Popular Post Scrapr ★ Posted August 17, 2019 Popular Post Share #1 Posted August 17, 2019 Ok...it's not a Tesla....but still pretty OK WoScrapr & I were hoping to go back to the motherland (Sweden) to do her Overseas Delivery (OSD). It's like a secret club. Volvo pays for 2 tickets & 1 night in a nice hotel to the factory town. Then you can drive all over Europe or not. About 50% don't take it off Volvo factory grounds. There are drop points all over. Mostly Western Europe. Then you wait while your car is shipped across the pond. The delivery at the dealer is called redelivery. We signed WoScrapr's OSD on Feb 01. Redelivery was yesterday Aug 16th tl;dr Scrapr got a new car Here is a little write up from Swedespeed to recap for those not following along. My V60 OSD was April 2017. We took our boy & spent 3+ weeks starting in Stockholm and ending in Paris before returning to Portland. I wanted April in Paris for Mrs Scrapr. We had our 21 y/o son along so it was not quite as romantic but still was a great time. And I'm very glad that we took him. Very. That summer all Mrs Scrapr could talk about was how much fun the OSD was. She loved the factory tour. She is a people person and not as much a manufacturing & things person. But she just loved how Volvo treated the manufacturing staff. And our delivery person who came from the floor. So by Fall we were talking about an OSD for her. On Nov 1 of 2017 she was Dx with esophageal cancer. The first night in the oncology ward we were both crying. And one of the things she said was "does this mean I don't get my OSD?" I promised her there that she would go. She went through radiation & light chemo, then a brutal surgery in March of '18. Almost 20 biopsies came back clean. No cancer left. Over that summer she was recovering. We made a nice trip to Grand rapids & Chicago. At that point Volvo had taken the XC60 out of the OSD list. So I was stuck on doing hers. The XC60 fit her and was just the right size. XC90 was too big, XC40 too small. By November of '18 her cancer had come back. Oncologist called it Stage 4. "I can't cure you" is what he saidShe went back in for more radiation & chemo. This time the radiation left some serious burns on her skin. By the end of January Volvo opened the XC60 back up for OSD. We were waiting for a scan to see how the chemo was doing. I think that was just after the first of February. in the mean time she started on a drug called Keytruda. One of our good friends was saved with the Keytruda. So our hopes were high. On Feb 01 we signed a OSD for the XC60. Delivery date was May 21. As we got through Feb & March the cancer started gaining ground. The bad part the tumors were growing during treatment. By April we knew that she could not travel. Rather than cancel we hoped that she might have a bit of time to drive the XC60 here in the States so we did not cancel. On May 23 she passed at our home. 2 days past our delivery day. Out here on the Best Coast it takes 10-12 weeks to get the OSD delivered. Turned out it was right at 12 weeks. Today i picked up her XC60. It was a bit hectic as Jim Fisher Volvo is doing a lot of work on the showroom & parking lot. But they are super people. A lot of foot traffic in there too. I was sandwiched in between 2 other deliveries. Another couple was looking at an last gen XC60 when the salesman mentioned OSD. I'm like you should do it. Awesome sauce. I had them value my V60 and it looked good to me so I signed some papers and came out with money in pocket. It took a bit to get the Volvo On Call switched over. Mostly because it was in Mrs Scraprs e mail & phone. Got that sorted and all is goodA bit bittersweet redelivery Wish we could have made it to Sweden *how's the car you say? Pretty nice stuff 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted August 17, 2019 Share #2 Posted August 17, 2019 Sorry to hear of your loss, but at least her heart was into it until the end. I have been seriously looking at OSD for the experience. Since we fly to Switzerland for 2 weeks every year, then a week or two for travel, building a car purchase around it would be sweet. Mini doesn't have an OSD program but I did order a special factory build spec'd per my preference rather than the dealer's and tracked it's progress. Of course it was a new model and the dealer didn't have any in stock when I ordered - just the "unveiling event" car that made the rounds and a special event discount for attendees. My choices for OSD are Volvo, Porsche, BMW or Mercedes as Audi has discontinued their program. Unfortunately, the models I prefer - BMW X5 (or X3) and Mercedes GLE (or GLC) - Are built in the USA and not part of the OSD programs. The BMW X1 is, but it is the same platform - slightly stretched - corporate sister to my Mini Countryman (which BMW owns) and want to move up in size. I do like the XC60 but Sweden is so far north so haven't really explored their program. Basically it leaves the Porsche Cayenne, or as a smaller alternate, the Macan, BMW X1, and last, the even more compact Mercedes GLA. Fiat doesn't offer the OSD so that rules out the Alfa Romero and Maserati. Likewise no British car on OSD rules out Land Rover and Jag. I wonder if wife would 'upgrade her Fiat 500 to the Mercedes GLA as she likes (demands) small cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted August 17, 2019 Share #3 Posted August 17, 2019 I’ve read this twice and am struggling for words. I am crying but my heart is happy, too. I hope you are focusing on the joy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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