...and I've decided to move to a VW. Combination of things, the vehicle I wanted was a 4wd vRS but that wasn't available and probably won't be for a while. I'd also grown tired of Skoda getting the crumbs off the VAG table, despite the fact that prices have steadily (and not so steadily in recent years) crept up to VW prices.

 

I'll carry on hanging around here, I've not exactly been that active in posting, but I like the vibe

 

4wd VRS does exist, but only in diesel and dsg form.

 

What VW have you gone for?

I think I could probably have ordered the vRS, but no guarantee when it would arrive. To remove all doubt I ordered an in-stock Golf.

 

Hi Dave I don't know if you saw my thread about me giving my Octavia Scout back, but that's now gone. 

I bought a 3 year old Mercedes E350cdi estate with 30,000 miles on it from Mercedes Liverpool. 

Very happy with it so far although it's only averaging 33mpg. 

I picked up your older sister (Karen?) this morning from BMW and she mentioned you were thinking of leaving the Skoda brand. 

Just read your other thread regards handing the car back early....what a pain. Beds told me it'd be picked up in three days then BCA called and said it'd be a month. Oh and you've got to keep it insured!!!! I told them were to shove it.....they said leave it at the dealer then.....then sent me an email asking where the car was after I'd told them I'd dropped it off. 

Hi dodgy. Are you vting your car now or not?

I've missed something here. What's this VT thing?

8 minutes ago, br1anuk said:

I've missed something here. What's this VT thing?

Handing the car back early. 

3 minutes ago, tigermad said:

Handing the car back early. 

Oh right.

 

When I’d read about car handovers and returning your car early on the pistonheads thread “Best lease deals” it all seems to go so smoothly.

 

When I rang VWFS they said they wanted 55% of the final lease payments to end the contract hire lease early as long as there was less than six months to go, I agreed and paid them with my debit card and they said someone from British Car Auctions would call me the next day to arrange collection within 3 days of the ending of the contract. Four days go by and Ive heard nothing from them so called the number they gave me for BCA.

When I spoke to them I was gobsmacked when the woman said “we’re really busy and won’t be able to collect it for a month!!! But feel free to carry on using it”.

 

Two things, firstly it was very close to flashing up service required and secondly I’d paid the deposit on my new car and they wanted me to collect it  within a week at the latest also I wasn’t prepared to take out another insurance policy to cover their car that they couldn’t collect in time, when I told the lady this she said “could I call the nearest Skoda dealer and ask if it was alright to leave it with them, THEN ring THEM back to tell them where they’d be able to collect it from”. I did this and two weeks later I got an email off them saying your contract is coming to an end in a couple of months and to start looking for a new car and get ready to hand the old one back, I rang them up straight away and told them I’d dropped it off at Alex Laurie they said they had no record of me calling them to arrange collection and they’d never collected the car!

I dropped the car off about six weeks ago and Ive still not had a letter from VWFS to confirm the cancellation and safe return off the car.

 

Sorry about the duplicate post but I felt I never explained myself properly before.

 

Brian.