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05-21-2015, 07:14 AM | #1 |
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New Car Shipment & Delivery 'route' - UK
Anybody know the stages in the journey after build is complete in Germany and the car has been 'released to Carrier'
When I bought a 530iT in 2001, it arrived in Immingham and then trucked to Thorne (Doncaster) for final fettling before being trucked to the Dealership in Surrey for PDI & Handover ... Been told recently that the route is now via Southampton, and then somewhere in the South which does the PDI before trucking to a Hampshire Dealer .... I know that BMW have moved from Bracknell to Farnborough, Hants - is this a new facility for Distribution, as well as their new HQ ? Also - what are people's experiences of the time taken from end-of-Production, thru European Delivery to departure Port, arrival in UK and eventually reaching the Dealership ? Our US cousins have a detailed thread on this, but UK info seems sparse - a Twiiter enquiry to @BMW-UK produced a succinct answer:- " ... vehicle logistics and the point of PDI can vary depending on the location of the BMW Centre ..." Cheers in anticipation of some insight !
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05-21-2015, 07:31 AM | #2 |
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This link is from the BMW UK site; it gives Farnborough as the head office, so it must be fairly recent as they only moved there in December 2014.
http://www.bmw.co.uk/en_GB/footer/pu...s/aboutus.html I believe the USA-built product is or was imported through Southampton, but as far as I know everything else still comes into Immingham and is moved to Thorne for UK distribution. |
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All UK distribution is from Thorne.
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Thanks both - yes, seen everything on the bmw.co.uk site.
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So - can anyone quote their own (recent) experiences in the duration from End of Production date to Handover in the Dealership ?
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ordered mid-may when the car had just finished up in the factory and was at the dealership second week of june
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