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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: karlak on 21 March 2014, 09:09
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Just had a text and email update.
Your order has been confirmed for production week commencing 13/04/2014
Moving along now :) Only slipped two weeks from the estimated BW14, that the dealer suggested.
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Hey another b/w 16 here.
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When did you order?
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Got an email yesterday from the dealer saying BW16 but might be liable to jump a couple of weeks.
Ordered on 21/2/2014
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When did you order?
Date Ordered - 06/01/2014
They had estimated BW14 at the time.
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thats not bad i ordered on 30/10/2013 thats more then 6 months for me. :angry:
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thats not bad i ordered on 30/10/2013 thats more then 6 months for me. :angry:
They did seem keen for to me to sign by the 6th Jan to get the car. I had had been thinking about it for a while and trying to beat them up on the price somewhat.
I think I have got one of their "allocated" slots which was for this build date. Who knows, dealers seem to make it up as they go along I reckon.
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Just had a text and email update.
Your order has been confirmed for production week commencing 13/04/2014
Moving along now :) Only slipped two weeks from the estimated BW14, that the dealer suggested.
Sorry to lose you from the BW15 Club karlak, but glad you've got an update!
thats not bad i ordered on 30/10/2013 thats more then 6 months for me. :angry:
Woah, did you order through a broker/leasing company? Not long for us all now at least, should fly by! :whistle:
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yep ordered through a leasing company.
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I may get a move on
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I ordered 5th Feb. My tracker still hasn't updated :( :( :(
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I ordered 5th Feb. My tracker still hasn't updated :( :( :(
Hey CarMad, I ordered a week before you and my tracker updated for bw15 a week ago tomorrow, so could be the next few days for you if following that timing!
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I ordered 5th Feb. My tracker still hasn't updated :( :( :(
Hey CarMad, I ordered a week before you and my tracker updated for bw15 a week ago tomorrow, so could be the next few days for you if following that timing!
Well here's to hoping...
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I ordered 5th Feb. My tracker still hasn't updated :( :( :(
GTD's are still taking a while longer that GTI's. I would guess yours will be around BW20.
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I've just been informed by my dealer that I'm now BW18 :( grrrrrr
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BW16 tomorrow :)
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BW16 tomorrow :)
Lucky bugger!
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BW16 tomorrow :)
yes it is :laugh:
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Finally here.
Looking forward to speaking to my lease company on Friday to confirm it's been built!
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I'm build week 16 too... hopefully some progress on the tracker in the next couple of days!! :grin:
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any updates guys?
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Pretty sure we wont here anything until Friday. Seems that the tracker misses the build process and jumps straight to "in transit".
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Nothing with me today. I'm getting really good at checking the online tracker!!! :whistle:
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Just so you guys know - I think the tracker only updates at around 8,45 am - it's not very "live". I think some BW15 guys got their first update on the Wednesday so you may hear something tomorrow, although I didn't hear anything until Friday morning - and yes, it just went straight to "in transit"
My BW15 GTD is still in transit supposedly although hoping it;s been delivered to Port of Tyne this afternoon - just had a lokk at google earth and I don't think I've seen such an expanse of parking - absolutely huge - can't quite make out the car models all li ned up but I'm guessing there's a lot of Nissan's waiting to be shipped out...
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Whoop , Whoop , we have movement :)
Step 5 of 7: Your car has been built and has now left the factory. On average it takes 4 weeks from build for this model to reach your local Volkswagen Retailer.
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No movement for me...
I wonder if GTDs and GTIs move at different times...? I've ordered a GTI PP...
Ah well!
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Whoop Whoop again :)
Just got my 5b message "in transit : shipping"
Step 5 of 7: Your car is on the next stage of its journey to the UK. On average it takes 3 weeks for this model to reach your local Volkswagen Retailer.
Anyone else heard anything ?
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Same here!
Edit: nope, I got my 5a update, not 5b!!
