Craigy1D

So they are charging you more than the car was being sold for last year when it was £13,750, and then on top of that charging you 8.5% on the finance? Let me guess, Telford have tried to tell you that this is a "great" deal.

Didn't test drive it as I was horrified by what they were offering for mine so I paid for an independent valuation, and got a few other dealers to value it and Telford Skoda were about £1500 short. (they had the car up for £15,250 when I first saw it late last year). I approached them again when they dropped the price (as the reduction to £13,750 made up for the £1500 shortfall they were offering me on mine) but my car had magically depreciated by £1500 to compensate (in the space of a week) so I was no better off. Now they've put the price back up to £15,250 I wonder if that means my cars magically appreciated in value. If you go ahead with it I'd use the fact it was up for £13,750 late last year to negotiate, as if they were in a position to and could afford to sell it on for that price then, I don't really get what justifies the £15,250 price tag now, especially as they've had it for a while, it's depreciated in that time, probably some more wear and tear, short distance additional mileage on the clock while on test drives, etc.

If it's the one I'm thinking of (at Telford Skoda) I was sniffing around that at one point but they wanted to fleece me for trading in my Mazda 6 and came up with some very "interesting" deals. I confronted them with a couple of professional valuations of both my car and theirs and got numerous excuses. I know they are a business and in it to make money but they were just plain greedy and dishonest. They've had it for a while and even lowered it to £13,750 for a few weeks before Christmas but seem to have put the price up to £15,250 again. Thought it was a bit overpriced at £15,250 but suprised it didn't go when it was up for £13,750.

The Kufatec system looks interesting as it effectively replicates the functionality of the OEM Xenons. The only thing is I imagine its for the pre FL Octavia II, as the FL Octavia II uses AFL / Bi-Xenon headlight units.

Hi, Does anyone know if its possible to retrofit the FL Xenons, including headlight washers, auto levelling motors, etc for full OEM functionality and what kind of costs would be involved? Cheers, Craig

I specced out a vRS via Drive the Deal and the final figure was more expensive than after going through the Skoda configurator and subtracting 20% for the No VAT deal. Not sure if I'm doing anything wrong there as a lot of people say to use the Drive the Deal price to get it even lower.

How strange, when you add the Alcantara seats it forces you to have either "Leather gearshift & gaiter" or "Leather gearshift & gaiter (Bluetooth)" or lets you choose both. But then on the DSG model after choosing the above items (you have to have at least one of the above with the Alcantara seats) you can no longer pick the 3 spoke multi-function steering wheel with paddle shifters. Still no sign of the electric folding mirrors yet as featured on Skoda.de's configurator!

Sort of, was hoping someone would have a miracle way of me not losing money on the Mazda 6 or maybe even a remote chance someone would be interested in buying it. Neither is to be so a trip to Skoda on the weekend is needed to see what they can do for me.

Not sold on the green, but the interior looks good. The German car configurator also lets you spec motorised folding door mirrors, is that a UK option yet?

I've started exploring the option of ordering a brand new one with all the toys specced while the No VAT offer is on, and hopefully get a bit more off, or some better deal on the finance. (I'd love to get No VAT and 0% APR together but can't see it happening.) As per my other thread I figured if I can get them to guarantee my trade in price (even if it doesn't recoup the cost I've just paid) then due long build time, by the time I come to trade it in, it might not be such a bad deal and I'll have the car and spec I want, although sounds like some dealerships are reevaluating the trade in prices near to the end of the build, so I'd need to get the agreed value in the sales contract.

I know the answer will likely be don't buy one then, but that seems a bit unfair, that you need to sign a contract committing to buy a new car for a fixed value, but they'll give you a loose, none committal valuation for your old car that they don't need to honour.

So, if you can't get them to fix a trade in value, and then on the day of delivery you get offered significantly less for yours, can you legitimately walk away from the deal without incurring any cost or are you contractually obliged to ensure you can cover any shortfall?

Hypothetically, if you were to order a new car, how does the build time affect the trade in value? i.e. If you order today and your trade in is worth £15,000, is that value fixed, or does it decrease as by the time the new car is built, the trade in has done more miles, and is older, etc.

So is the new interior going to be an option on new UK orders fairly soon? Doesn't seem to be available on the online configurator yet.

So the dealer offered you No VAT and 0% APR on a vRS? I checked with my local dealer, but they wouldn't do the 0% as Skoda finance aren't offering it on the vRS trim. Which dealer did you buy from?