The official I have ordered/received my new Scirocco thread

[robbierednapped]

Thats a bummer to hear your car is delayed.

Just to rub some salt into your open wound. Im enjoying every minute of my Scirocco R..

lol

[Mac135]

Similar thing happened to me...

Ordered Jan 13 with a late june arrival into Melbourne so assume a mid July delivery. That was OK and i did the deal.

About three weeks ago got told the car was delayed until late August - so a mid September delivery. Not that happy with this prospect.

The reality as i understand it is there is only so production capacity and VWA get to queue for that with the rest of the world. Added is the fact that the R is a batched product. R's are not built everyday or even every week.

My dealer basically said that they missed a batch. They could be VWA , that dealer or my particular car. Anyway missed batch = 2 month delay.

What to do?

I asked the dealer to see what else they could find either in production, on the water or here. Was prepared to consider colour but not spec change. Initially the dealer came back with an offer on a CW. Said no, probably would have said yes to a RB if available.

Pushed back on the dealer try harder, try again. Two days later success. My exact car happened to be on the water heading to Brisbane for arrival late this month. A dealer swap was agreed my car (currently in the Atlantic heading for Savannah, Georgia) stays on Board now until it gets to Melbourne and the other car, unsold at this stage by my dealer comes off in Brisbane.

I might just have been lucky with this as I should see my car by mid May. This wouldn't of happened if the sales guy didn't put in the effort for me when asked.

Ask your dealership to work a bit harder for you it might just pay off.

[Phrix]

I guess i have been lucky and had the reverse of what you are going through. When we put down our deposit they gave us a rough schedule of July/August/Sept. We have since had 2 updates and one was it would be July and i think it was something like the 13th.

We just got a message from the dealer about 3 days ago saying that it is now the 25th June.

[quozl]

There is a black one available in Queensland from Kedron VW, not sure on the spec but couldn't hurt to give them a call or get your dealer to call them.

Cheers Al

[robbierednapped]

I will try your method.... thank you.

Similar thing happened to me...

Ordered Jan 13 with a late june arrival into Melbourne so assume a mid July delivery. That was OK and i did the deal.

About three weeks ago got told the car was delayed until late August - so a mid September delivery. Not that happy with this prospect.

The reality as i understand it is there is only so production capacity and VWA get to queue for that with the rest of the world. Added is the fact that the R is a batched product. R's are not built everyday or even every week.

My dealer basically said that they missed a batch. They could be VWA , that dealer or my particular car. Anyway missed batch = 2 month delay.

What to do?

I asked the dealer to see what else they could find either in production, on the water or here. Was prepared to consider colour but not spec change. Initially the dealer came back with an offer on a CW. Said no, probably would have said yes to a RB if available.

Pushed back on the dealer try harder, try again. Two days later success. My exact car happened to be on the water heading to Brisbane for arrival late this month. A dealer swap was agreed my car (currently in the Atlantic heading for Savannah, Georgia) stays on Board now until it gets to Melbourne and the other car, unsold at this stage by my dealer comes off in Brisbane.

I might just have been lucky with this as I should see my car by mid May. This wouldn't of happened if the sales guy didn't put in the effort for me when asked.

Ask your dealership to work a bit harder for you it might just pay off.

[phantomcamel]

Two in stock!

We have a VG with RNS510 & a RB (no options) in stock right now! IN - STOCK, not "in compound", not "importer transport"!
Happy to ship East with reputable company (door to door servcie / 7 days a week / fully insured)

PM me if anyone is interested!

Happy Easter!

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...both DSG...sorry, forgot

[Mac135]

No worries and best of luck. Just remember your dealer wants to sell you a car but sometimes they need a little push in the right direction.

[Andych]

Just remember your dealer wants to sell you a car but sometimes they need a little push in the right direction.

You would like to thinks so... but sometime you have to wonder about the part I made bold.... at least with some of the dealers I have dealt with before.

To the OP.... have your dealer check around the country... if you are seeing cars in Carsguide then they should be able to arrange a Dealer Swap etc or go for one coming in...
As for your deposit... sounds like you have good grounds to cancel and receive it back...when I ordered mine I had them put the ETA into the contract but I have always made sure any deposit I put down is low enough that I would be prepared to walk away from it should the proverbial hit the fan...

Good luck with getting your Rocco earlier than they say...

[Mac135]

The issue is if you walk away from your current deal you are virtually guaranteed to go to the back of the queue. Either get your dealer to work the phones (or do it yourself) and see what you might be able to secure.

[robbierednapped]

Thanks Christian for the update, i will keep that in mind, will let you know if i need any assistance.

We have a VG with RNS510 & a RB (no options) in stock right now! IN - STOCK, not "in compound", not "importer transport"!
Happy to ship East with reputable company (door to door servcie / 7 days a week / fully insured)

PM me if anyone is interested!

Happy Easter!

---------- Post added at 08:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:15 PM ----------

...both DSG...sorry, forgot

[Mac135]

April deliveries?

Two weeks ago I was looking at a September delivery. Today I'm told the car will be ready in about 10 days as it arrived at the dealer today.

Its all a bit crazy.....

I haven't arranged the Euro plates and can't decide on the right combination
Have only just put the Bimmer on Carsales (given the average on sale time for the Bimmer according to Carsales data is about a month I'm wondering whether to trade it or not? Selling privately should earn me some extra $ but I'm also keen not to have it hanging around. Hmmm??).
Haven't spoken to my leasing guy
Haven't even begun to think about insurance
Haven't ordered the covered cup holder or lidded console cubby parts I was intending to get the dealer to fit before I drove it away.

Generally this whole thing is not going to plan. Not that I'm not happy mind you .

What I'm keen to know is who else amongst us is expecting their Roc this month?

[ConR]

I am!!!!

[ConR]

What confuses me is why it will take the dealer 10 days to prep your car. You getting them to do things to it?

[Davezed]

Mine reaches Port Kembla on the 17th so hopefully should get it by the end of the month

Have asked the dealer to order and install the covered cup holder and lidded console parts but that seems to be a struggle as I have not heard back in over a week

I am hoping they are going to order it next week with the idea the parts will arrive the same time as the car, will give them a call and chase up

otherwise, extremely excited and cant wait to pick it up, been a long 6 months

[Mac135]

Firstly Easter slows things down a bit. They won't make a start on it until Tuesday.

And yes I was hoping to have the covered cup holder (a la Golf/Tiguan etc) and the covered storage in the console fitted prior to delivery. That might have to be a post delivery mod now. I'm guessing VW won't have the parts in stock.

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Have asked the dealer to order and install the covered cup holder and lidded console parts but that seems to be a struggle as I have not heard back in over a week

I am hoping they are going to order it next week with the idea the parts will arrive the same time as the car, will give them a call and chase up otherwise, extremely excited and cant wait to pick it up, been a long 6 months

So there are probably two of us competing for a single item in the VW spares warehouse. To tell you the truth I'm having to do the work on securing the parts. Tell me what colour lid are you going for on the console? I'm trying to get piano black.

Out of interest what is the colour/spec of your car?