myidsucks

Thanks - I called and just like you said, they don't know anything. They can only see the delivery date, which is the same as what TYD shows. They suggested having the dealer check and that if there are further delays, I can open a case with them to research further.

myidsucks

When did your car finish production, was it early February?

merrion13

@Harry Wenhr @meyecul @myidsucks I just heard back from my SA. Apparently 121 vehicles were sent from the factory to France due to 'lack of space and delayed loading onto vessels'. He said the August timeline should be extremely conservative but no other update on timing before that for now. Maybe at delivery I ask them for a bumper sticker that shows my car is well traveled before I even put a mile on it...

toph4242

Wow! Never head of this before!! This totally explains why my car was shipped to Leipzig for ED like 2 days after it was finished being built even though Im not going for 2 more months... I knew they had way more space in Leipzig, but they must have been thrilled to see mine needed to get shipped out of there anyways...

myidsucks

Well, that explains why my dealer's system reported my car's location as Creutzwald, France. Sucks that we're all part of the unlucky 121.

meyecul

This does not make any sense for anyone showing step 7 (arriving at the german port) as complete. I can see this for mine as my TYD is still stuck on step 6 even though the shown step 7 date has long passed but its my understanding that the step 7 requires the car being scanned at the port. And then why on earth would those stored cars be forced to sit for months after already being well late? Could be wrong and who knows how deep this all goes, but something seems off with that explanation.

meyecul

In case you are interested. Here is the storage lot where your car is sitting. I found a french article online about this place. Apparently this storage is supposed to be for cars distributed throughout France, not for US bound cars going to the port. So if now Porsche is dumping cars here for lack of space, this does not seem like a good situation at all. If the report is correct and 121 cars bound for the US are sitting here it could be equivalent of a car graveyard. Lets see...6 to 9 cars get loaded onto a transport every so often when Porsche decides to do some yard clean up. Yeah, then Aug then would seem on par. What a mess. I hope this is all bad intel and not the case for any of us.

992carrerat

Right- me too- completion due yesterday-now delayed 30 days.....jt

Cartod

Would be nice if they lifted freeze dates with these delays.

myidsucks

Not a lot about this makes sense but it does add up with what I was told by my dealer. My car scanned into the Emden port yesterday morning after its stay in France and since your car doesn't have that step completed yet, I'd say yours is still in the holding lot in France waiting for a truck to take it up to Emden.

My hope is that the prioritize these cars at Emden since they all were likely built early February (mine was February 2nd), well ahead of cars arriving at Emden now, directly from the factory without the detour to France. However, the ridiculously delayed shipping dates we're all seeing in TYD now, tell me that won't be the case.

myidsucks

Definitely a mess and thanks to your searching, we now have a photo of the lot our cars were moved to. The only good news for me is that my car is now in Emden. The bad news is that it will be there until well into July.

gthal

Depends on the dealer but "same day" is a stretch. They have to prepare the car for delivery, etc. I would bet most cars are at the dealer for at least a couple of days before the owner is able to pick it up and take it home.

nyca

Are they short on ships to transport them? And why a shortage for just 121 cars?

meyecul

Yeah...i think you are right on mine likely still being in that lot then. I have not gotten any kind of confirmation from my SA on an exact location of my car like you did. I did send him a message today asking for this so we will see if possible on his end.

One thing that still differs between mine, yours and the others that have chimed into this is that my further dates have held still. So I guess all I can hope for is that my car leaves that lot (if that is where it is) and get to Emden to stay on schedule.

With this in mind, I cannot see how your car could sit at Emden from now until July. That would be major major extremely long port time for a finished car. Perhaps those long far out dates that ended up in your TYD are just generic placeholders and will all revert back if you get loaded on one of these two ships in the coming week. Thats my hope for you (and also hope my dates in TYD stay put at least).

Radiationman

Oh no, that's only 121 that went to France... There's A LOT more stuck in Emden, and even more that haven't left the factory.