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Hey @kurquhart , TYD is showing my 911-T is leaving the port on 2/10/24. Based on your table above, it looks to be the nest vessel after Siem Confucius. Any idea what that vessel may be and if the data is available for that 2/10/24 departure and arrival into Benicia as I'm in the SF Bay Area so my destination will be Benicia?
TYD dates are not super accurate, so it could be any boat in that timeframe. Unfortunately, VW is not very good a posting updated shipping schedules. We are almost through week 4, but the latest posted is week 3. If you want to check for when new schedules are posted, go to https://www.pwl.de/en and scroll down to the ePortal section. Select TradeLane: US West and East Coast and Carrier: Volkswagen.
Rejoining this thread for my latest 992 order. This time a Targa 4S in PTS Oslo Blue over a Heritage Package - Classic interior. The next 4 months will feel like an eternity!
TYD dates are not super accurate, so it could be any boat in that timeframe. Unfortunately, VW is not very good a posting updated shipping schedules. We are almost through week 4, but the latest posted is week 3. If you want to check for when new schedules are posted, go to https://www.pwl.de/en and scroll down to the ePortal section. Select TradeLane: US West and East Coast and Carrier: Volkswagen.
You can also email PWL asking for their latest schedule, and they usually respond quite quickly (when people ask nicely). Here are the email addresses of the ladies working on the schedule:
@kurquhart one more question or you. If there is no date on the vessels currently shown for Benicia, then it's quite possible that it's not docking them to unload, so right now if my TYD date is showing 2/10 for departing, then it's not likely it can leave earlier, only later since those ships have no docking dates for Benicia... Would that be a correct assumption?
@kurquhart one more question or you. If there is no date on the vessels currently shown for Benicia, then it's quite possible that it's not docking them to unload, so right now if my TYD date is showing 2/10 for departing, then it's not likely it can leave earlier, only later since those ships have no docking dates for Benicia... Would that be a correct assumption?
I think that is accurate, yes. As a general rule, the ships go only to East or West coast. However, West coast ships occasionally make stops on the East coast. I have not heard of an East coast ship going to West, though.
Here is the latest Stena Glovis schedule for West coast. There may be other shipping companies, though. BTW, there is a separate thread going for West coast deliveries: https://rennlist.com/forums/west-us-...an-2024-a.html
In the final production pictures, why do some cars, like @freesole ’s, have an excessive gap between the top of the front tire and the fender, while others, like @audi4t ’s, have a normal gap?
In the final production pictures, why do some cars, like @freesole ’s, have an excessive gap between the top of the front tire and the fender, while others, like @audi4t ’s, have a normal gap?
But if you take a look at the "Left Front Axle Lift on Overnight" thread, Porsche explicitly tells users to not leave FAL activated while the car is parked (because it may damage the system's hydraulics). Can you imagine the stresses a FAL system would be exposed to if it were left active during shipping and transport? If the FAL is indeed left on by Porsche, perhaps this is the cause of the system failures some customers have been experiencing?
@freesole and @audi4t, if you guys are here, let us know if you ordered FAL on your cars?
Another possibility is, the front shocks have not had time to settle after manufacturing has completed?
But if you take a look at the "Left Front Axle Lift on Overnight" thread, Porsche explicitly tells users to not leave FAL activated while the car is parked (because it may damage the system's hydraulics). Can you imagine the stresses a FAL system would be exposed to if it were left active during shipping and transport? If the FAL is indeed left on by Porsche, perhaps this is the cause of the system failures some customers have been experiencing?
@freesole and @audi4t, if you guys are here, let us know if you ordered FAL on your cars?
Another possibility is, the front shocks have not had time to settle after manufacturing has completed?
Anyone have thoughts or other ideas on this?
I think it’s an optical illusion on different colors.
EDIT: those two pictures also seem to have been taken from different angles. Perhaps two different areas with different cameras?
I think it’s an optical illusion on different colors.
EDIT: those two pictures also seem to have been taken from different angles. Perhaps two different areas with different cameras?
Humm…
Here’s mine, and it also seems to have the gap, I do have FAL, by the way.
But then again, my car is a darker color. May be it is an optical illusion that appears on darker cars, as you say?
Anyone have a production pic of a lighter car with FAL?
But if you take a look at the "Left Front Axle Lift on Overnight" thread, Porsche explicitly tells users to not leave FAL activated while the car is parked (because it may damage the system's hydraulics). Can you imagine the stresses a FAL system would be exposed to if it were left active during shipping and transport? If the FAL is indeed left on by Porsche, perhaps this is the cause of the system failures some customers have been experiencing?
@freesole and @audi4t, if you guys are here, let us know if you ordered FAL on your cars?
Another possibility is, the front shocks have not had time to settle after manufacturing has completed?
Anyone have thoughts or other ideas on this?
See these two pictures. May not be resting fully on its wheels at this stage, or hasn’t rolled at all to compress the suspension. Similar to when you jack the car up in your garage and first set it down. I do have FAL. Looking through the pics in this thread most I could see look elevated.
Last edited by Jeff Whitten; 01-28-2024 at 01:28 AM.
You may have solved the mystery!
(I didn’t get the “raised platform” photo).
Nice color and wheel selection 😀 !
I edited my post after because it looks like the center platform is fully lowered in the pic. But I think it just hasn’t rolled to settle the suspension.
01-27-2024, 03:59 PM
