Telling a English man he must wait 6 mnths appears to be acceptable to skoda..

I suspect the production lines are set up for more LHD cars than RHD.

As long as the french aren't waiting thats the main thing.

I guess its more to do with SUK, than production facilities in the Czech Republic. Changing between right and left hand drive shouldnt be a problem. The dashboards etc will be built elsewhere in the facility, and they will probably base the numbers of each on what is to be expected. Then when the car comes through the production line, just chuck the correct dash inside, plus whatever other slight differences there are. Its surely not that different to somebody ordering something off the standard spec.

Telling a Frenchman that they have to wait 8 months because the English have bought too many cars won't be popular.

I think it would be very popular with the English............

Le roast beef should wait. After all we dont really need our cars due to the superior public transport network we have.

@ jungle James. It won't simply be a case if chucking the right dashboard into a rhd car, numerous parts will be different. I anticipate that the production lines will be highly automated so its likely that rhd cars will be built in batches to maximise efficiency and reduce production line "change overs".

I suspect some of the widely varying delivery times will be caused by individual dealer quotas. A SUK customer care manager explained to me that each dealer can only order a set number of cars over a given time. If one dealer hasn't had many sales then its possible that the customer who bought from a busy dealer would wait longer.

@ fewie, Couldnt the production line just chuck on the different parts as necessary? Wouldnt have thought the production line would need to swap over. Could be wrong though.

As for the Quota's. Sort of what i was getting at. Whether it SUK setting themselves quota's or setting quota's for dealers, its a case of keeping orders steady. They seem to think it looks better. All it does though, is annoy customers.

Sounds good to me, my dealer must have been well under quota, I got 7.85% off a Elegance, could have to hold it up till the new 14 plate though.

 

Regards

T

@jungle james, it depends on how sophisticated the production facility is. I work in manufacturing and there is always an element of batch grouping where possible to make things as efficient as possible.

My dealer suggested to me he'd been allocated build week lead times of 12 weeks on two vRS cars ordered in mid December and while he has made no promise to me he suggested I wouldn't wait the full 20 weeks Skoda UK are talking about when I ordered mine on Xmas eve. The fact he was willing to discount 6% when as a dealership they have flatly refused to take anything off the screen price before suggests to me he had quota left or a sales milestone to hit.

Cheers Fewie.

There needs to be somewhere we can check which dealers havent fulfilled their quota's. So we know where to go to get the best deals!!! These quota's on dealers seem very unfair. Afterall, it is mainly the car that sells itself. Not so much the dealer.

Especially if there are no other dealers nearby to choose from. Still think these quota's should be scrapped. It only hurts the customer. If you have suspiscions that some dealers are not very good, then send over a secret shopper. A lot of the time if dealers arent selling many cars, it is probably less down to the dealer, and more to do with whether the locals want a new Skoda.

This will be my 1st new Skoda but I have previously bought RenaultSport cars brand new and at the time of ordering you were told (within reason and fairly accurately) when your car would be built. VAG seem to have issues with this in general though, my friends dad ordered a Golf GTD as a retirement present to himself when the order books opened in July, its still not built yet! Due to be built any day then it'll take another month to get here. Fortunately he has a good relationship with his dealer (regular customer) so they will store the car until march 1st and his current golf GT trade in price was guaranteed in July when they thought lead would be 12 weeks not 8 months!

Ouch. 8 months. Id have cancelled the order by now!

When I ordered my FL Octavia VRS in May 2010,delivery was estimated early September, but arrived at the end of December. My dealer honoured px price on my Leon but for the final 3 month wait, I was always worried that car would get pranged in a car park etc. Even bought 16 "winter wheels + tyres for Leon at beginning of December due to snow / ice, as also fitted new car. 

Cheers Fewie. There needs to be somewhere we can check which dealers havent fulfilled their quota's. So we know where to go to get the best deals!!! These quota's on dealers seem very unfair. Afterall, it is mainly the car that sells itself. Not so much the dealer.Especially if there are no other dealers nearby to choose from. Still think these quota's should be scrapped. It only hurts the customer. If you have suspiscions that some dealers are not very good, then send over a secret shopper. A lot of the time if dealers arent selling many cars, it is probably less down to the dealer, and more to do with whether the locals want a new Skoda.

James the world ain't fair and not everything is on a lookup chart, do the leg work, these dealers will give prices on Carwow and such like sites, then go to dealers in your area and ask face to face, will you match my best quote ? Its not rocket science, you yourself said you wanted your quick so, you sat down and found one in stock with a dealer, that approach will never get you a big discount but, it will get a car quick, which was what you wanted.

The bottom line is, you pays your money and you takes your choice.

regards

T

Im afraid youve taken my post the wrong way. I was being sarcastic. I was never for one minute being serious about a list of dealers/ quota's. Hence the exclamation marks. Unfortunately the emoticons have also failed me on here right now.

I know how to go about getting better deals, and I understand I hardly even tried. I allowed myself to rush the whole thing too much, and i paid the price. But hey. It just means I have less money with which to buy you your Xmas present!!!

I think it would be very popular with the English............

For english read Britain/British,