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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: Hobojim on 26 August 2013, 03:07
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What are peoples thoughts on delivery from the dealer via a DTD order?
My dealer is in London and my car will be driven to West Yorkshire. Should I make the effort to get down to London from Glasgow to collect my car in person?
My concerns are what if the car arrives and its scratched? are they just going to say that's a hazard of having it delivered? or will I be able to refuse it? This will be difficult as for them to deliver you have to pay first!
Having some dweeb drive it, are they going to rag the tits off it (I would)? Am I going to end up with a lemon of an engine that drinks oil ?
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Go and collect it and take a nice steady drive home, or let some hog booted delivery drive it like its stolen for the whole journey :whistle:
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I'm in the same position. I've used Drive the Deal loads of times and this has meant the supplying dealer has been everywhere from Dundee to Kent. I've always take advantage of this and made the journey to collect the car. That way you can combine a couple of days away with the experience of a good drive in your new car. It also avoid some random driver breaking your car in for you.
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I definitely wouldn't want someone else driving my new car for the first few hundred miles. You never know how they are going to treat it plus it could end up with stone chips and all sorts. Can you not pay extra to have it transported?
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Ive just ordered a new mark 7 through drive the deal, hopefully i get a London dealer too as that wont be far to go and get it! If i couldn't make a road trip from it id ask about them using a transporter for it, IMO
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If it were me, I'd collect it!!
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@Hobojim I would make the effort and go and collect the car yourself. This is what I'm doing when mine arrives. I'm in Cheshire and I'll have go to Kent to pick up. I want to do this to avoid somebody else thrashing my new car [engine] and avoid any damage.
The other option is to "upgrade" and ask them to deliver on a flat bed truck (did this with my current car which was bought through an online broker). That way your car will arrive with just its delivery mileage. Be aware its normally filthy when it arrives which can make it hard to spot any potential marks, dings or swirls in the paintwork. But having it delivered to your door is a lot less hassle.
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Cheers gents, ill make the effort to collect if I can. Transporter is not an option and they did make it very clear that it would be driven. There are lots of advantages to collecting it and only 1 advantage of having it delivered I suppose. Do you have to pay congestion charge to drive out of London?
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Cheers gents, ill make the effort to collect if I can. Transporter is not an option and they did make it very clear that it would be driven. There are lots of advantages to collecting it and only 1 advantage of having it delivered I suppose. Do you have to pay congestion charge to drive out of London?
Don't rule out the transporter completely Hobojim. Get a private quote and compare it to the costs of getting to London, staying overnight in a hotel and the petrol cost to get it back home. It'll be a tidy sum.
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Yeah H5O is spot on, this one is really all about the numbers. No chance I'd let somebody else drive my new car a few hundred miles, so it's down to cost-effectiveness of flat-bed vs collection, plus the hassle factor too.
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Absolutely no way I want some random driver delivering my car. You know they'll pay some minimum wage bloke to do it who will have a right party ragging the nuts off your engine. You'll forever be worried damage has been caused.
Either pay for a trailer delivery, probably couple hundred pounds, or go get it yourself.
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If it is coming from the same London dealer as my DTD order in North London, then you will be outside the charging zone. The dealer is easy walking distance from the tube too, and easy to get north again to Glasgow.
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Do you have to pay congestion charge to drive out of London?
You pay it if you move a vehicle any distance on a public road at all while inside the zone. That would include moving your parked car 1m along in order to fit another vehicle in behind it.
So be careful, as the government seems to consider this kind of think a AAA priority, far higher than reducing deaths in the NHS, ensuring the forces have adequate equipment or making multinationals pay their tax.
Just saying.
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Do you have to pay congestion charge to drive out of London?
You pay it if you move a vehicle any distance on a public road at all while inside the zone. That would include moving your parked car 1m along in order to fit another vehicle in behind it.
So be careful, as the government seems to consider this kind of think a AAA priority, far higher than reducing deaths in the NHS, ensuring the forces have adequate equipment or making multinationals pay their tax.
Just saying.
Would it be cheaper to get it transported just outside the congestion zone on the back of a flatbed?
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Do you have to pay congestion charge to drive out of London?
You pay it if you move a vehicle any distance on a public road at all while inside the zone. That would include moving your parked car 1m along in order to fit another vehicle in behind it.
So be careful, as the government seems to consider this kind of think a AAA priority, far higher than reducing deaths in the NHS, ensuring the forces have adequate equipment or making multinationals pay their tax.
Just saying.
Would it be cheaper to get it transported just outside the congestion zone on the back of a flatbed?
