GS just entered the Columbia River. The 19:00 ETA was actually UTC, which means she's already an hour late. Figure a few more hours.
So from here it should take about 2 weeks to get to the dealer if I am one of the lucky ones. Is it going to arrive today for sure, and do you know if the Lincoln tracker updates right when it arrives.
The only thing that might delay it is if they need a tug crew and they're not available. In that case it'll anchor today and dock later. Either way, I'm going to guess it won't unload until Monday, just because we've seen that before.
How long would you say from here to delivery. Are they unloaded by being driven off the boat or are they already put in rail car boxes and they unload the boxes.
That' ok I got the jist. How they know which key is for which vehicle then. And which vehicle goes where how do they figure all that out. How long did the average person get there's after.
I believe they leave the keys in the vehicles. The vehicles all have bar codes on the them which helps identify their routing. The rest I guess is up to organizational skills. Personally, I'd keep all the keys in a big pile on my desk. "Wait, did you say the Black Label hybrid with the Jet Appearance package and the Black Label Chromatic color? Which one? I have seven!"
I called my salesman and he said March 28. To take delivery.
I can almost guarantee you that is an ESTIMATE and it could change. There's no way for a dealer to know 2 weeks out whether an in-transit car will be delivered in time to make a customer delivery on a specific date. I hope he's accurate for you. But I would not plan too much on it being that exact date.
So cal, so I’m not as far from Portland. I am hoping to understand what ‘on the road’ means and when it shows up in the process? After being offloaded from the ship or not until loaded onto a rail car? I wouldn’t think this is location specific?
Location definitely makes a difference in transit time… I am not looking for predictions in transit time. I am hoping someone who’s had VinView printouts can help me with the term “on the road”. I’d like to know what triggers that term changing on the VinView - is it rail car? Truck? Landing in Portland? Might anyone know? Swindler, or anyone with prior printouts to review?
I think our cars are together Mine just updated to 3/9 from 2/19 today. My dealer said end of March (Chicago area)
When it's on rail the status will be 'On Rail'. I can't say for 100% about waiting in Portland. Even though mine was there for three weeks, I never got a VINView that showed the status. However, my vehicle did say 'On the road' while sitting idle in Shanghai waiting for a boat. So I imagine it would said 'On the road' while sitting idle in Portland waiting for a train. You may want to scan the VINView uploads that have been posted on this thread.
There's no way for us to tell you that. You'll get a status date change reflecting probably today's date. We have no idea how long from there to a railcar because we've seen times all over the place. We do know that once you get a status update that corresponds with a railcar entry, it should be about 2 weeks. But exceptions abound.
Thank you, that’s exactly the info I was looking for. This would mean it was still sitting in Portland on my the last VinView update. I agree, I believe the update on 3/7 was to a rail car, I was just confused with the ‘on the road’ while it was sitting in Portland. This makes me happy - I’m in the home stretch now and should have my car within a few weeks.
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