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well that’s disconcerting. Mine is just a Macan S so I don’t have the TYD. I just have to email my SA and get updates. He hasn’t given me one in a couple of days. I plan on giving him until Monday before I ask for any info as they probably won’t have any until then really. I don’t think they will know the extent of damage until offloading in Houston.
+ My car is on the ship along with several of RL'ers here.
+ The ship hit some very heavy weather during it's crossing.
+ SFL Composer is now in the Gulf of Mexico and will be docking in 2 days
+ After docking, Porsche USA will be hand inspecting and driving all cars remaining aboard to inspect for damage.
+ As noted above, the weather was so heavy that "numerous" cars were dislodged in the cargo hold -- either hitting the inside of the ship or other cars.
+ Porsche USA will be making a car-by-car determination as to their fitness for delivery or whether repairs can be made to damaged cars (or not).
+ This is setting back any deliveries coming from the Houston port to potentially 2-4 weeks late -- if you are lucky enough to have a deliverable car.
I guess the broader question is, in an era of more extreme weather, will this become more and more of an issue re: cars coming from Germany/Europe?
While more expensive, should the loading/shipping of these cars be handled differently as a result?
well that’s disconcerting. Mine is just a Macan S so I don’t have the TYD. I just have to email my SA and get updates. He hasn’t given me one in a couple of days. I plan on giving him until Monday before I ask for any info as they probably won’t have any until then really. I don’t think they will know the extent of damage until offloading in Houston.
Yea, well I am assuming it is a place holder. My SA mentioned that they did not have any clarity, and only when the boat reaches Houston. Hope to know more next week,
SFL Composer Update:
+ Porsche USA will be making a car-by-car determination as to their fitness for delivery or whether repairs can be made to damaged cars (or not).
I don't even want to think of the scenario where some of the cars are so damaged they deem them undeliverable. Do those customers go back to the end of the queue in that case and wait another 6 months?
Sort of related, how were the lost cars from Felicity Ace handled? Did all the customers get new orders in and were distributed among the current ones or back to the end of the queue?
Mine is showing 2023 also. Not sure if this is a "all cars get bumped way back" or if there has been some individual determination as to the condition of each car -- notably ours.
Hmmmm....
EDIT: SA says that ALL cars on the SFL Composer got the +100-150 day TYD bump until more is known after car-by-car inspections that should commence late this week as the boat gets unloaded in Houston.
Maybe someone on the SFL Conductor left their cell phone back in Emden and they had to turn around? At least she made it stateside. Next stop, Baltimore before getting loaded up on a truck destined for Cincinnati
Mine is showing 2023 also. Not sure if this is a "all cars get bumped way back" or if there has been some individual determination as to the condition of each car -- notably ours.
Hmmmm....
EDIT: SA says that ALL cars on the SFL Composer got the +100-150 day TYD bump until more is known after car-by-car inspections that should commence late this week as the boat gets unloaded in Houston.
That is good to know. They have been hot tailing it across the gulf the last 24 hours at about 17.3 knots and should have no trouble making it to port tomorrow, except………. It seems they have hit another storm in the Gulf of Mexico and have slowed. It does not appear to be nearly as bad as the storm in the Atlantic was but I just assume at this
point that someone who has a car on the Composer is cursed.
Wish I could be so lucky. My GT3 arrived in Jax and I’ve been waiting, checking hourly but so far the dream tracker says it’s still waiting for a truck.
My dealer is in Kingsport TN some 430ish miles north. I’d Love to see it this weekend. The last few days have been the hardest so far.
How do you check on it and see it's waiting for a truck?
Why aren't we hearing any news about the cars that were unloaded in Rhode Island from the Composer? Surely not all the cars that were damaged are going to Houston?
Why aren't we hearing any news about the cars that were unloaded in Rhode Island from the Composer? Surely not all the cars that were damaged are going to Houston?
That is exactly what is keeping my hopeful, there were almost 700 Porsches offloaded in Rhode Island, surely we would have heard something by now.
Same here. Confucius went to Mexico instead of back to Emden. I’m really hoping our cars hop a ride on Siem Aristotle, which is at Emden now. But we really need a new schedule to make any reasonable guess.
I'm hoping you are right, my dates have changed again on TYD, car is due in Baltimore on 4-15 now, so hopefully they are in the process of loading our cars on Aristotle. Aristotle wasn't originally scheduled to go to Baltimore but maybe they added the stop to their schedule.
I'm hoping you are right, my dates have changed again on TYD, car is due in Baltimore on 4-15 now, so hopefully they are in the process of loading our cars on Aristotle. Aristotle wasn't originally scheduled to go to Baltimore but maybe they added the stop to their schedule.
I’m due in Baltimore on 4/15 now as well, but my on vessel date is also a week later on 4-1…..that makes me skeptical we’ll be on Aristotle as it has been docked for a couple days already.
03-22-2022, 04:26 PM
