Tracking your car from Factory to You!

[nitramluap]

Hi all,

Long time lurker, first time poster - I don't have a coupe.... yet :wink:

Did you know that you can track your car, once it has been produced and you have a VIN (the dealer can give you the VIN as soon as it has left the factory)? I tracked my car on the ship, all the way from Germany (a 2007 BMW 120d)!

Once you have your VIN, go to the Wallenius & Wilhelmsen website (www.2wglobal.com), select 'Cargo Tracking', track by 'Auto' and then enter your full VIN into the field marked 'Cargo ID'.

You'll see your car appear as soon as it has been booked for a journey. You can click on the VIN to look at the ship details, the journey details (where it will be and when), etc etc.

It certainly makes the wait exciting!

Paul Martin
www.paulnika.com

[nitramluap]

Ah... I guess you all did know - I just found your Shipping Guide!

I searched the forums for the website and came up with no hits. Found it with a search for 'Wallenius'

Sorry about that.

Paul

[larryn]

Thanks for splitting that info out of other threads as a separate thread. I found this out yesterday too, and posted here:

Originally Posted by larryn

I'm officially on the Maersk Wind too!!

For you East Coasters, get your VIN and go here, and enter it as a "Auto Cargo". It will tell you what vessel you are on.

How many other of us white bastages (or any other bastages :wink: ) are on this bad boy!

Vessel: MAERSK WIND
Port of origin :BREMERHAVEN
Voyage : EX802-MWI
Port of Destination :NEW YORK, NY

From: BREMERHAVEN GERMANY Arrv: 01/29/2008 Depart: 01/30/2008
To: ZEEBRUGGE BELGIUM Arrv: 02/01/2008 Depart: 02/01/2008
To: NEW YORK, NY U.S.A. Arrv: 02/10/2008 Depart: 02/10/2008
To: CHARLESTON,SC U.S.A. Arrv: 02/12/2008 Depart: 02/12/2008

By the way, the NYK Line (for US West Coast Deliveries) does not have similar functionality on their website. You can still find out your vessel from your Client Advisor at the BMW Center that you ordered from, then follow the instructions in this thread to track it along the way.

[IrvRobinson2]

sorry to jump in, but here is some useful info on my site as well

http://www.edbmw.com/main/edtracking.html

Maybe some of the info there will be useable in the future

[nitramluap]

Originally Posted by IrvRobinson

sorry to jump in, but here is some useful info on my site as well

http://www.edbmw.com/main/edtracking.html

Maybe some of the info there will be useable in the future

Oooh... nice site!! :smile:

A link to that should be a sticky!

Cheers,

Paul Martin
www.paulnika.com