Gingernick70

pricing will be interesting golf gti starts just under 40 grand so as soon as you add on options...just an upgraded infotainment system or DCC you are already over the 40k tax threshold? so DSG is standard now so thats probably 1400 quid straight onto the old RRP electric seat package and DCC is probably going to take you above 40k I reckon

nice to see the power bump, also like the look of the new Vrs front grille and bumper set up, nicer than the non vrs one in my opinion would have loved to see physical air con controls back but probably too much engineering for a facelift I really want DCC next order I put in, but that 40k price barrier may be more difficult to get under even with just a couple of big options and I bet we get crappier seats with no adjustable thigh support aslo..whats with the no fog lights? is it a cost saving or are modern headlights doing away with the need for them?

well mines coming up for 2 years old now..so its been in for a bit of a refresh and a coat of exo V5

cleaning my car at the weekend I notice I have a chip on the bonnet, I suspect it happened during one of the recent storms as its quite far back and off the to drivers side and pretty deep rather than right on the front end of the car race blue octavia VRS not sure if they ever change the paint slightly over the different update of cars so dont want to order a 2020 kit if its not right

I am finding it way better then my golf 7.5 standard audio but not as good as the dynaudio I had in my golf 7 canton seems to be lacking bass to me, the subwoofer seems a bit limp, so much so I actually checked to see it was physically there in the boot!

OK I am an idiot, it wasn't the car, it was the new garmin dash cam, I have it out of my eye line behind the rear view mirror, but it was beeping if it thought there might be a speed camera in the area, garmin must have a GPS list of possible sites....

Good lord... Wide, should be wife, Lord I hope she nevers sees that typo

Driven a long journey today, mixed driving motorway and A roads, and I have had it randomly beeping at me, for no reason that I can discern, I don't think it was speed related (wide was with me!) i was using nav but I assume it wasn't speed camera related, it baffled me to be honest!

to be honest the official ones dont look outrageously priced..but I am open to suggestion!

I am tempted by nets as its big old boot!

heres mine getting after getting a proper detail and treatment..off course its ****ing down now as I drive it home

this is my first ever auto after only having manual cars for 30 years is there any cast iron dos and donts that I have yet to uncover for the dsg box in the vrs? I find auto hold great except when it comes to getting on and off my drive where stopping the car enabler auto hold and making it go again causes just that little jump forward or back and its a tight space backing out and people are either side of may gates is ok just to manouver using the low speed creep it has with auto hold turned off? ta Nick

You are right of course, they will try to fulfil any factory orders already in the system with any stock they can get. But with them taking it off the options list, there must be a problem somewhere in the supply chain.

Mine has Canton, came off the production line 5th October, I am guessing they just can't get the parts and mine was one of the last to complete with it

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hi all I consider myself extremely lucky I have just replaced my golf gti with an octavia vrs...went to the vw dealer and he said its gonna be a year and theres not even any stock cars to be had if I didnt want a factory order the garage also has a skoda half...( I have had 3 vrs's before then 3 golf gti's..and I had been thinking about going back anyway as the new golf 8 interior is nasty! and I really needed the larger boot for my fishing gear) so I popped in and said what can you get , petrol, race blue, DSG quick look on the computer there was a choice of 3 petrol octavias 1 of which was race blue it also had canton as an option...I said I will take it, it was still in germany, so we did the paerwork then I had to wait for skoda to release it I picked it up last night...it was built on the 5th october according to the nice informative envelope they included in the booklet, I visited the dealer on the 9th october and I collected it on the 29th october...is this some form of miracle and it was meant to be to bring me back into the skoda fold?? or am I just lucky as I was willing to compromise on options anyway the car is delight, amazing how the quality has moved on since I had a mk2 I am getting it gtechiqed up on the 10th november so will post some pics then