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Post by WDB on Jun 11, 2024 6:39:00 GMT
That's for the things people say, switching the production line between left and right hand drive. The right parts arrive at the right car at the right time. Each car has a build sheet attached which is scanned at each station. I had a look around and you’re quite right — Dingolfing has been working this way for years. 5s, 7s and now iXes will all be on the line at once, so LHD or RHD is a detail in that context! Haven’t set a collection date yet but I’m hoping Friday 19 July will fit neatly between our various trips. That would give it an easy run to Southampton for one graduation, with a long three-up trip to York the following week.
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Post by WDB on Jun 18, 2024 7:18:34 GMT
Built by happy German workers on the eve of their summer holidays. Seems impressively fast. And now it’s done, according to yesterday’s message. Better start checking prices for the CLS, I suppose.
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Post by bpg on Jun 18, 2024 9:16:37 GMT
Happy days, hope your importer has more success than that poor Italian lorry driver with his horticultural load. SLA 4 working hours, actual time 55 hours with no access to food, then released at 1am, truck stops were full, parked at McDonald's, clamped and £185 fine.
Maybe some journalistic licence in there, I don't know, still some border control work required for the official channels.
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Post by WDB on Jun 18, 2024 9:32:12 GMT
If it does get held up, I think it’ll be on a ship rather than a truck, so the crew ought at least to have access to food and clean toilets while they’re waiting. I think BMW has some sort of online order tracker, if I was in the mood to watch. But I’m in no particular hurry as it won’t arrive before holiday, so mid-July is as soon as I’ll be ready to collect it.
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Post by Rob on Jun 18, 2024 15:08:25 GMT
Hope it arrives on time and safely. I once ordered a Golf GTI and it was due in the September which was fine because I was going to be away over 2 weeks in the USA. It arrived early August and I had to have it. I tried to delay it. The car I was in was a lease that was overdue because they cut the lease short.
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Post by WDB on Jun 24, 2024 7:31:13 GMT
It’s in the country, apparently, and will be ready this week. Message (which I missed on Friday) from the dealer to say he’d like to complete the delivery in June. I bet he would but I’m not sure it suits me in terms of work commitments and our long early-July trip that would be fun in a new car but might be simpler in one we know well.
We’ve not yet agreed a PX value for the CLS, so is this perhaps my opportunity to press for a good price in exchange for helping him towards his Q2 target?
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Post by bpg on Jun 24, 2024 9:14:28 GMT
He might throw in some mats and 80% charge of the battery 🤣
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Post by dixinormus on Jun 24, 2024 9:28:34 GMT
Can’t they just register it on 30th June and park it in the showroom until you want to collect it? I’ve experienced that scenario twice!
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Post by bpg on Jun 24, 2024 9:37:54 GMT
If it's registered before 6th July can you have the automatic speed limiter disabled ? You can then choose if and when you use it rather than having on by default each time.
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Post by Humph on Jun 24, 2024 10:06:51 GMT
Don’t worry, I could let you have the use of a proper car for your holiday at very reasonable rates… 😂
(If you don’t mind a bit of sand on the mats that is)
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Post by WDB on Jun 24, 2024 10:45:45 GMT
Excuse me while I apply precautionary tape to my sides, in case that’s as funny as Humph thinks it is.
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Post by Humph on Jun 24, 2024 11:09:08 GMT
Happy to help In brightening your day! 😉
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Post by Rob on Jun 24, 2024 19:06:41 GMT
I assume you know roughly what the PX value will be to have made the calculations on whether the IX was a good deal. Are you thinking if you agreed to accept it before this weekend you'll get a lot more?
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Post by WDB on Jun 26, 2024 8:55:30 GMT
I don’t know about a lot more but it worked out well enough. The value of the CLS had slipped since I considered the iX3 in September, and I’d factored that into my purchase calculations. The dealer’s first offer came in lower still, so I worked up an offer from Motorway through the AA that actually seemed on the high side and muttered something about pursuing that but it would take longer. That got me enough movement on the offer (and an overpriced minor interior accessory I asked for thrown in) to convince me, so I’m collecting on Friday afternoon.
Now wishing I hadn’t stuck 60 litres in the CLS last week in anticipation of the Yorkshire trip. Even a couple of hasty tip runs with broken garden chairs aren’t going to make much impression on that.
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Post by bpg on Jun 26, 2024 9:26:43 GMT
Humphs could have taken it off your hands last Saturday evening if you'd known. HelP the aged and all that.
Not sure if the CLS has a drain plug in the tank. Anything but syphoning diesel through a hosepipe 🤢
I know, you can't do that anymore. Still makes me a bit pukey remembering those days of syphoning 4* when the tank sprung a leak around the mid-seam of my old FIAT.
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