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Following much heartache with the wife's illness etc, it came to pass that the order for the new car had to be cancelled. I paid £1000 deposit for the new car, but due to the circumstances needed it back. (I have left paid employment to look after my wife during this sad time).
I went to see Jeremy at the dealership and explained the situation. He seemed to understand but didn't offer me the deposit back straight away. He said that he would have to discuss it with the owners of Rainworths - which was fair enough.
They decided I could have my deposit back, once they had moved the car that I had ordered off their books.
After about 2 months they did this and I got my deposit back.
All in all I am grateful to Rainworths for seeing that the situatiuon was unique, and having enough heart to give me the money back.
Jeremy has proved he is honest, and what he says will happen, happens. You can't ask for more than that, in my experience.
If I can afford to buy a Skoda in the future, I would not hesitate to contact Jeremy again to place an order. Whether he would accept one from me is another matter.
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I can't help with the first two questions unfortunately, have to leave that to the more experienced Briskodians....
Regarding the third question, the "Free Equipment Upgrade" refers to the following kit:
- Jumbo Box (air conditioned) with MP3 input, dual zone climate control, 18" Zenith Alloy wheels, electric rear windows
Take a look here for more details.
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sorry to steal your thread but when i access my control panel on my router i find lots of ramdom people that seem to have been using my router or network?
i can see my laptop, a friends, my SWMBO's, my n95, the psp, my pc but there are others listed too?
ive got firewall on the router, and on the 2 pc's. ive got mac filtering on and WPA security, so any ideas why ive got peoples ip adresses and things like "elizebeths.home" listed on there?
I would suggest turning off your routers' "broadcast network name" beacon, as well as hiding the SSID, and using WPA.
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Blimey - do people really worry so much about stuff like that when turning up for business meetings?! Any meetings I have to drive to attend, I get the pick of the 'pool' cars which usually means an old style diesel Astra estate in brown or maroon, 80k on the clock, no A/C, cassette player and a dodgy clutch. Although, being in the Forces, a vehicle like that probably reflects our 'business' quite accurately at the moment
!!!I know :eek: I can't quite believe it either, and I thought my managers were weird...
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I need to glean knowledge from the more financially astute of members here.
I currently have a Mk1 octy vrs remapped etc etc but with 125k on. I 'may' be in line for a car allowance of £333 a month.
I am looking to get a MkII Octy vrs pref derv just due to fuel prices now. What would be the best way of going about buying one?
Would it best to chop this in with a dealer (if so how much) and get hp for the rest through them?
Sell the car (if so for how much) and get a loan for the rest (if £333 is enough)?
Get a loan for the full amount, use the mk1 money to pay debts?
Where would be recommended for getting a car, would really have to be used I think, unless find deal of the century.
Are there any tricks that can be employed when blagging things relating to the car when buying it I should consider?
Winchester or Newbury are my local stealers.
Many thanks and Happy New Year
With a £3500 deposit, £300 a month x36 will buy you a £19,000 car on a 25,000 mile a year PCP Finance (Skoda Solutions) at 5% APR (approximately) - assuming a GMFV of around £7,000. (Excess mileage 6ppm).
Skoda Solutions applies to second hand cars up to a certain age as well as brand new ones, (usually at the end of the plan, the car should be no older than 5 years, somthing like that).
£333 a month at normal tax rates is around £250 net. With a similar deposit as above, you might get a £19k car with a 10,000 mile a year limit.
Looking on this site, a £17k petrol VRS hatch may be attainable in your budget with the above factors considered.
If you are interested in a PCP finance deal check out www.car-finance.net which is about the only place on the internet I have found who will give you a real quote for these PCP finance deals. The downside is that their standard APR is about 11% now, which will skew your figures somewhat.
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2008 doesn't look like a great year to be buying a new car, what with record fuel prices, rising cost of living and an uncertain economy... :eek:
But then I've just done it.... I worked out the man-maths, and I am actually saving money by buying the new car....
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hi, can i ask when you ordered your car, i ordered mine on the 22nd of november & dealer said the 2nd to 3rd week of jan (can't wait, like a kid in a sweet shop). but after reading few posts on here saying 12 weeks lead time. i am finding that 2nd to 3rd week in jan hard to belive.
I ordered mine mid-December, arriving end of Jan. The dealer brought the order forward a couple of weeks by amending the spec of a car he'd ordered a couple of weeks earlier to what I wanted.
They quote 12 week lead times as an outside estimate. They would rather say 12 weeks and it be 4, than say 4 weeks and it be 12. If they have said week 3 to you, then I'd expect delivery then
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Good choice IMHO.. and with the Peak district on your doorstep what better opportunity ... end of this week according to the forecasts! You might be wishing you got the Scout! Quite right; isn't the vRS a couple of £'000 cheaper than the Scout?
:orb_duh: me and my big mouth!
The Scout is slightly higher priced, but does come with more kit... so in the end very similar to a well spec'd VRS...
