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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: ScottA on 02 November 2011, 20:16
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Hi All,
I ordered a Golf GTI, order was placed on the system on 24th Sept and still waiting for it to be accepted :cry: God knows how long it's going to be!!! but dunno whether to bother waiting or look for something else. Currently have an A3 2.0 TDI Black Edition and want to get rid of it soon!!
Specs:
3 door GTI, white, manual
18" Monza Shadows
Bi-Xenons
Cruise control
Dynaudio
Flat tyre indicator
Luxury pack
Multi function display colour screen
RCD 510
Decent discount .... but is it worth the wait .. been told 16 weeks after order is accepted, but no idea when it will be accepted, apparently dealer is looking for additional allocation to fulfill the order but I'm having a difficult time getting the truth
Cheers
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Nice spec, you get leather, bluetooth and rear LED's as standard now i think which is great, i was looking at the specs on VW web the other day.
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before your order goes through add bluetooth to it.
mine didn't have it and its the one thing i wish it came with and its a pain in the backside to retro fit as most of the interior has to come out!
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Hope you get it quicker than that should be okay as its not DSG , but VW waiting times are a joke !! Nice spec too.
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Well worth the wait imo! 4 months is nothing compared to some on here. :smiley:
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Cheers guys. Yeah they come with leather and bluetooth as standard now which saved a few quid. Just a bit gutted it hasn't been accepted yet ..... and the wait is 16 weeks from when the order is accepted, but no idea when it will be accepted, 1 and half months and counting so far!
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Congrats. I remember when ordering mine. The following months wait will be painful but you have something great to look forward to. :laugh:
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oh yeah forgot the come with bluetooth as standard now. thats a good incentive plus the leather is good (though i love the tartan seats!)
you won't be disappointed with the car when you finally get it. I've had mine about 5 weeks now and I love it.
the wait times are a joke though. i got lucky and found mine as a cancelled order. the bloke ordered it in Jan and got tired of waiting so pulled out in August or September so i got it at pre price rise rate!
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i think they should still give you the option if you want the tartan seats i hate leather :angry:
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I ended up cancelling the order and placing it again at another dealer, wasted a month and a half because the lying ************* have no allocation!
But I have now been given a 4th week of 2012 build week, which will put it all just in time for a 1st March delivery. Man that's a long time away!
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At least you will have the bad weather more or less over with by then. Its the way i looked at it when i had to wait that long.
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I would be temped to wait for the MK7, that must be out at the back end of 2012.
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I put in an order for my 1.4 TSI (sigh no gti here) about 2 weeks ago and im looking around Jan / Early feb for delivery
wait until March 1st and you get the new "12" plate in the UK though - surely thats worth the extra few weeks?
(i'm going to be in the position where the car will literally be sitting there for 3 weeks until the plate change before I pick it up - painful but probably worth it)
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I would be temped to wait for the MK7, that must be out at the back end of 2012.
Mk7 Golf versions are estimated for arrival on these shores end of 2012 but the Mk7 GTI will take a bit longer and most probably May/June 2013. The GTI is normally released 5-6 months after the initial new version release.
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I would be temped to wait for the MK7, that must be out at the back end of 2012.
Mk7 Golf versions are estimated for arrival on these shores end of 2012 but the Mk7 GTI will take a bit longer and most probably May/June 2013. The GTI is normally released 5-6 months after the initial new version release.
I personally think it will be a couple of years yet until we see any versions of the Mk7 :undecided:
Lets face it, the Mk6 was based pretty much on the platform of the Mk5 and I can't see this being the case with Mk7.
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I'm going to wait for the mk7 to be out for a year or so, my new mk6 will then be about 2 years old, the wife can have the mk6 and i will get a new mk7 (if its ay good of course)
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Anyway, I am first on the list at my dealership for a 5 Door Golf Mk7 GTi. Stick with Red, ACC, 18", Xenons, Cloth, Manual, Cruise, Upgraded audio.
I'll be ready to strike when the iron is hot! :cool:
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Lets hope it turns out to be a good step forward over the MK6.
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I am 100% sure it will be alright on the night as a very nice and cute little birdie I have known for many years perched on the wolf's lair told me so. :smug:
It will no doubt be nice, but I can foresee most of us saying its not worth £30k for the standard GTI.....
Jim
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I am 100% sure it will be alright on the night as a very nice and cute little birdie I have known for many years, perched on the wolf's lair, told me so. :cool:
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I am 100% sure it will be alright on the night as a very nice and cute little birdie I have known for many years perched on the wolf's lair told me so. :smug:
It will no doubt be nice, but I can foresee most of us saying its not worth £30k for the standard GTI.....
