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My dealer has contacted me after being away for a month on holidays. My RS Wagen Octavia will be built this week on Thursday!
I have every option except Leather seats. There wasn't any detail given about the Adaptive Cruise Control holding the build back or that it won't be included so everything will be put in he car. I have it all!
How the hell have you placed an order, for an RS, after me, but gotten a build date before me.......LMAO skoda's ordering system is screwed up.
Unless it was an order the dealer already had in, and you "modified" it?
Because dealers are ****s....either his is wrong, and yours sucks or vice versa. The only time it looks anything is certain is the car is physically at the dealer.
Yeah I know. Reading the threads on briskoda has me amazed at how crap the info can be around wait times/build delays etc.
There are people on briskoda that ordered in december last year that still dont have their car (rs models). But there are people that have ordered, waited 3-4 months and gotten their car (rs). Often with options that "delay" the car. There doesnt seem to be any logic with how the orders are fufilled - or even something as simple as when they were placed. I know that's how it is, and really is the worst part about the whole skoda experience! I'm sure if I was desperate, I could ask my dealer to check any incoming orders for a car similar to my build and see what I could do about getting one sooner. But for once, im going to stick it out, and get everything on a car that I want, rather than having to compromise. Just means I'll have a 6 month wait for the car. It could be worse, it could be an A45 AMG merc (~12 months), or even worse, a GLA45 AMG merc (~12-18 months!).
2014 Skoda Ambition Plus 103TSI candy white wagon, 6sp Manual, Tech pack, Panoramic Sunroof, 18's, Colour Maxidot, Comfort BT
Ordered 07 May 14 (Wk 15), Built Wk 37, Loaded 27/9 (wk 39), Docked 12/11 (wk 46), DELIVERED! 12/12 (end of wk 50 - 7 months + 1 week).
Also ordered in mid May(an RS) and have a confirmed build date as of today for Thursday this week!! Hopefully that means dellvery in September, maybe late August if lucky.
Also ordered in mid May(an RS) and have a confirmed build date as of today for Thursday this week!! Hopefully that means dellvery in September, maybe late August if lucky.
:O very lucky. I'm sure you've posted your spec before but could you please share it again? Hatch/Combi TSI/TDI etc.
Like I said before I suspect their dealers already had an order in the system, which they modified when these guys placed an order. Hence the short turn around on an rs delivery. Lucky for them!
EDIT: I bet neither car is a manual which would strengthen my theory (dealer more likely to order a dsg for stock)
2014 Skoda Ambition Plus 103TSI candy white wagon, 6sp Manual, Tech pack, Panoramic Sunroof, 18's, Colour Maxidot, Comfort BT
Ordered 07 May 14 (Wk 15), Built Wk 37, Loaded 27/9 (wk 39), Docked 12/11 (wk 46), DELIVERED! 12/12 (end of wk 50 - 7 months + 1 week).
Pretty sure no existing orders modified as originally dealer had no idea when car would be delivered. We even has a clause inserted if not here by December. I held off ordering till I knew it would be a MY15 build (beyond week 22). To reiterate. Specs are Hatch DSG TSI, Tech pack, Black pack no sunroof.
Yeah people getting builds before others is generally because of dealer allocations, so if you order from a popular dealer whose over allocated orders then you may be waiting longer than others who've ordered from a quieter location. Same problem occurred with the Polo GTI couple of years ago, and is probably happening with the Golf GTI too.
Also the codes for the RS Tech pack didn't actually come out til May so as far as the factory is concerned all orders for RS Tech pack cars were done then in a big lump.
Happy its a hatch though, hopefully I will be getting some good news in a week or two. Looking forward to tracking my boat to the nth degree
I cant speak to the relative popularity of my dealer but is the biggest (for Skoda) in W.A and one of only 2 in the State. They seem to have a good supply of Octavias with 3 or 4 RS in the showroom.
On another note I see on CarSales that there are now 61 RS TSI's listed up from around 52 a week ago. Also see 4 manual RS TSI's listed including a good looking race blue wagon.
I cant speak to the relative popularity of my dealer but is the biggest (for Skoda) in W.A and one of only 2 in the State. They seem to have a good supply of Octavias with 3 or 4 RS in the showroom.
On another note I see on CarSales that there are now 61 RS TSI's listed up from around 52 a week ago. Also see 4 manual RS TSI's listed including a good looking race blue wagon.
Those manuals don't actually exist, they're "Brand New Cars Available to order", untick that option and there'll be 54 TSI's, all auto. Thats still a good number though, but it does go to show people want the tech/black packs.
Even in SE QLD, there are not many dealers. 2 in brisbane itself, one on each coast (sunny and gold) and 1 in toowoomba. Not a huge range of choice!
If I wanted a bare bones DSG car, I could pick one up right away.
But
1. I will not own a 7spd dsg. Way to many reported issues for me to be comfortable buying one to keep long term
2. I dont want to spend 40K. The ~32K I have spent is my upper limit, and considerably more than the 25K I initially intended to spend.....
Therefore, those two caveats essentially rule out 99% of the available cars.....
EDIT: My tears of Jealousy dont help seeing clearly of course lol
Could someone tell me if the RS Octavia will have XDS?
And what is it? Something to do with the diff..... now... I'm not a car expert but funny thing is I love cars! (i'm not that technical) but this is what everyone raved on about when the MK VI GTI Golf came out... some fancy pants technology differential. Now the MK VII GTI Golf has more tech..
I take it the new Octavia RS we have all bought/ordered will have this XDS ... there is a brief line in the RS brochure but nothing else...
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