The waiting times for a new Renault Trafic van stretch up to six months, however the Australian distributor is working with the factory to beat the June 30 financial-year deadline.
Customers in the queue for a Renault Trafic van face wait times of up to six months – amid stock shortages and production slowdowns affecting most of the car industry.
However, the Australian distributor of Renault vans says it is working overtime with the French factory to get a large allocation of vehicles to clear backorders before the end of the financial year.
The lead-up to June 30 is historically the strongest sales month for utes and vans as businesses big and small refresh their fleets for tax reasons.
While Renault Australia says there are pockets of Trafic vans available at some dealers in certain configurations, long wait times remain for crew versions, and the regular models with a ‘barn door’ tailgate.
“Every Renault Trafic van in the country is spoken for, everything is allocated out,” the boss of Renault Australia, Glen Sealey, told a recent media briefing.
“You could get lucky and find one of a handful of vehicles if you rang around, but the reality is our most popular variants do have wait times of up to six months.
“That said, we are working very hard with the factory to bring those wait times down, clear as many backorders as we can and get customers into their vehicles before June 30.
“We’re waiting (to hear back from the factory) on production now. If we get what we think we’re going to get, we think we’ll be able to deliver most cars by the end of June.”
Sales of the Renault Trafic dipped 31 per cent in Australia last year in an overall new-car market that grew by 3.0 per cent.
However, the distributor of Renault vehicles in Australia said severe stock shortages and shipping bottlenecks slowed deliveries – and that the company has a “healthy” order bank.
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