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email this morning 09:02
Step 5 of 7: Your car has been built and has now left the factory. On average it takes 4 weeks from build for this model to reach your local Volkswagen Retailer.
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I checked out some earlier posts about which boats are used and I noticed that cars going south use Sheerness (SNS) port. The cars generally come from Emden in Germany.
Being sad, I checked Marinetraffic and 'African Highway' left Emden for Sheerness this afternoon. Assume I'm going to receive my 5b text (and probably 5c) by tomorrow morning!!
I'll let you know in the morning...
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I should also mention that although my information says 'Aberdeen', I'm actually collecting my car from Gillingham hence why I'm looking for ships going south!!
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Just got the "5C" message.
Step 5 of 7: Your car is in the final stage of its journey to the UK. On average it takes 10 days from build for this model to reach your local Volkswagen Retailer.
So the car is in the UK :)
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No such luck here!!
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You're right that all cars going south come from Emden to Sheerness, but Sheerness is a tiny port. My car was at Emden for a week after receiving the 5b. It then took another week to get to the dealers.
Generally you'll get the 5b text exactly 48 hours after receiving the 5a
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Just received this for the second time...
I think this is quite common with the VW tracking system.
"Step 5 of 7: Your car has been built and has now left the factory. On average it takes 4 weeks from build for this model to reach your local Volkswagen Retailer. "
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Just got this :)
Step 6 of 7: Your car has now arrived in the UK and will be delivered to your local Volkswagen Retailer shortly. This normally takes 7 days.
Not long now.. Still heard nothing from the dealer yet though......
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Karlak
Hope you get better luck than me. Mine was in the country on the 10th and still not been delivered to the dealership.
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Karlak
Hope you get better luck than me. Mine was in the country on the 10th and still not been delivered to the dealership.
What Build week was yours ?
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What Build week was yours ?
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Mine was build week 13.
I phoned vw uk and they say it was supposed to be on the transporter last week, but somehow they missed it.
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I checked the online tracker yesterday and although I'd received a second 5a text yesterday it had moved to a 5b status (3 weeks to delivery). I assume this mens that I'm actually at status 5b. I also noticed that the 'Elbe Highway' (a car transporter) was in Sheerness yesterday afternoon after arriving from Emden.
Fingers crossed that's it in the UK but I won't hold my breath!!
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Got a text this morning, stage 5b of 7 (in transit shipping).
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Weird how fragmented the cars come though for the same build week.
My BW16 is in the UK and may be at the dealers next week....
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I found when us 12ers were going through the process that a car made at the beginning of the week could be waiting for a boat by the time a late week car was starting the production process, then it is down to luck of the dramas waiting for a boat. For instance, my car had to wait a week for a boat.
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Hi Richard
The dealership have informed us that your vehicle is ready to be offered out for a delivery.
That's great Debbie thank you.
What does that mean? Is the car at the dealership now or is it expected on the 12th like we discussed before?
Thanks
Hi Rick
It means that it has arrived earlier than they expected and so we can offer you a delivery for when your cooling off period expires.
Wahoooooooo!!! :grin:
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Cooling off period?!?!?!
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My stupid lease company still saying 4 weeks. :angry:
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Cooling off period?!?!?!
It's a lease. Signed the finance paperwork on the 23rd. 14 cooling off days required.
Due delivery on the 7th but I'm on a trackday so bumped it to the 8th.
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Mine is on a transporter today, expected to arrive Monday.
Will Probably pick up on the 6th May :)
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Text this morning to say stage 6 car arrived in the UK
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hi guys any one picking up their cars this week?
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Just got back from sorting my finance out - Am picking it up next Thursday Morning :)
Wasn't so impressed at the increase in interest rate from when I put the order in though, also the £199 3xservice deal is now 24x £15.99 - :(
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Hi karlak, has you car arrived at the dealer yet? Mine is still waiting to get on a truck, so I think you will be beating me to it. :whistle: Hopefully I'll get it the weekend after.
