The Amazing PH Passat Alltrack Thread
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S7GVC said:
first photos starting to appear..... http://i.imgur.com/nUDv4tG.jpg
Mine is at dealer, but not sure when I'll get a chance to pick it up.
They won't deliver to NI
They won't meet me with it at a port
They won't let me collect it unless it's during working hours Mon-Fri
They won't even deliver it to a friends address unless it's Mon-Fri, and they want then to sent their license in prior to delivery.......
Bit of a joke and any time I complain I get "we've got people queing up to take it if you don't want it".
Also just had a phone-call to confirm that the car doesn't have LED headlights, contrary to "what's included" on the builder website!
That sounds bad. What did they agree when you ordered it?Mine is at dealer, but not sure when I'll get a chance to pick it up.
They won't deliver to NI
They won't meet me with it at a port
They won't let me collect it unless it's during working hours Mon-Fri
They won't even deliver it to a friends address unless it's Mon-Fri, and they want then to sent their license in prior to delivery.......
Bit of a joke and any time I complain I get "we've got people queing up to take it if you don't want it".
Also just had a phone-call to confirm that the car doesn't have LED headlights, contrary to "what's included" on the builder website!
Could you send a trailer to collect? What other options do you have? Guess it will involve a couple of days off work.
I've only started a new job so I've no holidays accrued yet, and asking for unpaid leave of first week isn't a great impression to make!
Looked into trailer, etc but it's £400+.
Wouldn't want to name the dealer yet in case the manage to do something to rectify the situation, but at the minute I'm pretty pissed off.
I asked why they can't just leave the keys in the dealership for me to pick up on a Sat, and the reason was they somebody would have to give me a 45minute "hand-over experiance"!! All I want is the bloody car, but apparently that would fall below VW standards. I'm pretty sure the delivery driver doesn't do a "hand-over experiance"!
Looked into trailer, etc but it's £400+.
Wouldn't want to name the dealer yet in case the manage to do something to rectify the situation, but at the minute I'm pretty pissed off.
I asked why they can't just leave the keys in the dealership for me to pick up on a Sat, and the reason was they somebody would have to give me a 45minute "hand-over experiance"!! All I want is the bloody car, but apparently that would fall below VW standards. I'm pretty sure the delivery driver doesn't do a "hand-over experiance"!
Build week confirmed today as w/c 16th May which is earlier than expected! Vehicle was ordered on 18th March. Original delivery estimate from order to delivery was 16-20 weeks. So if delivery is 4 weeks from build, then it should arrive sometime around 18th June, which will have been 13 weeks in total from date of order.
Fingers crossed it stays this way. Trying not to get too excited.
Fingers crossed it stays this way. Trying not to get too excited.
S7GVC said:
They won't let me collect it unless it's during working hours Mon-Fri
My daughter had that with a VW she got retail from an Inchcape dealer. It was a pain as she's a teacher so can't just slip out for a couple of hours. They didn't mention the handover experience, they said at the weekends they focus on selling cars, not delivering them.I was wondering today if there was a Passat Alltrack thread running - I ordered the billy basic grey 190 DSG. Today, after catching up on the best lease deal thread, I decided to check my original paperwork as I still cannot believe how cheap I'm getting this for!
I'll read through this thread later - I am hoping I can get the Car net app option added by the dealer when the car turns up, as I fitted a Pioneer Appradio carplay headunit to my current BMW and would like it in the Passat.
Still at stage 2 last time I checked.
I'll read through this thread later - I am hoping I can get the Car net app option added by the dealer when the car turns up, as I fitted a Pioneer Appradio carplay headunit to my current BMW and would like it in the Passat.
Still at stage 2 last time I checked.
Edited by Emeye on Monday 25th April 10:12
Sheepshanks said:
I still can't believe VW are honouring the orders - hard to get a fix on what the normal pricing would be as it seems to be all over the place but it's got to be around 2/3's off!
My opinion, based on 2yrs & 10k/yr:Good deals are 25% RRP
Excellent deals are ~20%
This Passat deal was 12%
It's been suggested before that this deal was not a mistake, but a deliberate campaign. I can believe that.
wemorgan said:
My opinion, based on 2yrs & 10k/yr:
Good deals are 25% RRP
Excellent deals are ~20%
This Passat deal was 12%
It's been suggested before that this deal was not a mistake, but a deliberate campaign. I can believe that.
