Grenadier build slot DELAY thread

[DCPU]

Hopefully it doesn’t delay dealers getting vehicles for test drives

That appears to be exactly what it has done.

 

[Sandman]

Not sure if anyone has seen this update.

 

[emax]

I guess,everybody has.

 

[Sandman]

I guess,everybody has.

Silly me, Just noticed it was the 1st post here

 

[OGrid]

Hi from the USA, I know we're at least a year and a half away from deliveries here but has the first production IG actually rolled off the production line and are there some lucky european customers driving their beast? Very little information on this other than expected delivery delays.

Hi, I don’t think you’ve received a response. I’ll have a crack.

No production vehicles have been delivered to customers in any locations yet.

In addition I don’t believe any forum member has been presented with a contract to sign for delivery to then take place. I’m also of the understanding that there have been no sightings of assembly line prototypes. But for these last two I’ll defer to other forum members.

OG

 

[DCPU]

I’m also of the understanding that there have been no sightings of assembly line prototypes. But for these last two I’ll defer to other forum members.

I think some PTO series vehicles are out in the wild.

I'll be corrected by others but key identification features include non-white chassis, badges on windscreen bulkhead and German registration plates in the BB IA XXX range (unless of course they are earlier PT2Cs!)

 

[bemax]

I think some PTO series vehicles are out in the wild.

I'll be corrected by others but key identification features include non-white chassis, badges on windscreen bulkhead and German registration plates in the BB IA XXX range (unless of course they are earlier PT2Cs!)

You are probably right. I still think that the delay in delivery has to do something with the homologation. If they already have it by now, there would be some new press tests on road as there have been in February in the old coal mine (only offroad)

 

[bemax]

Today I checked the bulding date for my Fieldmaster/Germany on the website and it is still September 2022.
Last week I got the link for the video which informed over the potential delay. As I read some guys here noticed a change og their building slot after getting the Youtube link.
Are there more orders with an unchanged Septenber builing slot?

 

[Greg]

My agent here in Townsville QLD Australia, emailed me saying that Ineos have indicated that they should have a vehicle here for test drive purposes in November.

 

[Tazzieman]

Today I checked the bulding date for my Fieldmaster/Germany on the website and it is still September 2022.
Last week I got the link for the video which informed over the potential delay. As I read some guys here noticed a change og their building slot after getting the Youtube link.
Are there more orders with an unchanged Septenber builing slot?

FWIW my October build date (Trialmaster , Australia) remains.
I am expecting it to change, but who knows?

 

[emax]

Mine is as well unchanged (yet): October 22

 

[Spjnr]

A month Delay? not the end of the world when you've waited 4 years for a vehicle. I'd rather a well delivered vehicle a few months late than a Lemon on my driveway in October

 

[emax]

I agree. But keep in mind that some have a schedule to sell their existing car, and might even already have made a contract about this. Or you take out a loan and have to pay interest rates from, say, October on ... (not me).

 

[bemax]

A month Delay? not the end of the world when you've waited 4 years for a vehicle. I'd rather a well delivered vehicle a few months late than a Lemon on my driveway in October

It is not about a month. It is about the foggy state of information. I just wantetd to understand whether there are changes in the production date after the known mail and the video.
I certainly do not want a "Montagsauto" in my driveway which has been used to find out what could go wrong in production...

 

[Spjnr]

I agree. But keep in mind that some have a schedule to sell their existing car, and might even already have made a contract about this. Or you take out a loan and have to pay interest rates from, say, October on ... (not me).

I think we have to accept this was always going to be a possibility though, a new manufacturer, new model etc etc. Some people who ordered a Bronco day 1 are still without build dates, and that's Ford who invented the rolling assembly line!

Its annoying I 100% agree, and i too would appreciate more communication from them. I'm in the lucky position of having sold my valuable car a year ago and am still in a cheap run about truck that ill probably keep anyway, so maybe that's why I'm more relaxed about this than others.

 

[Jeremy996]

I've had the month's delay e-mail and video. Not sure how I feel about it as selling my LR110CSW is proving very frustrating, (it needs to go as I cannot afford both!). eBay to LR110CSW

This is already the most expensive vehicle I have tried to buy, so a price increase would be the final straw.

 

[DenisM]

Some light relief....
I received the link to the short video announcing the one month delay to my build slot. So I opened the link.

Shock...horror another month?
Such anxiety! And right below the BAD NEWS...there was Sadhguru... it's Karma I tell you
# Don't worry...be happy

 

[DCPU]

I think we have to accept this was always going to be a possibility though, a new manufacturer, new model etc etc.

New model certainly but don't ignore the fact that Hambach has been turning out vehicles for many years, has one of the best retention rates/longest serving employees across any auto plant.

Digging out a fact or two ~ In 2021, Ineos Automotive produced over 26,600 smart cars and almost 30,000 EQA front-end modules under contract to Mercedes-Benz.

They're not wet behind the ears when it comes to knocking these things together...

 

[IG Pop]

Question to early reservation holders interested in a test ride:
Have you contacted your local dealer or any other agent near by if they already have testing vehicles you could take for a ride?
Am asking as somebody from Germany wrote somewhere else that his dealer allegedly already has a diesel and petrol on site for testing…

 

[bemax]

Question to early reservation holders interested in a test ride:
Have you contacted your local dealer or any other agent near by if they already have testing vehicles you could take for a ride?
Am asking as somebody from Germany wrote somewhere else that his dealer allegedly already has a diesel and petrol on site for testing…

My dealer contacted me last week and wanted to know whether I am interested in a testdrive end of August. He ment that by than they would get their first cars.
I am not sure whether this is true...