Still on for build week 09 (unconfirmed/10). Yesterday I watched WelshDrive's video about his grandparents' new Superb and it looked great in petrol blue. It's the colour I originally wanted but chickened out and ordered quartz grey when I couldn't see any decent real world example.

After seeing his video I rang the dealership and asked them to change the order if it hadn't been locked in yet. Luckily it hadn't so petrol blue it is!

I forgot to tell him to make sure no stickers (i.e. dealer adverts) went on the car to make my detailer's life easier. I get the feeling they're going to hate me soon haha

I told the Dealer that if they wanted to put any kind of stickers on the car I would charge them an advertising fee! The only ones are on the number plates, and then only because it's a legal requirement these days.

I told the Dealer that if they wanted to put any kind of stickers on the car I would charge them an advertising fee! The only ones are on the number plates, and then only because it's a legal requirement these days.

 

The only requirement on a number plate is the Post code of the person/premises where they were made, oh and the kite mark. Dealers name is not a requirement.

 

Ask them for plates without there name on

Edited 18 January, 201610 yr by Auric Goldfinger

My dealer looked at me absolutely disgusted when I politely asked for no stickers. Why should I advertise them when spending so much money!? I also agreed that I didn't mind the ref plate for the reason given above.

My dealer looked at me absolutely disgusted when I politely asked for no stickers. Why should I advertise them when spending so much money!? I also agreed that I didn't mind the ref plate for the reason given above.

 

I agree absolutely. My wife has always been of the same mind, and when her employer told the staff they'd have to start wearing a uniform with a full body-size logo and phone number on the polo shirt, she said she'd agree pending them paying her for the advertisement during her commute to and from work. They relented and agreed!

 

When we picked up the then new Mazda 6 last year, we'd explicitly ordered on the proviso that there would be no dreadful yellow sticker bearing the chain's name in the rear window. The salesman looked like I'd just curled one out in his baby's cot when I told him, but agreed after composing himself. I honestly don't know how being unwilling to carry a largish advertisement for someone you've already paid good money to is a difficult concept.

 

On pick up day we arrived to be presented with the car, which came complete with said sticker. The salesman was a smarmy so and so throughout, and serially incompetent. First he'd ordered the saloon instead of the tourer, and left us waiting from scratch all over again after the 'wrong' car arrived at the dealership, then he forgot to supply handbooks, and finally forgot to add my wife to the drive away insurance, but told us he had. We only found out a week later he hadn't, and she'd been driving uninsured throughout.

 

With that in mind, I have no aversion to saying I took great delight in pointing out the sticker oversight. His face was a picture, and standing watching him in the rain in his poncey suit, frantically and ineffectually scraping away the sticker's edges to hurriedly remove it before scrunching it into his pocket was absolutely priceless. 

 

immature, probably. But one of those moments that gives you a little tickle inside.  :sun:

I cleaned a friends new Ford Focus for the first time the other year. It had the big yellow sticker on the rear window and I asked if she wanted it removed. At first she thought she had to have it in the window or the dealership wouldn't look to favourable on her come time for servicing. I pointed out that she is advertising for them and as she has already given her money for the car that there is no need to keep the sticker unless the dealership were going to pay her for advertising. She saw my point and it was duelly removed.

Plus those yellow stickers are an eyesore.

I agree 100%. I removed the window stickers & took off the reg plate frames straight away off our cars, if they want them on, Pay me!

 'Briskoda' stickers are allowed of course 

Edited 19 January, 201610 yr by Superb170

Dealer stickers are the first things that come off a new car. 

 

When I picked my car up, there was a horrid black vinyl sticker just above the "Superb' badging! I had to pull over in a lay by and peel the damn thing off!