I'm a bit surprised you've been hit with an increase in servicing costs - or did you not add this at the time of your order? Also higher interest, what rate where you quoted and what rate did you end up with?
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Hi karlak, has you car arrived at the dealer yet? Mine is still waiting to get on a truck, so I think you will be beating me to it. :whistle: Hopefully I'll get it the weekend after.
I'm a bit surprised you've been hit with an increase in servicing costs - or did you not add this at the time of your order? Also higher interest, what rate where you quoted and what rate did you end up with?
Hi,
Car is at the dealer - well their compound :)
The servicing deal of £199 was replaced in April with a £15.99 x 24 offer. (30k miles/ 3 years)
The interest rate increased by around 0.7%, again this changed in April as part of the latest campaign. All previous quotes are only valid (apparently) for 30 days, quite amusing as no-one can receive a Factory built Golf in that time. I get the impression this is the first time that deals/offers have been worse than the previous campaign for the Golf 7.
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They need a week for pdi? or u choose next week for pickup.
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They need a week for pdi? or u choose next week for pickup.
My choice - suits me with work and the selling of my current car :)
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I don't see how they can charge you the new servicing price if you 'purchased' the £199 deal?
The interest is showing as 6.2% on the website still, my dealer hasn't mentioned an increase to me so will see what happens next week.
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I don't see how they can charge you the new servicing price if you 'purchased' the £199 deal?
The interest is showing as 6.2% on the website still, my dealer hasn't mentioned an increase to me so will see what happens next week.
I hadn't purchased the service deal as I had not got the car. As far as I am aware you cant purchase it without having the car or could it have been added like any other "option" when ordering ?
Oh well, I will see what VW customer services say. Not going to let it sour the experience of picking up next week :)
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No of course, don't let it sour - but my service plan was added like any other option by the dealer and is included in my OTR price. Whether they tell me the price has changed remains to be seen, but they didn't so far! :huh:
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Hey guys. I ordered mine in January through target car leasing to custom spec and picked it 7th March. Your dealers seem to be dragging their heels!
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Re the servicing, dealer my rang me to say the £199 deal was ending and if I wanted it it would get added to my order (which I did)
Karlak - you said you just sorted your finance out so you order the car with no deposit? I paid £1000 up front so surely money changing hands locks in the price (including the finance interest rate)
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Re the servicing, dealer my rang me to say the £199 deal was ending and if I wanted it it would get added to my order (which I did)
Karlak - you said you just sorted your finance out so you order the car with no deposit? I paid £1000 up front so surely money changing hands locks in the price (including the finance interest rate)
It wasn't offered to have it added as an "option". Interesting, thanks for letting me know.
Finance was sorted today, but I had left a £500 deposit when the car was ordered in January. I went through all this with them today, but they insist it does "lock" anything in from a finance/promotion offer. This would also be backed up by the finance quote I got in January, which clearly states that the offer is for 30 days only.
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I was asked to leave 10% deposit(£31770) but I gave them £2,000 when I ordered, I'm giving them money when I collect the car.
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Yeah I went armed with £3k when I ordered but only had to hand over £1k.
The servicing was listed as an optional extra on the car configurator (still at 299), the dealer asked if we wanted it at an offer of 199, we said yes but preferred to pay for it outright, we only wanted to order things that would change the order going to the factory if you know what I mean - a servicing agreement wasn't going to change what the factory was going to build. Our dealer then rang us later to say the option had changed to the monthly payments, and if we still wanted it at 199 he'd add it onto the order
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Still waiting for a ship w*f VW. :angry:
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Got a text on the 29th April & 2nd May to say car had arrived in the UK, called VW customer services this afternoon and asked for accurate information on were the car was. On it's way to Liverpool and should be with dealer on Monday.
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I'm going to speak to my dealer about finance rates and servicing. Cheers for the heads up.
