Contact from VW UK re: Estimated BWs etc...

[mcmaddy]

GTDs will all have later build weeks.

who says? some people who have ordered gtd's have build weeks of 26 so that doesn't really match up with your statement.

[matchboy]

As long as you're ok eh GolfTi! 

[mcmaddy]

As long as you're ok eh GolfTi! 

that's what it sounds like! 

[monkeyhanger]

GTDs will all have later build weeks.

I beg to differ. The black GTD DSG that was my dad's order will be built in week 25, earliest GTI here for mainland UK is build week 24/25.

[Lagerlout]

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but I've been told that the changeover from model year 13 to 14 is affecting things, I'm not sure what this means exactly but I suspect there may be small changes on the 14's that they've picked up from the lesser models and are rolling out onto the 14's. Wiper blades for example.

I further suspect they are holding back customer orders to year 14 to apply most of these orders to the updated model year. The harder you scream direct to VW, perhaps you may get a model year 13? I doubt however anything ordered now would turn up at a model year 13.

I'm in no rush for mine and have been told September, but understand why others need their cars now!

[monkeyhanger]

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but I've been told that the changeover from model year 13 to 14 is affecting things, I'm not sure what this means exactly but I suspect there may be small changes on the 14's that they've picked up from the lesser models and are rolling out onto the 14's. Wiper blades for example.

I further suspect they are holding back customer orders to year 14 to apply most of these orders to the updated model year. The harder you scream direct to VW, perhaps you may get a model year 13? I doubt however anything ordered now would turn up at a model year 13.

I'm in no rush for mine and have been told September, but understand why others need their cars now!

Nothing made now will be MY13, as BW22 is here. I do think that those of us that have made changes (myself included) have less to moan about than those that have made no changes that may have been bumped (not sure if we have any of those). Biggest irritation to me (and mcmaddy i'm sure) is that a car that was 3rd in a queue at our dealership has had changes applied same as mine yet is being built the earliest by at least 2 weeks.

[Bill_the_Bear]

So I asked the chap who gave me the test drive about lead times.  He said they always say 20 weeks maximum, to avoid disappointment, but he's never known it to actually take that long.

Now I placed my order in wk 17, and I'm currently quoted wk 37 estimated build.  That is 20 weeks, and that's not including shipping, so as far as I can see my car is currently scheduled to take longer than what my dealer considers the absolute maximum lead time before it is delivered.

Unless the estimated build comes forward.  Based on the original estimates from the dealer I ordered at, my car should have been built around wk 28-30 so something has gone very wrong somewhere for them to now tell me I'll be waiting another 2-2.5 months for it!!!!!

[Lagerlout]

If that's true, it surely must be them holding orders over to MY14 for some reason. That's mental waiting 5 months for a VW!!!

[mackandmark]

Bill, called in to a local dealer today & asked the simple question "if I ordered today when could i expect delivery"

I got probably the most honest (or stupid) answer i've been given so far.

The Sales man said "They are not starting to build them until August, they are stock piling orders until then. They will have some available in the show rooms from 1st August, but any specific factory builds will start 01.08.2013."

He did still go on to say that if I ordered today I would still expect that I would receive my car late September/early October.
This falls into line with Crowe Road VW in Glasgow who said exactly the same thing for when I would expect to see my car.

I just wonder if those people who have actual build dates have matched the spec of their cars exactly the same as the cars that the dealers were going to receive. Therefore an instant Sale & one less to sell off the forecourt? Maybe why certain people have such early build weeks.

[monkeyhanger]

The Sales man said "They are not starting to build them until August, they are stock piling orders until then. They will have some available in the show rooms from 1st August, but any specific factory builds will start 01.08.2013."

He did still go on to say that if I ordered today I would still expect that I would receive my car late September/early October.
This falls into line with Crowe Road VW in Glasgow who said exactly the same thing for when I would expect to see my car.

I think the salesman was just trying to make you feel better about  a long wait for yours, especially if he's already sold some cars and yours will have a later allocation than orders already placed. There are cars ordered by people here of varying spec and colours that will be starting to get built within a few weeks. MOst cars ordered specifically as a showroom model are bristling with extras, many people on here have been quite conservative with the extras (including myself).

Even bumped back to BW27, I have a chance of getting mine the 2nd or 3rd week in July (if it is built at the start of BW27 and it takes 2 weeks from start of build to land at my local dealership).