Next Gen Superb - 17/2/15

[woofy]

Goodluck backdoc
I received a call from my dealer today, apologising for a stuff up. The car reserved for me, which was to be a brilliant silver 206 has turned out to be a 162. My first thought was, I think I'm dealing with Arthur Daley Motors! Of course the stuff up has to lie with the ineffective co-ordination in VAG/Skoda. The first question put to me was, "Would you like to take the 162, at a good price?" NO thanks!
I was supposed to get a call this afternoon to let me know what delay has now been caused, but unfortunately the bloke at Skoda who knows what is in the pipeline apparently had a day off today. Happenings today have implications which may well see me pull the plug on this deal, as any significant delay on delivery will see me incur several thousand dollars of unwanted additional costs.

I think I've had it up to the neck with ridiculous long delays on delivery, the car industry expects buyers to accept. I've never been big on colour preference, because I think all today's colours are too dull, lifeless & anti road safe. I've asked what is in stock & taken one of them.

Personally, I think if a car company hasn't got enough faith in the marketability of their own cars, to bring in an inventory, they ought to give the game away. Particularly with something like the 206; the rarest order for which WON'T want tech & comfort packs. Surely it's not rocket science.
Let's see what happens at 'Fawlty Towers' tomorrow. Let's hope my enthusiasm for the 206 is reignited. At the moment, the lack of a car threatens to derail our long planned time away on our own.

I ordered in Aug, talk about a wait, and customs have held up my car and the entire first batch of customer sold Superbs for going on a week and a half now. I'm assuming their strikes and Easter have made a backlog and a CZ druglord didn't stuff my car full of suss things. I have an Octy RS though, but most of the shipment were all new Superbs.

[tigger73]

Next Gen Superb - 17/2/15

Superbs have bigger boots so you could fit more "stuff" in it!


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[woofy]

I'm half wondering whether there has been an issue with the Superbs getting imported which has held up all of them. There seems to be a mystery about whether they have the knee airbags and I know customs are funny enough crazy little details sometimes. I would expect it might be compliance where that would cause an issue which they haven't even got to you, Patricks are still waiting on them to delay things in their own special way.

[OilBurna]

Hope it gets sorted soon Woofy


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[hardy_bm]

My parents have been considering the Golf Alltrack as their next car, but since learning about the Superb 162TSI Wagon and its (quite similar to Golf Alltrack) pricing, they're now wanting to have a look at one.

I bailed out of the Golf Alltrack due to the lack of tech. The Superb (and maybe an Outdoor version) cream it- albeit in a larger car. Maybe they're trying to save a segment for the new Tiguan?

[woofy]

Hope it gets sorted soon Woofy


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Just found out that along with the manager being away which I discovered last week when I needed a quick answer, thst the salesperson is moving to essendon Skoda next week so I'm being hand balled. This happened last time I bought a car and it ended up in disaster as no one was ready for me or knew much.

[2009fsi]

A car I will have, in about 3 weeks. It has just been landed. The information I was told is, there are no 206s left unallocated in Australia. (There maybe one Black one with beige interior, on hold for an order yet to be confirmed) That is it. If you want to order one now, come back when the boat comes in, in about 6 months. All here are late2015 builds, with no knee airbag or 'privacy glass'. That includes those offloaded yesterday. Window tint fixes the latter & is essential in Australia anyway. The former ought to be able to be fitted at service, but I gather VAG/Skoda Oz don't want to stump up for the cost. (salesperson muttering)

[blueSup]

I think there is a lot of confusing information out there. The 206 I test drove had privacy glass but the 162 I looked at did not. All of the sedans I saw had the rear bumper cutout for a tow bar but none of the wagons had it, yet a tow bar seems to be a dealer fit option.

[woofy]

A car I will have, in about 3 weeks. It has just been landed. The information I was told is, there are no 206s left unallocated in Australia. (There maybe one Black one with beige interior, on hold for an order yet to be confirmed) That is it. If you want to order one now, come back when the boat comes in, in about 6 months. All here are late2015 builds, with no knee airbag or 'privacy glass'. That includes those offloaded yesterday. Window tint fixes the latter & is essential in Australia anyway. The former ought to be able to be fitted at service, but I gather VAG/Skoda Oz don't want to stump up for the cost. (salesperson muttering)

The dealers weren't happy about their demos being incomplete, they got them ages ago. For what its worth, my 3rd wk build Octavia was sitting by itself at the dock for several weeks until Feb when the Superbs turned up. So it would be odd if they were 2015 build unless they had them all sitting for ages somewhere else. The dealers don't know if they have the airbags or not until they physically get them, they honestly know jack all, they didn't even know their demos were going to be missing stuff until a few weeks back even though they had been in Oz since last year. BTW the boat came into Melb Monday last week and in NSW later last week. They are all still sitting at customs last Friday here but looks like I will get mine next week so maybe they finally got out.

The next boat isn't 6mths away, but by the time a factory order is built it would likely take that long. All assuming the dealers don't have monthly build allocations which of course they do but probably have a long waiting list to fill each one.

[2009fsi]

True woofy, the dealers don't know, unless the Skoda regional manager gives them the detail of the particular car in the pipeline. In my case it is confirmed the car just offloaded is late 2015 build, without airbag or privacy. For that they want a waiver acknowledging you know, offset by a discount.

Build date is a big issue in other markets. Our rules on what is 'new', with the smoke & mirrors of build date versus plate date, make it an MY16 to buy, a 2015 to sell. A con job government is happy to let the industry get away with, hence we're getting the clear out of cars less saleable in other markets, imho. For me it is pretty irrelevant, as long as you negotiate well because of it & keep long enough for the depreciation difference to become minor. Usually the car is the same, regardless.

I'm happy to be moving from B6 V6 to B8 206. Every time I get into the 2009/MY10 B6 version, the narrowness of the seat & the pedal offset because of the right side wheel well intrusion, reminds me of why I'm buying the B8 206. It isn't a problem for short distances, but long distances on country roads where you have to 'drive' a lot should be much more comfortable in the new car.

[woofy]

Just got the call before, mine is getting delivered mid next week and will be ready for pickup. Pity I'm away from that exact date, but could see it coming. It seems some people signed that waiver, but then found out they had the airbag afterall. Does sound like the Oz market got another strange stash of shipments.

[backdoc]

Checked out the Business Grey in the sun today. Really is the business.

The interior of the Superb is of such high quality, it really shames more expensive marques, and the sedan looks much better in the flesh. A really good looking car. Wagon for us is more practical, but sedan is almost the better looker.

Can't wait to get it now.

[Benmac]

Agreed i am favouring the sedan this version. Looks a tad less bulky and still has plenty of capacity. The sedan is a good looking car.


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[blueSup]

After seeing the colours we have available in Australia I thought I’d look at the colours available where the car is built.
We get:
White
Less white
Grey
More Grey
Lots more Grey
Black
Blue


But just look at what is available!

[Benmac]

It is disappointing, I think it is possible to order no standard colours if one has the code and is pushy enough. Shame they are so conservative with the colour options.