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New car delays.
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More all the Zoomers needing webcams and laptops.
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Had my call today from Audi , delivery next week so it’s been 24/6 delivery eta 13/8 - 7 weeks.
Thats good. The last audi (RS4) we got delivered at work should have been 8 weeks but ended up 14 weeks due to delays and parts issues. Suppose it must depend on the model?
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Indeed. Earlier this week at work I contacted my Dell account manager for a quote on a couple of laptops and monitors. Estimated Delivery Date: 29/10/2021.
Absolutely nuts. Having to bite the bullet and buy off-shelf stock elsewhere at higher cost.
Just got an update on my new car, ordered in February. Latest delivery date is 7th December… it’s gone from June, to August to December. I suspect it’ll be February at the earliest tbh.
Mercedes CLA 35 Shooting Brake (no starry headliner unfortunately!)
Mercedes CLA 35 Shooting Brake (no starry headliner unfortunately!)
Main reason for the delays is the price car manufacturers pay for their chips is historically low so not high enough profit margin for the chip makers to bother running their production lines with as a priority vs GPUs, games consoles & smart phones!
You would think all the major car manufacturers would join together either buy a dedicated factory or build their own rather than rely on the current cartel controlling global chip production! Hey presto problem partially solved
You would think all the major car manufacturers would join together either buy a dedicated factory or build their own rather than rely on the current cartel controlling global chip production! Hey presto problem partially solved
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I ordered a car in June (New Tiguan Active) and ETA was 1st September but now I've been told 1st October. I gave them my old car with a £500 cash deposit so I have no car at the moment. Am I being too hopeful that my car will arrive by 1st October?
The way things are going, you just dont know. I keep hearing more and more people get their car delivery put back a month, then another month, then another month.
yes, with Israel on wave 4, there has to be a concern that wafer fabs productivity could be further impacted, if the likes of Taiwan are hit.
edit: ! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57801031 12 july
Taiwanese firms Foxconn, which makes devices for Apple, and chip giant TSMC brokered the agreements for the BioNTech vaccine, worth $350m (£252m).
edit: ! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57801031 12 july
Taiwanese firms Foxconn, which makes devices for Apple, and chip giant TSMC brokered the agreements for the BioNTech vaccine, worth $350m (£252m).
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I take that back, crisis it all over in the usa, eu/uk to follow
UK just has the maxxed out petrol prices to contend with, peak since 2013, so, that explains the [email protected], i payed saturday
https://qz.com/2046081/us-inflation-data-show-the-used-car-bubble-has-burst/
The price index for used vehicles rose 0.2% in July, after having risen at least 7.3% in each of the previous three months. The category was one of the few, along with hotel rooms and airfares, that drove recent inflation, the economist Paul Krugman pointed out on Twitter.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
UK just has the maxxed out petrol prices to contend with, peak since 2013, so, that explains the [email protected], i payed saturday
https://qz.com/2046081/us-inflation-data-show-the-used-car-bubble-has-burst/
The price index for used vehicles rose 0.2% in July, after having risen at least 7.3% in each of the previous three months. The category was one of the few, along with hotel rooms and airfares, that drove recent inflation, the economist Paul Krugman pointed out on Twitter.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
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That's a shame as the Mercedes app is one of the better ones (in that it actually works). My Audi app on the other hand....I've never had that work in the 11 months I've owned the car.
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have to be nuts buying a new car now.
how deflating paying for a car and only getting half of what you ordered.
how deflating paying for a car and only getting half of what you ordered.
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Thing is, a nearly new car (e.g. sub 1 year old) may be more expensive than a new car.
It most often is especially PCP.
2.9-3.9% with BMW for New..7.9% if its got 100 miles Etc.
That can be over £500 extra per month on an M5