Wait times for new cars

When I retired I bought a second hand '04 Vauxhall astra, it was three years old but only 8000 on the clock. It has now done 87000,still going well,, and while it is still compliant with the ULEZ requirements I will keep it.

kittylester

Not the ones you are normally alluding too fp.

I guess the children digging in the Congo for the minerals needed for the chips, of which there is a worldwide shortage just need to dig a bit harder.

China needs to drop its zero Covid policy also, then hey presto all will be right in the world eh Fleurpepper ?

(Irony post)

Not the ones you are normally alluding too fp.

So broken supply chain ;)

No, fp, lack of supply of chips from China.

Of course nothing to do with broken supply chains - I am sure.

I waited 8 months for a new Golf. The reason cited was shortage of computer chips. Lovely to drive but too clever for its own good, everything touch screen or slider control which drives me mad, what happened to ordinary knobs you just turned up and down! Goodness how long I’d have waited for an electric model , I bought petrol.

My son bought a hybrid, he was going for a Kia but the promised delivery date kept changing and he thought they were being less than honest. His current car was a Mazda so he spoke to a few Mazda dealers who had a new model out, it was more expensive than he wanted to pay but he does love a Mazda. He took it for a test drive and was given a delivery date of a month ahead. A few weeks later he got a phone call from the dealer asking if he'd be willing to take the top of the range vehicle in the same colour, that week at no additional charge. As being a new model they wanted them on the road ASAP. He agreed and has been happily driving it for around a month and absolutely loves it to bits. We have our own EV charger which makes him happy as he recharges the battery overnight at less than 8p a KW which is much cheaper than the cost of petrol currently.

We could sell our eight month old EV for £10,000 more than we paid for it according to the dealer but buying it, even with the long wait, was the best thing ever. In the last 7 months we averaged around 1,000km/month and it has cost us not a penny to charge. I reckon our timing was perfect.

Ordered our new Kia EV ten months ago and have been told we may get it next March now. Originally due to arrive July, then September, now unknown.

I was lucky then my new Yaris came through early after only 3 months wait, some popular models have very long lead times, one or two brands have stopped taking orders.

I always run my cars into the ground in answer to Hithere. When they go for scrap I've saved plenty of cash to buy another good secondhand car because I didn't waste thousands on a new car ever. The costs of maintenance and repairs are trivial by comparison with the vast premium paid for a new car.

I was hoping to give my 2007 Corolla to my granddaughter who is 18 early next year but I have to hang on to it because of the long wait.

15 week wait for my new car apparently. The price is locked in as is the trade in for my current car. I'm getting (eventually) a VW Up. It's very small and just what I need for my fairly limited lifestyle.

My old car failed its MOT last year and needed lots of welding work. It was a 2003 model and was very cheap to buy (£375) but I had it for 3.5 years. Scrap value was £211! Replaced with a 2010 car 12 months ago, which cost more but very happy with it.

So let me ask you, what do you do when your car breaks down and cannot be repaired (total loss)?

My now just 2 year old Audi, I had to wait 6 months for, difficulties in computer parts getting to Germany.

My son waited 10 months for his new car as well. Good time to sell second hand cars, but replacing that's a different story.

Here the dealerships have plenty of cars in stock

At some point, it was hard to find the model you wanted, specially if it was a minivan, very popular in the US

Grantanow I am with you, until recently I had a Toyota Yaris, which I bought when it was 4 years, ran it for 15 years, and would still be running it, if someone had not driven into it and written it off.

I expect its replacement, a Hyundai i20, 10 years old, with 65,000 miles on the clock, to run for as long as I ran my Yaris, assuming I live that long.

I'm sticking with my petrol Volvo V70 - first registered 2006 and counting! - even though the road tax is high. I bought it a few years ago for £8,500 and it's only done 80,000 miles. Why waste hard-earned money on a new car and add to factory pollution?

I have a top of the range car, very low mileage and a sought after model apparently?

I am receiving at least two emails a week from the dealership asking me to consider selling it back to them and go on the waiting list for a new model.

I drove on a very busy M6 on Saturday and only saw one 72 plate. Must be rare things everywhere.

My SIL has been waiting for ever for a new electric Peugeot 3008. I think it is being delivered this week. I'm sure he ordered it nearly a year ago.

Last June we were told by two main dealers not to bother ordering a new car because they had no idea when the order would be fulfilled, but it would be at least a year.
We searched the internet for a newly new model with the spec we wanted and the main dealer had it delivered so we could test drive it. There was no obligation to buy, but we did.

how are you finding it Bertha? it's what I have ordered too!