Les Stanford Delivery Time
07-15-2014, 11:42 AM
#481
07-15-2014, 04:29 PM
#483
Hey SN4R3,
I hate mentioning this to you on your TPW, but I thought you might appreciate a quick update on my car's shipping progress. I hope your shipping experience is quicker than what I have seen so far.
To recap, my car was built 6/17 then transferred to Toledo VDC for rail shipment to Crest Chevy. My last update from the dealer showed the car was bayed at Toledo VDC on 6/27. I received an update this morning 7/14 from the dealer and my car has moved from the parking lot at Toledo VDC to a rail car at Toledo VDC. It only took 2 and a half weeks to make this journey across the parking lot! Further, there is no ETA available and they didn't say the train car (with my car on it) is actually hooked up to a train and moving west. I was hoping for a delivery next week, but I think I am looking at two more weeks at least before it shows up at the dealer.
Once the car is built and transferred off the property at the factory, it seems like customer service's ability to give a status update fades out and the dealer becomes the only source of status info. I don't have any idea how they stage their trains for each destination, hopefully you will be luckier than me with your car arriving and loading onto a train in Toledo right before the one-train-a-month train pulls out of the station for California. OK sorry for being so jaded, just a little frustrated at how slow the shipping process is, coupled with the dealer's vague information on progress and the inability to accurately forecast a delivery date. I was hoping we had better technology than this....I think the anticipation is getting to me!
I hate mentioning this to you on your TPW, but I thought you might appreciate a quick update on my car's shipping progress. I hope your shipping experience is quicker than what I have seen so far.
To recap, my car was built 6/17 then transferred to Toledo VDC for rail shipment to Crest Chevy. My last update from the dealer showed the car was bayed at Toledo VDC on 6/27. I received an update this morning 7/14 from the dealer and my car has moved from the parking lot at Toledo VDC to a rail car at Toledo VDC. It only took 2 and a half weeks to make this journey across the parking lot! Further, there is no ETA available and they didn't say the train car (with my car on it) is actually hooked up to a train and moving west. I was hoping for a delivery next week, but I think I am looking at two more weeks at least before it shows up at the dealer.
Once the car is built and transferred off the property at the factory, it seems like customer service's ability to give a status update fades out and the dealer becomes the only source of status info. I don't have any idea how they stage their trains for each destination, hopefully you will be luckier than me with your car arriving and loading onto a train in Toledo right before the one-train-a-month train pulls out of the station for California. OK sorry for being so jaded, just a little frustrated at how slow the shipping process is, coupled with the dealer's vague information on progress and the inability to accurately forecast a delivery date. I was hoping we had better technology than this....I think the anticipation is getting to me!
07-15-2014, 06:29 PM
#484
Racer
I just pulled out some service receipts for my C6 because I remembered that the dealership shows the production dates on their forms. My C6 was built on 9/18/07, and I took delivery of the car on the morning of 9/25. So even if the car rolled off the production line and straight onto the truck for delivery, it took less than 7 days for the car to be transported to Austin. (The dealer had the car at least one day ahead of delivery for PDI.) There is a chance that the shipping actually took much less than 7 days because the car might have been sitting around waiting for the next truck. I believe shipping to Texas is all by truck and that expedites things a bit.
