like TBA could mean delivery could in fact be soon and wondering if the dealer just wanted me to cancel so they could sell the car to someone else at a higher margin.
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Am in exact same position as you. Same car, ordered Jan, my dealer sent email couple of weeks back to say now TBA and would understand if I wanted to cancel.
I fed my dealer with info from this forum about deliveries etc. - he contacted MG and complained that he has not received one car yet when other dealers have got a number. Is now awaiting feedback from MG.
My delivery is still TBA and have fingers crossed that will get news soon.
 
It sounds like To Be Arranged means a batch of cars have be built and shipped and left to someone to allocate to order numbers when they arrive at the dock. With the production chaos, SAIC may have just thrown their arms up in the air and said, "just get them out of the factory and sold".
 
Gazza said:
..when I challenged him about the drop of £1000 in December he said that they would have stood to that
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Isn't there an issue with this. In December the eligibility also changed from £35 to £32k so the ZS LR Trophy at £34k was no longer eligible. I keep thinking my logic must be skewed but if they hadn't made the application already surely there's no way they could have done so for this model after 15th December.
 
Has anyone on here recieved a lease vehicle from one of the many online lease companies? I spoke to an MG dealership the other day who was adamant that I would not likely see my vehicle as MG wouldn't likely supply the lease companies throughout this supply issue? Something to do with fleet vehicles and losing money??
It would be good to know people opinion and if any other lease companies have been supplied with vehicles at all?
 
Moonie said:
Had a call from Henley Exeter. They said we should have our car by the end of this month! Not giving us a pick up date until they actually have the car. Ordered Dec, White Trophy Ev Lr. Exciting, hopefully cars are starting to arrive.. fingers crossed!
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Hello, sorry do you mean Hendy Exeter? I have an order with them.
I just couldn't find any Henley Exeter on Google
 
ijk said:
Has anyone on here recieved a lease vehicle from one of the many online lease companies? I spoke to an MG dealership the other day who was adamant that I would not likely see my vehicle as MG wouldn't likely supply the lease companies throughout this supply issue? Something to do with fleet vehicles and losing money??
It would be good to know people opinion and if any other lease companies have been supplied with vehicles at all?
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I was just thinking of asking the same question! So thanks for that. Will be interesting to see if anyone has received one on lease
 
iant said:
Isn't there an issue with this. In December the eligibility also changed from £35 to £32k so the ZS LR Trophy at £34k was no longer eligible. I keep thinking my logic must be skewed but if they hadn't made the application already surely there's no way they could have done so for this model after 15th December.
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Ordered my on the 17th December and was told the government had just stopped the grant, no warning what so ever, so I missed out on that by 2 days, I know how lucky am I?…still got the £1.5k from the dealership, I think it was..
 
Gadget Geek said:
It sounds like To Be Arranged means a batch of cars have be built and shipped and left to someone to allocate to order numbers when they arrive at the dock. With the production chaos, SAIC may have just thrown their arms up in the air and said, "just get them out of the factory and sold".
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I could be wrong but I thought TBA was ‘To Be Advised’
We are told that they build batches of cars and you would hope that they have a basic understanding of what is on order before they commence the production run. For instance if they have no orders for SR SE models in blue you would assume that they would make something different, especially if they wanted to get them sold. I reckon that they could have an order book of over 5,000 cars with customers names against. If they don’t want stock laying around, just sort out all the cars on order. There are only 6 variants with 5 different colours. That means 30 different spec/colour cars leave China for UK market that are RHD and have MPH speedo’s. We therefore have a 1 in 30 chance that our car is being made.
Thinking about it RHD cars are km/h everywhere else - Malta / Ireland / Cyprus / India / Australia so production runs for UK are very specialised.
Am just hoping that with the hold on new orders being placed it is a sign that the cars will come through soon. We have seen a few members being given delivery dates for LR models now which is promising.
 
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