Hi everyone

We ordered our Skoda Fabia SE hatch, 1.2 TSI (105) with DSG plus some options, on 21st February and after a couple of weeks, received a nominal factory build as week 20 (16-22nd May) with approximate dealer handover early June. I called the dealer today for an update and was told the our car does not now have a build week

I contacted Skoda UK and the very informative guy there said "sorry to be the bearer of bad news" but the 1.2 TSI (105) with DSG from today's date will be 25-32 weeks to delivery

This makes the date at the dealers between 21 Sep - 9 Nov (today is week 13).

This apparently is due to the popularity of the 1.2TSi engine and DSG.

I mentioned the forum and particularly the orders for the Fabia VRS cars and he said the 1.4 engine with DSG has a 25 week lead time from todays date.

I tried to get my head around what was being said and he then said the earliest delivery to the showroom would be mid August (which is week 32) :no: . We were planning to hold back our holiday from early June but now, could take all summer off and still be back before the car is ready.

UK number is 08457 745 745 - need to quote your SLI number.

Regards

retiredbri

Ordered a 1.2 TSi DSG Elegance Estate at the beginning of Feb, no build date yet.

Looks like we will not only get a MY12 car but on a 61 plate :'(

Cheers

Lee

Edited 30 March, 201115 yr by logiclee

doesn't sound good. my vrs has a build date of week 15 and doesn't help i have sold my car preparing for its imminent arrival!

doesn't sound good. my vrs has a build date of week 15 and doesn't help i have sold my car preparing for its imminent arrival!

If you have the SLI number, give Slowda a ring - explain the car being sold and see what they say.

retiredbri

doesn't sound good. my vrs has a build date of week 15 and doesn't help i have sold my car preparing for its imminent arrival!

Same here. Mondeo ST220s aren't big sellers due to price of petrol so as soon as somebody offered me a decent amount I sold it the weekend before last. Spoke to skoda and I'm provisionally build week 16, down from 18. If I was told I was facing a 6 month wait I'd cancel my order and go buy something else like a Clio Cup to be honest. It's the first time I've ordered a brand new car and the lack of information and the uncertainty has certainly taken the enjoyment out of it.

Hi everyone

We ordered our Skoda Fabia SE hatch, 1.2 TSI (105) with DSG plus some options, on 21st February and after a couple of weeks, received a nominal factory build as week 20 (16-22nd May) with approximate dealer handover early June. I called the dealer today for an update and was told the our car does not now have a build week

I contacted Skoda UK and the very informative guy there said "sorry to be the bearer of bad news" but the 1.2 TSI (105) with DSG from today's date will be 25-32 weeks to delivery

This makes the date at the dealers between 21 Sep - 9 Nov (today is week 13).

This apparently is due to the popularity of the 1.2TSi engine and DSG.

I mentioned the forum and particularly the orders for the Fabia VRS cars and he said the 1.4 engine with DSG has a 25 week lead time from todays date.

I tried to get my head around what was being said and he then said the earliest delivery to the showroom would be mid August (which is week 32) :no: . We were planning to hold back our holiday from early June but now, could take all summer off and still be back before the car is ready.

UK number is 08457 745 745 - need to quote your SLI number.

Regards

retiredbri

I ordered my vRS on the 19th March, does that mean any orders before this date has less of a lead time?

Pretty much exactly what I was told yesterday. Started by saying 32 weeks, followed by an optimistic 25. When I moaned she said there was a chance they'd get some pushed through for 20 weeks. Appalling really.

Sadly the consumer has no powers of influence. When they're running at full production capacity why should they care...

Edited 31 March, 201115 yr by Silv1983

Hi everyone

We ordered our Skoda Fabia SE hatch, 1.2 TSI (105) with DSG plus some options, on 21st February and after a couple of weeks, received a nominal factory build as week 20 (16-22nd May) with approximate dealer handover early June. I called the dealer today for an update and was told the our car does not now have a build week

I contacted Skoda UK and the very informative guy there said "sorry to be the bearer of bad news" but the 1.2 TSI (105) with DSG from today's date will be 25-32 weeks to delivery

This makes the date at the dealers between 21 Sep - 9 Nov (today is week 13).