Pay car hadn't arrived in the UK... Still at 5a. I've been checking on marine traffic and suspect my car, along with other BW16ers cars, may be on this boat:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/565150000
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Sure enough:
Volkswagen order update: Your Golf order no. Xxxxxxxx has progressed to stage 5c of 7 (in transit: near the UK). To STOP login to vw.co.uk
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Been to see our dealer as we collect the car on friday - asked again about the servicing @ £199 and he couldn't find it on the computer system.
However, he went looking through his paperwork file and he had a printoff screen dump of the offer with my name against it so he said he would be able to put it through - although he did mention about the 30 days cut off thing - which is why he'd rang us while we were waiting for the car.
I'm guessing that you or the dealer don't have anything written down with your choice of the "pay up front" servicing then you may have a hard time getting it now.
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Been to see our dealer as we collect the car on friday - asked again about the servicing @ £199 and he couldn't find it on the computer system.
However, he went looking through his paperwork file and he had a printoff screen dump of the offer with my name against it so he said he would be able to put it through - although he did mention about the 30 days cut off thing - which is why he'd rang us while we were waiting for the car.
I'm guessing that you or the dealer don't have anything written down with your choice of the "pay up front" servicing then you may have a hard time getting it now.
To be fair to the dealer, I spoke to them on Friday and they have somehow knocked some money off the current Service Deal, which means I can actually have it for less than the £199 :)
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Glad you're sorted, seems like there's a few of us to have been caught between the 2 options.
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Bit of extra info for folk on the recent Finance/Servicing change.
I will be picking my car up next week and told the dealer I would like to increase my deposit from what I discussed previously and also change the estimated mileage. They told me that if I did this it would have to go through again and this would incur the new higher interest rate and the new Service scheme pricing. :shocked:
So I've not been able to increase my deposit/change the miles, without wiping out any monthly gains with the higher interest/servicing.
I'm happy I get to stay on the previously agreed deal at least! This is my first time buying a new car, and I guess this is one of the lessons learnt.
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Bit of extra info for folk on the recent Finance/Servicing change.
I will be picking my car up next week and told the dealer I would like to increase my deposit from what I discussed previously and also change the estimated mileage. They told me that if I did this it would have to go through again and this would incur the new higher interest rate and the new Service scheme pricing. :shocked:
So I've not been able to increase my deposit/change the miles, without wiping out any monthly gains with the higher interest/servicing.
I'm happy I get to stay on the previously agreed deal at least! This is my first time buying a new car, and I guess this is one of the lessons learnt.
Not a problem (unless you want to reduce your monthly payments) - phone up VW finance in a few weeks and 'overpay' the loan
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I am still waiting for VW finance customer services to see if they will honour the lower interest rate.
Weird, how my written quote from January does not seem to be tied in. Makes no sense.
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Bit of extra info for folk on the recent Finance/Servicing change.
I will be picking my car up next week and told the dealer I would like to increase my deposit from what I discussed previously and also change the estimated mileage. They told me that if I did this it would have to go through again and this would incur the new higher interest rate and the new Service scheme pricing. :shocked:
So I've not been able to increase my deposit/change the miles, without wiping out any monthly gains with the higher interest/servicing.
I'm happy I get to stay on the previously agreed deal at least! This is my first time buying a new car, and I guess this is one of the lessons learnt.
Not a problem (unless you want to reduce your monthly payments) - phone up VW finance in a few weeks and 'overpay' the loan
^^^ This...
Their normally isn't any charge for overpaying on a finance agreement
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Thanks guys, that's a very good point - I could make an overpayment, didn't think of that. I was going to reduce the mileage also, but not a biggy - I will I'll just have more equity in the car over time.
Edit - Just double checked on the VW finance site, and if you make over payments you can reduce the loan length or the monthly payment amount. The former would work out slighter better over the loan period, but quite nice to have the ability to reduce monthly payments if making over payments.
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Thanks for all the info on the finance guys. I've just received my stage 6 text so it can't be long until I need to sort all that sort of stuff out either!
