Default New Defender X order due in 4Q 2024I ordered a new 2025 model Defender X ~2 months ago. When accepted, I received a build sheet with a build date of next Friday, 10/25/2024. Car is supposed to be delivered 12/20/24.

Can anyone tell me:

- is the build date pretty “locked in”?

- approximately how long to build?

- will I be updated with progress?

- is the car more likely to be late rather than early?

The dealer rep says I’ll be told what ship it will be transported on and given a link to track progress. Can any one here give more details?

Thank you!

 

Your actual build date is usually within the week of scheduled build date. Could be a few days before or after. It usually takes about a day and a half from when the car is stamped to the time it rolls off the production line. Then it will be held at the factory and transported awaiting to go on a ship. This usually takes about a month or so if you're on the east coast. West coast deliveries take longer. When I ordered mine, it took 3 1/2 months from order date to delivery date and showed up three weeks earlier than initially expected. That was still during covid and they were ramping up production. It usually takes 4-6 months from order to delivery. There are always exceptions, but this is the norm. You will be given the name of the ship once the car reaches the distribution center.

 

Mine was built a day earlier than the build estimate. Shipping was soon after the build date.
I was given a ship name, and an estimated load date and that was it. I wasn't given any Land Rover tools to track the shipment. In talking with my rep he said they could manually track it, but their tools weren't much better than anyone else's tools. Once your ship leaves sight of shore the AIS tracker changes to satellite tracking which is a paid subscription. You'll see the location updated every time it nears a port, then it will go back to satellite again. My ship visited three ports before the crossing, then one US port... and finally to the destination port. I was able to use marine tracking tools to determine what stops the ship would be making and when my vehicle would be delivered to the US port.
Mine spent a short time in port before it was loaded on a truck for delivery to the dealer. My vehicle showed up 2 days earlier than my build sheet estimate.

Use this to track your ship.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais...ry:46.6/zoom:5

Once you know the ship name you can find out its next ports of call. Then you can go to the port section of this tool and look up the ship name and you'll be able to see what date/time they estimate it to be in port. It will also let you know how many days it is scheduled to be in port. Just remember some of those days are for loading, not just unloading.

It was pretty fun to track it across the ocean. If you get really nerdy you can use this tool to see real time weather of your ships path and see if there is any nasty weather.

https://www.windy.com/26.060/-79.320...873,-79.320,10

 

Thank you for the reply! This really helps a lot—I was pretty much in the dark!

 

Thanks, chpsk8!! This is better than I imagined. Two replies that are 5 star!! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️