Build month and delays.....

[grenadierboy]

Received email on new delivery date to Australia.
No mention of a production date anymore nor in my "Order account" online.

Initial deposit date: 14 October 2021
Order date: 19 May 2022
Original build month: November 2022
New delivery date: April-May 2023

Therefore, a overall delay of approximately 10 weeks from original build date estimate.

 

[grenadierboy]

Received email on new delivery date to Australia today.
No mention of a production date anymore.

Initial deposit date: 14 October 2021
Order date: 19 May 2022
Original build month: November 2022
New delivery date: April-May 2023

Therefore, deducting 10 weeks for shipping to Australia/dealer preparation, an overall delay of approximately 10 weeks. I am not too fussed.

 

[Maxwell]

Thank you, but: UTC? AU-Time? EU-Time?

It's probably better to just write like DaveB: How long ago was it.

27 October 2022, 4 p.m. (Berlin time/Germany)

 

[minidok]

> Original delivery date November 22
You mean build slot?


And the other "delivery dates" I guess as well?

yep, you are right. the november date was labeled as build slot. Nevertheless in the most recent mail, ineos is writing toward the delivery date.

 

[emax]

What is all this talk of Zulus Emax

The airmen/international alphabet is Alpha, Bravo ... Xray, Yankee, Zulu. So "Zulu" stands for 'Z'.

The military time zones are named like that Alphabet; Alpha,Bravo ... Zulu. The Zulu zone is identical to GMT, but they do not name them GMT or UTC as 'Z' or 'Zulu' is much more pregnant and faster to transmit. But this is all related to the military.

"15:05 Greenwich Mean Time" or "fifteen zero five UTC" is much longer to say than the military "fifteenhundredfive Zulu", at least in radio communications. And it's phonetically good to understand even with poor radio signal.

In civil aviation, 15:05 UTC is just 'zero five', and the hour is assumed to be the next time when '05' minutes occur. At 15:20 the 'zero five' will thus mean 16:05. So the hour is only given in case there could be any confusion: "One five zero five". Zulu is not required (even not wanted) as all times are 'Zulu'.

However, if you read a METAR (METeorological Aerodrome Report) it will be similar for military and civil aviation and the 'Zulu' will always appear - like this one

EDDF 272220Z AUTO VRB01KT CAVOK 12/12 Q1023 NOSIG

which was issued at EDDF (Frankfurt) the 27th of the month at 2220 Zulu time. Here, the 'Z' for "Zulu" serves readability: The 'Z' identifies the timestamp when the METAR was issued.

And of course, in movies, the word 'Zulu' in radio communication sounds so cool and important ...

That's why you hear it so often ...

 

[Sam]

Reservation June'22
Estimated build was July '23, then Mar '23, then blank
Estimated delivery now Aug-Sept '23

Australian car so I guess than means build around May/June '23... which is about where it was originally. @DaveB i think i'm about a month behind you

 

[Oscar01]

Yesterday I received the email from IA.

5 Seat utility LHD, diesel, with a lot of extras.

Original build date October, actual December, Delivery date today is January/February 23.

On the order portal on Ineos website, build month still showing as '-'.

in contact with my INEOS Local Dealer, he tells me that he cannot make changes in My configuration, because since the manufacturing date is already programmed, the configuration cannot be modified by them, the field is not editable, of all the cars they have orders them, only two are like this.

He told me that today IA would contact me to talk about those modifications, I will confirm,..

 

[internal]

For me it was also October, INEOS says now February/ March.

Trialmaster, Diesel, magic mushrooms

 

[cheswick]

Melbourne, Australia
Inky black personally configured vehicle
Build month was October now March April 2023
Put order in as soon as opened October 2022
maybe earlier ones are preconfigured Trialmaster or Fieldmaster?

Sorry just to be clear. Is March/April your build date or delivery date?

 

[Stu_Barnes]

Thread name updated 'Build month and delays.....'

 

[Bazaboy69]

Bit worried, I had the hand raiser early access to deposit, paid 2am on the first day, had invoice 320ish. Ordered in the first week I could with October build date. Never had any subsequent comms or emails about the build - do I need to contact Ineos? No email today.

The email I got was the first one I've ever had from Ineos that's went to my spam folder, worth a check if you haven't already

 

[Bazaboy69]

Which was a January/February delivery in the UK for a diesel trailmaster in grey

 

[DCPU]

I'm sure there are plenty more examples...the full accessories brochure was originally due in July, then it was August and the latest I've seen is there's a hope it might come out before the end of September.

The latest position on the full accessories brochure:

It's got a gestation period longer than an elephant...

 

[DaveB]

The latest position on the full accessories brochure:

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It's got a gestation period longer than an elephant...

The last update was 25th August on the catalogue for Australia
OOPS, my bad 24th October and somehow I missed it

 

[cheeters]

yep, you are right. the november date was labeled as build slot. Nevertheless in the most recent mail, ineos is writing toward the delivery date.

WhooHoo.. got an email

 

[klaus]

Also got my update. Seems to be on the same ship as @cheeters. Original build date was Oct, then updated to Nov and now delivery as below:

 

[Nick]

Sorry just to be clear. Is March/April your build date or delivery date?

Delivery date between March and April

 

[DCPU]

The last update was 25th August on the catalogue for Australia
OOPS, my bad 24th October and somehow I missed it

I think we are referring to different things. The "full accessories brochure /catalogue" is something that's not been published yet. Long promised, but version 1.0 still in draft it seems.

 

[DaveB]

I think we are referring to different things. The "full accessories brochure /catalogue" is something that's not been published yet. Long promised, but version 1.0 still in draft it seems.

Sorry, I have not heard of that catalogue before. What other accessories are they going to have that they don't already?
Or is it just more/some information on what they have?

 

[DCPU]

It's supposed to be a bit of both or rather a lot of both. Although, as actual details are scarce then it might turn out to be a dud.

We've been promised full details/technical specs on a number of things, like the winch and this brochure was meant to be where we would find those answers.

Additionally, they seem to be developing a whole extra series of accessories. We saw the drawer unit at Goodwood (or was it later?) and it and some other items were described as "a sneak peek" of things to follow.

Initially in June this:

Then: