£130 to swap alloys (not tyres....just the wheels)

[mariamartinez]

Picking up a new car with half a tonne of wheels scattered around the interior will take the shine off the handover far more than the couple of quid difference you'd get in selling 100% virginal wheels

ok point taken but the wheels weight about 20kg each with tyres so its only like having a passenger. also, the reason to have the new wheels put on straight away was to get a great initial look on the car on handover not to sell later. I never said I was selling them, indeed I think its useful to keep them as a completely new spare set but I might eventually sell the car with the original set on. finally, as the dealer is not close I would be getting a lift, so with luck the wheels would not be in the new car but the run-around car that I get a lift in. However I appreciate your reply.

[Exonian]

Picking up a new car with half a tonne of wheels scattered around the interior will take the shine off the handover far more than the couple of quid difference you'd get in selling 100% virginal wheels

ok point taken but the wheels weight about 20kg each with tyres so its only like having a passenger. also, the reason to have the new wheels put on straight away was to get a great initial look on the car on handover not to sell later. I never said I was selling them, indeed I think its useful to keep them as a completely new spare set but I might eventually sell the car with the original set on. finally, as the dealer is not close I would be getting a lift, so with luck the wheels would not be in the new car but the run-around car that I get a lift in. However I appreciate your reply.

Ahh, gotcha.
I thought maybe you'd be carrying the wheels to be fitted down in a part ex car, getting them unloaded and fitted to the new car then put in the back of said new car to drive home.
£130 is going to hurt but in the grand scheme of things it's about the same value as two weeks depreciation on a newish car  and makes the handover hassle free.
Maybe ring someone further up the food chain in the dealership as suggested to try and get a bit of money off as a goodwill gesture.
I'd still want to wait until I got the car home myself. I don't like handovers as it is, the less fuss and drama the better for me.
In the back door and out the back door as quickly as possible so I can get home and familiarise myself with the car.
When I picked up my latest GTI they did the whole sheet over it, photos and filmed me driving it off and I felt a right tit. 

[I wanted a GTi]

Picking up a new car with half a tonne of wheels scattered around the interior will take the shine off the handover far more than the couple of quid difference you'd get in selling 100% virginal wheels

ok point taken but the wheels weight about 20kg each with tyres so its only like having a passenger. also, the reason to have the new wheels put on straight away was to get a great initial look on the car on handover not to sell later. I never said I was selling them, indeed I think its useful to keep them as a completely new spare set but I might eventually sell the car with the original set on. finally, as the dealer is not close I would be getting a lift, so with luck the wheels would not be in the new car but the run-around car that I get a lift in. However I appreciate your reply.

Ahh, gotcha.
I thought maybe you'd be carrying the wheels to be fitted down in a part ex car, getting them unloaded and fitted to the new car then put in the back of said new car to drive home.
£130 is going to hurt but in the grand scheme of things it's about the same value as two weeks depreciation on a newish car  and makes the handover hassle free.
Maybe ring someone further up the food chain in the dealership as suggested to try and get a bit of money off as a goodwill gesture.
I'd still want to wait until I got the car home myself. I don't like handovers as it is, the less fuss and drama the better for me.
In the back door and out the back door as quickly as possible so I can get home and familiarise myself with the car.
When I picked up my latest GTI they did the whole sheet over it, photos and filmed me driving it off and I felt a right tit. 

Same here, I hate all the fuss with the stupid covers and signs saying I'm ready to go home now. I tell the dealer I will need 30 minutes to an hour to check the car over.

[Booth11]

^^ And here.  I can understand the appeal of the whole 'ceremony' is exciting for some, perhaps if you're getting your first ever new car, but it would have me running for the "I'm ready to go home now" cover, and not for its intended purpose! No ta. An uber low key round the back of the bike sheds with the car unprepped, does nicely for me. 

The intented purpose of the "I'm ready to go home now" cover is, of course, not its defining moment.  No, that's it ensuring your new paintwork has an nice extra load more welcoming swirls, on top of the free of charge dealer supplied ones, when it's lifted from the floor of the showroom from where it landed from the last new car it was dragged off, before being very unceremoniously plonked on your new car to continue its sterling swirl inflicting work once more.  New car unveiling anyone? 

[I wanted a GTi]

^^ And here.  I can understand the appeal of the whole 'ceremony' is exciting for some, perhaps if you're getting your first ever new car, but it would have me running for the "I'm ready to go home now" cover, and not for its intended purpose! No ta. An uber low key round the back of the bike sheds with the car unprepped, does nicely for me. 

The intented purpose of the "I'm ready to go home now" cover is, of course, not its defining moment.  No, that's it ensuring your new paintwork has an nice extra load more welcoming swirls, on top of the free of charge dealer supplied ones, when it's lifted from the floor of the showroom from where it landed from the last new car it was dragged off, before being very unceremoniously plonked on your new car to continue its sterling swirl inflicting work once more.  New car unveiling anyone? 

You want to see what Audi dealers are like or at least the one I went to to collect a car with a family member. Surrounded by sales team clapping as the cover was taken off it, very chringy.

If they had of put a cover on mine it wouldn't have mattered because they managed to cover it with swirls without it.

[Booth11]

^^ And here.  I can understand the appeal of the whole 'ceremony' is exciting for some, perhaps if you're getting your first ever new car, but it would have me running for the "I'm ready to go home now" cover, and not for its intended purpose! No ta. An uber low key round the back of the bike sheds with the car unprepped, does nicely for me. 

The intented purpose of the "I'm ready to go home now" cover is, of course, not its defining moment.  No, that's it ensuring your new paintwork has an nice extra load more welcoming swirls, on top of the free of charge dealer supplied ones, when it's lifted from the floor of the showroom from where it landed from the last new car it was dragged off, before being very unceremoniously plonked on your new car to continue its sterling swirl inflicting work once more.  New car unveiling anyone? 

You want to see what Audi dealers are like or at least the one I went to to collect a car with a family member. Surrounded by sales team clapping as the cover was taken off it, very chringy.

If they had of put a cover on mine it wouldn't have mattered because they managed to cover it with swirls without it.

Trust me, I don't want to see what Audi dealers are like.

[Guzzle]

In Audi's case, you could use the cover to hide under when they do their pretentious clapping and cheering.

Bit naff...

[Watts]

Audi has changed then since I bought my A4 in 2003, went in, paid for it, picked up my paperwork and my car was just on the forecourt. Quick look over, told what some of the buttons did then off I went. Perfect, as was the car (to me anyway).

[phope]

Certainly not had the clapping & cheering with the ten Audi I have bought in my lifetime...not that I'm missing it by the sound of it 

[kalimon]

Try picking up a brand new, swirled to death, dark blue 3 series BMW.
It was spinning around under bright lights on a ridiculous rotating platform in all it's flawed glory.
I nearly pissed myself laughing and my mate who stupidly bought the thing, didn't know where to look