Ordered a Vrs iV Hatch in race blue 7th October 21 with winter pack and mate ordered Vrs Diesel wagon with winter pack and suspension upgrade 4 weeks later from same dealer.... his is in transit and i still dont have a build date.... f*ck the environment i knew i shoulda stuck with a real engine haha!!!

12 hours ago, CNeddersVRS said:

Ordered a Vrs iV Hatch in race blue 7th October 21 with winter pack and mate ordered Vrs Diesel wagon with winter pack and suspension upgrade 4 weeks later from same dealer.... his is in transit and i still dont have a build date.... f*ck the environment i knew i shoulda stuck with a real engine haha!!!

I’m laughing at the last sentence, but the first one makes me sad…

Anyway, my dealer mentioned on Monday that things have started to move, they receive a few Octys each week (mine is still parked somewhere, waiting for something…).

Things have to move.  Last year's model need to get first registered in various countries.  Money needs to come in even if VW group are selling them to VW finance.   There are far too many cars sitting with some old fuel in, AdBlue, oil, brake fluid, tyres.   They should be discounting these cars built last year. 

2 hours ago, roottoot said:

Things have to move.  Last year's model need to get first registered in various countries.  Money needs to come in even if VW group are selling them to VW finance.   There are far too many cars sitting with some old fuel in, AdBlue, oil, brake fluid, tyres.   They should be discounting these cars built last year. 

They should be doing a lot of things, but in reality it’s a different story. 

Reality is that the cars arrive into various countries or to dealerships in a random way which is not explained by people making guesses or telling what a car salesperson told them. 

 

What is important to the VW Group is is controlling the Average C02 emissions for the EU or UK first registrations so that they are not fined for failing to meet their requirements.

Edited 22 June, 20223 yr by roottoot

On 15/06/2022 at 21:02, Semiconductor34 said:

This is crazy you getting VINs and production dates, i ordered in august of 21, and still have zero information 🙈🙈🙈 i think this will be my first and last Skoda.

Ordered my vRS on 11th July 2021 in Randalstown, no VIN, no updates, called to dealer 2 weeks ago, the order just has Error next to it

19 hours ago, BRSEngineer said:

Using the spreadsheet its good to see some people getting their cars after a very long wait. A uk skoda dealer advertising on facebook gave me the following in response to a question about Octavia delivery times.

 

"our Octavia iVs have a delivery time of approximately 39 weeks for the Estate, and 52 weeks for the Hatch, depending on engine, options and other factors"

 

 

I was 16 weeks for an estate and I'm now up near 50 weeks. Might get a cake for the year anniversary. 😅

Apparently we have a lucky guy/girl from Poland on the list. Ordered 28/08/2021, delivered 20/06/2022. Congrats Komono!

Edited 22 June, 20223 yr by MaximusMeridius

1 hour ago, flyingscot said:

I was 16 weeks for an estate and I'm now up near 50 weeks. Might get a cake for the year anniversary. 😅

Amm nope

At least i didn`t get one 😂

2 hours ago, MaximusMeridius said:

Apparently we have a lucky guy/girl from Poland on the list. Ordered 28/08/2021, delivered 20/06/2022. Congrats Komono!

Gz, 73 more to go 👍

yes lucky girl,just wonder what state my car is in,it was built week 4  24/01/2022.it is lost amongst all the weeds and ivy by now.

22 hours ago, roottoot said:

With a car sales person / executive / dealer principal best that you just ask them where they get their stories.

Is it from the factory from a reliable source or a document released to dealerships or are they just going on Chinese whispers and from a man who knows a man or woman.

 

There is a load of guff being told daily and weekly and monthly by car sales people to customers and potential customers.

 

Skoda / VW can do press releases if they want when they want to tell people rather than allowing the rumour mill.

Got information from dealer that Skoda will try to finish unfinished cars durin july/august. Not sure how much of them. But i guess things are moving soon.

They need to as the MY23 cars will be starting to get turned out. 

The MY22 models need flogged & first registered.

19 minutes ago, timster said:

Got information from dealer that Skoda will try to finish unfinished cars durin july/august. Not sure how much of them. But i guess things are moving soon.

The initial info was until the end of September. August will be quite hard imho due summer factory closures. Would be nice though 😊

22 hours ago, roottoot said:

With a car sales person / executive / dealer principal best that you just ask them where they get their stories.

Is it from the factory from a reliable source or a document released to dealerships or are they just going on Chinese whispers and from a man who knows a man or woman.

 

There is a load of guff being told daily and weekly and monthly by car sales people to customers and potential customers.

 

Skoda / VW can do press releases if they want when they want to tell people rather than allowing the rumour mill.

Got information from dealer that Skoda will try to finish unfinished cars durin july/august. Not sure how much of them. But i guess things are moving soon.

Factory close downs and everything shut and no production is different from 'new lines and machinery installed', training being done, maintenance etc, 

maybe even employees finishing or fitting parts to bunkered vehicles.

 

I have no idea what they will or will not be doing.  Maybe they do switch off the power and lock the gates.

Also factory is on holidays at weeks 30+31.

We will see this year if VW are Simply Clever.   

The Czech Republic, Slovakia & Hungary are getting cheaper energy than the rest of the EU from Russia and it would be silly to not take advantage.  

VW Group already likes the cheaper labour there.

Edited 22 June, 20223 yr by roottoot

2 hours ago, roottoot said:

They need to as the MY23 cars will be starting to get turned out. 

The MY22 models need flogged & first registered.

What makes you think that they cannot pruduce my23 cars from the line at the same time while finishing my22 cars from parking lot?

Nothing makes me think they can not finish MY22 cars while producing MY23 cars on the line.  

They are becoming Old new stock sitting about as they are.  But them that is happening with other brands / models.

 

What i think is they need to get their act together and those MY22 cars finished and punted out be them left or right hand drive before the new MY 23 cars are getting to customers.

 

They have turned out older cars in the past while newer / next generation or more modern were also getting registered.

Markets get confused when older  cars are first registered and appear newer than the newest cars.

Edited 22 June, 20223 yr by roottoot

Congrats to people who took deliveries! And please remember to update the sheet once you had yours handed over - helps with the stats collection. Based on a tiny data set our average delivery time as of now stands at 53 weeks.

I'm not there yet, so I guess I can't bitch just yet

So then i will get my car in in 30 day's  

hehe i hope that your will be the case hehe

on 1 july will be one year of ordering my car

 

11 hours ago, timster said:

Also factory is on holidays at weeks 30+31.

Well nothing will get done in those 2 weeks. And there isn’t only the Skoda factory that gets closed, suppliers have that too. So I guess what doesn’t come out in 30 days from now, will be delivered in September (hopefully).

19 hours ago, Ferdia said:

Ordered my vRS on 11th July 2021 in Randalstown, no VIN, no updates, called to dealer 2 weeks ago, the order just has Error next to it

Same for me.

 

19 hours ago, Ferdia said:

Ordered my vRS on 11th July 2021 in Randalstown, no VIN, no updates, called to dealer 2 weeks ago, the order just has Error next to it

 

1 hour ago, Ajdolin said:

Well nothing will get done in those 2 weeks. And there isn’t only the Skoda factory that gets closed, suppliers have that too. So I guess what doesn’t come out in 30 days from now, will be delivered in September (hopefully).

 

They should hurry up with what they can produce. Recession is incoming and that means many cancellations.