Build Date Confirmed!!

[Booth11]

Thanks for your support guys, I appreciate it.   Am feeling very disillusioned with the whole thing atm.

Dealer has confirmed I can have a hire courtesy car if mine is sold, but that's hardly the point!  I had a sale fall through on my Mk6 a few weeks ago (for reasons on the buyer's side totally unrelated to the car), and so the plan was/is to put it up for sale when I return from my hols in approx 3 weeks.  If I decide to stick with the order regardless of when it might come - sooner, or later, what I will be saying to VWUK (likely to fall on deaf ears), is that they should compensate me the amount that my car depreciates from the 1st September until such time it is sold (either privately, or to a dealer).

My dealer has been apologetic but not very proactive until now.  I have constantly asked for the dealer for updates, and the only reason I have not pushed it until now, is, a) I didn't need it till 1st Sept and earlier in the process that was on track, and b) there was a known? (on forums) supply issue with the Pretoria Wheels, so I expected some delay due to that, and c) the last est BW - BW35  was still just about an acceptable wait.  But now cars with Pretorias are being built and delivered and my dealer has confirmed he has had them coming through too, and it's not BW35, or 36, 37....  Dealer is at a loss as to why there is such a delay but I have insisted that he must now keep the pressure on VWUK (as will I) for some answers and hopefully an acceptable resolution.  Any bets it's some minute admin glitch that is the reason.

Just build the damn car!!!

@jpo, you're probably right, placing a fresh order could see it being built quicker than BW4. Mad!

[JoeGTI]

Wow Rebecca, that is just absolutely crazy! I'd be cancelling it tbh. It's not worth that aggravation but I can understand having waited this long, it's hard to pull the plug now. It's very hard to understand how it can take so long.

[Booth11]

Wow Rebecca, that is just absolutely crazy! I'd be cancelling it tbh. It's not worth that aggravation but I can understand having waited this long, it's hard to pull the plug now. It's very hard to understand how it can take so long.

I know Joe, it is unbelievable.

It may come to cancelling yet, but you're right it will be a hard decision to pull the plug this far in.  I've looked at a alternative cars, but sad as it may sound, there's still nothing I want as much as an R.  What to do??     I will see what comes about in next couple of weeks before making any rash decision.

[Bungleaio]

I ordered at GTI mid july with estimated build week 42, it's now slipped to 45. I know there might be the odd delay but nearly 5 months for a (quite a nice) hatchback seems like a very long time.

How many golfs do they make a day at the wolfsburg?

[NeilH]

Mr Websta (and Neil) - Can we see some pictures please? 

I'll do some at the weekend, it's p'ing down here and although it still looks good. It's not what I want for photo's

Neil.

[battleshipgray]

Rebecca - that is truly bonkers.

You must have boundless patience.

[NeilH]

PS. I put some FLAC files on tonight, play fine and sound brilliant. I'll do some comparisons at the weekend when I've got time to get the Dynaudio set-up right.

I think I may go to the dealer about the traffic sign display thing. I've got all the gear (camera etc), everything I've read and checked says it should be present in both Discover Nav and Pro. Maybe it just needs un-hiding in the menu. Reading the MIB2 manual it says things like recognised traffic sign will be shown on the map display but in the car manual it says they can also be displayed on the MFD, who knows....

One thing I noticed in the manual was DVE (Digital Voice Enhancement). I've not heard of it before, if you can enable it, when the driver speaks, it picks-up what's being said and feeds it over the speakers in the back - not much use for me but if you have noisy kids in the rear it may be a handy option - I'm assuming it uses the mic that the phone/voice control uses so may be available via a VCDS tweak (just to note I see version 15.7 has been released). I'm still wondering if I should get the cable....

I let the ACC bring the car to a complete stop today down from 75 on the motorway, then start back up again, really cool, although I did hover over the brake pedal....  Even at the closest setting there's plenty of room for a white van men to cut in at the last minute but other than that it worked really well.

I tried the Android Auto and Apple CarPlay but both pieces of kit I had to hand refused to play - both are quite old. I'll try with some more up to date (my wife's) kit over the weekend.

Cheers, Neil.

[Booth11]

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Rebecca - that is truly bonkers.

You must have boundless patience.

Or boundless stupidity, not sure which!

I do have a lot of patience, but come early spring 2016, it will have been well and truly exhausted.

[Booth11]

I ordered at GTI mid july with estimated build week 42, it's now slipped to 45. I know there might be the odd delay but nearly 5 months for a (quite a nice) hatchback seems like a very long time.

How many golfs do they make a day at the wolfsburg?

Not enough!

Sorry all, I'll stop moaning about the car now. 

[battleshipgray]

It still strikes me as mad.

I'm almost embarrassed at how quick my order has been. Though I've yet to see the car yet!