Jim
I am sure it will be worth it for it will give my great pleasure to look down my nose when I see a Mk6. :evil:
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Jim: Had an idea. I'll order TWO Mk7 GTIs, one is for you so select your colour. Now can you resist? :grin:
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Jim: Had an idea. I'll order TWO Mk7 GTIs, one is for you so select your colour. Now can you resist? :grin:
Can I just have the ash instead :laugh:
Jim
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Jim: Had an idea. I'll order TWO Mk7 GTIs, one is for you so select your colour. Now can you resist? :grin:
Can I just have the ash instead :laugh:
Jim
Wolfgang 2 needs a twin. I thought you'd be a willing owner. BTW the name is booked! Go on, you know you want it! :laugh:
AND I CAN GIVE IT TO YOU! :grin:
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MK7 GTI IN 2013 + waiting list :rolleyes:
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MK7 GTI IN 2013 + waiting list :rolleyes:
I have nurtured some worthwhile contacts! I'll be first to the post. :smug:
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A bit of information for those hell bent on buying a Mk7 Golf: First deliveries during the first quarter of 2013 with the Mk7 GTI available from the second quarter of 2013 at the earliest. So, I expect my Mk7 GTI will be a '63' plate 1st Sept 2013 delivery. :smiley:
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A bit of information for those hell bent on buying a Mk7 Golf: First deliveries during the first quarter of 2013 with the Mk7 GTI available from the second quarter of 2013 at the earliest. So, I expect my Mk7 GTI will be a '63' plate 1st Sept 2013 delivery. :smiley:
As you clearly know someone in the know, when is the new platform hitting the A3/S3?
Jim
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New platform hits the A3 first quarter of 2012 with deliveries soon afterwards for UK customers. I don't know when the S3 will arrive. As a guess, 3-4 months later? Look pretty tasty.
It therefore seems that the A3/S3 will be 9-12 months ahead of the Mk7 Golf/Golf GTI.
You getting an A3/S3? Good choice.
I need the extra doors and I don't want to payout the extra for an A3/S3 Sportback. The RS3 will only be available in Sportback (and saloon?) form somewhere in 2013 it was mentioned.
Oh, what fun!
Anyway, I've booked my 5 door Red Mk7 GTI for delivery to my home on the 1st Sept 2013. The car will now be ordered automatically for me.
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New platform hits the A3 first quarter of 2012 with deliveries soon afterwards for UK customers. I don't know when the S3 will arrive. As a guess, 3-4 months later? Look pretty tasty.
It therefore seems that the A3/S3 will be 9-12 months ahead of the Mk7 Golf/Golf GTI.
You getting an A3/S3? Good choice.
I need the extra doors and I don't want to payout the extra for an A3/S3 Sportback. The RS3 will only be available in Sportback (and saloon?) form somewhere in 2013 it was mentioned.
Oh, what fun!
Anyway, I've booked my 5 door Red Mk7 GTI for delivery to my home on the 1st Sept 2013. The car will now be ordered automatically for me.
Not sure how long after the S3 will be, if it's anything like the current one it will be ages after the normal A3 is released.
Not sure about the S3, again if it has the same stupid rock hard suspension of the current one there's no way I'd get one.
Jim
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Hope it's not like a bullock cart. The current one is awful. Relentless torture. Nearly as bad as the Civic Type R. :sick:
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Hi All, I ordered a Golf GTI, order was placed on the system on 24th Sept and still waiting for it to be accepted :cry: God knows how long it's going to be!!!
Hi everyone; Newboy and first posting here, looking for advice/comments please;
Like ScottA, I am waiting for my new GTI. I placed the order on May 14th 2011 and was informed "approx 25 weeks delivery".....
I've never been able to afford a VW Golf before, but dad passed away earlier this year and has left me a nice inheritance, so I thought "treat yourself Ash"..... (he would have liked the idea). I specced the car with loads of options; DSG, bi-xneons, sunroof, monza shadows, nav, leather, b'tooth...etc etc.
I've been in regular contact with dealer who has always said "still waiting for a build date"....so I have always been patient.
Speaking to the dealer last week, I got this reply;
"I’ve just asked for a build update, still currently ‘with production’, which means VW are trying to schedule the build. The factory will need capacity as well as the options and engine to be available at a given point in time to be able to schedule the build, and we’re currently at this stage trying to get all of the ‘pieces’ to fall in place".
Question to you GTI guys; Am I being fobbed off here? Reading the forum it seems there IS a lengthy wait.
My other concern is; I bought a personalised reg plate too with a 61 prefix and I'm worried that It will run out before the car gets here!
What to do?......... Regards ASH.
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9 months is about average i reckon
i was lucky and got a cancelled order which was almost as i would have spec'd it so bought it. got it pre price rise price with free servicing and 7.2% apr too which was nice!
