December Order Calling

My dealer said they had 2 cars being delivered in December, but 4 customers waiting. However my car was being built on December 9th but they still didn't know if my car would be delivered before Christmas or mid January (despite reassuarance from LR management that customers would get their cars before Christmas).

I don't know how long it takes to build an Evoque but seems tight to get it built and shipped down to Bristol in a space of two weeks. Placed my order in May so coming up to 8 months wait.

(15-12-2011 07:52am)Alex Wrote:  My dealer said they had 2 cars being delivered in December, but 4 customers waiting. However my car was being built on December 9th but they still didn't know if my car would be delivered before Christmas or mid January (despite reassuarance from LR management that customers would get their cars before Christmas).

I don't know how long it takes to build an Evoque but seems tight to get it built and shipped down to Bristol in a space of two weeks. Placed my order in May so coming up to 8 months wait.

Got mine within 2 weeks of going into build!

Same here, built 26th November, dealer called for the car on 5th December, and collected on the 9th..hope this helps

Fingers crossed, the assumed date was Dec 23rd but based on your responses I guess a two week turn around is feasible.

Will contact dealer to get an update.

(05-12-2011 06:03pm)James @ Lookers Park Royal Wrote:  We've literally just had our allocation and it was also only four (and we are one of the biggest volume Evoque dealers in the country). This is considerably less than we had expected, therefore we are of the opinion that there will be a balancing allocation in the next batch (i.e. much bigger number). This is consistent across the network.

As mentioned by the OP, order to build times are now under control by the sounds of things and LR are maximising output to catch up with the delays. This means that the month lost (assuming it is that timescale) waiting for the next order call, will benefit from a larger number and a quicker turnaround.... net effect similar overall lead time.

The one plus-side is that changes to required specifications can be made for a longer period of time.

James

James does your allocation of include the battersea branch in London too? Or would they have a separate allocation ? As my order is with them.

Does anyone know when the next order call is likely to be?

Just got an update from my dealer, and my car is going to be born tomorrow, though it was planned for Tuesday. Can't wait for delivery date which is 2nd Feb.

So am I right in assuming that there will be no further Dec orders called?

And now the "Order Calling" Lottery will start again in Jan??

I was told a couple of weeks ago the dealer was expecting an order call today the 19th december. As yet i have heard nothing.

Straydox,

The last order call was fairly small, however it is out understanding that we may get another allocation before the New Year. As you mentioned, the last order call for us was just 4 vehicles; the network received either 2, 3 or 4 vehicles depending on the size of the dealership.

Standard practice is for dealerships to load their customers orders into the holding pool and then release for 'slotting' in order that the order was place depending on the number of vehicles allocated.

Fingers crossed for the next allocation!

James