The official I have ordered/received my new MKVI thread

[AdamD]

I'd gladly give up some discount to sort out delivery this year!

I'd definitely PM Dermot and Phillip (they're both regular frequenters of this forum - coreying's reply to you with their details included their profiles as links), and both have an excellent reputation for sales and service) - just to see what their stock situation is like. It really can't hurt - you never know what might eventuate!

[fergus]

Interesting - are you buying in SA or interstate.. and if local which dealer may I ask?

I've had one on order for some time but apparently lost any spot I had in the queue when I changed the order (sadly this was never explained properly to me at the time.. I'd have kept it the same otherwise as it appears this may blow my wait out to 6-8 months).

Hi Dutch77
I bought from Solitaire. They told me that they have had about 8 GTI's on order for general stock since mid January this year, so they infact have been in the system for ages. But the advantage for me has been that as those cars haven't been allocated to specific customers, I had the opportunity to put my name against one of them and as I stated before, they could change the spec to my requirements without losing the spot in the Queue. Within a week of ordering, I was told that that "batch" of cars ordered in mid january has now been given a scheduled build date as stated before. I think that this was a situation of being lucky to get my name on one of those cars before the build schedule.
I would expect now that those cars ordered for general stock in that batch will also be locked in so if someone ordered a car that didn't conform to one of those that the dealer spec'd, would have to wait at the end of the queue.
By the way, before ordering my car, I had my dealer check about what stock was around the country and "on the water" for other dealers to see if there was something that suited my spec and there was nothing in DSG. There's plenty of manuals around but bugger all DSG. "If" the dealer you are negotiating with managed to find a vehicle that was on it's way to another dealer that met your spec, then the challenge would be for them to convince that dealer to part or swap cars to something else. I think that this is unlikely due to the fact that all the dealers want to get their hands on as much DSG stock as possible, so they will be reluctant to part with whatever they have allocated to them.
I also think that the Motor BFYB win for GTI is probably going to make the situation worse, so if you are "thinking" about ordering a GTI, get in quick !

[Ryan_R]

Purchased 2nd hand Golf today (details in signature) - will post pics in the relevant stickied thread

[Dutch77]

Hi Dutch77
I bought from Solitaire. They told me that they have had about 8 GTI's on order for general stock since mid January this year, so they infact have been in the system for ages. But the advantage for me has been that as those cars haven't been allocated to specific customers, I had the opportunity to put my name against one of them and as I stated before, they could change the spec to my requirements without losing the spot in the Queue. Within a week of ordering, I was told that that "batch" of cars ordered in mid january has now been given a scheduled build date as stated before. I think that this was a situation of being lucky to get my name on one of those cars before the build schedule.

I also think that the Motor BFYB win for GTI is probably going to make the situation worse, so if you are "thinking" about ordering a GTI, get in quick !

That's precisely why I was curious when you said you'd ordered on 6/8 and were based in Adelaide.. as I ordered before this time with that dealer and it was advised this week they still could not tell me when I may even get a build date. And so this experience sours further.. actually I'm at a stage where I am beyond frustrated and now just amused.

Thanks for the advice though.. looks like I may need to cancel the order and hit up the interstate dealers as advised a few posts above.

Update: spoke to Fergus' contact and they advised I was also in a week 38 build - looks like we may score our cars late November/early December <fingers crossed>

[John]

I ordered my GTI (5-door, red, DSG, 18", Leather, RVC, Xenons, MDI, tint) on the 12th March 2010 and received on the 5th August.....the day I had to leave to go snowboarding in New Zealand. I only got to drive 100km in my first new car, before I had to park it in long-term parking at the airport

I got back from NZ yesterday and have spent all day driving the car and absolutely love it.

I am getting up at 3am tomorrow and going to drive it from the Gold Coast to Mount Isa (1871km) in a single day. I have done several trips of this length (1. Cairns --> Gold Coast & 2. Melbourne --> Gold Coast) both in about 20 hours and that was in a 1997 Nissan Pulsar. I think I should be able to better my time with my brand new GTI

I was also wondering what the most km's anyone has put on their car in the first few days? I will have done over 2000km in 3 days of ownership by tomorrow evening!!

[Ryan_R]

Congrats. Would be good to see that long route in Google Maps (create the route, then click 'Link' at the top right and copy it here)

[mr fox]

so what your saying dermot, anything ordered in the past 4-6 weeks, with options that arent on a dealers pre-order, are more than likely to be delivered late feb-early march?....maybe april?

[GTI6]

Finally received the gti (5dr dsg csg dcc sunroof leather xenons park assist 18 detroits) today! Ordered In mid April and received on 16th august. Drove it all the way from Sydney to Newcastle on the first day. It was Great!!! Cannot wait to have another good go in it on the weekend!

[fergus]

Hey GTI6 - was it an MY10 or 11 ?

[GTI6]

Not exactly sure but I would assume that as I ordered in April it would be a my10 build

[fergus]

Not exactly sure but I would assume that as I ordered in April it would be a my10 build

You can tell which MY by your VIN. In the 17 digit VIN number (starting with WVW), at the 10th character of the string will be an "A" or a "B". That character denotes model year - it counts in Hexadecimal - eg 8=08, 9=09, A=10, B=11, C=12.
So A = MY10, B=MY11

[alf13]

Order screen shot from dealer for my GTD is

Order Entry NADIN 12/6/10

Handover to production 4/9/10

Arrival at destionation was orginally 23/11 now 8/12/10

[alf13]

I also just noticed that the "order entry dealer system date was 12/6/10" which is about 2 weeks before I actually ordered it?

Not sure how that works??

[fergus]

I also just noticed that the "order entry dealer system date was 12/6/10" which is about 2 weeks before I actually ordered it?

Not sure how that works??

That will be because the dealer probably ordered it as a "general stock" car before you bought it or they have negotiated a swap with another dealer.

Read my earlier post comments where I ordered a car earlier this month but the delaer ordered it (and a heap of others) back in January.

[alf13]

OK, thanks for that.