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Skeeter said:
For those who have recently got new Skodas, how did you get told about a build date being set?
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When I placed my order I was told an estimate build week straight away then after the weekend was over I was given an exact build week.

I ordered 29th March and was given build date of 18th May. After that it all went to pot and I didn't receive the car until 20th July. It was absolutely terrible service from my dealer. They told me at one point they didn't even know where my car was...
I had to get in contact with Skoda UK to get information and was told that the system had the cars location all along so I was basically being lied to by my dealer :rolleyes:
My advice is to chase it up LOTS and it's often easier to get a reply from Skoda UK than the dealer as I found out.
 
17 weeks? I'd have told them to stuff it and walked into a different manufacturers dealer selling cars from stock by then.

Since ordering mine a mate has sold his car, decided he wanted a new one, researched, test driven, chosen, ordered, picked up and has been driving his new car a month. The wait is a bit of a pee take and if mine is going to be any later than the end of November I'll just cancel. Just bought a house so could probably put the money to better use elsewhere.
 
I received a letter a while back to say that my Yeti is one of those with a dodgy emissions controller and would be recalled for a fix. Today I arranged to have it serviced and suggested they might like to apply the fix at the same time. The lady to whom I spoke said that the recall will happen next year.
 
My Octavia vRS is on a transporter heading this way :).

Scheduled to collect it next Thursday, which will be 11 weeks since ordering.
 
shame they are only doing the 4x4 haldex for the vrs tdi

I would have loved a vrs 230 petrol with 4 wheel drive
 
Considering the platform is designed to be universal across engines, its not a technical limitation preventing them putting 4WD on the petrol models. There must just not be a big enough market for it?
 
Skeeter said:
Considering the platform is designed to be universal across engines, its not a technical limitation preventing them putting 4WD on the petrol models. There must just not be a big enough market for it?
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Because they dont want a Skoda that is "better" than the other marques in the VAG stable.
 
The market for petrol VRSes is small enough as it is - add in another factor that reduces MPGzzz and they wouldn't sell enough to make it worthwhile
 
Every manufacturer in the VAG group has a 4WD golf equivalent.

Golf R (petrol) or Alltrack (Diesel)
Audi S3 and RS3, A3 is available with Quattro on pretty much ever engine (even the 1.6 TDI)
Seat Leon X-perience
Octavia Scout (TDI and TSI - think these are still available) and VRS TDI soon
 
Got mine a couple of weeks ago. Cracking DSG barge.

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iaind said:
Every manufacturer in the VAG group has a 4WD golf equivalent.

Golf R (petrol) or Alltrack (Diesel)
Audi S3 and RS3, A3 is available with Quattro on pretty much ever engine (even the 1.6 TDI)
Seat Leon X-perience
Octavia Scout (TDI and TSI - think these are still available) and VRS TDI soon
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Oh yeah, there's those.... :p

An Octavia vRS petrol wouldn't be a rival to most of those however, as its seen as a bigger car. But like iaind said, it would be a small market inside a small market so not worth it.
 
Skeeter said:
Oh yeah, there's those.... :p

An Octavia vRS petrol wouldn't be a rival to most of those however, as its seen as a bigger car. But like iaind said, it would be a small market inside a small market so not worth it.
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I always find it weird that people see the octavia as a size up from the Golf - when in reality its exactly the same platform and only slightly larger. It's just the shape that makes it look like a larger, Mondeo size, car.
 
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