Blue Graphite?

[VWKev]

Shhh or i'll tell them about the blowie Kev......and he called me gay!

Now come on Kev and Rolfe, get these flippin' cars ordered!!!

Tomorrow for me, will be on the blower first thing to my client to see what deal he can give me. I'm sure it will be a good one as good or better than the internet prices I've got quotes for. After all, we save them a fortune every year 

[Rolfe]

Shhh or i'll tell them about the blowie Kev......and he called me gay!

Now come on Kev and Rolfe, get these flippin' cars ordered!!!

Oops, I think I slipped a cog last night when I was doing the sums.  It's not £800 to £900 I save from DealDrivers, it's between £1,846 (no DSG or leather) and £1,966 (DSG, but still no leather).  I don't know what I did but just now I put the numbers into a spreadsheet instead of playing with a calculator, and unless I've lost £1,000 this time which I can't find, I must have lost £1,000 last time.  I blush for shame.

Now that puts an entirely different complexion on it all.  I could get quite comfortable with the idea of DealDrivers for a saving of almost 2 grand, that is over and above the £500 discount the dealer in Edinburgh offered me.  It's possible they might shift a bit yet, and I wouldn't require them to go the whole nine yards, but to get the absolute top spec I was looking at for £23,470 and only £21,979 if I lose the leather (and the storage pack which I'm not sure I want), has a lot going for it.

I may be going to have an interesting conversation with Verve tomorrow, followed by a positively fascinating one with Western VW later in the week.  I've emailed DealDrivers to see what sort of wait times they offer, because that could be the snag - I'm not waiting 6 months and losing the scrappage deal.

Rolfe.

[gossa]

Good luck with it.  I spoke to three local VW dealers that all said categorically not a penny off a GTI.  I made my position politely clear but they were all adamant.  I settled for an over allowance on my PX and a £500 discount which ended up a reasonable deal but even when I mentioned brokers they just looked right through me.

The scrappage scheme has been good to them lately and they are becoming complacent again so good luck on your deal.  With price increases and VAT shenanigans on the horizon the quicker the better. Good luck with it Rolfe.

[Rolfe]

Well, I can live with the £500 reduction I've been offered, but where are DealDrivers getting their prices from?

I just noticed this post, and the one below it.

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=118819.msg1043752#msg1043752

Neilgcal called Dealdrivers and they never got back to him.  Kev was going to investigate them a month ago.  Well, Kev, did you find out if they were the real deal?  If nobody's managed to get an actual car from them at the advertised prices, it strikes me the whole thing probably stinks.

It was a nice dream while it lasted.

[Note, added later.  After talking to DealDrivers I got the firm impression that they're on the level.  No criticism at all.  The only reason I didn't go with them was that Verve offered me nearly as good a deal without my having to travel to England for it.]

Rolfe.

[VWKev]

Well, I can live with the £500 reduction I've been offered, but where are DealDrivers getting their prices from?

I just noticed this post, and the one below it.

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=118819.msg1043752#msg1043752

Neilgcal called Dealdrivers and they never got back to him.  Kev was going to investigate them a month ago.  Well, Kev, did you find out if they were the real deal?  If nobody's managed to get an actual car from them at the advertised prices, it strikes me the whole thing probably stinks.

It was a nice dream while it lasted.

Rolfe.

As far as I know Rolfe they are, only downside to dealdrivers is that they don't have a dealer in Scotland. If you look at broadspeed they have a dealer in North and South Scotland and are basically the same price, I would choose them.

[Rolfe]

As far as I know Rolfe they are, only downside to dealdrivers is that they don't have a dealer in Scotland. If you look at broadspeed they have a dealer in North and South Scotland and are basically the same price, I would choose them.

Thanks, I'll investigate that.  However, I'm not that fussed about where I go for the sort of deal DealDrivers are offering.  I used to live in the south of England, and I've practically worn a groove in the M6 in that time.  The Peugeot is running well, and I don't mind at all driving to England, picking up a bargain new car and leaving the Peugeot behind.  So long as the deal is on the level.

I just feel it's way too good to be true, given that it's just over £2,000 cheaper than the offer I've had from my local dealer, which itself sounds better than a lot of people have managed.  So, TANSTAAFL?  Where's the catch?

BTW, I discovered where I went wrong with my original sums.  I managed to add the DSG in twice.  The right answer both makes it worth going out of my way to get the deal, and makes it all seem a bit too good to be true.

Also, if DealDrivers (or Broadspeed even) are really offering these deals, and there's no catch, how come nobody on this forum seems to have taken advantage of them?

Rolfe.

[Rolfe]

Update.

Just phoned Broadspeed, and they aresn't offering any discount on the list price with the scrappage deal.  This is £500 worse that the offer from Western VW.

They did offer me a fair deal without the scrappage (DSG, but no leather or storage pack was what I asked for), £24,218 which is £2227 off list price, plus whatever I'd get for the Peugeot selling it privately (maybe £500?).  This is an improvement on the Western offer, which is £24,445 with the scrappage, so I'd maybe be as much as £700 up on the overall deal.  Not bad, but then Western might talk the same sort of figures if I asked them about a no-scrappage price.

I also phoned DealDrivers, and the guy was very very nice to talk to and for what it's worth seemed very genuine.  However he told me that they had just (overnight) put a note on the web site saying that the dealer giving these prices on the GTi had filled his production quota.  This is true, I reloaded the web page and got the following:

PRODUCTION NOTE -
7/7/09: GTI production allocation for our VW dealers whose pricing is shown below is now full, we do have another dealer still with some allocation but at a slightly lower discount, ask for details

He's going to get back to me with a revised quote.  I still can't find a catch here, other than that the deals are so good you have to get up early in the morning to secure them.

Rolfe.

[JoeGTI]

A MKV blue-graphite owner here !

I've posted some pics of mine on here a couple of times.... it's a classy colour that looks very very smart when polished up on a sunny day. It does need to be clean, otherwise it can look quite drab, but I think you can say that about any dark metallic. It also compliments the red detailing very well I think... here's a couple of pics

[Rolfe]

Thank you very much!  Me likee!  Me likee lots!

I know what you mean about the sunny day.  It was the same with the Caspian Blue Fiesta I had - the sunlight really brings up the colour and that's when I collected the admiring remarks.

I'm lazy about washing cars.  Men do that.  (One of my neighbours came to my door on Boxing Day and offered to wash the Peugeot - I think he thought I was letting the street down!)  I have enough to do cleaning the house.  I need to find an automatic car wash within easy driving distance - I used to go through one every 1 or 2 weeks where I used to live.

Oh, now I know I like the colour, my mind is made up on that one.  Thanks again.

BTW, where was that first picture taken?  Looks very familiar, west coast of Scotland somewhere.

Rolfe.

[AlanD]

NO NO NO ! Rolfe, dont use the car wash. That is the doorway to swirl heaven. Whoever had my MK5 before me needs putting in prison for the way they treated the paintwork (ironically it was a woman owner from new before me ), swirls all over the place when the sun comes out

You will find most cars over a few years old have swirls though, in the words of Morpheus, it is inevitable.