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Offline DanoGTI

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Re: First trip to the dealers.....
« Reply #20 on: 18 February 2009, 15:31 »
LOL I thought it was just me - the Rocco I drove 2.0 fsi sounded like a bag of spanners :grin:

Yeh it shifted well (no pun intended DSG!! :grin: ) but no sense of occasion :(

BORING.

Dan :)


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Re: First trip to the dealers.....
« Reply #21 on: 18 February 2009, 18:23 »
LOL I thought it was just me - the Rocco I drove 2.0 fsi sounded like a bag of spanners :grin:

Yeh it shifted well (no pun intended DSG!! :grin: ) but no sense of occasion :(

BORING.

Dan :)

Got to agree with you there... it was boring!

I was actually tempted to ask if it was a diesel at one point. Cant really knock the dsg as it does everything it promises, just struggles to adapt to my sometimes eratic style of driving.

Felt very planted in sport mode as was quite impressed at the levels of grip. The magnetic ride thingy (excuse my technical speak) really is great but as an £1200 extra on a audi is a little excessive. Which is why i can see they gave it for free in the golf as only a mad mad would spec it as an option.

As for the diesel like noise I can only put it down to it having slightly less insulation behind the rear seats possibly. :undecided:

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Re: First trip to the dealers.....
« Reply #22 on: 28 April 2009, 18:09 »
should of seen the looks me and a mate were getting (both 19) in a audi showroom looking at an s5 and r8  :grin:

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Re: First trip to the dealers.....
« Reply #23 on: 28 April 2009, 19:33 »
Got to say that my local Audi stealer was FANTASTIC when we popped in on the off-chance....

My eldest daughter is 9 - she LOVES sports cars, and Ferraris in particular. How dewy-eyed did she go when there was a yellow 360 Spider in the showroom?:grin:

Anyhoo, pulled up in my S4, ran in to the dealership and asked if I could be cheeky and take a photo of the car for my daughter with her....

The salesman couldn't help enough - opened the car up etc.....

Made her day :)

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Re: First trip to the dealers.....
« Reply #24 on: 29 April 2009, 11:58 »
A friend of mine who's a sucessful builder after having a drive in my ed30 wanted a GTI for his wife. He pulled up in his work jeep walked round the forecourt for 20 mins no one was interested, he then went into the showroom and asked for some help,he was told everyone was busy and to leave his details and some would be in touch. A week later and still no one had contacted him he called into the dealer again and got the same level for service. He then went round to the local bmw garage bought a top of the range 123d 1 series. Before picking up the bm, he called into the vw garage, this time in his 350C tvr and asked to speak to the manager. He said the manager took him into his office, and being very helpfull. He lead the manager on that he wanted a top of the range toureg, just when the manager thought that the deal was done, my mate put the recipt for the bm on the table, stood up  said "My money wasnt good enough when i was driving a jeep and wearing my work clothes" then walked out. The manager just sat there speachless!lol
The car industry has been in the papers alot recently complaing that car sales are down 50% and ther wanting tax payers help. If the lazy F**kers got off their arse and actually tried selling cars it might help.

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Re: First trip to the dealers.....
« Reply #25 on: 29 April 2009, 12:04 »
I can only say great things about BMW dealerships, presales, sales and after sales. A breath of fresh air owning a BMW, and will certainly be returning.

My experience with VW so far however (very limited), has also been good. Years ago I was looking to change my 2000 Fiesta as a 22 year old and popped into my local Ridgeway looking at the Golf/Bora V6 4motion - without much of a presales chatter I managed to secure a 1 hour solo drive of the Bora V64motion. Fantastic. Didnt buy it, bought my Dad's Mondeo V6 instead.... but they certainly got a tick in the right box for me. And then recently when this GTI I bought came into the offering I wanted to try one out and just popped to a local dealer and asked for a test drive and they willingly let me. Without too much sales patter or pretending to be very interested.

I have heard bad things about the service side though, so we'll wait and see on that!

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Re: First trip to the dealers.....
« Reply #26 on: 29 April 2009, 12:48 »
Dealers vary so much from one to the other. Dealer I bought mine from (Beadles Maidstone) where great, my local dealer (VW Croydon) which I now deal with for geographical reasons have so far been a bit of a shambles :undecided: