Hi everyone I’m new to this group. I’ve just ordered an Octavia 1.0 tsi estate in quartz grey. No extras. Im amazed to find out it will have to be factory order, and have been told by Skoda the lead time is 24 weeks. 6 months!  Is this norm for new cars.  Also am I right in believing that a new Octavia is due out this year. I’m beginning to think my car may never be built. Or will I be offered a new model. 

Ordered my car in late October last year and it was at the dealers by mid February before I collected it on March 1st, maybe they are starting to tool up for production of the new model on one of their assembly lines? Can't think what else would lead to such an increase in lead times when the mark 3 is at the end of its production run.

8 hours ago, AllanDJ said:

Can't think what else would lead to such an increase in lead times when the mark 3 is at the end of its production run.

1. Shortage of petrol engines due to shift in demand from diesel.

2. WLTP testing backlog.

I ordered mine at the end of March, dealers system showed a build time of 12 weeks but suggested could be up to 16.  Received an update a couple of weeks ago that scheduled build date is 29th May, so if correct could be inside the 12 weeks.

 

btw., this is fully spec'd vRS Challenge hatch.

Edited 5 May, 20197 yr by shrikep15

I ordered my VRS with a few options at the end of October. My old VRS would have been 3 years old in March and since the VRS was just past the WLTP there was talk of a 6 month wait. Made sense to order it and forget about it until then. I got a call out of the blue in mid December to tell me it was on its way, picked it up on christmas eve. Took 8 weeks and ruined all my plans! The system gave a preliminary build time of 16 weeks when I ordered.

Join the club. Waiting on a 2.0 TSI here. 

You may want to take a look on sites such as carwow. If its a standard car you want, there may be one sitting on a dealer forecourt just waiting for you. If it was me and the car I wanted (specced up like I need it) was available now, I'd kiss goodbye to my £*** deposit on the order and buy the one that's available now. 

I took delivery of a VRS245 Estate yesterday.  I'd gone through Carwow who put me in touch with a fairly local dealer.  I wanted to add a couple of options and was told that this would need a factory order and the lead time was around 16 weeks.  I wanted black or quartz grey.  I was offered a choice of two estates in the country neither with the options I wanted and in the end opted for a black one with spare wheel.  I got mine then a week after putting a deposit on the one of the two offered. I'm actually chuffed to have got my choice of colour, I can live (just!) without the other options I would have liked!

 

Over on the Audi forum there are tales of orders for new A3's being cancelled as the factory tools up for the new model. I have a feeling that if I had waited for a factory order Octavia I would not have got a MY19 but simply been added to the waiting list for the MkIV, with a commensurate price increase no doubt.......?

Edited 5 May, 20197 yr by Phil245

Further to my original post on here. Bog standard Octavia estate 1.0 SE TSI manual, quartz grey no factory extras. Just been on with factory, unconfirmed build date of first week in November!  That’s 7 months after the order. Then there’s delivery, so probably mid December. Yes that’s right ordered in April, delivered (hopefully) in December. I can’t believe it. 

That is "simply crap". 

MK4's will be launched by then. You'd be getting a brand new car that isn't the current model, the depreciation would be epic.

Its probably no conselation but its been pretty much the same as this since the beginning.

My 2013 order for a TDI vRS was predicted at 7months lead time (actually delivered in much less).

 

Fingers crossed it arrives earlier & enjoy your time reading the manuals & browsing the online accessories websites in the mean time… 

Think I would put off buying a mk3 and wait until mk4 arrives to check out if Skoda have sorted the inbuilt cabin noise problem the mk3 has.