The Amazing PH Passat Alltrack Thread

The Amazing PH Passat Alltrack Thread

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blueg33

35,574 posts

223 months

Wednesday 12th October 2016
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Our new Octavia Scout 184dsg is being delivered today. Specced a few options so list is a startling £32k, struck a good deal though, paying £23,500.

benjijames28

1,702 posts

91 months

Wednesday 12th October 2016
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blueg33 said:
Our new Octavia Scout 184dsg is being delivered today. Specced a few options so list is a startling £32k, struck a good deal though, paying £23,500.
And you own it?

hornetrider

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63,161 posts

204 months

Wednesday 12th October 2016
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blueg33 said:
Our new Octavia Scout 184dsg is being delivered today. Specced a few options so list is a startling £32k, struck a good deal though, paying £23,500.
Nice deal. Just picking up from your earlier post, you mentioned the Skoda was about a grand cheaper than the Passat for similar spec? Extrapolating, does that mean you were looking to be paying 25kish for a brand new 190 DSG Alltrack? Cheapest I can see at the moment is 27k for pre-reg.

There's also a decent value one at 28k with Discover Pro, LED lights and metallic paint.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

balnazzar

3 posts

89 months

Wednesday 12th October 2016
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Colonial said:
Going for a VRS because it's just that much better and more fun and I don't really need 4WD biggrin
Why much better? Please, elaborate.

Colonial

13,553 posts

204 months

Wednesday 12th October 2016
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balnazzar said:
Why much better? Please, elaborate.
Faster. Better equipped. Better handling. Cheaper.

blueg33

35,574 posts

223 months

Wednesday 12th October 2016
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benjijames28 said:
blueg33 said:
Our new Octavia Scout 184dsg is being delivered today. Specced a few options so list is a startling £32k, struck a good deal though, paying £23,500.
And you own it?
My wife's name will be on the V5, the invoice is made out to me. I have finance on it though.

blueg33

35,574 posts

223 months

Wednesday 12th October 2016
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hornetrider said:
blueg33 said:
Our new Octavia Scout 184dsg is being delivered today. Specced a few options so list is a startling £32k, struck a good deal though, paying £23,500.
Nice deal. Just picking up from your earlier post, you mentioned the Skoda was about a grand cheaper than the Passat for similar spec? Extrapolating, does that mean you were looking to be paying 25kish for a brand new 190 DSG Alltrack? Cheapest I can see at the moment is 27k for pre-reg.

There's also a decent value one at 28k with Discover Pro, LED lights and metallic paint.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
I am talking circa £1k difference on list price with the relevant extras. I never got to the point of negotiating on the Passat because my wife found it too big especially when in town



hornetrider

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63,161 posts

204 months

Wednesday 19th October 2016
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blueg33 said:
I am talking circa £1k difference on list price with the relevant extras. I never got to the point of negotiating on the Passat because my wife found it too big especially when in town
Ah I see.

In other news - mine has pinged a low coolant warning two days in a row now after early starts. Seems its not entirely unheard of... http://www.passatworld.com/forums/volkswagen-passa...

Reading that I suspect a slight underfill from the factory and colder starts. Not great! If there's no leak, coolant is not something I'd expect to pay for on a 4 month old car.

Emeye

9,773 posts

222 months

Wednesday 19th October 2016
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hornetrider said:
Ah I see.

In other news - mine has pinged a low coolant warning two days in a row now after early starts. Seems its not entirely unheard of... http://www.passatworld.com/forums/volkswagen-passa...

Reading that I suspect a slight underfill from the factory and colder starts. Not great! If there's no leak, coolant is not something I'd expect to pay for on a 4 month old car.
I'd be taking it to my local VW dealer to get checked - luckily for me it's a mile or so from work. Might get a free wash out of them.

hornetrider

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63,161 posts

204 months

Wednesday 19th October 2016
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I have a very poor experience of the Bristol VW dealer from my VR6 days, not overly keen to take it back to them!! Might try Cardiff on the way home, see what they say. Mind you it won't be simple will it. Book it in please sir we can't possibly look at it now, courtesy cars not available for 3 weeks, yes there may be a cost involved... all for the sake of a drop of coolant which I'm too tight fisted to pay for myself because, well, because. hehe

Emeye

9,773 posts

222 months

Wednesday 19th October 2016
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hornetrider said:
I have a very poor experience of the Bristol VW dealer from my VR6 days, not overly keen to take it back to them!! Might try Cardiff on the way home, see what they say. Mind you it won't be simple will it. Book it in please sir we can't possibly look at it now, courtesy cars not available for 3 weeks, yes there may be a cost involved... all for the sake of a drop of coolant which I'm too tight fisted to pay for myself because, well, because. hehe
I fully understand that - one of the reasons I leased was to avoid having to deal with main dealer sales bks - it's been a while since I've had the misfortune to deal with the service side, thanks to having a very good local garage run by my mate and running old barges and bangers! I hadn't considered having to lube up and thank them for charging me over £200 to change the oil and kick the tyres.

bedonde

562 posts

229 months

Wednesday 19th October 2016
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In other news, I've got creaking front suspension on the driver's side after 6k miles....

