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Here's a section of the Volkswagen compound at Emden Port, those tiny dots are cars! This aerial view represents about a fifth of the compounds at Emden, no wonder they can't predict which ship cars will be going on.

A tiny moment of having a clean, waxed car before the salt on the road encrusted it once again. I can't believe how many different shades of green this car looks in subtly different lighting conditions.

I can confirm this works via OBDeleven as well using the same instructions.

I'm sure I read somewhere there was a shortage of the smaller petrol engines as no manufacturers had fully anticipated the huge swing from diesel to petrol in the wake of the test scandals. True, although if there are shortages of an item for one type of car you have to reorganize the schedule, hence build weeks about until 2 weeks before build. I'm pretty sure some dealerships batch their orders so they need less full time admin staff, if you only place factory orders once a week or once a fortnight you can essential add the task to someone else's role.

Its finally here, had a nice first drive between Colne and Skipton, now its at home ready for a bath. 2.0TSI vRS DSG in Rallye Green.

My TSI DSG vRS is here, collected it this morning. Ordered 18 November 2017 Built 16 January 2018 Transported 17th January 2018 Docked in the UK 22nd January 2018 Delivered to Dealer 28th January 2018 PDI'd 29th January 2018 Collected 31st January 2018

Its finally here, had a nice first drive between Colne and Skipton, now its at home ready for a bath. 2.0TSI vRS DSG in Rallye Green.

I was exactly the same, my frustration was that it sat in the UK for longer than it took to get from the Factory to the UK Port. I'm sure I read or heard from the dealer that the transport company has a service level agreement of two weeks maximum to get a car from the UK port to the dealership, so its possible for a car to sit at the port in the UK for 13 days and the dealership has no control over this.

Not a 245 but mine arrived in the UK on Monday last week, arrived at the PDI centre today and will be ready for pickup on Wednesday morning. So 9 days total.

I'd second that, the terms of a VW finance lease basically say that in the case of total loss any payout by your insurance company is owed to them (except personal item claims) in full. The remainder of the lease payments is still owed regardless, i believe the gap insurance is covering your remaining payments.

I'd say very pessimistic, mine was built on the Tuesday 16th of Jan, travelled to Emden on Wednesday the 17th and by the next update on Monday the 22nd of Jan it was in the UK with a transport order raised from the port to the dealership. Just waiting for a transporter to fill up with cars destined for my area now.

Does your car have blind spot monitoring? I didn't realise until I'd read the first page that this feature uses the radar sensors inside the bumper rather than the parking sensors. The sensors inside the bumper come with blind spot monitoring.

It may be rear traffic alert, not sure if it should only work for moving vehicles though.

I measured and failed, the easy solution was a black cab as you can load through both back doors with 2 people and keep it stood up in the back all the way home.

National Vehicle Solutions have the Leon 2.0TSI Cupra 300 Tourer at £260 3+23, the £500 compensation split over 24 months would leave the OP breaking even with the 245. I'm no expert on the spec between the the 245 vs the Leon but there are faster alternatives for the saimilar money. Of course I'm sure there would be another long wait for the Seat anyway.

The starting price looked good on wewantanycar but I've seen plenty of reviews saying they knocked money off for the slightest mark. My brother in law sold a car to one of these business (can't remember which one), they knocked £125 because he didn't have the original manual. I could understand for a missing service book but the manual, really? It's an interesting business model though, webuyanycar are owned by British Car Auctions and wewantanycar is owned by Manheim Auctions, they are feeding their own auctions. There must be some kind of tax break or a fiddle with the amount of commission they charge "themselves" to make it worth their while as I doubt most of the cars they buy exceed the purchase price when sold at auction. One good thing for me with selling it to the dealership is they valued my old privately owned car in October last year and agreed the price wouldn't change no matter when the vRS is delivered so I've saved 4 months of depreciation already.

Mines a lease so I couldn't care less, I just want the car ASAP. The dealer is also buying my current privately owned vehicle from me for £200 more than we buy any car so very little hassle. He reckons there is chance of picking it up next Thursday.

Blimey, you're right. From last Wednesday its managed to get to the UK and its booked on a transporter to my local dealer in Lancashire.

Is that the spare tyre in a can all over the road?

The inner portion does illuminate when high beam is selected, here's a video of all the functions on YouTube. https://youtu.be/-xtVo6D2Qqc

Gummi-pflege is supposed to stop the seals freezing up so at least the doors are easy to open without tearing the seals.

I've just had an update via livechat, my vRS is built and is in transit to Emden Port. Sooooooo excited.

I'll keep my eye out, no point trying to smell you out now you have a genuine low mileage DPF.

There's a white 245 estate around in Leyland, I saw it two weeks ago heading in to Leyland then the next Morning heading in to Preston so I'm guessing it's local. My 230 in Rallye Green is being built this week so keep an eye out in 4 to 8 weeks.

Thank you!!! Got it, Morrison's end space. My wife's always been freaked out by my recall for anything driving related, I can't remember what I had for tea but I can remember a car park I haven't been to for five years or so.