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Picking mine up tomorrow Morning :)
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email this morning @09:00
Step 7 of 7: Your vehicle has been delivered to your local Volkswagen Retailer and is available for collection. Your Retailer will contact you soon to arrange your handover. Thank you again for your order and happy motoring!
Must go have a look at it and see how much i owe them.
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Mine still stuck at emden. :cry:
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Mine is getting delivered to my door today :smiley:
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Mine is getting delivered to my door today :smiley:
which lease company suppling u the car? cos my car stilll stuck at emden.
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Picked car up :)
What crappy weather to get a new car. No inside dealership experience for me this time :(
Just some quick snaps when I got home :)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v477/simfin/20140508_121353_zpsad85b967.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/simfin/media/20140508_121353_zpsad85b967.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v477/simfin/725a78f8-7f64-4abb-9e5e-a1d89804b91c_zps445c6a70.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/simfin/media/725a78f8-7f64-4abb-9e5e-a1d89804b91c_zps445c6a70.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v477/simfin/20140508_121446_zps5f85a2a3.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/simfin/media/20140508_121446_zps5f85a2a3.jpg.html)
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Mine too.
Had a couple of short runs. Car seems to drive well enough. Trying to get me head round all the different buttons/functions. It's got a hll of a lot for a base spec car!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/Stealthdog/2014-05-08132244.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Stealthdog/media/2014-05-08132244.jpg.html)
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Cars are looking amazing guys, have fun! Bw16 is all about the TR so far then!
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Cars are looking amazing guys, have fun! Bw16 is all about the TR so far then!
Cheers :)
Just done around 85 miles in it for work today, down the M1 into Watford, then across Watford town centre to another address, finishing with a stop/start journey back through Watford to the M1 and heavy traffic drive home. Computer showing 45mpg. Happy with that, especially as it was doing a large regen of the DPF while stuck in Watford.
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Nice car karlak! Looks epic. Good effort on the photos.
I'm picking mine up on Tuesday... boom
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At last getting mine on next thurday. :laugh:
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Was to collect my GTD today but had an email from the dealers yesterday afternoon to give them a call. Rang the salesman who said there is a problem with your car, when they checked the invoices they didn't match and discovered the car had the Discover Navigation and not the Discover Navigation Pro i had paid for.
Two options take the car as is or order again, i went for the order again. I have already sold my current car and it is going to it's new owner tomorrow, the dealer have said they will loan me a car until the replacement is delivered.
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That's no luck at all mate.
I don't blame you for reordering again. Although perfect scenario is they would give you the car to run about in until the new one arrives.
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Could they not order the Nav Pro and fit at the dealers?
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No the Pro Nav can only be fitted at build, they had already checked this with VW.
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What a nightmare Silver38. That's not great. At least you get a car from them for the time being. Have they indicated how long the wait will be for a new one?
I picked my GTI up yesterday... I'm still doing the long journey from Gillingham to Aberdeen! I'll post some pictures when I'm back home. I can only say that it's definitely worth the wait!!!
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Wil are you using the motorway or are you doing the A roads for the journey?
Just interested as I'm getting mine from Gillingham and going back to Glasgow. I've read a few articles saying the motorway is a poor way to run it in.
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I took the A1. I varied the revs as much as possible, didn't blitz it and just took care really!
It's not ideal but I wasn't going to take a million detours to get home!!
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Here we go:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10098796/Golf%20GTI/2014-05-13%2014.02.21%20HDR.jpg)
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10098796/Golf%20GTI/2014-05-13%2014.02.25%20HDR.jpg)
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10098796/Golf%20GTI/2014-05-13%2014.02.36%20HDR.jpg)
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10098796/Golf%20GTI/2014-05-13%2014.02.39%20HDR.jpg)
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Car looks great, my pure white 5 door is almost here!
I see the GTi badges are now in red, was that an option or is it standard now?