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Ordered a new car, Mini Countryman, back in April. Due to a worldwide shortage of microchips there’s been a number of delays and just been told today delivery will now be the last week of December.
I know it’s a First World problem and it is what it is really, but anyone else with similar experiences?
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Originally Posted by fingers
Ya, trying to get a ticket to watch Cardiff City
Read about plenty of people ordering new cars through the Motability scheme experiencing similar delays. We were fortunate in that the vehicle we wanted was already in stock, but if we needed one manufactured to order we'd be waiting til the end of the year.
i was in the same boat with the colour I wanted but managed to get my second choice colour .Luckily one 1 available in the whole UK so nabbed that one and that was back in March
other wise would have been November at the earliest !
Second hand cars, vans and lorries are silly money at the moment too.
I need to change my beaten up old Focus by the end of the month as the MOT runs out and it's not going to pass another without a few nuggets being spent on it.
I do less than a 1000 miles a year, so I just need a reliable old workhorse for back and forth work. Anyone selling a cheapy?
Send us a PMQuote:
Originally Posted by valleys caveman
Will you take my 180,000 mile, 16 year old Focus in as part ex? It's the LX model :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by dembethewarrior
Got a 10 year old car. Need it gone and not asking the world :thumbup: less than 60k miles send us a PM it's a good car from a to bQuote:
Originally Posted by valleys caveman
Of course .Quote:
Originally Posted by valleys caveman
How much do you want to spend?
New cars vans , trucks are non existent at the moment. We are being quoted 2nd quarter for new vehicle orders at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by fingers
Thats a posh way of saying March onwards next year . On almost everything.
Tempt me with your wares JJ.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy the Jock
Let me have a look on monday .Quote:
Originally Posted by valleys caveman
We will of course allow you the minimum part ex allowance of £1500 against your present chariot.
Shortage of steel
Mills on quotas
Steel has doubled in price
Components extremely difficult to get hold
Delivery times for the stuff I deal with has increased from 4 or 5 weeks to 18 weeks
It is getting worrying
I was only thinking of spending £1500 so that part ex allowance you're offering sounds tidy. :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy the Jock
Anything with 12 months MOT will do :thumbup:
I’m seeing the same in LCV
World - demand has been crazy since first lockdown. Real long lead times on popular models well into 2022 without exaggeration.
What’s arriving into the UK now was sold well in advance.
ULEZ expanding in London is panicking a lot into getting a Euro6 compliance to avoid £24 a day!
Yep, still struggling to get my hands on a PS5 because of the same issues. I'm not busting a gut to get one but everytime I check they are "unavailable".Quote:
Originally Posted by fingers
You know why there's a worldwide shortage of Micro Chips......:sherlock:Quote:
Originally Posted by fingers
That's bragging on this board. We can't all have a 'Focus'Quote:
Originally Posted by valleys caveman
A heady mix of Brexit, Covid and a factory fire https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-ne...chip-shortage/Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Not just steel & microchips, many other components as well. My employer uses both plus we’re one of the worlds largest users of TFTs, our global allocation is down 77%. We supply every car & motorcycle manufacturer (except Ford), including 100% for Mini, you can imagine that every company are claiming they should have priority.
What are TFTs?Quote:
Originally Posted by Des Parrot
the automotive world tend to use acronyms and stand for Temperature Fluid systems i guess des will clarify
lost a contract back a few months ago because of this world wide material shortage in the auto world
Wouldn't that be TFS?Quote:
Originally Posted by MOZZER2
temperature fluid temperature systems i think tuerto
theres so many terms used in that industry its hard to keep up and i spent almost 6 years in it !
des is on the ball he will know
I ordered my wife's car on Motability back on May 10th.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
It is a Peugeot 5008 1.2 Puretech GT trim.
Was told it would be July delivery at time of order, then October. My dealer phoned a couple of weeks ago and said it would now be September although there was no actual build date yet.
I won't hold my breath!
Thin film transistor, used for displays, we use them in our Head up displays & instrument clusters. We also use also use LCDs & OLEDs. When there’s a global shortage like now, I’m sure you can imagine the dog fight for the available raw material & parts.Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardM
From Wiki, we make car dashboards, instrument displays & head up displays, you can see the big players we’re fighting against for parts
A thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT LCD) is a variant of a liquid-crystal display (LCD) that uses thin-film-transistor (TFT) technology[1] to improve image qualities such as addressability and contrast. A TFT LCD is an active matrix LCD, in contrast to passive matrix LCDs or simple, direct-driven[clarification needed] LCDs with a few segments.
TFT LCDs are used in appliances including television sets, computer monitors, mobile phones, handheld devices, video game systems, personal digital assistants, navigation systems, projectors and car dashboards.
Got a customer with a Ford Custom on Order from February and originally due July.
Told him 3 times about various delays with latest being December.
He isn’t moaning about it (in fact he is laughing) as he is currently getting £2500 more for his PX from a well known website.
By the time he eventually gets his new Van his cost to change will have dropped on current trends by around £3500 and his old van will have about 25k miles more!!
Thats cleared that one up .:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Des Parrot
:-)
We are getting around 5 to 8 k a van more than we expected for my hire company disposals.Quote:
Originally Posted by 19bluebirds27
Bearing in mind our discounts , a transit limited custom has lost less us than £2000 holding costs over three years .
Problem is now I cant get replacement vehicles. There is nothing about to buy today .
Your friend should pop his van down to WBAC and find out how much that little scratch is really going to cost him.( It will )
I bought a 65 plate of one of my customers last year and they valued it £7500 so I bought it for £7000
I traded it for just over £8,000
The trader sold it for £9,500 which is fine that's the way it works.
WBAC are still emailing me trying to buy that van offering £11,000 trade ...mad....
It's alright if you already have a car on the scheme as you can just extend your current lease, but if you're new to the scheme and waiting for your first car it could be a bit of a pain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elwood Blues
I know it’s bonkers, I have never before seen natural equity at the end of PCP’s and Finance Leases - some eye watering too.
Usually contract hire firms will allow you to extent your contract at the end,
But I’m finding that some won’t for too long as they want that vehicle back to dispose of it now while the values are so high.
But your right it’s being able to get hold of the new replacement is difficult and the in many cases an unknown wait.
It has now developed into a catch 22 . Customers need a vehicle, which we cant supply , but we want to cash in on their vehicle.Quote:
Originally Posted by 19bluebirds27
Taking vehicles off customers isn't a great idea going forward.
There is literally nothing about and dealers dont want to be supplying rental company's at discounted rates when there is retail customers fighting over their product.
And in my spam box this morning WBAC the same 65 plate transit custom ( not a limited ) £10800 . That is incredible .
It's a great time to try and wiggle out of finance on a car you don't like and you're after something in stock.Quote:
Originally Posted by fingers
I was 15 months into a 48 month personal contract hire for a car that was massively underwhelming (an Audi A7), done 7k miles (having expecting to be double that with work travel etc...), went to VW and got myself the new Tiguan R which (lucky for me, there was one in stock in the UK which Mon Motors had!), but they were quoting minimum 5 month waiting times on factory order.
You normally get stung trying to end finance early but I paid a couple of hundred quid to get out on condition I took a new PCH with VW (preferential termination). Basically the motor industry are scrambling for stock, especially nearly new and low mileage.
All personal preference but I've got myself a car I enjoy more and have saved myself a few £k over the remaining life of the original agreement.
Normally I would be quite happy to wait, but my wife is increasingly in need of a hoist to help her to get in the car.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
It is not worth putting it in my current motability car, it would be too expensive, but when you get a new car it will be available at a subsidised rate, and I have already ordered it with the Peugeot.