Letting off some steam

[Teutonic_Tamer]

I really do sympathise with those who've had to wait for so long.
I'll never understand how I managed to order mine on May 28th for it to arrive by 10th July and be on my drive a week later registered 18th July. By my reckoning this is about 6 seeks for it to arrive and seven to be on the drive from the moment I signed for it. I got a discount too.
It's quite a simple spec though so I wonder if that's what it's all about.

Unless you simply picked a spec of stock/unsold car which was already trundling along the Wolfsburg production lines. 

[Rhyso]

And you forgot to press the cancel button. 

I've just seen an order on the VW system: 

• Name: Mr Rhyso Dervhead
• Address: Sheep Farm, The Valleys, Merthyr
• Car: GTD, fully loaded
• Cost: silly money

 

 

with a bit of luck i might see it sometime in 2013 

[countrytrucker]

Thanks for all the posts, I am simply too lazy to quote each separate one.

I will speak to my dealer and see what he can do. I am unsure if pushing for a sunroof is a good option because as you guys said, it will most likey delay the order further.

I think I might try to get a few accessories out of them as I have got a good discount already.

The guy hasn't given me a reason as to why the car is so far away but he is looking into it.

If I had ordered the winter pack, would I have had to pay the full price even though the heated seats were included in the leather?

[Rolfe]

No, the winterpack has a reduced price if it's ordered with the leather.

Rolfe.

[matchboy]

I am unsure if pushing for a sunroof is a good option because as you guys said, it will most likey delay the order further.

not necessarily, i added the dynaudio upgrade to my stereo at a later date and that actually brought forward my build week by a week!

[p3asa]

But if you are already in their system and have a build a week then the order is frozen. The only way you can add or change your order is to then start from scratch.

I think the OP's car has been stolen by someone else paying more to be honest with you.

[countrytrucker]

I spoke to my dealer this morning.

The guy I ordered it off says he can't really understand why it is so far away.

He is assuming the Xenons are what is holding the order up.

I haven't ordered DSG or Sunroof (I understand these are normally what holds an order up).

He did say that he would lend me a car for a while until the car arrives as he assumed it would have been around 14 weeks delivery. That was decent of him. I had suggested adding another thing to the order but I think I will leave it and not risk delaying it any further.

He has a customer who ordered a Scirocco last May who only got his car 4 weeks ago!