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Offline CraigW

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Re: GTI/GTD Order Date vs. Build Week Analysis
« Reply #110 on: 29 May 2013, 17:12 »
why havent i been given a build week date yet when i ordered my GTD at the beginning of May?  :huh:
and sems everyone on here has? anyone help me?

Contact VW UK. That's what I did. My dealership couldn't give me a build week either

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Re: GTI/GTD Order Date vs. Build Week Analysis
« Reply #111 on: 29 May 2013, 17:17 »
why havent i been given a build week date yet when i ordered my GTD at the beginning of May?  :huh:
and sems everyone on here has? anyone help me?

Contact VW UK. That's what I did. My dealership couldn't give me a build week either

cheers mate did u contact them by phone or email? have u got a build date now and when did u order yours (if u dnt mind me asking)

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Re: GTI/GTD Order Date vs. Build Week Analysis
« Reply #112 on: 29 May 2013, 17:23 »
Contacted them via twitter. Ordered 6th May. Bw 27 1 july

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Re: GTI/GTD Order Date vs. Build Week Analysis
« Reply #113 on: 29 May 2013, 17:40 »
why havent i been given a build week date yet when i ordered my GTD at the beginning of May?  :huh:
and sems everyone on here has? anyone help me?

Contact VW UK. That's what I did. My dealership couldn't give me a build week either

cheers mate did u contact them by phone or email? have u got a build date now and when did u order yours (if u dnt mind me asking)

I just spoke to them a few minutes ago:
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=254547.msg2334566#msg2334566

Contact via twitter or if you can wait I might soon post a more direct contact email address of this helpful lady who is helping me.

In general though I wouldn't worry too much.  Took ages for my dealer to give me an estimated BW and I think things are very confused over at VW at the moment.  We'll get to the bottom of this, don't worry.  No need to panic yet.

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Re: GTI/GTD Order Date vs. Build Week Analysis
« Reply #114 on: 29 May 2013, 18:41 »
why havent i been given a build week date yet when i ordered my GTD at the beginning of May?  :huh:
and sems everyone on here has? anyone help me?

Contact VW UK. That's what I did. My dealership couldn't give me a build week either

cheers mate did u contact them by phone or email? have u got a build date now and when did u order yours (if u dnt mind me asking)

I just spoke to them a few minutes ago:
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=254547.msg2334566#msg2334566

Contact via twitter or if you can wait I might soon post a more direct contact email address of this helpful lady who is helping me.

In general though I wouldn't worry too much.  Took ages for my dealer to give me an estimated BW and I think things are very confused over at VW at the moment.  We'll get to the bottom of this, don't worry.  No need to panic yet.

Hey Bear what do u think my BW would be or can u give me a estimate? i ordered mine around the beginning of May.

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Re: GTI/GTD Order Date vs. Build Week Analysis
« Reply #115 on: 29 May 2013, 18:59 »
Hey Bear what do u think my BW would be or can u give me a estimate? i ordered mine around the beginning of May.

I did drop you a reply here but you probably missed it because it was in the early hours of the morning!
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=254181.msg2334257#msg2334257

Give me about 10mins and I'll check now and give you my best guess.  Gotta remember a couple of things though.

Firstly, even similar orders seem to get very different estimated BWs.  For now we can only assume the ones getting far off BWs are going to be brought forward.  I'm trying to get some frank answers from VWUK on how reliable the estimates are and if we should be assuming they will come forward or not, but it probably will be a week from now until I next speak to them.

Secondly we don't actually have many confirmed BWs and going off the estimates is tricky, as even if they all line up we're still not sure how well they equate to the confirmed BWs as we dont have enough data yet.

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Re: GTI/GTD Order Date vs. Build Week Analysis
« Reply #116 on: 29 May 2013, 19:02 »
Hey Bear what do u think my BW would be or can u give me a estimate? i ordered mine around the beginning of May.

I did drop you a reply here but you probably missed it because it was in the early hours of the morning!
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=254181.msg2334257#msg2334257

Give me about 10mins and I'll check now and give you my best guess.  Gotta remember a couple of things though.

Firstly, even similar orders seem to get very different estimated BWs.  For now we can only assume the ones getting far off BWs are going to be brought forward.  I'm trying to get some frank answers from VWUK on how reliable the estimates are and if we should be assuming they will come forward or not, but it probably will be a week from now until I next speak to them.

Secondly we don't actually have many confirmed BWs and going off the estimates is tricky, as even if they all line up we're still not sure how well they equate to the confirmed BWs as we dont have enough data yet.

ok cheers Bear i did fill in ur survey twice but as i said i only had the order number so i dnt no how much that can help u get an estimate.

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Re: GTI/GTD Order Date vs. Build Week Analysis
« Reply #117 on: 29 May 2013, 19:16 »
ok cheers Bear i did fill in ur survey twice but as i said i only had the order number so i dnt no how much that can help u get an estimate.

Hmm, tough one.  The nearest order to yours that has a confirmed build is two weeks earlier than yours and due to be built probably last week of June or first week of July.  So my best guess is mid July build and not in the UK until August.  However, there are so many factors that could be at play such as how many ordered at the dealer you used? Does ordering 2 weeks later put you only 2 weeks behind or more?  Can we trust the confirmed BWs are 4 weeks out from when confirmed? ... right now we don't have good answers to those questions, but we might get a better idea in the next few weeks.

In your favor you have no DSG and no other options picked.  The lady I spoke to today about my order guessed that DSG is the biggest likely hold up, but I think she needs to do some digging to be certain of that... I'm unconvinced it really does cause a big delay.

Its too early to make confident guesses so please don't think I can tell you any more than VW can because until we learn a few more things I can't!

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Re: GTI/GTD Order Date vs. Build Week Analysis
« Reply #118 on: 29 May 2013, 19:57 »
it can't make any delays as monkeyhangers dad has ordered dsg and he is WK 25/26!
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Re: GTI/GTD Order Date vs. Build Week Analysis
« Reply #119 on: 29 May 2013, 20:44 »
ok cheers Bear i did fill in ur survey twice but as i said i only had the order number so i dnt no how much that can help u get an estimate.

Hmm, tough one.  The nearest order to yours that has a confirmed build is two weeks earlier than yours and due to be built probably last week of June or first week of July.  So my best guess is mid July build and not in the UK until August.  However, there are so many factors that could be at play such as how many ordered at the dealer you used? Does ordering 2 weeks later put you only 2 weeks behind or more?  Can we trust the confirmed BWs are 4 weeks out from when confirmed? ... right now we don't have good answers to those questions, but we might get a better idea in the next few weeks.

In your favor you have no DSG and no other options picked.  The lady I spoke to today about my order guessed that DSG is the biggest likely hold up, but I think she needs to do some digging to be certain of that... I'm unconvinced it really does cause a big delay.

Its too early to make confident guesses so please don't think I can tell you any more than VW can because until we learn a few more things I can't!

Cheers Bear great help appreciate that better info than my VW dealer. Mines on lease from the leasing company and they told me that it was ordered in VW Swindon. Il see if VW on twitter can get any info for me aswell.