What happens when new cars arrive in port?

murt101

Just curious about what the process is when new cars arrive into either Dublin or Cork ports? Do they get delivered straight to the dealers and what happens next? Do the dealers have much to do or is it a quick inspection, take off the wrappings and hand over to customers?
Just wondering what makes up the 'dealer & delivery charges?

mossy50

come off the boat and driven to compound and given visual checks for damage in transport and then sit there until collected by car transporters for garages

Toyotafanboi

Pretty much yeah. Boat to compound, compound to dealer via truck generally in terms of transport, or occasionally driven from the compound to the dealership depending on quantites/ urgency/ cost reduction etc.

While the cars are in storage at the compound they have to have various spot checks done weekly like test the battery, charge if necessary. Drive a small distance to remove and surface rust from brake discs, spot cleaning where necessary to remove bird crap, fallout etc.

When it gets to the dealer it has to be PDI'd. Which is removing the chocks from the suspension coils, a basic safety check of tyres, brakes etc to make sure theres no factory defects, torque the wheel nuts correctly, top up all fluid levels. The dealer also has to electronically deactivate transport mode and fit some small items like hub caps, aerial whip and if you specd something like a tow bar, mud flaps etc the dealer usually fits those.

Then into valeting to have the wrapping removed, a good clean, fit reg plates, disc holder, floor mats and all the dealership branding tat.

mossy50

And then charge / screw you a small fortune for your new car

monkeysnapper

I went into a dealer enquiring into a car a few months ago , I told him I heard there was a 12 week waiting time to which he said I'll just log into the cork compound ...." There's a couple of red ones, black and white . "

There was a new body / mk so I asked was the ones in cork the new spec which he said no .

I read there a while ago that some new cars are sitting around for a long time , surely that's not a good thing for a car either .

murt101

Thanks for the info. Would it be common for cars to get damaged in transit?
How long does it take from car arriving in port to hand over to customer, is it a week or two?
I'm sure there must be a Discovery program somewhere that follows this cycle, if anyine comes across one let me know, thanks.

Del2005

murt101 wrote: »

Thanks for the info. Would it be common for cars to get damaged in transit?

You can have anything from a small scrape to a write off in transit. Obviously there'll be a lot more scrapes than full scrapages.

Victor

Note that many also come through Rosslare - National Vehicle Distribuion https://www.google.ie/maps/@52.2464666,-6.3569082,554m/data=!3m1!1e3

Tivoli, Cork https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.9048942,-8.4031025,558m/data=!3m1!1e3

Ringaskiddy: https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.8337139,-8.3137755,279m/data=!3m1!1e3

Dublin: https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3542816,-6.2262057,270m/data=!3m1!1e3

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

The dealer also has to electronically deactivate transport mode

What is "transport mode"?

murt101 wrote: »

Thanks for the info. Would it be common for cars to get damaged in transit?

They're only cars, although sometimes there are casualties.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rC4pX4vnNiU/maxresdefault.jpg

https://www.google.ie/search?q=car+transporter+collision&rlz=1C1CHBF_enIE704IE704&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI8K2_7dLVAhXHOhQKHU2jDU8Q_AUICigB&biw=1152&bih=758#imgrc=_

Zurbaran

I used to take them off the boat in an Irish port although this is going back a few years now so it may have changed.

Most common damage would be to the bottom of the bumper and under side of the car when coming off the ramp although this depended on the type of ship, tide and whether the driver cared. VAG cars that came weekly were most affected by this because of the type of ships that were used.

Anything fast that didn't have a rev limiter (most didn't when I was there) on it would be driven hard from cold and sometimes put aside for others to have a go. Used imports were treated with far less respect.

If a car was knowingly damaged it would be "buried" as in they would move a few of an already full row out and then put the damaged one in, this would hide it from the foremen/car company men for a certain amount of time so when they did find the damage it couldn't be pinned on anyone.

Toyotafanboi

Victor wrote: »

What is "transport mode"?

I think it's main purpose is to maintain the cars battery during potentially long periods of storage. It does this by closing out all non essential electronics that may be causing additional draw on the battery like the radio, clock, interior lighting, central locking/ alarm etc which will let the car go into a deeper sleep when it's off without all that stuff running in the background.

It also electronically limits road speed and engine speed, I assume to protect the car before it's been inspected by a dealership mechanic.

corks finest

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