All I'm going to claim is that your VINView track is the Silver Sky. Could VINView be referencing the wrong ship and your vehicle is actually on a different ship? Arriving on 2/7? Maybe. We still don't know how it would have boarded the Silver Sky. Who knows? You could get a call from the dealer to tell you your Hyundai Tucson has arrived.
I just about choked on my coffee!! I could dream my order is on Grand Vision but the dates sure don’t line up and possibly Vinview is messing us up. Only time will tell. I asked the dealer if they have seen any other orders that had been built virtually months ago. Their answer was No!! To be honest, I’m not sure any dealers in Canada have recieved any orders as I have searched inventory of 24 Nautilus but none found. I keep saying only time will tell and I’m prepared to wait til spring for delivery!
By Grand View do you mean Grand Vision?
Yes Grand Vision and Portland. Thanks.
On my original orider last activity 1-17 and the sticker finally became available with a date of 1-23 printed on the bottom center. Of course I am not taking delivery on that one any longer.“The researchers.”
As Swindler mentioned, the day that Lincoln says your car was “shipped” doesn’t mean it was placed aboard a ship. Most of us waited 10-14 days before ours was loaded onto a vessel after receiving the notification of shipping. What we did notice is that when our vehicle was placed on an actual vessel the Lincoln tracking site showed that date in the “last updated” field. So what you’ll need to do is check the tracking site everyday then when you see a new date. Then we’ll have a better idea.
I will also add that “the researchers” had a lot of intel during the first three shipments. Many people here and in the FB group were passing along info on a daily basis. AND…AND, several of us were researching regularly so that we had near real time data on ship movements. I actually joked with my wife that we between us we had constant surveillance on the port of Shanghai and Portland. That is important because if I was gone for 10 hours or whatever, I knew that others here had checked and filled in the gap.
Well now that stream has lessened considerably and we’re not researching as much because our orders are all in Portland now.
We do know what you can expect approximately 2 weeks after “ship date” it should move to a vessel which will take 20-30 days to arrive in Portland (or New Westminster for Canada). Thereafter, it’s about 30 days to dealer although it seems like possibly much longer for some.
My current order (from dealer stock) was on the Glovis also. Built on 11-28 and left Shanghai on 12-18. I have been looking in the ford forums on decoding the all those numbers on the sticker. My ramp one code is CH02 which is the final destination rail yard. There is also (I think) a rail car number too. Info is sketchy. Looks like the build them in batches. Mine is 1045 out of 2008. (1045/2008 top right of sticker). A lot of interesting information embedded on there.
Very interesting and logical.
Where did you find the car initials?
At the top of the window sticker it will say "9-Normal" the next 2 characters are the initials. the next 6 are the rail car number.
My understanding is that you had to get the rail car number from the dealer and this number is something else.
That is also what I thought. I checked other forums where people tracked vehicles and it seemed to work. Also the number on my window sticker actually matches a rail car. Could be coincidence or just a place holder though. It would be nice to see if anyone whos car has definitely been loaded on the train can track it and see if the rail car number matches.
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