Are the UKs Car Plants working

FiestaRed

I did a search on Google but couldn't find any recent or up to date information as to how lockdowns are affecting car plants in the UK. Anyone able to help please?

AdrianC

I very much doubt you'll get any day-by-day updates, simply because of commercial confidentiality. But this time of year they may well be on seasonal closures anyway.

Having said that, just from the last month:

9/12 - Honda halts Swindon production due to "parts delays"
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry-news/honda-halts-production-swindon-due-parts-delays-0
(due to close permanently in 2021 anyway)

14/12 - JLR halts Castle Brom production due to "covid-hit suppliers"
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry-news/jaguar-land-rover-halts-production-castle-bromwich

19/12 - Mini Oxford "no plans, stockpiled parts"
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18954442.bmws-mini-plant-preparing-supply-chain-ahead-brexit/

21/12 - Toyota bring winter close-down forward by one day due to "border chaos"
https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/toyota-halt-production-burnaston-plant-4821484

Supersonos

FiestaRed said:

I did a search on Google but couldn't find any recent or up to date information as to how lockdowns are affecting car plants in the UK. Anyone able to help please?

For what reason?  Are you looking for a job?

I'm sure most of them are still working, just probably with reduced productivity.

FiestaRed

Thanks for the help. I have a car on order that I'm told is "being built" and I just wondered how much of a delay there could be.

ssparks2003

As supply chains in the automotive industry are global and different manufacturers (and even different models) will be using different suppliers it is going to be a fairly hard question to answer for anyone other than the manufacturers themselves. Have you spoken to the garage you are buying from? How far off is the expected delivery date? 

Supersonos

FiestaRed said:

Thanks for the help. I have a car on order that I'm told is "being built" and I just wondered how much of a delay there could be.

I'm assuming you know for sure the car is being built in the UK.  

AdrianC

FiestaRed said:

Thanks for the help. I have a car on order that I'm told is "being built" and I just wondered how much of a delay there could be.

What is it?

ontheroad1970

Not a red Fiesta, is it?

AdrianC

ontheroad1970 said:

Not a red Fiesta, is it?

Unlikely, since Fiestas haven't been built in the UK since the fourth-generation (95-02) model, the last car to be built at Dagenham. We're on the seventh generation now.

Ford don't build any vehicles at all in the UK. Halewood stopped building Fords in 2000, with the end of the Escort, and is now a JLR plant. Southampton stopped building Transits in 2013.

ontheroad1970

AdrianC said:

ontheroad1970 said:

Not a red Fiesta, is it?

Unlikely, since Fiestas haven't been built in the UK since the fourth-generation (95-02) model, the last car to be built at Dagenham. We're on the seventh generation now.

Ford don't build any vehicles at all in the UK. Halewood stopped building Fords in 2000, with the end of the Escort, and is now a JLR plant. Southampton stopped building Transits in 2013.

Sorry Adrian, it was a tongue in cheek remark based on the OP's username.

AdrianC

ontheroad1970 said:

AdrianC said:

ontheroad1970 said:

Not a red Fiesta, is it?

Unlikely, since Fiestas haven't been built in the UK since the fourth-generation (95-02) model, the last car to be built at Dagenham. We're on the seventh generation now.

Ford don't build any vehicles at all in the UK. Halewood stopped building Fords in 2000, with the end of the Escort, and is now a JLR plant. Southampton stopped building Transits in 2013.

Sorry Adrian, it was a tongue in cheek remark based on the OP's username.

I did get that... I just chose to play it with a straight bat...

It's amazing how many people think Ford are "British".
The same people who believe the Vauxhall "British Brand" marketing guff... At least an Opel Vx buyer has a 50/50 change of their Astra being lobbed together by Scousers.