GTI Edition 50 order thread

[Garwen]

Call from the salesman today our plaque was in the parts department all along. Whooop whooop number 22 now where to put it

[Paul70]

Car collected yesterday. Love it, and so glad I went for the PP. as for the plaque numbers, I am number 7, which I don’t understand because I did not order on the 15th, but I am not complaining! Only negative, the detailing was poor; there is a residue all over the car, which dulls the paintwork.

[Donster]

Looks great, enjoy it.

[Watts]

😍

[JoeGTI]

That's stunning Paul, very best of luck with it!

I was starting to doubt my choice of Tornado Red, having seen a few stunning green examples, but now I'm happy again 

Also, too late now, but never let a dealers "detail" a new car. It'll only end one way. And I'm sure they thought they were being extra attentive with the red bows on the bonnet but thats inevitably going to have marked it too.

[SRGTD]

Car collected yesterday. Love it, and so glad I went for the PP. as for the plaque numbers, I am number 7, which I don’t understand because I did not order on the 15th, but I am not complaining! Only negative, the detailing was poor; there is a residue all over the car, which dulls the paintwork.

Looks great Paul in spite of the poor dealer prep. The combination of Tornado Red and black is spot on and I love the black Warmenau alloys. 

My experience of VW dealer ‘detailing’ - if you could call it that - is that it’s generally of a very low standard. I’d certainly never pay for dealer-applied paintwork protection (Autoglym Lifeshine or whatever product they use these days) or even let them do it for free; it’s almost certain the dealer wouldn’t do any form of prep work before applying the paintwork protection products. If you’re lucky, the dealer may spend an hour or two at most doing the paint protection when a professional detailer will spend 1-2 days doing a proper job.

Enjoy your new car and look forward to hearing how you get on with it after you’ve clocked up a few miles.

[Paul70]

Looks great, enjoy it.

Thanks Donster, hope you don’t have to wait too much longer

[Paul70]

😍

Thanks Watts, you need to treat yourself to a new TR ED50 

[Paul70]

That's stunning Paul, very best of luck with it!

I was starting to doubt my choice of Tornado Red, having seen a few stunning green examples, but now I'm happy again 

Also, too late now, but never let a dealers "detail" a new car. It'll only end one way. And I'm sure they thought they were being extra attentive with the red bows on the bonnet but thats inevitably going to have marked it too.

Thanks Joe! The dealer made a good job with my ED40 back in 2016, but sadly not this time. Nothing a good detail won’t sort out! I have a DA polisher so may do a light machine polish, but only once I’ve decontaminate it - I’d be interested to see how much reaction there is when I spray it with Iron Out!

[Paul70]

Car collected yesterday. Love it, and so glad I went for the PP. as for the plaque numbers, I am number 7, which I don’t understand because I did not order on the 15th, but I am not complaining! Only negative, the detailing was poor; there is a residue all over the car, which dulls the paintwork.

Looks great Paul in spite of the poor dealer prep. The combination of Tornado Red and black is spot on and I love the black Warmenau alloys. 

My experience of VW dealer ‘detailing’ - if you could call it that - is that it’s generally of a very low standard. I’d certainly never pay for dealer-applied paintwork protection (Autoglym Lifeshine or whatever product they use these days) or even let them do it for free; it’s almost certain the dealer wouldn’t do any form of prep work before applying the paintwork protection products. If you’re lucky, the dealer may spend an hour or two at most doing the paint protection when a professional detailer will spend 1-2 days doing a proper job.

Enjoy your new car and look forward to hearing how you get on with it after you’ve clocked up a few miles.

Thanks very much SRGTD, I will post an update in a few weeks but I did just over 50 miles yesterday and it drives really well and can’t wait to get a few miles on the clock.