Lead times & delivery
Why does the lead time vary by brand? Can it be sped up?
Each manufacturer organises its homologation department its own way: some issue the certificate online within days, others do it manually from a central site or through a national importer. We cannot speed up that internal processing; what we can do is add no delay of our own.
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The lead time you see is the manufacturer’s, not ours. It varies for concrete reasons:
- some groups have an automated issuing portal, others process requests in weekly batches;
- several brands work through their national importer, which in turn queries the factory;
- older vehicles or vehicles built for another market require a manual archive search;
- summer and year-end shutdowns lengthen the queues.
What we do so as to add nothing to that time: VIN check before filing, request filed on the working day of payment, systematic follow-up at the due date, digital copy sent on receipt. The priority processing option is only offered for brands whose manufacturer genuinely accepts a fast lane.
Be wary of sites promising an “instant” or “24-hour” certificate for every brand: the document is issued by the manufacturer, and nobody can produce it in its place.