We're trying to help our sister company break into the UK market with their PE foam mouldings for wing mirror gaskets, under bonnet seals/pads etc. Their 1st UK customer seems to be Bentley who visit our warehouse on Wed. JLR are the main UK target but Bentley is a decent start me thinks..................
Does this mean you may be able to get your mits on some spare Bentley "products"
our company made the mistake of telling JLR that it could no longer make parts for them as we had no spare capacity any longer to do so, big mistake as apparently now their MD wouldn't pee on our firm if it was on fire. ooops!! good luck with the bentley contract, it will be a good thing having your companies feet under the VW table
one of our warehouses held back-up stock for JLR for a while, amazing how much money they'll spend to make sure the parts could be shipped over instantly if stock got low on the production line. Even had a spare truck driver housed on site 24/7, with nothing to do just in case he needed to take parts to them is the Bentley SUV on the market yet?
[QUOTE=p fandango;798776]one of our warehouses held back-up stock for JLR for a while, amazing how much money they'll spend to make sure the parts could be shipped over instantly if stock got low on the production line. Even had a spare truck driver housed on site 24/7, with nothing to do just in case he needed to take parts to them is the Bentley SUV on the market yet?[/QUOTE] Its due very soon, my phone is red hot with recruitment agencies trying to get me to Crewe. Tempting but its an awful drive twice a day.
[QUOTE=p fandango;798776]one of our warehouses held back-up stock for JLR for a while, amazing how much money they'll spend to make sure the parts could be shipped over instantly if stock got low on the production line. Even had a spare truck driver housed on site 24/7, with nothing to do just in case he needed to take parts to them is the Bentley SUV on the market yet?[/QUOTE] penalties for stopping the production line are very costly, on our site a machine breakdown costs around a thousand pounds an hour and if that then stops the clients line it rockets to 10-15 thousand an hour, god knows what it would be for actually stopping the car manufactures line.....???
[QUOTE=MoleT-5R;798782]god knows what it would be for actually stopping the car manufactures line.....???[/QUOTE] £8k a minute rings a bell
[QUOTE=p fandango;798785]£8k a minute rings a bell[/QUOTE] I think it may be slightly more.
[QUOTE=Wobbly Dave;798770]Does this mean you may be able to get your mits on some spare Bentley "products"[/QUOTE] Let you know after the meeting tomorrow and I can only ask.....................lol.
Tell them 240 is painted in bentley paint and there more than welcome to donate some parts
[QUOTE=t5 pete;798797]Tell them 240 is painted in bentley paint and there more than welcome to donate some parts[/QUOTE] If I get the opportunity I'll see what I can do for you!!
Visit went as well as it possibly could and we need to be set up for direct supply into Bentley for end of 2017. Need input from our sister company as to what space is required/systems etc. but everything should fall into place. The parts are under bonnet seals of some description for the new Continental I think but only model nos were mentioned.