Motorprovider Week 30 build slots

[farina]

and get your 12 months VW Assist

This one caught me out.  VW have had a policy change with VW Assist on imports (see below).  It took me three months of driving around with limited cover, wondering where my VW Assist card was,  before I realised.  So I ended up paying £145 for two years VW Assist cover including Europe, full onward travel etc.  Fairly competitive and easily offset against the money I saved off the list price of course..... 

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/company/faq#newcar
"Personal imports originating from Western Europe will generally be covered by a service called "Mobility Guarantee" from the country which supplied the car. Mobility Guarantee is limited in terms of the cover and duration it provides (12 months) and details can be found in the vehicle information wallet. Generally this service covers failure due to mechanical or electrical failure of the vehicle and does not provide help for such things as punctures, accident recovery, out of, or wrong fuel or lost keys. We therefore strongly recommend that you purchase our comprehensive Volkswagen assistance cover. For more information, please contact 0500 275 577."

VW had the same info on their website when I got mine (Dec 06 - from MP).  I sent off my reg doc and data sticker to VW customer services and got 12 months VW assist.  Certainly worth a try, rather than having to pay for it.

[hlobban]

Cheers for the advice on the servicing - Will get in touch with VW UK ASAP and register the car.

When did you guys get your registration document from MP for the car - as I obviously will need this to register it and try to get the VW assist?

Is there anything else I will need?

Cheers again

Harry

[Teutonic_Tamer]

When did you guys get your registration document from MP for the car - as I obviously will need this to register it and try to get the VW assist?

I can't personally speak for MP procedures, but on all the new cars I've ever purchased, you normally get an A4 plain white temporary registration document on the day you collect your car from the stealers.  It can be anything upto 6 weeks before you get the pukka V5C from the DVLA, although generally, they are usually on the ball, and send them out within about two weeks.

Is there anything else I will need?

A full tank of Tesco 99 or Shell V-Power! 

[TeddyKGB]

I thought they stopped making GIT's in blue? If that's the case I wonder why MP had them in

[SEACAP]

Contacted MP again today...latest is it'll gonna be another two weeks (approx) !!
not a happy bunny!!

[Golfoldie]

Think laser blue isn't available, but shadow blue metallic is - bit darker, but hopefully a bit easier to look after than black

[batracing]

picked up car today from mp, its stunning chuffed to bits

[ccaasjf]

Hiya

Still waiting for mine, told could be another 1-2weeks. When did you place your order mine was February.

Si

[SEACAP]

ccaasif  I've also been told another 2 weeks(ordered 23 March), apparently MP now have 2 suppliers and all the GTI's that were ordered in Feb & March are coming from the original supplier who is the one running late with orders.  The new second supplier is on time thats why some people are getting theirs on time and even early in some cases.

we are just unfortunate that we're in the batch running late but I'm told they are starting to come in and hopefully should be here in the next 2 weeks !!

[batracing]

we must of got lucky,car was ordered the end of may and arrived three weeks early.was very suprised when i received the phone call,had to ask if they had made a mistake after reading how long people had been waiting for their cars, and was told they had about five cars which had been delayed.hope you dont have to wait to much longer,believe me its worth it