This apparently is due to the popularity of the 1.2TSi engine and DSG.

I mentioned the forum and particularly the orders for the Fabia VRS cars and he said the 1.4 engine with DSG has a 25 week lead time from todays date.

I tried to get my head around what was being said and he then said the earliest delivery to the showroom would be mid August (which is week 32) :no: . We were planning to hold back our holiday from early June but now, could take all summer off and still be back before the car is ready.

UK number is 08457 745 745 - need to quote your SLI number.

Regards

retiredbri

One of the things that put us off a 1.2 TSi DSG, lead time for one at the end of Jan was approx 6 weeks longer than a vRS hatch or estate, looks like its gotten much worse than better. Even with our vRS took about a month to get a build date (week 20), got shifted to 18 a couple of weeks later now is back to week 20 again.

Genuinely not sure if I'll buy another Skoda. It will have to be an exceptional car (not just its performance but build and reliability) for me to consider another.

Ive just been advised (by a sales guy at Palmers Skoda Watford) that if I placed an order today for a VRS; id be looking at a WK25 build at the earliest!

I was at the stealers here today and he said anyone ordering a DSG now will be end september through to october for them to get there cars the back log is massive,because the popularity of the VRS has been so good/amazin really they can not get them fast enough on the continent :thumbup:plus on the continent they are getting more euro's for them

Edited 31 March, 201115 yr by seboni121

Feeling pretty cheesed off today. Ordered a vRS hatchback at the begining of January - told to expect around 12 weeks delivery. Longer than I've ever waited for a car but fair enough. Didn't bother ringing the dealer for an update for about 8 weeks. Then told build week 17. Decided to ring Skoda uk for an update just to check the dealer wasn't spinning me a line (No reason to think otherwise,but cost nothing to check.) apparently build week has now slipped to week 20 and even that's not certain.Pretty fed up with the whole thing now. Also my trade in vRS mk1 will now require an mot,tax and expensive 50k service at the end of April-not happy at all. If it wasn't for the financial implications of cancellation,I would do so.

Feeling pretty cheesed off today. Ordered a vRS hatchback at the begining of January - told to expect around 12 weeks delivery. Longer than I've ever waited for a car but fair enough. Didn't bother ringing the dealer for an update for about 8 weeks. Then told build week 17. Decided to ring Skoda uk for an update just to check the dealer wasn't spinning me a line (No reason to think otherwise,but cost nothing to check.) apparently build week has now slipped to week 20 and even that's not certain.Pretty fed up with the whole thing now. Also my trade in vRS mk1 will now require an mot,tax and expensive 50k service at the end of April-not happy at all. If it wasn't for the financial implications of cancellation,I would do so.

15 weeks is common, as is six months. good luck

Ive just been advised (by a sales guy at Palmers Skoda Watford) that if I placed an order today for a VRS; id be looking at a WK25 build at the earliest!

Are you sure it was build week 25. I ordered one today and was told it would be a 25 week wait which means build week some time in the mid 30s

Edited 31 March, 201115 yr by harryweld

Are you sure it was build week 25. I ordered one today there is a 25 week wait which means build week some time in the mid 30s

hi guys how does it take when you have had a built date they told me that they are building my roomster this week so how long will it take

to get here in the uk pete

.... Also my trade in vRS mk1 will now require an mot,tax and expensive 50k service at the end of April-not happy at all.

Similarly, will now need new tyres, tax and MOT. How could Slowda have failed to keep UK dealers up to date. Or maybe they did but dealers wanted the sales :wonder:

What I can't understand is that some forum members VRS's (and ordered later then others) are getting through!

Another thought: my 1.2TS1(105) + DSG was ordered week 8 and then, at week 10, I was allocated a week 20 build. In the 3 weeks since week 10, the planned week 20 build week has moved 18 weeks to week 38 (and that's the earliest) it could be week 45!

retiredbri

Ive just been advised (by a sales guy at Palmers Skoda Watford) that if I placed an order today for a VRS; id be looking at a WK25 build at the earliest!

