Now on my third RS

[Panik]

Hi Guys, long time lurker first time poster on this forum.

Well I bit the bullet on Saturday and placed a deposit on my third RS.

The first one being a 1979 Ford Escort RS2000 then years later to got into a 1993 Subaru Liberty RS Turbo and now I've got on order a MY11 Octavia RS wagon 147 TSI DSG in Anthracite Grey Met with the following options, Sunroof, Xenon's, Park Distance Control (front park sensors), MDI, Front Corner Function lights, Bluetooth (OEM) and Leather trim.

The car was already in stock at Skoda HQ in Melbourne (and the only one with that spec), so I should be seeing it in a week to 10 days time.

Even though I live in the Northern Suburbs, I got a great deal @ Peninsular Skoda dealing with John Papadopoulos who bent over backwards to do the deal, this guy is a genuine enthusiast to the Skoda brand because he owns a pre FL RS liftback with a stage 2 turbo set up and drives it to work everyday instead on taking a car from stock and he wants to see more Skoda's on the road.

I've got a couple of mods in mind when I pick her up, first one being a Reverse Camera kit that works through the Columbus head unit. I'll do a complete write up when I do this including coding as the system I do/did works through the port on the back of the unit and works with the Park Sensor system as per factory but without the guide lines.

I'll post some pics up when I get the car home.

Cheers

Peter

[Cookie28]

The funny thing is my dad had the first 2 of your RS' except he doesn't have a skoda

[woofy]

Yeah the Escorts were pretty popular, my uncle bought one new when he was 17 after being in the army a few years.

[kamold]

I dreamed of upgrading my stock 1.6L MkII Escort to RS2000 spec but only got as far as extractors and exhaust, reconditioned heads, wheels and instrument cluster. Then lost interest and got an R31 Skyline instead.
Lots of memories of blowing blue smoke all over the high school parking lot though, engine could have done with a fair bit of love.

[GTREA]

I had a red RS2000 back in 1987.

Rolled it.

It was then a Red RS2000 with black vinyl roof

[Gti Dave]

Yay another Melburnian Skodite. Now I'm expecting more Skodites to attend meets in the future as I'm getting pretty lonely.

[Panik]

Looking forward to doing a couple of meets as well.

[K1W1]

Skoda HQ in Melbourne?
Either they meant to say Sydney or it's coming from another Skoda dealer in Melbourne but not HQ.

[woofy]

After going to Richmond Skoda, and them tellling me they are the biggest dealer in Oz now, I've seen ads on Carsales and elsewhere with that claim as well. Amazing what happens when the biggest dealer (Bayford) close shop......I think they took most of the incoming stock from them.

[Panik]

Funny you say that, it looks like the deal will fall over because they cannot secure the car that I have agreed on, it seems that Richmond Skoda have the car and they will not give it up saying that it is sold.
I know the guys there as I was doing the reverse cameras and mObridge BT kits for them.
When I get confirmation that they can't do it, I will go and see Paul and see if he can do a better deal.
On the Bayford front, alot of the cars went interstate and the Mentone and the new Essendon dealerships took the rest and a few of the Superb stock is sitting at Camberwell VW and Epping VW but with that being said Bayford never really kept much in stock at Pre Delivery.

[woofy]

Richmond have a very crammed showroom and another 50 sitting up the road, I've never seen so many so thought they may have snaffled them. I've been seeing Skodas arrive at Camberwell VW (next to my office) for ages now and after hearing Bayford were going it suddenly made sense. I thought initially they might be opening a Skoda bit there, but its a bit too close to VW. Lots of Superbs in their yard at the moment. Why didn't you just get a Skoda from Richmond, or are they not playing the good pricing game now they have got big.

[Panik]

i'm really not sure if the car is at Richmond Skoda, when john (the salesman) showed me the cars specs and location, it was at Patricks holding yard in Altona (same place as Prixcar) and when I spoke to the Brand Manager he used Richmond as an excuse, with that I think that they cannot physically locate that car or the car was sold to a dealer for stock but the stock controll system was not updated.
If they can't find it, I'll get my deposit back and then go and see Paul Snowdon at Richmond.

[Panik]

Well, the current state of play is this, Dealer has never called to tell me about the issue of getting the car for me, I've made all the calls and even today I have yet to get a call to say whether the deal is still on or not, so i sent them a Email using the addresses on their cards and they all bounced back!
I will be travalling up to Peninsular Skoda/VW in the morning to get my deposit back and then I will have a limited time to look at other cars because I've got people comming over, this has left me with a bitter taste in my mouth so I might just go out and get a HSV instead.

[Panik]

Deal has been totally cancelled, cheque is in the mail for my deposit and I'm left carless with a **** load of clients to see next week.