At the end of November 08 i ordered a new Left Hand Drive FL2. HSE, Auto, Stoneaway. Dealer said that it would be built in December and we could get it early January. In the end the car order only went through to LR early December because LR / Dealer were sorting out the spec's (i.e. All left hand drives come with Bi-Xenos and Shadow Chrome wheels) differences between LHD & RHD.

Dealer said it would now be built in January on the Belgium production line and we should get it 10 or so days after it has been built.

Have been asking the dealer to find out when the car is due to be built (need to take my other car aboard / swap insurance ect ect) and all he says is that it is booked in on LR system to be built and can not give me any information apart from LR do not get back to me .

I did think that a month turnaround was a little quick, am starting to think he just told me what i wanted to here to get deal done! Does anyone know a way of finding out when the Belgium production line batch is due to start?


Cheers,
Lukeyluke HSE, Auto, Colour - Yes

Belgium production line? never heard of one? At work
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"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

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From what I'm being told in my pursuit for a new motor (none LR) then lead times are getting much longer and that is the way it will be for the foreseeable future - IF you want a car from the production line, as opposed to finding one in dealer stock.

Problem being manufacturers are cutting back production schedules because of market conditions, so if your chosen motor requires a slot on the production line that line is moving slower.

Conversations in last couple of days have indicated 3 months for Volvo and 4 months for Mazda, just off to speak with Jaguar today. Stornoway Grey GS ... What a fine motor ... but not any more ... ... psst look at my gallery!
Company cars ... a thing of the past - May 2013.

Practically every car plant in the world is on extended downtime and/or shift reductions so predicting when a specified car will be built must be a nightmare because the dealer as no control over these lay-offs. It would depend on stock v orders, in this period of restricted borrowing no company could afford to finance them.
The only plus I can detect in this mayhem is that Toyota plan to shut down the Prius plant for a month. still pining for my 3dr, no removeable hardtop, no drop glass tailgate, no roof rack, no pockets everywhere to stow all that man kit

chicken george wrote:

Belgium production line? never heard of one?

Thought it was the Indian production line that was taking over from UK  2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof.
Stornoway Grey with Ebony Black Pleather, Clear Indicators, Body Side Mouldings etc.

The dealer said something along the lines of....LHD cars get made in batches for each countries order. How I understood it is that all cars that Spain have ordered will be made together, all the cars for Germany will made to together and so on. The reason for this is because each country has slightly different specs, interior trim, emissions etc. I was told that the car i have ordered will be made in the next batch. Which will be the Belgium batch of LHD cars. No Land Rovers, as far as I know, will be made in Belgium.

Not sure if what he has said is true. Funny thing is that i will be moving to Belgium soon so am happy to get a Belgium spec car.

Do hope it comes soon.

L HSE, Auto, Colour - Yes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7825701.stm

Sounds like the staff were given extended leave over Xmass (I bet they were not paid, poor sod's).

I think i will be waiting a while until the car is built. Just cant wait to get her now  HSE, Auto, Colour - Yes

Why left hand drive out of interest?

Lukey Luke wrote:

Funny thing is that i will be moving to Belgium soon so am happy to get a Belgium spec car.

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"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

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My girlfriend is from Belgium and does not like driving RHD cars (unless it is black.....joke ). We will also be moving to Belgium soon and thought with the weak pound at the moment let's get the car here. Should save a packet.

Can not wait to get it, been on this website every day for a month and want to test the auto close windows, try and get the auto box in to neutral and feed back info.

Have not been on many forums, but this is the best to date. Very addictive.  HSE, Auto, Colour - Yes

Doh

Progress is being made . Dealer has confirmation from LR Order Control that the car has gone through build and now has a VIN number . It is now in for Trimming and the dealer will be informed when the car is out of Quality Control (been told it could be the end of this week).

Not long to go now  HSE, Auto, Colour - Yes

Lukey Luke wrote:

The dealer said something along the lines of....LHD cars get made in batches for each countries order.

L

Lukey Luke wrote:

Progress is being made . Dealer has confirmation from LR Order Control that the car has gone through build and now has a VIN number . It is now in for Trimming and the dealer will be informed when the car is out of Quality Control (been told it could be the end of this week).

Not long to go now

Thanks for the input Stormsky

It is hard to know what is what these days

All in all it sounds like it should be close now  HSE, Auto, Colour - Yes