52 minutes ago, AlienAl said:

looks great i didnt think of getting silver but saw one the other day and the gloss black looks great against it kinda wish i had looked at one first

 

It’s actually Meteor Grey, but the light does make it look silver…..

O wow i wouldnt have thought that was meteor grey from that view!

Meteor grey is such a cool colour. I sort of wish I had gone with that instead of black but on screen it looks a bit odd. Looks so much better in person but only saw my first kodiaq in meteor grey a few weeks after ordering.

 

 

my mate picked his kodiaq sport up yesterday in black and look amazing

2 hours ago, Yeltzer said:

Well its arrived at the dealer 🤗   Now to arrange delivery. Starting to get excited (finally) 

That colour is stunning! 

 

I was totally torn between meteor and race blue, the deciding factor was purely because blue is my 4 year olds favourite colour.

 

part of me wishing I’d been more selfish!
 

57 minutes ago, AlienAl said:

O wow i wouldnt have thought that was meteor grey from that view!

It had better be!! 😁

21 hours ago, Yogi-Bear said:

 

The last of those will spend more time on the hard shoulder / in the garage, so I don't know why you'd choose that over the Kodiaq!

Based on what I've seen on hard shoulders this month, I would never want to get a used Q7 or any new/used JLR vehicle.  
For Volvo's, the dealer experience I had when owning one many years ago put me right off. 
 

Pushed Skoda for an update: having dropped out of build weeks I am told it now will be in the second half of the year but they don’t know when. Blaming War, Covid and chip shortages. They refuse to answer why cars ordered much later than my order are being delivered ok. Simply refusing to be transparent with customers about priorities set in the factory.

Tried everything to find an alternative car to the Kodiaq on order knowing it will be months away yet. Absolutely nothing. They have me by the nuts. I Can’t believe I’ve ordered a Skoda and waited over 12 months 🤣.

1 minute ago, Spivo said:

Tried everything to find an alternative car to the Kodiaq on order knowing it will be months away yet. Absolutely nothing. They have me by the nuts. I Can’t believe I’ve ordered a Skoda and waited over 12 months 🤣.

 

This.

7 minutes ago, Spivo said:

Tried everything to find an alternative car to the Kodiaq on order knowing it will be months away yet. Absolutely nothing. They have me by the nuts. I Can’t believe I’ve ordered a Skoda and waited over 12 months 🤣.

The thing is though you have a theoretical car on order that you’ve waited for over a year and odds are you will wait another year for. It might never arrive. If I was you, I’d forget the fact you got an amazing deal, because an amazing deal on a car that is never coming or comes two years later isn’t much of an amazing deal. I’d go elsewhere or find something else. Or stick with what I had. Because the deal is not a deal without a car. You don’t seem particularly fussed on a Kodiaq either. There is no way I’d wait over a year, still have no build date and not cancel and so something else. And I am genuinely excited for a Kodiaq, but still in your shoes I’d be walking immediately. 

9 hours ago, iwb100 said:

The thing is though you have a theoretical car on order that you’ve waited for over a year and odds are you will wait another year for. It might never arrive. If I was you, I’d forget the fact you got an amazing deal, because an amazing deal on a car that is never coming or comes two years later isn’t much of an amazing deal. I’d go elsewhere or find something else. Or stick with what I had. Because the deal is not a deal without a car. You don’t seem particularly fussed on a Kodiaq either. There is no way I’d wait over a year, still have no build date and not cancel and so something else. And I am genuinely excited for a Kodiaq, but still in your shoes I’d be walking immediately. 

This seems to be the case (and there are similar examples in Octavia thread), where Skoda have realised they cannot fulfill all the orders.  They basically have a choice of building a car for someone waiting ages at an old low price, or building a car for someone who ordered more recently after prices went up.  Obviously they will get more profit on latter so even if morally wrong have little financial incentive to complete the old order at current time.

 

Like others, I am now of the opinion that these supposed good price deals from a year ago are fantasy, they have no penalty clauses for being late, so doesn’t matter to Skoda if 2 or 3 or 4 years late.  It even seems cancellation without penalty is now acceptable and they are rather hoping the customer eventually opts to do this.

 

Of course if someone has waited 12 months, and watched delivery dates drift into the future, they might think they are close, but will they still be saying same thing in another 6 months.

 

My other reason for suspecting these old good deals will never happen is that costs to build have probably gone up about 10% due to inflation, and if Skoda make about 10% profit on average, they might even make a loss if they try and build them now.

