Has anyone else received an email from their Skoda dealer about specially selected deals as a valued customer? It's all very vague without any mention of specific deals. I suspect it's just a ploy to get you sitting in front of a salesman but a new VRS estate could tempt me at the right price

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Damn you!  There was me thinking I must be special!!!!

It could be a bit of both.

When I collected my VRS the salesman had some paperwork for someone else that had with 'loyalty offer' written on so I asked about it.

He said sometimes Skoda offer extra money off for existing customers. The example he gave was an extra £1000 for an order in January plus a £500 fuel card, plus the deposit contributions.

Or it could be they just want to get you in...

Julie was it from West End Skoda?

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If you use CarWow, you'll better these 'Special' deals any day of the week any week of the year, these will be quotes direct from main dealers. Better still, use a broker, and if you take their finance, you'll probably get 20% off an Octy or Superb, then if you can get finance cheaper elsewhere or have cash, you just pay off the broker finance within the 14 day cooling off period and they can only charge you daily interest, no extra fees!

Edited 12 March, 201610 yr by Matt Pez

Back in January I bought an Octavia VRS and a Fabia Monte Carlo through Carwow but I also got a Skoda Loyalty discount of £1000 as we already owned two Skodas'. I had to produce both the log books though as proof of ownership to get the discount.

Oh no, so I'm not my local Audi or Skoda special customer either :(

It is the standard sales tat they send to all names off their mailing list, so no your not special

In fact to only get an email you can't be that special, I had nice big individually named cards from the two mentioned above and I thought my Audi dealer looked down their noses a bit, perhaps my post code made them think perhaps I did have £30k cash last time I popped in.

Edited 12 March, 201610 yr by Defenderben

Don't worry I didn't think I was special! 2yrs into a PCP on my only Skoda would suggest that I'm hardly a loyal customer either [emoji23] I've just done a few different selections on car wow for VRS and scout estates so I'll see how they turn out, it'll either give my ammunition to haggle or convince me I don't need a new car

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^^^Probably the later

I used Carwow to get a deal. Dropped the price of my Vrs from £24835 to £21193.

As my wife has an Octavia Estate we got the extra £1000 loyalty bonus along with the "standard" £1000 Skoda contribution. I also got a £500 pre paid card.

Seems like this is a standard ploy, although most dealers I spoke to were very hesitant to mention the £1000 loyalty discount even when they know/saw me driving another Skoda.

Did you buy the VRS on a PCP deal? If you did, what were the figures you ended up paying?

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Did you buy the VRS on a PCP deal? If you did, what were the figures you ended up paying?

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Blasted phone.......didn't add my reply! Sorry.

Yes. I've bought it on 0% PCP but intend to purchase the car at the end of the term (unless there is something amazing which I can swap it for) which meant lower payments.

Final figure I'm paying is around £20k

Grant,

Just to make the comparison clear, I purchase a VRS hatch, quartz grey, park assist, front assist, heated front seats (don't have kids buy usually need space due to work and I'm a triathlete!).

Will purchase a black grill surround separately for £40 rather than pay £150.

Yeah I did the same with my grille, wasn't too difficult to swap.

My spec would be similar but an estate version. I'm spoiled by having Columbus sat nav already

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It's probably because they know it'll be quiet today with the Wales - England match

I get mails from my dealer every few months, they even sent me a special offer a week after I ordered my new car from them

Looking at a VRS Diesel DSG Hatch in quartz grey with spare wheel option. 1st quote on Carwow from Ingrams @ £23881 (financed on PCP so another £1000.00 to come off from Skoda according to the sales guy at Ingrams) on 42months 0%. Waiting on other options and weighing up against a broker purchase @ £21274 (New Car Discount) but their PCP takes it over Skoda so that would have to be straight finance to compete (RBS would charge £981 approx. over same 42 months (£14k).

 

When you do the sums the difference is only £626 and with Skoda 0% finance on 42 months makes their current deal very attractive as the monthly payments are much lower.

 

As I said waiting on other offers but what are people generally able to get these for OTR?

 

My local dealer West End Garage in the past have not been able to or willing to compete against Carwow pricing.

 

Appreciate thoughts and advise.

Yeah I've found West end pretty much give you a price and that's it, that's the joys of them having a monopoly in Central, West Lothian and Edinburgh. Ingrams down in Ayr seem to be more willing to do a deal and are a Carwow dealer

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I did two quotes on Carwow, either side of Christmas to see how the prices changed.

Pre Christmas was quite a bit cheaper.

Luckily my dealer honoured their pre-Christmas price for me but may also have been willing to make a loss on the car just before Christmas to hit sales targets and get dealership bonus (if this is such a thing?).

Looking at a VRS Diesel DSG Hatch in quartz grey with spare wheel option. 1st quote on Carwow from Ingrams @ £23881 (financed on PCP so another £1000.00 to come off from Skoda according to the sales guy at Ingrams) on 42months 0%. Waiting on other options and weighing up against a broker purchase @ £21274 (New Car Discount) but their PCP takes it over Skoda so that would have to be straight finance to compete (RBS would charge £981 approx. over same 42 months (£14k).

 

When you do the sums the difference is only £626 and with Skoda 0% finance on 42 months makes their current deal very attractive as the monthly payments are much lower.

 

As I said waiting on other offers but what are people generally able to get these for OTR?

 

My local dealer West End Garage in the past have not been able to or willing to compete against Carwow pricing.

 

Appreciate thoughts and advise.

That's a shame West End won't entertain at least making a comeback offer to a Carwow quote. I'm just down the road from Halbeath. I find their service excellent and would much rather go back to them again when coming to change my current vRS.

Yeah I've found West end pretty much give you a price and that's it, that's the joys of them having a monopoly in Central, West Lothian and Edinburgh. Ingrams down in Ayr seem to be more willing to do a deal and are a Carwow dealer

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West end got very close to car wow pricing when I bought from them in July. Not a match but close enough.

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I've certainly not had any issues with West End, really good customer service and really improved the garage in Stirling since they took it on. Just found the negotiations on my car were pretty much take it or leave it

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Carwow is a dangerous thing! I decided to do a few different quotes, one of which was a golf r estate, a garage gave me a price which seemed a lot better than the competition so I got into a bit of dialogue with them. The book price quoted for my VRS petrol estate, 13 plate on 27k miles, Columbus satnav is between 11.5 and 12.5k [emoji15]

I think that makes the decision that I'm keeping the car

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Just a brief update - Ingrams made an error and had included the £1000 Skoda contribution in their Carwow offer and wouldn't accept the £1000 Skoda loyalty payment which expired at the end of January. So they work +£2500.00 over the broker.

 

So best deal is New Car Discount at £21274.62 which includes metallic paint and spare wheel option (SKODA OCTAVIA DIESEL HATCHBACK 2.0 TDI CR vRS 5dr DSG)

 

£5500 off looks pretty good to me, will go the finance route over 42 months.