With VAT free deals is £20K too much for a manual petrol with standard interior? Too lazy to check other sites?

With VAT free deals is £20K too much for a manual petrol with standard interior? Too lazy to check other sites?

WAY too much!

Check www.drivethedeal.com or www.carfile.net

Yes

I got mine main dealer supplied with good spec ie xenons, PDC F&R, auto lights/wipers, maxidot for better than DTD price.

Get a quote from DTD then print it off and pop down to the dealer and wave it under the salesman nose like I did.

If they can't at least match it then walk away and go elsewhere.

I would be looking at £16-17k as a rough starting point.

Tks I saw one at 20k today and thought it was very expensive. I would expect the prices you have said..That does not seem to be very VAT free to me.

At the moment the VAT free deal (or discount equivalent to VAT in reality) makes purhasing a new car cheaper than some of the used ones out there.

The used Market is strong at the moment and this is good for residual values. That's why some used prices on the forecourt seem optimistically high.

I've just ordered:

Octy vRS Petrol Hatch

Matallic Paint

Xenons

Leather Interior

Heated Seats

Rear Parking Sensors

Maxidot

Auto-Dimming Mirror

Spare Wheel

If I remember I'm paying around 18.8k for all that.

I've just ordered:

Octy vRS Petrol Hatch

Matallic Paint

Xenons

Leather Interior

Heated Seats

Rear Parking Sensors

Maxidot

Auto-Dimming Mirror

Spare Wheel

If I remember I'm paying around 18.8k for all that.

From where?

I'm paying just over £16k for a tsi, only options are spare wheel and maxidot.

Should be between £17K and £18K which is an absolute bargain compared to other car makers.

We have a TSI VRS and an L&K bought last year and I think there are a few things that one really should add to the base spec. Incredibly the VRS does not have curtain air bags as standard, unbelievable in as car of this spec. The full sized spare wheel, actually a 205/55-16 I think but quite capable of 70 mph although stickered up as 50 mph. Rear packing sensors are brilliant as rear of car is a long way back on the Octavia and therefore essential IMO.

We are for ever hopping between the VRS and the L&K and missing the things not the VRS but on the L&K. Heating and electric seats, adaptive Xenon lighting and the 7 speed DSG that we do not have on the VRS but could have on the L&K.

The best thing of all is that I beleive the discount applies to these extras too! It is the cost to fill it up every 300-400 miles that has become the pain now. So we just use the TSI VRS for best, L&K for work as have a fuel car and the wiesel for the plodding journeys.

Edited 25 February, 201115 yr by lol

From where?

Als-Lock, Ely (Main Dealer)

Total price is - £18,892.16

So me bad, closer to 18.9k

They also gave me a good price on my 56 plate vRS that I'm trading in.

With this VAT free deal on at the mo, is there any scope for further [dealer] reductions, or are they just taking the 20% and sticking by their guns?

Thanks for any experience (am thinking of going for a petrol vRS est soon).

Richard

I got a further discount from my dealer but they know me pretty well.

Trying Edinburgh dealers and they are very reluctant to move, offered me car at vat free price only.

Decent px but no more money off car, am looking for met paint,a/d mir,vrs leather,rear park,spare also maybe heated seats.

Without heated seats just over 18.5k and they will not move am going to try to see if they will maybe add heated seats free and if they do

will prob deal but from what ive seen so far dont know if ill have much lick.

if your in the military or police you can get good discounts TAX FREE Octavia VRS £12995 military posted over seas can buy with military discount no vat or duty

I thought that heated seats were standard with leather spec

if your in the military or police you can get good discounts TAX FREE Octavia VRS £12995 military posted over seas can buy with military discount no vat or duty

Only thing is you have to join the mob and be one of a fast shrinking number of them to actually be based abroad.

I thought that heated seats were standard with leather spec

heated leather isnt standard but should be when you fork out for the leather option

mine cost an extra £180 - vat free

expensiveeee!

Trying Edinburgh dealers and they are very reluctant to move, offered me car at vat free price only.

Decent px but no more money off car, am looking for met paint,a/d mir,vrs leather,rear park,spare also maybe heated seats.

Without heated seats just over 18.5k and they will not move am going to try to see if they will maybe add heated seats free and if they do

will prob deal but from what ive seen so far dont know if ill have much lick.

Head over to Dunfermline, I managed to get another £500 or so off the VAT free price.

My price above is approx. £500 off the VAT free price.

No major discount, but every penny counts.

If you have a car to trade it's all about cost-to-change.

I got my vRS last July (ordered end of last March) and the dealer wouldn't move much from the VAT free deal, instead throwing in some extras like the spare wheel and boot mat.

BUT, he offered me £2k more for my BMW than my local BMW dealer would; so my cost to change was absolutely great.

:yes:

H

Very true.

However- I had two dealers offering me very similar cost to change.

One offered me no discount above the VAT free deal, but a very generous part-ex price, the other offered me a discount and a part-ex price pretty much bang on book.

I went with the one who was offering the discount as I will try to sell the Fabia privately instead of part-exing.

This way I can still get the discount off my new car which I wouldn't if I went with the other dealer.

Fair enough Steve, that also works.

However, my part-exchange offer was only about £500 below what I'd have got from a private sale, so I couldn't be bothered!