Its built!!!

[bobski]

This might be helpful to you...

This was my experience earlier this year. Its painful, but worth the wait (We saved like scrooges until it turned up and put a very nice chunk on the lease)

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/f86/post-your-skoda-factory-order-delivery-times-here-38898-14.html#post499543

[K1W1]

put a very nice chunk on the lease)

I hope you mean HP rather than lease.

[bobski]

I hope you mean HP rather than lease.

Hire purchase/loan with balloon. Whatever its called.

[K1W1]

Without being overly pedantic it's chalk and cheese.
With yours you own the car with a lease you are effectively renting it and don't actually own it. Big, big legal and tax difference.

[woofy]

Yep I have a HP, so the buck stops with me, rather than buying it back, it's ultimately my responsibility to sell that car. Also means I claim all the business use percentage of interest, depreciation, and all running costs etc. I think mine worked out about an 11k tax deduction, with a modest car allowance I end up having it paid for, and put $4k every year towards the next car.

[dArK5HaD0w]

SKODA vRS147; CanberravRS - any of you guys got any further info from the dealers yet with regards to shipping?

my vin # still shows up with 'no records found' on the ww logistics track & trace site.
I've heard it can take upto 3 weeks for a car to get a spot on the ship.
it will b 3 weeks this fri since my car was built

i've also heard it can take upto 2 weeks after the ship has sailed, before the vin # shows up on the track & trace.
2 ships left last week, bound for oz - 15th & 17th.

i've asked Colin today to see if he can give me a current status update.

[CanberravRS]

SKODA vRS147; CanberravRS - any of you guys got any further info from the dealers yet with regards to shipping?

my vin # still shows up with 'no records found' on the ww logistics track & trace site.
I've heard it can take upto 3 weeks for a car to get a spot on the ship.
it will b 3 weeks this fri since my car was built

i've also heard it can take upto 2 weeks after the ship has sailed, before the vin # shows up on the track & trace.
2 ships left last week, bound for oz - 15th & 17th.

i've asked Colin today to see if he can give me a current status update.

No news at all... sorry

[K1W1]

Without putting too much of a dampener on things my Sept 2009 built vRS was delivered to me on 24 December 2009.

[woofy]

That I would expect as normal Kiwi, it doesn't really pay to order during the summer vacation really, you end up waiting longer.

[CanberravRS]

Mine was built week 34 though... so its been sitting around for nearly a month now, and i would assume it was booked on one of the two September ships as that would align with the planned delivery date. I was always assuming my car would arrive mid November as that was what was planned when i ordered it in April so that it would coincide with my current end of lease on the vRS.

[dArK5HaD0w]

the next ship (faust - CO027-FAT) doesn't leave till 28th sept. if that is the case, it won't reach port kembla till 8th nov.
plus 3 weeks for delivery & dealer, means end of novemeber!!
my expected delivery date is "31st oct". if this blows out to mid nov, i don't mind. but anything later than that will suck!!