 

24 minutes ago, SurreyJohn said:

This seems to be the case (and there are similar examples in Octavia thread), where Skoda have realised they cannot fulfill all the orders.  They basically have a choice of building a car for someone waiting ages at an old low price, or building a car for someone who ordered more recently after prices went up.  Obviously they will get more profit on latter so even if morally wrong have little financial incentive to complete the old order at current time.

 

Like others, I am now of the opinion that these supposed good price deals from a year ago are fantasy, they have no penalty clauses for being late, so doesn’t matter to Skoda if 2 or 3 or 4 years late.  It even seems cancellation without penalty is now acceptable and they are rather hoping the customer eventually opts to do this.

 

Of course if someone has waited 12 months, and watched delivery dates drift into the future, they might think they are close, but will they still be saying same thing in another 6 months.

 

My other reason for suspecting these old good deals will never happen is that costs to build have probably gone up about 10% due to inflation, and if Skoda make about 10% profit on average, they might even make a loss if they try and build them now.

 

Agreed and I said all of that months ago and got slated for it. I don’t really want the Kodiaq now but I will leave it on order so I can keep leasing my VW Tiguan month by month till I find something I really want.       I will be asked to hand back the Tiguan soon if I don’t have a VW group car on order. This Tiguan is lower monthly’s as well. 

The thing is it’s a lease. The same is happening across loads of manufacturers. I know someone who had leased his Mercedes’ estate and he’s been told that other than special in stock lease deals that factory ordering through a lease company will be a wait of years. Similarly a friend looking for a lease on a bmw was told clearly that due to production issues lease cars are going to take far longer than buying it. Of course he put it down to a sales trick but it appears to be the same over. Lease companies usually get a bunch of excess stock and then excess build slots to fulfil specific orders. Right now there are hardly any cars with excess stock and hardly any or no excess build slots. So the whole normal model has collapsed.

 

I get it’s not fair but this is happening across the industry it seems. Those who lease through work have been told there is only a very limited selection and only to pick cars that are available, unlike normal. It’s not something that’s going to be fixed soon I’m afraid. So I’d say lease deals that were amazing and over a year old…it’s probably time to move on because the likelihood is there is no deal anymore.

3 minutes ago, iwb100 said:

The thing is it’s a lease. The same is happening across loads of manufacturers. I know someone who had leased his Mercedes’ estate and he’s been told that other than special in stock lease deals that factory ordering through a lease company will be a wait of years. Similarly a friend looking for a lease on a bmw was told clearly that due to production issues lease cars are going to take far longer than buying it. Of course he put it down to a sales trick but it appears to be the same over. Lease companies usually get a bunch of excess stock and then excess build slots to fulfil specific orders. Right now there are hardly any cars with excess stock and hardly any or no excess build slots. So the whole normal model has collapsed.

 

I get it’s not fair but this is happening across the industry it seems. Those who lease through work have been told there is only a very limited selection and only to pick cars that are available, unlike normal. It’s not something that’s going to be fixed soon I’m afraid. So I’d say lease deals that were amazing and over a year old…it’s probably time to move on because the likelihood is there is no deal anymore.

 

I ordered mine through Nationwide last October. The anticipated delivery time was July.

 

I was banking on the car being late, my current lease doesn’t end until October of this year.

 

my fear/ paranoia is that my Kodiaq won’t ever be built, obviously if it’s not been built by summer then I suspect they’ll be moving to MY23 and I think there will really be no chance that my car will materialise.

 

as for plan B, I have no idea, the original shortlist was Santa Fe/ Tarraco/ Kodiaq, the Tarraco has similar supply issues to the Kodiaq, the Santa Fe has risen in price to more than I’d be willing to pay.

 

likelihood is if/ when it’s definitive that Kodiaq won’t materialise, I’ll scale things back and go for something like a Corolla estate which seems to be available at a semi decent price and you can actually get your hands on them.

 

I currently have an Octavia estate, does the month to month informal extension only work if your new car has been funded by VWFS or is it simply if you have a new VW group car on order? My Kodiaq is funded via ALD rather than VWFS

1 hour ago, Davidr1986 said:

 

I ordered mine through Nationwide last October. The anticipated delivery time was July.

 

I was banking on the car being late, my current lease doesn’t end until October of this year.

 

my fear/ paranoia is that my Kodiaq won’t ever be built, obviously if it’s not been built by summer then I suspect they’ll be moving to MY23 and I think there will really be no chance that my car will materialise.

 

as for plan B, I have no idea, the original shortlist was Santa Fe/ Tarraco/ Kodiaq, the Tarraco has similar supply issues to the Kodiaq, the Santa Fe has risen in price to more than I’d be willing to pay.

