What is the Longest Time To Wait for Car To Be Built?

[Brenbo]

I ordered my Golf R back at the start of April and still  do not have a build week.  I am not surprised as my GTI PP took six months from order to hand over.  With this in mind I thought I would start a thread to find the longest time any of us have waited from order to picking up the car from the dealer.  It is not meant to depress those of us waiting, but instead give an insight as to real world time scale we could wait.

I know there are many variables which can affect the time  to wait for your car to be built so It may be interesting to see if there is a pattern as to which options delay a build other than dealer allocation. 

[fredgroves]

Didn't Monkey Hanger wait about a decade for his R?

[gazmondo35]

6 months for me,but was told if I wanted prets it would be more like 8 months.

[Brenbo]

I am wondering if mine will end up being 8 months. Have been told end of september, but i have doubts this may not be reality.  An ex work colleague of mine waited 8 months for his TTS so a wait this long is not unheard of.

[Raffe]

Ordered my R on the 11th April and have BW24 confirmed, spec is 3dr DSG car with only 90% tints and Apple Connect. As we have recently just found out though I do now also get Nav and Winter pack chucked in which is pleasing.

I did have a wobble on spec mind and tried to add the Prets to my order before my BW was confirmed and was told it would add another 8 weeks to the availability of the car so I held off.

[Brenbo]

I have order mine with Pretorias and pretty much everything else on the option list.  So I am expecting a long wait. 

[Cossieian]

Ordered mine with Prets and a few other options and got confirmed BW25 2 weeks after ordering

[Croz13]

I ordered mine on the 11th May & got my build date of wk25 yesterday so should hopefully get around end of July spec ordered below

3 dr / DSG
White
Winter pack
Pano roof
Rear cam
19" alloys
Car net app

[mcmaddy]

Back in 2013 I ordered my gtd on 1st April and picked it up on 20th September but put that down to orders being taken and not started to be built until July.

[Booth11]

8 months wait for my R last year. 

Ordered 29 Jan 2015, got Stage 3 (confirmed BW) on 18 Aug, and collected from dealer on 1 Oct 2015. But I know of a couple of other people that waited 11 months.

I specced 19" Pretorias and at that time the general consensus was the long wait times were being caused by a supply problems with these wheels.  It was a hellishly long wait and at one point looked like being a 12 month wait when my est build week shunted even further to Jan 16, but at this point I raised a complaint with VW, and the week after got a confirmed build week.  Maybe coincidence, who knows.   Anyway it was a long wait but that did melt away the instant I got it. 

I'm pretty sure these mad wait times are no longer the case.  Certainly know of plenty getting theirs through currently much quicker.