Volkswagen ID3 Delays

In a similar boat to you - it's par for the course at the moment. I ordered a Tour 5 in mid-September. I was told December / January delivery.

In Feb, got two calls each with a bit of different information. Roughly the gist was: Build week looking like mid-April, Delivery in June / July (possibly). Sales rep almost seemed disappointed that I wanted to wait for the Tour5 rather than go for a lower-spec.

Online discussion seems to suggest that priority might also be given to id.4, rather than high-spec id.3, and higher profit margin models.

Fingers crossed for you - that is a positive step 🙂

I contacted VW, since I only have the commission number and no VIN yet. They were the ones that were able to give the more detail of mid-April (build week 18, I think). Dealer was nebulous with "second-half of the year, June/July at best"

Yes , and they referred me

I've ordered a Tour 5 in October and have also been told Build Week 18. It'll be interesting to see what happens to earlier orders to get an idea of how reliable the build week estimate is.

I have to say, it also sounds like the dealers you were dealing with basically lied to you on when to expect the car if they said ordering in September/October would deliver by 1 Jan. I spoke to my dealer first in early September, he was telling me that orders they were taking then they weren't expecting to deliver until March 2022 at the least. So I at least knew that my wait would be at least 6 months.

It was going to the US so unless VW has a crazy route for deliveries it shouldn't be any European orders. Question is how it might impact production schedules if they need to remake any cars.

I wonder if "technical alternatives" is like Tesla who removed a couple of USB ports from some models because of component shortages.