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Has anybody received a confirmed build week yet? Seen someone with BW14 that’s potentially 10 days away   

I think that you are talking about me. I ordered the car on the 24th of February. In the next day the salesman called me and told me that according to the importer, car should be built in week 13/14.

On the 9th of March I received a message from him with the information that the order has been confirmed. He told me that once he got news he would tell me something and I haven't heard from him since.

Irish Order here I got confirmed build week yesterday of week 17.
Joe regarding your order did you have any luck discount wise as I'm starting to become a little
Skeptical re the amount Vw Ireland are actually importing. I'm hearing of a few different dealers with edition 50's ordered to stock. If this is the case you'd definitely be wanting a discount of some sort.
Re the tyres I had no luck but if you do have I'd be definitely following suit.

When did you ordered yours?

How do you plan to take care of yout Edition 50? When not using mine I want to keep it in a garage. I want a cover for it. Volkswagen doesn't have one in their accessories catalogue. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good quality cover?

What about "Tyre savers"? Something like this:


There are so much that I don't know what to choose...

Ok this compares a R and GTI, the differences might not be as much as thought - also 2016 cars but hey-ho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZyvQgcaxGM

Nice spec Joe, didn’t think you would be changing from the 8.5! Thinking about it for a while or just a snap decision?

Was toying with it myself once or twice but I am happy with the R and finding it hard to justify shelling out big money on a performance Golf again, given the prices here.

I notice VW Ireland an dealers seem to be pushing advertising of the ED50.

I know! I didn’t think I’d do it either! Ah I was day dreaming on the configurator since they launched, will I won’t I. I had ruled it out for the most part, particularly when I heard that they’d all “sold out” so I was happy then that, oh well, I missed the boat. But then the dealers got in touch a couple of weeks ago to tell me they’d secured a few more slots. So the hamster wheel started turning.

I’ve always hankered for an “Edition” GTI so I said this is now or never!

I will definitely, that would be a nice saving because as it stands I'll re bringing car to Tyre centre soon after collection to replace with road tyres.

TBH I think you'll be fine on the semi-slicks. I won't be rushing to change them off the car anyway. I'll want to drive on them for a while and see how they feel, particularly in the summer months anyway. I might feel differently in the winter.

Yes I'm similar to yourself re trading in, they usually put it on to take off.

Can you have a word with your dealer and ask them to query the tyres too? There's no justification for them charging extra for them when they're apparently included with the PP in other markets. If a few of us raise the issue, it may help!