2023 Build Weeks

[ar899]

Are you the over 50s that the government is trying to tempt back to work?!

[blaze04]

Hi GTI forum,

My first post on here having found the website whilst becoming frustrated with my new car order.

After a number of years and having been driven in a mk 1 golf GTI, I finally got a mk 7.5 GTI 3 years ago. It has been a great car, so much so I wanted a club sport.

I ordered my Clubsport on October 2021, and as of today still have no build week allocated. After 17 months and poor dealership communication I am becoming more and more frustrated.

Can anyone give me any advice or insider knowledge?

[Tractor Dave]

Hi GTI forum,

My first post on here having found the website whilst becoming frustrated with my new car order.

After a number of years and having been driven in a mk 1 golf GTI, I finally got a mk 7.5 GTI 3 years ago. It has been a great car, so much so I wanted a club sport.

I ordered my Clubsport on October 2021, and as of today still have no build week allocated. After 17 months and poor dealership communication I am becoming more and more frustrated.

Can anyone give me any advice or insider knowledge?

Hi and welcome.
My only advice would be to hang on in there. When your car eventually arrives you will be able to take delivery, drive in for a couple of hundred miles then sell on at a large profit. You can't currently order a clubsport and there have been at least two price increases since you ordered. Was it under the £40k car tax threshold? If it was, makes it even more attractive to any prospective buyers. Of course you might decide to keep it. 

[Gjm]

Hi and welcome.
My only advice would be to hang on in there. When your car eventually arrives you will be able to take delivery, drive in for a couple of hundred miles then sell on at a large profit. You can't currently order a clubsport and there have been at least two price increases since you ordered. Was it under the £40k car tax threshold? If it was, makes it even more attractive to any prospective buyers. Of course you might decide to keep it. 

The 40k car tax threshold is based on the recommended on the road price when you actually sign on the dotted line and drive it away, and not the actual price you negotiate/agree to, or the price of the car in 2021. So with all the delays and price increases this would push a few people into that higher tax bracket through no fault of their own.

I’m in the similar position with a Golf GTD ordered in November 2021, with no idea when it will arrive.

[blaze04]

Thank you both for your thoughts. It seems this has become the norm, very disappointed in VW’s way of handling the issue. Fingers crossed I get this year

[monkeyhanger]

Thank you both for your thoughts. It seems this has become the norm, very disappointed in VW’s way of handling the issue. Fingers crossed I get this year

It's not a new thing for VAG, I ordered a Golf R in Sep 2014 and received it in May 2015, at a time when the lease special Rs were being ordered, built and delivered within 3 months.

[Tractor Dave]

Well I didn't know that. No wonder there are lots of annoyed people. With prices going up again in April practically every top spec Golf will be over £40k.

[Adam T7]

A 17 month wait is unbelievable. Wonder if other manufacturers are the same?

[Stretts]

Looks like there a loads of us in the 2021 order club.  I ordered my manual GTI September 21. I have been give about 6 different build dates most of which have been and gone. My latest build date is week 46 this year, it did go to Wk 41 for a while then back again. Like the clubsport you can no longer order a manual so it may even be worth and extra 50p when it eventually arrives.

The dealers have been good with me keeping me informed of the progress or lack there of, and servicing my current golf etc.  VW UK on the other hand have been completely useless and that's being polite.

[Gjm]

For the most part my dealer has been quite good keeping me updated, I usually get an email once a month telling me which build week has been provisionally booked. Needless to say that has always been different and further out than the previous update. On about two occasions it moved closer by 1 or 2 weeks, and then next update goes further out. I've kept a spreadsheet with all the dates and I'm sure in years to come I'll look back on it and laugh.

Regarding VW UK, I did escalate the issue around November last year, and now I get a customer relations manager that emails me as well with weekly updates. It has been quite funny seeing the 1 week difference between the two sources, not sure if they work from different 'week' calendars, or maybe the dealer is 'padding' it a bit. With the emails from the VW UK guy, sometimes it comes from his VWUK email address, and other times from his AudiUK emails address, so he is obviously covering both brands!

My last updated provisional build week was for May, but I've been close before and it suddenly moved out by a few months, so not counting on it until I know it's on a boat coming over.