AudreySI

You're welcome. I understand your sentiment of being frustrated with no information whatsoever!

It's fruitless. Let me tell you my experience. I ordered the car in July 2021 (1.5 TSI petrol with minor extras) and in June 2022, after being almost one year without any information, I decided to try to get the information about the status of my order through another channel. I contacted our Embassy in Prague and they provided me a contact of a person. It was more like a person who knew the person, but it happened that the person (3rd one) worked within the Skoda company on a managerial position. I got the order number (the one that is provided from the dealer / importer to the factory) and gave it to that person to get any info on the status of the order. That person (3rd ) tried on various occasions to get information- without any success. But the interesting thing happened, in the customer department of Skoda, they were ****ed off with that and almost instantly contacted the importer about the situation and told what happened (that some 3rd person was inquiring about my order). Their response, being annoyed, was practically instant but they could not provide to me any information whatsoever in almost a year about my car! I was informed of reaching out by the factory to the importer by the car dealer where I placed the order. After that, I gave up altogether; I thought if the insider on a managerial position was not successful in acquiring info, nobody would. I decided to wait as long as necessary. Then in August 2022 I was informed by the car dealer that the build date was provisioned in September, and then it was built and delivered in beginning of October 2022 after almost 15 months of waiting. As you can see they (Skoda ) can respond swiftly (customer department) if they want but mostly if they are bothered/poked themselves but do not care much giving away any info to us waiting for so long.

🤞that you get it on time! If it happens, it shall become one of the best Christmas presents for you this year 🎅🎄🎁😉😃.

I agree it's worth waiting for, but prolonging the waiting times brings frustration. Regarding your car, there is one thing for sure; even if you forget where you left your car, you could not miss it in a parking lot even if you wanted to 😉😀.

That is bad news! It seems that the waiting time for a new Skoda Octavia car has been extended way beyond 12 months (currently, the average delivery date is approximately 15 months), and this prolongation has become the new "normal" in most cases (with some exceptions of course).

Now, as I see, you have one brand new car (Skoda) and another vintage one ( Citroen). 😀👍. Many safe miles!

Congrats man! You are one lucky 🍀 guy! But the photo is a teaser, posting a car covered with tarpaulin or whatever black cloth this is, just to provoke our curiosity even more 😀👎. Still, we want to see your new black beauty uncovered 😉!

😀 Great! Enjoy the pickup tomorrow, and have a safe first drive home! We look forward to getting your impressions and a pic, of course, 😀!

I am a bit concerned about what is happening with our dear colleague @MaximusMeridius; maybe he has already immersed himself in Octavia's manual and forgot about us to kindly post a pic of his new love 🚗😉😀 or perhaps he is already too focused on a rear cam 😀?

Congratulations! Safe drive and many kilometres/miles 😉 😀. A pic of your new 🚗 would be welcomed 😀...

Thank you for your opinion!

Yes, I asked them informatively some days ago about the price. The rear camera and its installation cost 1k EUR. The reason I asked the question here about your experiences with it is to decide whether to go for it or not (it is worth it or not).

Thanks for your opinion 😀👍. I intend to buy it at a car dealer where I bought a car.

Yes, it's an additional option. I also have a hatch and a rear wiper 😀 and the car still looks great 😀. I am fond of better rear visibility. I learned this the hard (costly) way quite some time ago. 😀

My intention is not to hit 😀.