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So, they plenty of cars..........10 days, yep thats how long it took to get my vRS. Frankly i am shocked that people feel they need to factory order, i mean its not a Porsche!
Mike
Its not a Porsche, but the ones in stock (and actually there are very few with the equipment upgrade at the moment, according to the two dealers I spoke to in December), there are none with added curtain airbags (a pre-requisite for me - and why this is an 'optional extra' these days and not 'standard' I'll never know) and privacy glass.... hence if you want something that isn't standard, you have to factory order. Otherwise, I wouldn't have picked a brand new car anyway, due to depreciation etc...
The 3 year deal with Skoda Solutions package... 5.2% apr, 30k miles servicing, 3 years warranty, 3 years breakdown.
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D'oh should have been more specific
Right, its on the Configurator. I followed this route:
From the main Skoda site, select Octavia Estate > Build Your Own. Starts the Configurator.
Then select:
Octavia Estate > 2.0 TDI PD 170bhp > Black Magic > scroll down on the options list, and "Heated Front Seats" is showing at £0.
Might not be an offical "freebie", but the website does show it at £0.... and if you take your configuration right to the end, it still shows as £0.
I'm not totally sure that configurator is working 100%, as I keep getting an error when trying to select some options (although Heated Front Seats works fine).
I am also assuming that because "Electric Rear Windows" is not an optional extra anymore, this is now standard for 2008 cars?
NB... Not sure whether this £0 Heated Front Seats thing will work on the other cars of different configuration (e.g. Octavia VRs hatch, petrol versions etc, as I haven't tried configuring anything else - it might just be a glitch with the website).
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I had this quandry and opted for the TDI VRs Estate in the end.
I don't do any real off roading, but fancied the rugged looks of the Scout coupled with the increased ride height, and the ability, if required, to take my bikes and dogs (not got a dog yet) off road, and up hills in the snow....
But then I took a VRs out, and realised 140bhp just wasn't enough for me
and when does it snow anyway. You pay your money and takes your choice....
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The free upgrade was on cars registered before 31st December.
Unfortunately if you factory order yours now, there's no chance it can be registered before 31st December, because of the 12 week lead time on orders.
This seemed a bit rediculous to me, but its how my dealer explained it. When I told them I wanted one with the free upgrade and was ordering mid-December I asked them why they were still advertising the deal, if there was no way at that point they could still achieve it? After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing they agreed to do it.
Octavia VRs TDI Estate, black, free equipment upgrade (18's, jumbo box and light pack, electric rear windows), plus I added curtain airbags, and privacy glass. Should have gone for the silver roof rails (would look nice on black car), and Xenons (couldn't afford them). Wouldn't intentionally pay extra for Sat-Nav (have a TomTom, goes in any car, can be taken with you, and is much cheaper).
Arrives week 5 ish.
However, I looked on the updated Skoda website last Friday, and although the "free equipment upgrade" doesn't seem to apply anymore, you can now get heated front seats for free?!
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Before I went for the Octavia Estate, I was looking at a V50.
The V50 is a great looking car and it drives well. I went on the Volvo driving day a few months ago a tested a number of different Volvos, including the V50 and S40.
The problem with the Volvos (apart from the price) is that if you look at second hand ones, they don't seem to have the prestige quality you would expect. After a few miles, and a bit of B&Q hauled backwards and forwards, these nice cars tatty all too quickly imho.
The other thing that put me off the V50 (apart from the fact that to get an equivalent car to the Octy VRS you had to spend over £6k more), was the resale value after 3 years was less than the Octavia. Therefore, the cost-to-change (key figures) resulted in quite a big difference between the Octy and V50 in the deals that I could do.
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Cheers Colm, cant afford wait till the facelift anyway, but really hope the changes are not to BIG :(
Right there with ya fella.... mine's arriving at the end of Jan / beginning of Feb :eek:
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Some excellent candidates for next years' calendar!!!!! Nice one mate.
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Just being a novice, I'd have to agree with some of the others that the first and second to last one's are my favourites.
Nice going! Good composition, and you can tell a lot of thought went into it. In my experience you have to take loads of pictures to get one or two good ones you're happy with.
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This is not the same as VMWare.
VMware is about virtualising entire servers / desktops, which has its place. I run VMware Server (free) at home on my server, so that I can run multiple instances of Windows and have an entprise environment (for training purposes) without the initial hardware costs and ongoing power costs of supporting 5 or 6 machines....
The virtualisation described here is from Altiris, and is about virtualising applications on your desktop machine, so that you can install multiple versions of one application on the same OS instance (read desktop PC, such as an XP or Vista machine) - this is useful if you have an older application installed, but need to upgrade it to a new one - but don't know if the new one will be any good or will work with the files you created using your older version. Install the new one into the virtual applicaiton environment, and test it out - without damaging your OS installation or previous application installation.