 

likelihood is if/ when it’s definitive that Kodiaq won’t materialise, I’ll scale things back and go for something like a Corolla estate which seems to be available at a semi decent price and you can actually get your hands on them.

 

I currently have an Octavia estate, does the month to month informal extension only work if your new car has been funded by VWFS or is it simply if you have a new VW group car on order? My Kodiaq is funded via ALD rather than VWFS

Spoke to VWFS yesterday. VWFS will support you for 6 months if you DO NOT have a car on order. If you have another VW group car on order they will support you for as long as you like.

Really going to rub salt into the wounds of those waiting a long time.

 

Just picked up Kodaiq number 2, after the error with the first one. First one collected (with the wrong colour interior) mid Jan. Pick up its replacement today so 16 weeks between the two.

 

 

If they make a mistake they better fix it quickly, glad you got it sorted as you should have had it in the beginning. enjoy   Still sad a lot of people missing options and have to put up with it tho.

25 minutes ago, Stumpage2 said:

Really going to rub salt into the wounds of those waiting a long time.

 

Just picked up Kodaiq number 2, after the error with the first one. First one collected (with the wrong colour interior) mid Jan. Pick up its replacement today so 16 weeks between the two.

 

 

 

Glad it was sorted quickly - but does prove they CAN prioritise orders if they want to!

43 minutes ago, AntD said:

but does prove they CAN prioritise orders if they want to!

 

I have no doubt that they are prioritising orders in some way or another... it's just not the way you would necessarily like them to.

5 hours ago, Spivo said:

Spoke to VWFS yesterday. VWFS will support you for 6 months if you DO NOT have a car on order. If you have another VW group car on order they will support you for as long as you like.

This has been changed, when I had a lease expiring 3 years ago, it was informal extension upto 3 months max, and another 3 month extension (upto total of 6 months) conditional on having a VW Group order number for replacement car.

But if you extended, it was your problem to get it serviced, MOT’d and continue to comply with lease terms

 

 

7 hours ago, Davidr1986 said:

 

I ordered mine through Nationwide last October. The anticipated delivery time was July.

 

I was banking on the car being late, my current lease doesn’t end until October of this year.

 

my fear/ paranoia is that my Kodiaq won’t ever be built, obviously if it’s not been built by summer then I suspect they’ll be moving to MY23 and I think there will really be no chance that my car will materialise.

 

as for plan B, I have no idea, the original shortlist was Santa Fe/ Tarraco/ Kodiaq, the Tarraco has similar supply issues to the Kodiaq, the Santa Fe has risen in price to more than I’d be willing to pay.

 

likelihood is if/ when it’s definitive that Kodiaq won’t materialise, I’ll scale things back and go for something like a Corolla estate which seems to be available at a semi decent price and you can actually get your hands on them.

 

I currently have an Octavia estate, does the month to month informal extension only work if your new car has been funded by VWFS or is it simply if you have a new VW group car on order? My Kodiaq is funded via ALD rather than VWFS

 

same boat order with nationwide early october just get the regurgitated email that order is with the factory but hasnt been accepted yet and they will continue to chase up the order.

 

was qouted may for delivery also leaving the order going for now and on the look out for something else but same problems across the board and demand is higher than supply some the deals for leasing are crazy price wise.

 

so going to buy a shed insure and tax for the  year and  leave the kodiaq order going and keep eye out for other deals.

 

best of luck with everyone's orders 

 

 

Just taken delivery of my L&K yesterday and to my surprise it being a 7 seat comes with a spare wheel.not tyre seal kit(great news).Its awesome.

Congratulations on your delivery. My Sportline is sat in the showroom wiating for VW finance to sign off , much to the frustration of me and the dealership! We've been ready to collect since Friday afternoon but it seems that VW finance can't cope with demand even though it's been pushed through as priority and chased up by the dealership. Frustrating but it's close!

10 hours ago, apshep said:

Congratulations on your delivery. My Sportline is sat in the showroom wiating for VW finance to sign off , much to the frustration of me and the dealership! We've been ready to collect since Friday afternoon but it seems that VW finance can't cope with demand even though it's been pushed through as priority and chased up by the dealership. Frustrating but it's close!

There is a back story to this, many people were offered finance, but didn’t read the small print where the offer has an expiry date.  Delivery date delays mean that a new application is often required.

 

I think @apshep is probably bending the truth saying that application is awaiting VW finance sign off, because it is not explaining why didn’t do it 2 or 3 weeks ago when car arrived in country if previous offer had lapsed.  Either that or it isn’t signed off because it’s not passed the latest credit check requirements.