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johncard007

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Hi guys

I have ordered a shiney new Panda cross Twin air in Tropicalia yellow. As I have specified it with the 'Winter Pack', reverse parking Sensors (I am always overly cautious reversing) and tinted windows, the dealership - Stoneacre in Stafford have given me a delivery time of 3 months (I ordered 23rd February) meaning an expected delivery date of end of May. I was wondering if anyone who had ordered individually specced Fiats have found that they are delivered sooner or later? I'm hoping that the dealers err on the side of caution and quote a slightly longer delivery time than they actually expect so as not to disappoint their customers.

Any comments would be appreciated, thanks fellas!
 
johncard007 said:
Hi guys

I have ordered a shiney new Panda cross Twin air in Tropicalia yellow. As I have specified it with the 'Winter Pack', reverse parking Sensors (I am always overly cautious reversing) and tinted windows, the dealership - Stoneacre in Stafford have given me a delivery time of 3 months (I ordered 23rd February) meaning an expected delivery date of end of May. I was wondering if anyone who had ordered individually specced Fiats have found that they are delivered sooner or later? I'm hoping that the dealers err on the side of caution and quote a slightly longer delivery time than they actually expect so as not to disappoint their customers.

Any comments would be appreciated, thanks fellas!
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I have a Panda on order. Expecting delivery in the next ten days after what has seemed an eternity. Your dealer is giving you an accurate quote. At the moment I think Fiat are building and selling huge numbers of Pandas all over Europe. Popular with Joe Bloggs and with car hire firms in holiday resorts.

Your dealer should give you regular updates as to the build progress of your car on the production lines of the various Panda models. Once built of course it has to be transported via container ship to the UK and then transport to Bristol Port, delivery to the dealer, pre-inspect etc, etc.
 
The first years road tax is swallowed up in the cost of the car to purchase. Whether the dealer foots the cost or it's integrated into the final bill and added by the dealer I don't know.
 
I just heard this morning that Fiat have added a couple more weeks to my order due to "delivery problems at the factory". My car is now at the port and joins a backlog of cars.
 
johncard007 said:
The first years road tax is swallowed up in the cost of the car to purchase. Whether the dealer foots the cost or it's integrated into the final bill and added by the dealer I don't know.
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Usually you can find two different prices for a car, one is the list price, and the other is the "OTR" (on the road) price. The list price is the actual cost of the car, and then the OTR price is basically an extra charge made by the dealer which covers the cost of first year road tax, the vehicle registration, the cost of numberplates, and possibly even a tank of petrol for some dealerships.

So it is basically included into the price by the dealer.
 
Ordered mine on 16th March. Was a Red one starting on the production line so they tried to get my specific options updated to the vehicles production schedule. Based on that was a 7-8 week estimate. The date on the agreement is 10 weeks tho. So yeah 2-3 months is to be expected. My last new car was at the dealership with my required spec so got that after a couple weeks.
 
johncard007 said:
Hi guys

I have ordered a shiney new Panda cross Twin air in Tropicalia yellow. As I have specified it with the 'Winter Pack', reverse parking Sensors (I am always overly cautious reversing) and tinted windows, the dealership - Stoneacre in Stafford have given me a delivery time of 3 months (I ordered 23rd February) meaning an expected delivery date of end of May. I was wondering if anyone who had ordered individually specced Fiats have found that they are delivered sooner or later? I'm hoping that the dealers err on the side of caution and quote a slightly longer delivery time than they actually expect so as not to disappoint their customers.

Any comments would be appreciated, thanks fellas!
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I bought a 1.2 Easy back in 2012 when the latest Panda had just come out.

I think ours was around 2 and a half months from the order date. Not sure if the system is the same now, but I remember the sales guy checked into one of the internal systems to see if there were any Easy models in turquoise blue that were already scheduled to be built that he could add my options to.

My understanding was that this was supposed to speed things up a bit. Maybe we did manage to gain a couple of weeks :)
 
johncard007 said:
Hi guys

I have ordered a shiney new Panda cross Twin air in Tropicalia yellow. As I have specified it with the 'Winter Pack', reverse parking Sensors (I am always overly cautious reversing) and tinted windows, the dealership - Stoneacre in Stafford have given me a delivery time of 3 months (I ordered 23rd February) meaning an expected delivery date of end of May. I was wondering if anyone who had ordered individually specced Fiats have found that they are delivered sooner or later? I'm hoping that the dealers err on the side of caution and quote a slightly longer delivery time than they actually expect so as not to disappoint their customers.

Any comments would be appreciated, thanks fellas!
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We ordered our new Panda two days after you, on 25 Feb. I've just been told ours will be built mid-April for delivery mid-May, so hopefully you can shave a week or two off your ETA. Your dealer should know the build week by now and should be able to update you accordingly.
 
Phils panda said:
Thanks for a reply hope you enjoy your car.. is it a TA or MJ.?
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I've ordered the TA. I was on the horns of a dilemma, it looks like the government might be stinging diesel owners before long (I do like the low down grunt of diesels) I have heard that the performance of the diesel isn't going to get any one too excited. I used to own an Alfa Romeo Mito MultiAir Veloce and the performance was really manic, so after driving a 500 TA I opted to go for the TA Cross.
I'm getting You tube and Fiat Forum fatigue now, I have spent hours and hours checking out some excellent road/off road tests. I think I'm over excited now!
 
Just a 'Heads up' Finally after just over 3 months waiting I finally get to pick up my Fiat Panda Cross on friday. In view of the fact that I waited so long for the car I asked the salesman at Stoneacre if he could do me a deal on a panda rubber boot liner, he said he'd try and get me one at cost price. Today he offered me one at just over £45! I declined as I've seen a bespoke one for £31 inc free delivery so I've gone down that route, I've also ordered tailored rubber mats too for £21.
I got the Panda Cross with tropicala yellow paint with winter pack, reverse parking sensors and privacy glass for £15500.

Roll on Friday 1st June! :)
 
Yellow is the only way to go!

I saw another yellow one today, at my place of work in Norwich. Almost had a coronary.

You won't need the rear parking sensors. Everything else will shrink away from you, cowed by the sheer exuberance and magnificence of your amazing yellowness.

Where did you get your mats from?
 
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gar074 said:
Yellow is the only way to go!

I saw another yellow one today, at my place of work in Norwich. Almost had a coronary.

You won't need the rear parking sensors. Everything else will shrink away from you, cowed by the sheer exuberance and magnificence of your amazing yellowness.

Where did you get your mats from?
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I got them from mat_kings on ebay for £21, they are a great fit in the front footwells and not too bad in the back. The only fly in the ointment is that they have holes cut out for locating lugs on the drivers mat but they are not in the right place (They do include screw in (into your carpet) pegs that I won't be using. At the moment they don't seem to slide around at all as the fit is so good.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-Pan...var=431467935238&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
 
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I ordered a factory build TA last March and was given 8-13 weeks.
It took 13 weeks so it is now one year old.
My dealer kept me up to date with progress.
So I was quite happy to wait.
 
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