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Hi All, I ordered a Golf GTI, order was placed on the system on 24th Sept and still waiting for it to be accepted :cry: God knows how long it's going to be!!!
Hi everyone; Newboy and first posting here, looking for advice/comments please;
Like ScottA, I am waiting for my new GTI. I placed the order on May 14th 2011 and was informed "approx 25 weeks delivery".....
I've never been able to afford a VW Golf before, but dad passed away earlier this year and has left me a nice inheritance, so I thought "treat yourself Ash"..... (he would have liked the idea). I specced the car with loads of options; DSG, bi-xneons, sunroof, monza shadows, nav, leather, b'tooth...etc etc.
I've been in regular contact with dealer who has always said "still waiting for a build date"....so I have always been patient.
Speaking to the dealer last week, I got this reply;
"I’ve just asked for a build update, still currently ‘with production’, which means VW are trying to schedule the build. The factory will need capacity as well as the options and engine to be available at a given point in time to be able to schedule the build, and we’re currently at this stage trying to get all of the ‘pieces’ to fall in place".
Question to you GTI guys; Am I being fobbed off here? Reading the forum it seems there IS a lengthy wait.
My other concern is; I bought a personalised reg plate too with a 61 prefix and I'm worried that It will run out before the car gets here!
What to do?......... Regards ASH.
Call VW UK customer service and speak to them, they will tell you what it is ..... could be allocation I don't know, do you have an unconfirmed build week? I didn't get a build week on my first order because they didn't have any allocation, but I placed an order at a different dealer and got an unconfirmed build week within a day or two, so my advice..call VW UK and ask them what's going on ...... also kick up a fuss because I know some people who have been waiting longer than quoted have been supplied with hire cars by VW! I don't claim to know exactly how orders are progressed but I have an idea because I've kicked off a bit to get it sorted. Good luck
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You've waited 24 weeks and it still doesn't have a build date?!? Yeah there is a lengthy wait but that sounds like an exceptionally long time and still no confirmed build date!! You will still have that time to wait as well.
I'd phone a few local dealers and see if they have any allocation left and can match what you were paying for that one. Not sure what VW could do for you if your present dealer has no allocation left?
As for your private registration number, not sure what you mean "it will run out" you will still be able to put your 61 plate on it regardless of when the car arrives.
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I waited 4 months and 2 days for mine. Well impressed was I
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ScottA, you have the patience of a saint. I'd have jumped ship long ago.
I hope you had a really good deal on your order as your dealer is taking the wee wee.
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You've waited 24 weeks and it still doesn't have a build date?!? Yeah there is a lengthy wait but that sounds like an exceptionally long time and still no confirmed build date!! You will still have that time to wait as well.
I'd phone a few local dealers and see if they have any allocation left and can match what you were paying for that one. Not sure what VW could do for you if your present dealer has no allocation left?
As for your private registration number, not sure what you mean "it will run out" you will still be able to put your 61 plate on it regardless of when the car arrives.
Thanks for the advice - ScottA also - i'll phone VW first thing tomora and report back here ASAP.....
as for the reg number; I was told it has to be allocated to a vehicle by March 2012 or I must pay a retainer fee (not sure of cost). Maybe I will get my lovely VW dealer to stump up for that IF i'm still waiting for my GTI :angry: :rolleyes:
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Ash (welcome btw), they're taking the piss. Stuff retainers and anything else, they should also put on hold any price increases as there's no way they should be taking orders they can't fulfil.
This must be taking the edge off of what should have been a much more satisfying experience, particularly under the circumstances of the funding.
I've never had the patience to buy a new car anyway, at current wait times I'd be planning my next one before the one I had ordered was delivered.
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Ash (welcome btw), they're taking the piss. Stuff retainers and anything else, they should also put on hold any price increases as there's no way they should be taking orders they can't fulfil.
This must be taking the edge off of what should have been a much more satisfying experience, particularly under the circumstances of the funding.
Cheers for the welcome; When I last spoke to the dealer apart from telling me about "the delay", he also gave me some "good news". As I'd specced leather interior, he informed me that it's now standard on GTI so I'd save over a grand! He was quite pleased to tell me that.....I was quite pissed about the delay.....
My late fathers inheritance is funding the car. Dad would have loved what I'm doing. I've never been in a position to afford a VW let alone a GTI - always had mid range VAuxhalls, Fords etc. He loved riding in my Fiesta Zetec S. Poor old soul ended up with dementure but still laughed his head off every time I went a tadge over 30 round the bends in his village! When I "eventually" get the GTI, I'm gonna BLAST it round every one of those bends, full pelt. Here's to you dad :grin:
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Got a bee in me bonnett about this now. GGGRRRRR :angry:
Just pulled out the "new vehicle order form".