Just go at the weekend when its free!
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/roadusers/congestioncharge/whereandwhen/#page-link-hours-of-operation
Also you can see from the map its pretty central.
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To be honest I'd be more worried about being stuck in serious traffic. In London you have to know the best routes, which basically means back roads. The north and south circular can get badly congested. As can the A5 and A41... or basically any road for that matter (A5 and A41 are ones I've used a lot and you can sit on them for literally hours until your engine overheads!). Parallel roads can be completely clear because everyone sticks to the main arteries.
If you can go early in the morning or late at night you can have a lot of fun though as you can speed across the capital on largely empty roads no problem. Find out where the dealer is and see if any locals on here can give some tips on the best road and times, that would be my advice.
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I would get it delivered on a flat bed. Why? Its not great to run a car in by driving it for hundreds of miles on the motorway at relatively constant speeds. You need to give a new engine varying revs and loads. You could take A roads but I'd imagine that's quite a long jaunt!
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Weighing up the pros and cons of arranging for a flatbed delivery or picking up from the dealer, I think I'd collect from the dealer. This gives you a better opportunity to thoroughly inspect the car before taking delivery and if there are any issues, point them out at the dealers premises and getting them to agree to rectify before signing the paperwork.
If you go for the option of arranging a flatbed delivery and you find any damage when the car's dropped off at your home, it could be more a case of your word against the dealers. As Hawaii-Five-O has said, the car is likely to have become very dirty during transit, making it difficult to do a thorough inspection, and if you subsequently find any damage, the dealer will almost certainly maintain the car was in perfect condition when it left them, so potential added hassle to get any problems sorted. I'd also be a bit nervous of possible damage being inflicted on those diamond cut alloys from the straps used to secure the car to the flatbed (seem to remember reading a post on the mk6 forum where someone's new GTI suffered wheel damage from securing straps on the transporter while in transit from the port to the dealership).
One thing's for certain; there's no way I'd let some delivery driver thrash the living daylights out of my new pride and joy, so the delivery driver option just wouldn't be an option for me!
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I got my GTI via DTD from a dealer in Kent. I went to collect it from Bucks as I didn't want some yobbo thrashing it on the way to deliver it to me.
When I mentioned this to the dealer he told me that they only employ retired guys who have worked in the trade and now need a bit of spare cash, and according to him they treat the cars as if they were their own.
I know you can't trust everthing they say, but I believed him. He threw in a full tank instead of the free delivery
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When I mentioned this to the dealer he told me that they only employ retired guys who have worked in the trade and now need a bit of spare cash, and according to him they treat the cars as if they were their own.
So you're saying retired guys don't drive fast, don't thrash cars and know how to drive?
Please. :rolleyes: :laugh:
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No, that's not what I'm saying. If you read my post it says that 'they treat the cars as if they were their own'. Which means not thrashing them and not driving like looneys. Even though I'm sure they are very capable of it.
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If you read my post it says that 'they treat the cars as if they were their own'.
Even worse then! They'll be doing 60 in the outside lane, telling everyone else to slow down, not paying attention to the road and struggling to get the petrol nozzle into the car :laugh:
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Even worse then! They'll be doing 60 in the outside lane, telling everyone else to slow down, not paying attention to the road and struggling to get the petrol nozzle into the car :laugh:
Or get caught by speed camera so you get sent a nice little letter :lipsrsealed:
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Even worse then! They'll be doing 60 in the outside lane, telling everyone else to slow down, not paying attention to the road and struggling to get the petrol nozzle into the car :laugh:
Or get caught by speed camera so you get sent a nice little letter :lipsrsealed:
:grin: The point is I wouldn't trust Morgan Freeman in 'Driving Miss Daisy' to drive my car, let alone some old joker who probably gets paid a pitance to drive up and down the M1. Anyways, if you pick up your own motor then you've done loads of 'breaking in' miles before you've even got home!
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Anyways, if you pick up your own motor then you've done loads of 'breaking in' miles before you've even got home!
Agreed, plus you've had a nice little day out :grin:
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No, that's not what I'm saying. If you read my post it says that 'they treat the cars as if they were their own'. Which means not thrashing them and not driving like looneys. Even though I'm sure they are very capable of it.
They have to say that, but do you really think that a retired guy in a GTI/GTD wouldn't "test it out"?! I'd be collecting mine myself, or getting it shipped on a trailer!
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You pay so much money for the car why would you want someone else to get the pleasure of driving it for the first few hundred miles of its life. Absolutely no way