European Delivery - Day of - Timing, etc
07-30-2021 | 03:56 AM
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Finalizing my details by Monday (flights and hotel) for the ED of my GT3 for third week September. Apparently the car has been produced last week. Surprised about the early production of the car when it was slated for September production. ED is still a thing I guess.
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07-30-2021 | 09:35 AM
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07-30-2021 | 09:44 AM
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I agree with that. It is mildly interesting but really is just the assembly area...you do not see panels being formed for instance. I have done it twice and next time I will probably skip.
07-30-2021 | 09:52 AM
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07-30-2021 | 11:23 AM
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Recognizing you are different since you are ED, it probably still be worth another check on your lock date. Mine just moved up almost a whole month and locks in a little over one day.
Not that the TYD lock date means anything since mine has shifted many times, including twice within about 24 hours of lock date. My car was originally scheduled to be complete by now (before the CA manual issue came up).
Not that the TYD lock date means anything since mine has shifted many times, including twice within about 24 hours of lock date. My car was originally scheduled to be complete by now (before the CA manual issue came up).
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07-30-2021 | 03:51 PM
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Mine started on 7/16 but it shows 9/3 as the estimated complete date.
07-30-2021 | 04:00 PM
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thats good news, its like magic to me, to see where my car was born, I think its the best factory tour Ive seen so far, look for the race car bodies in the racks above the factory floor, If ED is still at Werks 1, youre in history, where it all began, lucky few to make the pilgrimage, I heard Dr. Porsche has an office there thats untouched and no you cant see it, look in the parking lot in front there, sometimes you can see the executives cars there, Keep your eyes open never know what or who you might see around town, Once walking to the mall in Stuttgart I saw Dieter Zetsche get put of a Designo S65 Coupe
07-30-2021 | 05:21 PM
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For what it is worth, I have a top notch Paint Correction/PPF/Ceramic installer that tells me the factory PPF is not nearly as good a film as Xpel or SunTech. Of course .... he may just be saying that about the "competition"!!!
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07-31-2021 | 03:51 PM
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ok, so its a bit of a hassle and Id be annoyed to miss the Porsche Museum, but 5 days, here's my suggestion, day 1 fly in to Stuttgart, or if you want to go 150 mph on a train fly into Fra and take the ICE-3, get off train at Hauptbahnhoff and walk to Le Meriden or Zeppelin, rest or shop rest of day, if you're there early enough take S-Bahn to Mercedes Museum.day 2 usually euro delivery has factory tour and then car delivery, I heard theres now 2 tours one for original factory the other for Taycan, see if you can do both, it might take 2 separate days, drive car back to hotel, if you go back to Porsche take S-Bahn. faster/cheaper, Day 3 try Audi factory/museum drive to Ingolstadt, Maybe you can drive to Sindelfingen/Stuttgart to Mercedes factory tour same day, day 4, drive to Munich BMW museum/Factory Tour, day 5 drop your car off at Porsche, if you have any loose time, Auto und Technik Museum in Sinsheim, rmember Coivd-19 might jack up all your plans, and Germans dont play, if they say you're quarantined guess what, they mean it. My ED was pick up Stuttgart. next day Ingolstadt, then drove to Leipzig factory tour, (only can drive track you pick up there) the I drove to Autostadt in Wolfsburg, then to the Ring for 3 laps and back to stuttgart, it was a whirlwind tour, let me suggest if your wavering can you do a PEC tour here at home? My rule for Germany check make sure there aren't any weird holidays ruining your time, the German word for closed is geschlossen, make me suicidal to fly across planet and stuffs closed on holidays, my rule for Germany is get there Tuesday and leave Sunday, museums are closed Monday, I believe Porsche still runs factory tours on Mondays
thanks for such a detailed reply! And great advice.
since it seems so much is up in the air, and uncertainty continuing we decided to just take PECLA delivery.
But I am going to hopefully get an allocation for another car soon that we can do euro delivery on next year. Hopefully we can time it for better weather.
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08-02-2021 | 03:55 AM
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Originally Posted by disden
that is the least important reason to consider Euro Delivery. Anyone can do that tour anytime, nothing special about it honestly other than saying you were there.
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08-20-2021 | 08:47 PM
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This is how I returned my GT4 in 2015:
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08-20-2021 | 08:53 PM
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From Google, with direct routing, it is looking like 6000 km and change.