Ordered; 11-05-2011
Est delivery date; 30-09-2011
spec;3 door, candy white, cruise, sunroof, bi-xenons, b'tooth, dab, rns510, lux pk, wint pk, 18" monzas, leather, serv pk.
Gettin all excited again now......... :laugh:
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Kick up a fuss mate. Talk to VW UK. Tell them you NEED a hire car. Tell them to open a case and you want it investigating. :cool:
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On a side note it's almost the same spec at mine, apart from the RNS :wink:
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as for the reg number; I was told it has to be allocated to a vehicle by March 2012 or I must pay a retainer fee (not sure of cost). Maybe I will get my lovely VW dealer to stump up for that IF i'm still waiting for my GTI :angry: :rolleyes:
When you buy a private reg you get a year to put it on the new car. If you can't do it within that time frame you can simply extend it for £25 a year.
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Ash (welcome btw), they're taking the piss. Stuff retainers and anything else, they should also put on hold any price increases as there's no way they should be taking orders they can't fulfil.
This must be taking the edge off of what should have been a much more satisfying experience, particularly under the circumstances of the funding.
Cheers for the welcome; When I last spoke to the dealer apart from telling me about "the delay", he also gave me some "good news". As I'd specced leather interior, he informed me that it's now standard on GTI so I'd save over a grand! He was quite pleased to tell me that.....I was quite pissed about the delay.....
My late fathers inheritance is funding the car. Dad would have loved what I'm doing. I've never been in a position to afford a VW let alone a GTI - always had mid range VAuxhalls, Fords etc. He loved riding in my Fiesta Zetec S. Poor old soul ended up with dementure but still laughed his head off every time I went a tadge over 30 round the bends in his village! When I "eventually" get the GTI, I'm gonna BLAST it round every one of those bends, full pelt. Here's to you dad :grin:
........thats a nice thought. :smiley:
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Fellas; Took all your advice's, many thanks. Phoned VW cust service today. Was told to get customer order numb from dealer. Did that. Phoned VW back and hey presto; "There is a global problem with DSG, but I can now see that your car is scheduled for build week 50" (5.12.11) :grin Not long now then.......
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Fellas; Took all your advice's, many thanks. Phoned VW cust service today. Was told to get customer order numb from dealer. Did that. Phoned VW back and hey presto; "There is a global problem with DSG, but I can now see that your car is scheduled for build week 50" (5.12.11) :grin Not long now then.......
Great news - mine is build week 4 at the mo. I guess yours must have been confirmed for build week 50 as it's close. Be sure to post pics when you get it. :grin:
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Great news - mine is build week 4 at the mo. I guess yours must have been confirmed for build week 50 as it's close. Be sure to post pics when you get it. :grin:
Oh yeah.....camera batteries already on charge :smiley:
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I've been in touch with VW today and informed that the build week has disappeared off the order, it was 201204 and now it's blank, no one knows why but I'm getting fed up of VW and tempted to look elsewhere. Not sure what though!
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I have been informed that the delay may be because of my wheels (Monza Shadows) - this was by a Volkswagen UK manager, who spoke to someone in Wolfsburg, but it's still ongoing to get another build week
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Nice car mate. Do yourself a favour and dont get the RCD 510. Wait till the car arrives and get the retrofit RNS 510 from Hazydayz. I got a retro fitted one which was reconditioned for not much more than the factory RCD 510. Its the best toy in the car and indistinguishable from the factory unit. It came with the latest firmware and they will even put the speed camra locations on it for you, and no I dont work for them. Car will be worth more at resale too so its ultimately a no cost upgrade! Also I had the flat tyre indicator on a Mk5 R32. Complete waste of time. Never used it once in 2 years. save your cash.
J
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I agree with the above. I spec'd the RCD510 with mine and have just had the RNS510 fitted. I wished I'd listened to those that said get the std RCD310 and upgrade later
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I spec'd the RCD510 with mine and have just had the RNS510 fitted.
So have you got your old RCD 510 for sale? :wink:
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Possibly, why do you know someone that may want it? :grin:
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The thing is, you need to spec the RCD510 if you want the camera like I had to and then upgrade to the RNS510. However if the camera is of no interest then I agree go for the base stereo.
Anyone know what realistically the RCD510's are going for as I still have mine sitting about?
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They are around £350 on ebay, but i think thats the DAB version
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Possibly, why do you know someone that may want it? :grin:
As long as you don't want silly money, yes.
Edit. Not anymore. I got one this morning :cool:
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Anyone know what realistically the RCD510's are going for as I still have mine sitting about?
I just paid £200, posted for one taken out of a brand new car. :smiley:
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if you have a DAB version PM me, Might be interested.
I got skanked on my car didn't have DAB when advert at VW said it did.... idiots
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Mine doesn't have DAB, it's a std RCD510