IMO you need to avoid Watford, or get everything in writing so they can't screw you over.

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IMO you need to avoid Watford, or get everything in writing so they can't screw you over.

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On the contrary, my dealings with them have always been positive. They said that they would be prepared to take a £500 deposit but return it to me if the car was allocated an earlier than wk 22 build ie that I wouldnt get the black pack fitted that I wanted! Thats more than any other dealer has offered and I think its a great gesture and good customer service.

Thought I would just add my conversation with Skoda UK. I ordered a Roomster (1.2 105bhp DSG) on 3/3/11 and was quoted a delivery some time in June. I spoke to Skoda UK Customer services today and they told me the UK factory quota for the first quarter is now full i.e. no more UK order cars will be taken on. SUK state that it is down to each individual dealer to keep trying to get their own orders onto the factory quota for production. Which sounds like a strange way to do things.

So from my understanding the Skoda factory give the UK a quarterly allocation of cars and once this is filled they accept no more orders until the next quarters allocation. This is the reason why one person is given completely different lead time to another, whilst there is still some allocation left you have a chance of a shorter lead time, once the allocation is gone you have to wait until the next quarters allocation is open for bookings and then get your dealer to try to get your order on this.

My dealer says they have 24 cars sitting on the system awaiting factory allocation.

Edited 1 April, 201115 yr by hertsnminds

If your looking at a week 25 for production to start you will get the new model. model year change is in week 22

If your looking at a week 25 for production to start you will get the new model. model year change is in week 22

Who? The issue is that Skoda are really trying to push them through before wk 22 so vat free cars become pre facelift VRS's without the changes. Ive now heard this from two local dealers hence I think we'll find more and more members being notified that their build week has moved forward towards the end of their initially expected build date to bring it pre wk 22.

Are the dealers stating Week 25 as a build week or 25 weeks as a length of time to get the car?

Are the dealers stating Week 25 as a build week or 25 weeks as a length of time to get the car?

I ordered a vrs yesterday and was told 25 weeks waiting time so somteime september/october. gives me more time to save I guess and not in a real rush to get one so its ok for me

..... We ordered our Skoda Fabia SE hatch, 1.2 TSI (105) with DSG plus some options, on 21st February and after a couple of weeks, received a nominal factory build as week 20 (16-22nd May) with approximate dealer handover early June. I called the dealer today for an update and was told the our car does not now have a build week. ......

Hi everyone

I spoke to the dealer today and he was surprised to hear that I'd learned that the cars needing the 1.2 TSI (105) engine with DSG were 25-32 weeks away from this week.

He did say that the order in the February had been accepted by Skoda so our car didn't fall into the "allocated quarterly quota" problem.

He acknowledged that he had received week 20 build from the factory. After he spoken to Skoda he called me back to me to confirm that the my car build could be week 38-45 (i.e. 25-32 weeks added to the current week 13). For information, week 38 is 22nd September, week 45 is 10th November

Up to now the dealer had been optimistic that just because week 20 had disappeared for the build of my car, it would reappear plus or minus a few weeks about week 20 as had happened in the past. He sounded shaken that week 20 could have gone to 38.

He was aware of the need for us to get rid of our Citroen by the end of July and said that they would take care of the situation as it got closer to that date (maybe a loan car). On that basis, although I'd like the car as early as possible, the money is in the bank (earning peanuts, it will be a younger car and as a bonus, it could well be a 61 plate.

retiredbri

Edited 1 April, 201115 yr by retiredbri

Hi. To their credit, for once, Vindis Cambridge took our trade in early and provided us with a loan car for about 3 months when in a similar situation.

Edited 1 April, 201115 yr by Crawfsyeti

Spoke to a dealer while in Harlow today. He had not heard of the 20% off deal being extended.

He did say all 1.2TSi +DSG are 25 weeks build time + 3weeek to deliver (from orders today). He said that he could sell cars easily but no-one wants to wait over 6 months. He did say that all UK dealers was too pessimistic last October so they did not allocate enough and that some UK dealers are now trying to see if continental dealers have any spare allocation they can give up.

retiredbri