Its also useful if you download and install a lot of freeware applications. These applications often leave a lot of residue in your Windows OS once you have "uninstalled" them, causing Windows to sloooooow down and eventually need re-installing. Use this application virtualisation to totally remove your apps from your machine as if they were never there.
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Hi,
I would expect that whilst the government are hell bent on getting cars off the road, and people back into ploughing their own fields and tending their own crops and keeping their caves warm at the behest of the environmentalists
, it would be difficult for them to suddenly affect the quality of the fuel we use daily. All engines will have tolerances for the fuel, as different qualities of the stuff exists at different geographical locations. The standard ecu mapping of modern cars will compensate for the variances in quality, hence when they get shipped from the factory and end up in timbuktoo the car still works. If yours is re-mapped, you may have problems initially if the quality of the fuel changes even slightly - until someone clever works out how to set the mapping up to cope again; but standard cars should be ok.
Sorry for the ramble. My main point is they can't do anything which will affect the quality of the fuel for ordinary motor vehicles, without consultation and proper negotiations with the industry. (There aren't just cars to consider. There are fire trucks, medical vehicles, police cars, etc etc etc. Any change that may reduce the ability of these vehicles to operate even for a short period of time, could have significant affect on people's lives).
I think they would either have to produce a New Fuel and pump it separately (of which Biodiesel is at the moment) to the rest of the normal fuels on the forecourt; or to convert us all to biodiesel (which may happen) but they will do what they did with 4*. Just phase it out over a period of time. People then have the option then to have their car converted to cope with the new fuel, or buy a new car. But it took a number of years for this to happen in the case of 4*.
I think the reason your car has the warning on it, is that Biodiesel is at this time, being pumped separately, and your car won't work on it - in fact you would damage your engine if you put it in much like putting petrol in (although probably not as bad). You can buy cars which run specifically on biodiesel.
Of course, this is my opinion and not hard and fast fact, but I'm not worried having just ordered my new Octi TDI
Can anyone offer a different view?
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Being a Skoda virgin :eek: but been brainwashed over 2 years to go to a dealer and look into a new Octi, I decided to visit Bickertons as it was in Sheffield and relatively close to home.
The salesman (Paul?) was very nice and suggested I take a test drive in their '57 plate VRS Estate. They let me have it last Saturday which was great. Even put 200 miles worth of fuel in for me - which I of course used
So far experience great!
Until Paul looked at my part ex (which had already been valued by a dealer down south - without even seeing the car at £9200), and offered me £7750. Rubbish.
Long and short of it, they wouldn't even entertain doing me a deal!
Instead I contacted Rainworths in Chesterfield who will do the deal and hence ordered a Black Octi VRS estate through them. Sorry Bickerton's, you lost a sale!
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A bit boring I know, but I AM a geek afterall
Anyone interested in virtualising their Windows desktop applications - for free?
Just been evaluating this cool technology and thought I'd share it.
Essentially run most Windows applications in their own memory space, run multiple versions of the same application on one Windows OS, run conflicting applications on the same workstation... Of course not all applications will run virtualised, but most will.
The best use of the technology would be to strip bare your Windows install, and install all applications as different "layers" using SVS. That way you can activate and deactive applications at will, and never ever have to worry about the registry and dlls again. You can of course 100% cleanly remove the layers, and all components are removed - no need to worry about that bit of the app which won't uninstall properly leaving dregs in the registry.
Take a look at 100% Safe Downloads - SVSDownloads.com for details. Application by Altiris.
This is awesome technology, especially when it is free for personal use!
Couple of tips: It is simpler than it sounds, but still not for the Novice Windows user, and be careful about your Global Exclude directories if you don't want your application-created files disappearing and re-appearing as you decative and activate application layers.
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Youngsyd... Rainworths was the dealer who could do the deal... Bickertons could not do what I wanted on the px, which was a shame as the dealership seems quite nice and friendly.
Going to Rainworths on Saturday. Hopefully everything will be ok with the px, and they will give me what they agreed to.
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Have ordered my new Octi VRs from Jeremy, and my mind is now at rest about their Sales practises, however will probably not be taking it there for servicing judging from the comments.
So far, Jeremy has been very helpful and has ordered exactly what I requested, and done the exact deal as I wanted it - which is great, as Bickerton's Sheffield couldn't do it!
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Hi,
Just wanted to say Hi - this is my first time here.
I put an order into Rainworth's in Mansfield yesterday for a new Octavia VRs diesel estate. Looking forward to taking delivery sometime Jan-Feb time.
So far Rainworth's have been reasonably professional, as the whole transaction was conducted over the phone I have to take my part-ex in on Saturday for them to make sure its worth the amount they are paying for that.
Will let you know if there are any dirty tricks!
Just got to convince the wife and her friends that Skoda's are the FUTURE!
Cheers,
TC.
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, it would be difficult for them to suddenly affect the quality of the fuel we use daily. 
RR Day Feeler
in North West England
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