MK7 GTI vs M135i

[Gryzor]

Looks really nice Andy, very smart indeed

[drisser]

Couple of pics in case anyone is interested

Won't post any more in case I get shot down for making it a BMW forum 

Hope the links work..

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd365/andysexyberkshire/135%20COUPE/135coupe2_zpsf63376f7.jpg

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd365/andysexyberkshire/135%20COUPE/135coupe1_zps5a25e8b4.jpg

Congrats Andy! Very nice and much prefer that shape compared to the hatchback

Hope you will hang around the forum even though you have ventured over to the dark side 

For sure will be hanging around !  Ironically the bmw I bought is almost carbon grey..

Oh by the way, am already in the dark side, was just nearly escaping it    hope you are enjoying your motor btw, am going to miss those red running strips in the doors 

[Bill_the_Bear]

VW promised email contact today updating on BW and discussing options to help with my p/x losing value.  Surprise surprise nothing arrives... if you have a £30k contract with someone and you promise to email them on a specific date you better f**king do it.  What the hell is wrong with these assholes?

I think now I'M gonna have to call THEM incurring stupid international charges and all.  Needless to say I'm now pretty pissed.  I'm no longer interested in selling them my p/x (as bored of waiting for them ive agreed a private sale now) but I still expect them to compensate me for loss of value, the tax, the MOT etc etc so I want an additional and HEFTY discount or they can return my deposit.  Think I'll invite them to beat my BMW quote!  So, assuming they respond to that with a complete lack of any competence whatsoever, like they have done so far, the probability seems high that I will own a M135i tomorrow and VW will join the list of companies I don't deal with.

They're not the worst company I've ever dealt with (Vodafone gets that honour as they literally stole money from me) but they win second place!

[drisser]

Bill,

Sounds like your buying experience has been rather badly tainted beyond repair.  If it was me I would just vote with my feet.  Buying a new car should be pleasurable and yours seems to have been one stress after another.

Whether its for anM135 or in fact any other car, I would just get on with it. I don't know how you can end up having an enjoyable owning experience after that, I would feel forever bitter with VW if I took delivery after that experience.

It's hard to turn your back on a car you really wanted, I have just done it so know how it feels but at the end of the day most modern cars are pretty good and there is plenty of choice out there.

[Gryzor]

Referring to comments I just made in the build week thread, you need to just stick to your original guns and wait for the car you wanted, or walk into VW, cancel the car, and get the BMW that's available now.  Playing games with them is going to make you even more stressed than you are now, and I wonder if you'll even be happy with the BMW now.  I hope so, because as drisser said, buying a car should be enjoyable.  I guess one lesson here is, always fix the value of your part-ex.

[drisser]

Totally agree,

Only thing worse than getting stressed about waiting for a car you really want, is getting stressed about a car that you don't really want, or might want but can have it tomorrow !

Just have to go with gut feel, in the end that is what drove my decision to cancel and buy used 135 coupe.  I so wanted the Golf but the combination of a good private offer for my 330, and the guy wanted it within a week, plus my work situation and no certainty on build week meant buying approved used was the best bet for me.

I tried very hard to love the M135 and just couldn't, so my advice is either buy the M135 TODAY and be done with it, or forget all the other possibles and just sit tight for the car you ordered.  It gets tiring speccing up cars, test driving, pricing things up etc and you eventually get burned out.  TBH I was days away from just sticking with my 330 !

Make a decision, and stick with it 

[drisser]

Oh my final point on the M135 decision.

Don't, for god sake buy it just because it cost 38k and there is a huge discount.  It doesn't mean it's the right car for you. 

I very nearly fell into that trap.  But if you love the car for what it is and there is a great deal, go for it. 

Don't fall into this trap of " I can have 300 bhp for the same money as 230"  so it's a no brainer.  I don't know if anyone else drive the m135 over the exact same roads as the GTi but I specifically did and I swear in the real world in real conditions the golf is no slower on the twisty fun B roads.. The ones that matter..

Anyone can drive at 100 on a motorway as I found out when I couldn't shake off a bimbo in a 1.2 corsa in the M135 

[Gryzor]

Some really wise words there drisser, and I agree completely.  Was going to say, you had a lovely car already with the 330, so sticking with it wouldn't have been such a silly move, but I get there comes a time when change is right.

There were a few times during the order process where I canceled, un-canceled, considered canceling again...just got tiring just questioning myself all the time.  In the end I just forgot about it, spent less time on these forums whining about it, and the time just flew by.

[matchboy]

I think its easy to say stick with your guns if you've been given a BW or your car is being built at present.  Bear ordered mid April and still hasn't been given a confirmed date.  If he did have a confirmed date I'm sure he'd feel a little better (I know this eased my pain ever so slightly).  Saying that, if he feels the M135i is a better car for him then he should go for it!

[monkeyhanger]

VW promised email contact today updating on BW and discussing options to help with my p/x losing value.  Surprise surprise nothing arrives... if you have a £30k contract with someone and you promise to email them on a specific date you better f**king do it.  What the hell is wrong with these assholes?

I think now I'M gonna have to call THEM incurring stupid international charges and all.  Needless to say I'm now pretty pissed.  I'm no longer interested in selling them my p/x (as bored of waiting for them ive agreed a private sale now) but I still expect them to compensate me for loss of value, the tax, the MOT etc etc so I want an additional and HEFTY discount or they can return my deposit.  Think I'll invite them to beat my BMW quote!  So, assuming they respond to that with a complete lack of any competence whatsoever, like they have done so far, the probability seems high that I will own a M135i tomorrow and VW will join the list of companies I don't deal with.

They're not the worst company I've ever dealt with (Vodafone gets that honour as they literally stole money from me) but they win second place!

Bill: I doubt they'll offer you anything towards loss of value in your would-be p/x if you are selling it privately. Are you selling it privately for at least as much as you would've gotten in p/x? What you sell your would-be p/x for is beyond their comtrol and so I doubt they'll consider any compensation on that score (they might consider that you undersold it and then expect them to pick up the slack).

If you stick with p/xing it and incur additional costs that you otherwise wouldn't have incurred if the car had been delivered within an expected timeframe (such as an extra service or a few new tyres), VW should (and have done in the past) meet those costs directly or indirectly via further discount.

If you get rid of your car privately, what they should be able to do for you is guarantee you a courtesy car for the remaining duration seeing as we've now exceeded 20 weeks since order was accepted.

You can always ask for more in the way of goodwill etc, but I doubt you'll get it if your car goes privately.

You've really got to ask yourself whether you like the M135 over the GTI enough to not wait a probable 8 weeks more for your GTI. If you place a fresh BMW order, the gap is likely to shorten to 2 weeks at best case (as you'll wait at least 6 weeks for a new order to be built and delivered).