Hiya all, I've posted before, and now am ready to upgrade my 1.4 8v furby (was wifes car), to a vRS. I am thinking of buying from Tins.co.uk, so....

Anyone have any negative comments on Tins ?

Any better ideas for a good deal ?

Tins are doing the vRS for just over 1K off the list price

Ooops, I mean Drivethedeal.com, not Tins.

I am not familliar with drivethedeal.com but several on here have used tins (your 1st post). Things to watch with online places and car supermarkets is to make sure the car is not an import as the warranty and spec will be less than here.

Look in the back of What Car, Transcity Skoda of Walthamstow advertise discounts. At least a grand off. They are a dealer.

Bought mine there and I live miles away, near to two other mean dealarships. The "can sell as many as I can get - no need to discount mate" type dealerships.

They get the servicing and warranty.

In The Telegraph today someone has written in regarding the use of car brokers, like Tins. They say that when the car is delivered it will have been pre-registered to take advantage of the fleet discounts, which you ultimately benefit from as you are paying a lower price. However, technically at this stage the vehicle is second hand as it's had a previous owner. Nothing wrong with this, but they say, "......if you wreck it during the first year of ownership, your insurer will not give you new for old because you were not the first official owner". I thought this was quite interesting, and something to be aware of. I'm paying 5% more for my vRS from the local dealer rather than DrivetheDeal, this would have paid for Zenons, but I think this is acceptable as I have a local contact in the form of a franchised dealership who also provide me with a courtesy car free of charge when mine is being serviced. All in all, over a period of time I guess the total cost of ownership will be about the same whether you buy from a broker, or from a convenient local dealership. Internet brokers provide a cost saving up front, whereby dealers may provide for tangible cost savings over the lifetime ownership of the car. Whatever you decide to do you are covered by the Skoda warranty, so risk is the same by however method you obtain the vehicle, unless of course if you are unfortunate enough to fall off the road!

I've said this before

Mmm don't agree with this - my V5 shows me as the first keeper and I bought mine through tins...

Also not correct. When I bought my first Felicia, it was a 4 month old demo car. My insurance covered it new for old untill it was 1 year old. So it is when it was registered rather than how many owners that counted.

I used Drivethedeal.com and can't fault them.

i spoke to my local skoda dealer yesterday and they said theres up to a 8 week wait for a vRS

This is my eighth week.........and I'm still waiting. :wiggle:

Gte one from Autotrader, with a few miles on the clock and save a fortune. Tins told me 2 weeks delivery, but I bought one from Autotrader (Ford garage ironically) and can't fault the price or service.

"Saying that your car has 5 gears makes more sense than saying it has 5 "speeds" (presumably stop, slow, middle, quick, whoah)."

Not true. Saying that your car has 5 (or 6) "gears" is daft. Inside the gearbox are loads of gears. They all reduce to give 5 (or 6) output ratios or "speeds".

So 5 speed not so daft after all and more accurate than 5 gears.

Wow, thanks for the response guys. Think I will go to dealer with view to order, and if they cant get within 5-10% of the drivethedeal price then will order online.

Cheers.

RBW.

i spoke to my local skoda dealer yesterday and they said theres up to a 8 week wait for a vRS

I was quoted three months delivery about two weeks ago...

"Saying that your car has 5 gears makes more sense than saying it has 5 "speeds" (presumably stop' date=' slow, middle, quick, whoah)."

Not true. Saying that your car has 5 (or 6) "gears" is daft. Inside the gearbox are loads of gears. They all reduce to give 5 (or 6) output ratios or "speeds".

So 5 speed not so daft after all and more accurate than 5 gears.[/quote']

erm......ooooooooookkkkkkkkk :confused:

think 8 weeks is for a standard car maybe if u want extras the wait is longer??????

Waiting 11 weeks in total for mine (take delivery next Thurs) with Xenons & cruise. Ordered thro' tins.

There is a high demand for the vRS now.

Waiting 11 weeks in total for mine (take delivery next Thurs) with Xenons & cruise. Ordered thro' tins.

There is a high demand for the vRS now.

Don't forget to mention how long you waited here

Thanks

Anyone see Watch Dog last night. They featured Virgin Cars! People ordering and not getting, or getting cars that had been repaired after extensive accident damage etc.

Have to admit when the wife had decided we wanted to change my Felicia for a Zafira I got online quotes (DrivetheDeal was best), but when I went to the local dealer he readily beat their quote, offering me a 1.6 Design for the price the internet company had offered me the basic Club for.

I saw it - v. dodgy, I thought. There's a Virgin Cars showroom not far from me (Salford Quays allegedly, but more like deepest Ordsall if you ask me). Anyway, I nearly bought cars from there, but wasn't impressed with the sort of vagueness with which they described their stock - like as if they didn't really know what they had in. Plus the range of cars you could order new from them was limited. Glad I didn't bother by the looks of things!