VIN (Vehicle Identification Number)

[AnD3rew]

Got my VIN number through having contacted the chat line as suggested on here. SC6GN2DB4PF002---
This for a RHD, Diesel, UK supplied, Donny Grey, SW, 5 seats, windows all round including roof. Every extra bar the winches.
Deposit Oct 21, remaining deposit June 11 22, Contract signed and in production since March.
Gave me a whole new interest in this particular thread. Very interesting and at times entertaining.

Justvasked the live chat for my VIN, no help at all not updates on status, no VIN. Just wondering for thise that have been given VINS are your vehicles confirmed as cleared the hold process? According to my dealer my is finished production but in quality hold process. According to live chat there is no information on status. Orbis it just luck of the draw who you get on the chat line?

 

[bemax]

Justvasked the live chat for my VIN, no help at all not updates on status, no VIN. Just wondering for thise that have been given VINS are your vehicles confirmed as cleared the hold process? According to my dealer my is finished production but in quality hold process. According to live chat there is no information on status. Orbis it just luck of the draw who you get on the chat line?

I asked for my vin in the chat some three or four weeks ago. Yesterday they sent me the vin and today the car arrived at th dealership.
Five days ago I wrote a rant mail to Ineos which is not answered by now ( while I have the answers because of the delivery anyway)

 

[grenadierboy]

Justvasked the live chat for my VIN, no help at all not updates on status, no VIN. Just wondering for thise that have been given VINS are your vehicles confirmed as cleared the hold process? According to my dealer my is finished production but in quality hold process. According to live chat there is no information on status. Orbis it just luck of the draw who you get on the chat line?

I asked for my VIN 2 weeks ago and received the next day via email.
Then, agent has confirmed my car is produced and awaiting to be loaded onto the next ship (I assume at Zeebrugge) so it must have cleared B&H.

 

[DenisM]

I asked for my VIN 2 weeks ago and received the next day via email.
Then, agent has confirmed my car is produced and awaiting to be loaded onto the next ship (I assume at Zeebrugge) so it must have cleared B&H.

How or "whom" did you ask for your VIN?

 

[DCPU]

Got my VIN number through having contacted the chat line as suggested on here. SC6GN2DB4PF002---

Interesting to note it's less than 3,000 after nearly 6 months of series production.

 

[DCPU]

I asked for my vin in the chat some three or four weeks ago. Yesterday they sent me the vin and today the car arrived at th dealership.
Five days ago I wrote a rant mail to Ineos which is not answered by now ( while I have the answers because of the delivery anyway)

Perhaps the car arriving at the dealership was the answer?

 

[Cheshire cat]

How or "whom" did you ask for your VIN?

I went onto the website/ Order Your Grenadier/ Pressed the little chat button that pops up right of screen/ entered my details including order number/ ask the question. Initially the chat person (Luke Harvey) said he couldn't access that detail. I replied that someone on this forum had been given the info via chat. Luke emailed me the following day with the VIN. The address on screen to which I replied was: <https://email.bt.com/mail/index-rui.jsp?v=2.27.1#app/mail> Might work if you email that address. You can mention him helping out myself (Phil Kearns)

 

[marko]

I went onto the website/ Order Your Grenadier/ Pressed the little chat button that pops up right of screen/ entered my details including order number/ ask the question. Initially the chat person (Luke Harvey) said he couldn't access that detail. I replied that someone on this forum had been given the info via chat. Luke emailed me the following day with the VIN. The address on screen to which I replied was: <https://email.bt.com/mail/index-rui.jsp?v=2.27.1#app/mail> Might work if you email that address. You can mention him helping out myself (Phil Kearns)

Same process for me though it was Denis I chatted with. They can back separately with my VIN by email a week or so later.

 

[marko]

Interesting to note it's less than 3,000 after nearly 6 months of series production.

Got my VIN 3 weeks ago and it’s a shade under 2500.

 

[PBD]

Got my VIN 3 weeks ago and it’s a shade under 2500.

I did start a thread for our VIN numbers, mine is 693.

 

[Logsplitter]

Are the last numbers of the VIN sequential as the vehicles come off of the production line or different numbers for different countries ?. I have a VIN of just over one thousand one hundred. Just trying to get an idea of when mine may arrive and how many have been produced by now.

 

[DCPU]

My working assumption is that they are pretty much sequential. It may well be allocated pre-production and there may well be batching of numbers according to certain parameters.

The issue right now is that the workflow is not normal and so chassis numbers are not arriving at agents in quite the numerical sequence you would expect if they are being issued sequentially.

 

[Jeremy996]

Typically vehicles are batched according to colour, to reduce the number of times the paint line needs to completely cleaned out and a new paint colour set into production.

 

[bemax]

Perhaps the car arriving at the dealership was the answer?

I do not dare to believe my email had such an impact

I will of course give it away as a draft for everyone who needs something to believe in…

 

[bemax]

Typically vehicles are batched according to colour, to reduce the number of times the paint line needs to completely cleaned out and a new paint colour set into production.

This has been discussed some months ago and someone referred to a manufacturer of modern coating facilities for car manufacturers. They can switch between the colours quite good as there seems to be a cleaning system in the coating device. The loss of colour when changing it is ridiculous low. Far lower than I would have bet (and I had the same assumption as you have last autumn)

 

[DesertGecko]

DesertGecko- are you able to check VIN's of Grenadiers on the the Don Carlos?

I reckon if you put your vin into the customer ref number it might tell you.

https://www.walleniuswilhelmsen.com/track-trace

 

[DesertGecko]

This is vessel finder for Don Carlos. Would the cars not be on a car carrier?

https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9011959

 

[DaveB]

This is vessel finder for Don Carlos. Would the cars not be on a car carrier?

https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9011959

Try this one instead

DON CARLOS, Vehicles Carrier - Details and current position - IMO 9122655 - VesselFinder

Vessel DON CARLOS (IMO: 9122655, MMSI: 566088000) is a Vehicles Carrier built in 1997 and currently sailing under the flag of Singapore.

www.vesselfinder.com

 

[DesertGecko]

My thoughts are with the new Grenadier owners. We like that one much better!

 

[DCPU]

This has been discussed some months ago and someone referred to a manufacturer of modern coating facilities for car manufacturers. They can switch between the colours quite good as there seems to be a cleaning system in the coating device. The loss of colour when changing it is ridiculous low. Far lower than I would have bet (and I had the same assumption as you have last autumn)

This thread/post?

I did it again.

Yes, I have ordered another one. Here's why: My change request for a different color was answered so, that I have to cancel the existing order and order a new one. :-( So I did not (yet) cancel my first order, but immediately ordered a second one with my now correct configuration: Donny Grey...

www.theineosforum.com