gti ordered

[evo1986]

I work for a vw dealer Dean and this is common practice. What spec have you got on order I can help you find one if you don't want to wait.

[SRGTD]

Dealer rang me friday as I had a query about my Gti. He said he would ring me with an update on Thursday on how my order was progressing. Told him I had been on this site and that judging by the posts on here about waiting times I said I thought I would,nt see my car this year, which if thats the case it will be getting cancelled. He then said that if I did not have my car after 16 weeks I would be given a VW supply car . All well and good but I still won,t be taking delivery of my car in say December. Anyone else on here had this offer made to them?

I didn't get the offer so I asked my dealer for a loan car at 16 weeks.

I didn't want to be hit with a reduced trade in value and the cost of MOT, 4 year (big) service + cambelt change which were due 22 weeks after placing my order, especially as I'd expected to have taken delivery of my new car by them. To be fair to the dealer, they've let me keep my current car until my new one is delivered and have stood by the trade-in value they quoted me when I ordered back in November last year, plus they paid for the cambelt change, the MOT and half the service cost.  Probably cheaper for them in the long run than it would've been to put me in a loan car for 4 months!

   

[dean07]

Evo1986. Cheers .here,s the spec I ordered. Carbon Grey metallic, bluetooth prep,front and rear parking sensors, 510 radio/cd player and 18" Monza shadow alloys. The thing is I put a car in as trade in plus a deposit. Could get my deposit back no probs but the trade in will have been sold on? How could another dealer get me a Gti sooner than the dealer I placed the order with? Thanks

[p3asa]

I'm sure Lee will be along to answer more in depth but each dealer can only put an allocation of 2 or 3 GTI's in a month. So they may well have put one in the system to use a demonstrator or have a previous customers order that was cancelled due to the wait.
So as long as the build date hadn't been locked they can alter the spec.
So in effect you are jumping the queue.

[dean07]

Thanks for the info guys.

[evo1986]

Basically I can search every dealer and port in uk and Germany to see if there is anything that fits the bill. If there is I will put you in touch with where it is heading simples, allocation wise it's a bit tight we only have 1 left which is a demo we have on order in fact carbon grey 5 door manual with a few trimmings.........probably months and months away but will let you know when I am back in tomorrow.

Evo1986

[dean07]

Many thanks for the info Evo.

[dean07]

Put this on the Gtd thread instead of here. Dealer rang me today and told me my car has a build week of 35 mid August? Ordered it May18th and judging by some of the waiting times posted on here was expecting i no earlier than December. I am well pleased to say the least. Should I get it mid September if all go,s well?