Spec is in my signature, although i changed from adelaides to black estorils which pushed me back by 1 week
I think what your experiencing is pretty normal at the moment with any new car. I ordered my CS in the first week of Feb. Reflex Silver, Adelaide’s and Winter Pack and I’ve been told it won’t be delivered until the end of September. I’m not holding my breath though.
Agree; Covid and semiconductor shortages will be adversely impacting ‘normal’ lead times.
It wasn’t unusual for customers to experience wait times of 8-9 months or longer with the performance models of the previous generation of the Golf during the first year or so of its lifecycle. I can remember some forum members waiting around a year, and that’s without a pandemic or ongoing shortages of a critical component.
I always take what a car salesperson tells me with regard to lead times with a pinch of salt. Their prime motivation (if not only motivation) is to get the customer to sign on the dotted line so some less scrupulous salespeople may be a little economic with the truth to achieve this. To be fair to car salespeople, they’re not all unscrupulous, and I’ve dealt with some very good ones in the past, and none of them would’ve been able to predict the impact of the pandemic or semiconductor shortages on lead times.
At least with long lead times, it gives VW time to get the software gremlins sorted, so customer cars delivered towards the end this year / beginning of next might be gremlin free
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