Drive the deal?

[kalimon]

DTD always beat carwow in my experience. Very reputable company.

[OscarStorm]

I would like to vouch for DTD too, ordered my current GTI through them in 2014 and due to pick my new R up on Friday through DTD again. Always found DTD really helpful and the dealers have been good too, the dealers have been different each time but they seem to have someone just dealing with DTD orders.
I suppose the downside is the location might involve some travel for you if you want to pick the car up. Orange Wheels are good too and they will part ex, saying that the quote I had from their Audi dealer for partex was poor.
The VW is taking my GTI this time though and offered a fair price so sorted.

[Mk1Macca]

How does it work if you want to go the PCP route? Who do you crunch the numbers with, DtD, or the actual dealer it would get placed with?

[OscarStorm]

If you want to take the VW finance option DTD will take some details off you regarding deposit and how much you want to pay monthly etc and will supply you with the details. You can change the amounts as you want and if you wish to go ahead the dealer will contact you and can be changed further.

[brettblade]

I played off a number of fairly local dealers against the best quotes that I had from DtD and CarWow, there was a relatively small but not insignificant gap between DtD and CarWow in favour of DtD.  Managed to get my local dealer to a price between DtD and CarWow that I was happy with, so bought locally.  It's definitely worth canvassing all of the dealerships in a relatively sensible driving distance.  I had much better luck with dealers when saying "X dealer has offered me this at £xxxxx" rather than "DtD/CarWow have offered this at £xxxxx".

[fredgroves]

Remember your local dealer will try to tell you that dtd is going to be grey imports and not from a vw dealer and all sorts. It's none of those things and everything they can offer (finance, service packages etc) is available.

They also might say they can't match the price and that could well be true. Dealerships get discounts probably calculated by committed sales quota targets...

Apart from maybe having to travel some distance to pick it up, there are no gotchas.

[Mk1Macca]

Have spoken to a few dealers and none of them will even get close to the DtD price.

[Guzzle]

Remember £1000 of the DTD discount is conditional upon signing up for finance (which you can settle within a few days of collecting your car). Have your local dealers offered you the finance contribution as part of their discount?

It may be worth ringing DTD and asking them if they have a dealer anywhere close to you. Failing that there are other brokers around such as Carfile, UK Car Broker and Orangewheels that are only a few hundred more expensive than DTD and they may be closer to you.

[OscarStorm]

The dealer DTD seem to be using at the moment are based in the Home Counties. The name is mentioned in a thread in the vwroc.com forum. I had to travel to Liverpool last time from South Wales but the saving was well worth the travel in my mind plus you get the chance to have a good drive in your new car. Alternatively the cost includes having the car driven to your home address. Personally I did not fancy this option. Due to pick up my new car tomorrow and have found the dealer very good so would recommend them.

[Guzzle]

When my parents bought their Mini Cooper through DTD they paid about £500 extra for it to be delivered to their house on a transporter.

It still worked out less expensive than using the local dealer.