Anyone else had similar?

hornetrider

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63,161 posts

204 months

Wednesday 19th October 2016
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Nope, no creaks. However I do have a noticeable jolt when decelerating gently from 15-10mph... anyone else?

Here's my coolant level btw...



And after two cups of water from the office cooler...



Job jobbed but I'll be keeping an eye on the levels going forward.

Also the oil is halfway down the dipstick and black as tar. Bit of a change from my 550i, even at 100k miles it didn't get anywhere near that dark. The joys of diesels.

Sheepshanks

32,525 posts

118 months

Wednesday 19th October 2016
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hornetrider said:
And after two cups of water from the office cooler...
Now if the engine freezes up you'll get into trouble for diluting the anti-freeze. wink

hornetrider

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63,161 posts

204 months

Wednesday 19th October 2016
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Sheepshanks said:
Now if the engine freezes up you'll get into trouble for diluting the anti-freeze. wink
hehe

See the Golf R thread in this forum... wink

wemorgan

3,578 posts

177 months

Wednesday 19th October 2016
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hornetrider said:
In other news - mine has pinged a low coolant warning two days in a row now after early starts. Seems its not entirely unheard of... http://www.passatworld.com/forums/volkswagen-passa...

Reading that I suspect a slight underfill from the factory and colder starts. Not great! If there's no leak, coolant is not something I'd expect to pay for on a 4 month old car.
Mine too. A bit of anti freeze and its been fine for the last month.
Not checked the oil yet though.

RayPike

413 posts

121 months

Monday 24th October 2016
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I know it's not limited to just the Passat as VW fit them in many of their vehicles, but another rant about the fking navigation system.

I asked it to take me from Leicester to Manchester. I'd got google maps on my phone as a comparison. This said, quite rightly, M1 north, A50 to Stoke, M6 to Manchester. About 105 miles and approx 2 hours.

The VW Nav system was adamant that I should head down the M69 to the M6, then via the M6 through the horrors of the black country and all the way up to Manchester. 120 miles but, in its laughable way (as it thinks I can travel at warp factor 7 most of the way), only 1 hr 45 minutes! (Yes, I had my phone's hotspot turned on and allegedly the VW system was taking notice of traffic).

After glancing at google and seeing there were already several amber sections and a few red ones on the M6 via Birmingham, I decided that Google knew better and headed the way I'd normally go. I expected the VW Nav to catch on fairly soon as I headed north. Not a bit of it. It wasn't until I was past J22 that it gave up on making me turn around to go back down to the M69/M6, by which point the mileage to go had gone up to 137 or thereabouts and the travel time up above 2 hours.

Even then, from what I could tell from "rocket view" it was going to send me via Chesterfield and most of the peak district (yes, it was set to "fastest route" and not "shortest"). As I proceeded down the A50, it made several attempts to tell me to turn off and head up towards Derby/Burton/Aberdeen/the Andromeda Nebula. All the time the mileage estimate was 30 to 40 miles longer than the 70-ish I had left to go according to google maps on my phone.

It wasn't until I got to somewhere around Blythe Bridge (20 miles or so short of Stoke at a guess) that it gave up on whatever feeble route it was fixated on and realised that if I just carried on around Stoke onto the M6 then I'd be able to cut tens of miles and an equivalent in minutes off my journey. I think the time of arrival dropped from 11:23 to 10:58 in a single step.

I continue to find it utterly amazing that VW can fit such a ridiculously useless piece of crap in what is meant to be the higher end of their model range. The number of times I've been driving somewhere unfamiliar and it directs me via some flight of fancy masquerading as the quickest route, which subsequently turns out to be anything but, is getting wearisome.

wemorgan

3,578 posts

177 months

Monday 24th October 2016
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Agreed.
I now either use Google maps on my phone or my TomTom device.

Emeye

9,773 posts

222 months

Monday 24th October 2016
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I use Apple Maps on my iPhone - wish I'd had the chance to spec the CarPlay option, but can't justify to myself to pay the £215 for VW to retrofit it when it was only £125 from the factory.

RayPike

413 posts

121 months

Monday 24th October 2016
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Emeye said:
I use Apple Maps on my iPhone - wish I'd had the chance to spec the CarPlay option, but can't justify to myself to pay the £215 for VW to retrofit it when it was only £125 from the factory.
Precisely. And for "retrofit" read "enter code into computer".