absolute con men the lot of them.

[am1w]

Absolutely bloody useless. Are there any stealers out there who've vaguely got an idea how to fix these cars? - such incompetence was the main reason I left VW several years ago.

They are worse than useless.
I need to get mine checked by SteveP at some stage as they might have disconnected my battery whilst doing all that bumper work.

[R32UK]

Leeds are poop. Hudds are marginaly better

[Duncreflex]

Leeds are poop. Hudds are marginaly better

I've had BAD dealings with VW hudds, steer clear!

[R32UK]

Leeds are poop. Hudds are marginaly better

I've had BAD dealings with VW hudds, steer clear!

Yes so did I. Kicked up a big stink and let them know about it.... get treated like a customer now rather than someone who NEEDS work doing by them.

Given them alot of work over the last few years... so they now value my custom a little more than most

[devito]

Regional Variability. It's not new or big news.

Put the spec up and I bet it will have a couple more thousand added to the price for those in london and the SE.

regional variabilty? the two dealers are a couple of miles apart and it was the same car. not just the model n spec but the same piece of metal. on wed i saw it at huddersfield and on sat i saw it in leeds at £600 more.
thats not regional variabily.

[RedHP]

Now, now boys and girls, lets not bicker about the divides.

I'm a londoner who moved 'up to the sticks' 6 years ago, and the higher salaries down south are needed for the extortionate cost of living down there.
Similarly, I couldn't have purchased a house down there for quite a few years, so I would say there is a better standard of living up here.

It cancels each out, so it is down to personal choice of where you live (with a few dependancies)

Besides, there is plenty of money up norf !

Red

[Snoopy]

Not quite true imo. The problem is property developers keep house prices high as they buy them as buy to lets. Theres loads of southener developers own loads of property up here since the late 90s which made house prices sky rocket ten fold and not come back down. Were as the wages have stayed the same level and not even rises with inflation so actually dropped or nearly halfed. If you move down south and make your money then move back up you can afford a house i know. But if like my brother you work and live in the north you cannot buy a house as simply the saleries are not high enough to get a morgage to buy a terrace house bacause some developer landlord type just think as 100K as pocket change were as most jobs here pay ~£20K (Most are less, this level is for people with qualifications and experience) so buying a ~100K(thats min price now) is not realistic. Even places like sheffield pay far far higher wages than this far north but the house prices are similar. As an example students on there year out of there degree in sheffield are getting paid 21K the ones that got placments up here are getting just 15K

[RedHP]

Not quite true imo. The problem is property developers keep house prices high as they buy them as buy to lets. Theres loads of southener developers own loads of property up here since the late 90s which made house prices sky rocket and not come back down. If you move down south and make your money then move back up you can afford a house i know.  But if like my brother you work and live in the north you cannot buy a house as simply the saleries are not high enough to get a morgage to buy a terrace house bacause some developer landlord type just think as 100K as pocket change were as most jobs here pay ~£20K (Most are less, this level is for people with brains) so buying a 100K(thats min price now) is not realistic.

Fair point about developers. But to be fair, to a lot of people the 'South' means largely London whereas there are many large cities and developed towns the the 'North' (which to many means anywhere past Herts/Beds).
There are, therefore, more choices (locations) to remain in the 'North' providing opportunities to earn the reddies.

As a southerner, believe me, if you are not in a highly paid job and you don't have support from say family, it is very difficult down there. I'm glad I relocated when I got hitched to a northerner!!

[Buck]

It wasn't a white one was it?

i drove two from the Huddersfield dealership - salesmen were "wideboys" and the 3 door one had a warning light on it and felt thrashed to hell and back