Pretty crazy deal when you think about it!Good deals are 25% RRP
Excellent deals are ~20%
This Passat deal was 12%
It's been suggested before that this deal was not a mistake, but a deliberate campaign. I can believe that.
I'm only £8k miles on the 190 DSG which works out at 11% - last 2 years driving was about 16k miles so I thought I may as well go for 8k rather than the 5k and pay the mileage at the end. For the low milers out there at 5k, it works out about 9.8% of the purchase price which is lol cheap
S7GVC said:
I've only started a new job so I've no holidays accrued yet, and asking for unpaid leave of first week isn't a great impression to make!
Looked into trailer, etc but it's £400+.
Wouldn't want to name the dealer yet in case the manage to do something to rectify the situation, but at the minute I'm pretty pissed off.
I asked why they can't just leave the keys in the dealership for me to pick up on a Sat, and the reason was they somebody would have to give me a 45minute "hand-over experiance"!! All I want is the bloody car, but apparently that would fall below VW standards. I'm pretty sure the delivery driver doesn't do a "hand-over experiance"!
I had a look at the Wales to Dublin Ferry as that is only 3 hours and my car is through VW Crewe so I'm considering flying to Liverpool and coming back on that ferry instead of Liverpool-Belfast or Cairnryan-Belfast/Larne. 6 hours less on the ferry but 4 hours more driving. The drive through North Wales is beautiful so I'm leaning that direction, as its a nicer drive than through South West Scotland plus the Ferries on Dublin to Wales route are very nice - Sky Sports on board plus a cinema.Looked into trailer, etc but it's £400+.
Wouldn't want to name the dealer yet in case the manage to do something to rectify the situation, but at the minute I'm pretty pissed off.
I asked why they can't just leave the keys in the dealership for me to pick up on a Sat, and the reason was they somebody would have to give me a 45minute "hand-over experiance"!! All I want is the bloody car, but apparently that would fall below VW standards. I'm pretty sure the delivery driver doesn't do a "hand-over experiance"!
One thing worth mentioning is when I was on the website for the Dublin Ferry was a Tesco Clubcard logo. On the Tesco Clubcard website, you can triple your vouchers to cover Ferry costs. Each £10 worth of Tesco voucher is worth £30 of Ferry charges for P&O, Stena Line, Irish Ferries, DFDS Seaways.
I've £20 worth of vouchers at the moment so thats £60 off the Ferry cost. By the time I fly to Liverpool, at about £30 one way, should only cost me another £40 ish on the Ferry once I've used my vouchers which makes the overall cost quite easy on the pocket.
https://secure.tesco.com/clubcard/boost/search-res...
wemorgan said:
It's been suggested before that this deal was not a mistake, but a deliberate campaign. I can believe that.
No chance - the price is ludicrous, especially for factory order cars. It would make sense to do a deal on stock cars to hit an end of quarter target but even then they wouldn't have needed to do them as cheap as this.soupdragon1 said:
I had a look at the Wales to Dublin Ferry as that is only 3 hours and my car is through VW Crewe so I'm considering flying to Liverpool and coming back on that ferry instead of Liverpool-Belfast or Cairnryan-Belfast/Larne. 6 hours less on the ferry but 4 hours more driving. The drive through North Wales is beautiful so I'm leaning that direction, as its a nicer drive than through South West Scotland plus the Ferries on Dublin to Wales route are very nice - Sky Sports on board plus a cinema.
One thing worth mentioning is when I was on the website for the Dublin Ferry was a Tesco Clubcard logo. On the Tesco Clubcard website, you can triple your vouchers to cover Ferry costs. Each £10 worth of Tesco voucher is worth £30 of Ferry charges for P&O, Stena Line, Irish Ferries, DFDS Seaways.
I've £20 worth of vouchers at the moment so thats £60 off the Ferry cost. By the time I fly to Liverpool, at about £30 one way, should only cost me another £40 ish on the Ferry once I've used my vouchers which makes the overall cost quite easy on the pocket.
https://secure.tesco.com/clubcard/boost/search-res...
I flew to Belfast to pick up my BMW last year and went through the options for getting back. While the Cairnryan ferry is the fastest, it's 100 miles of single carriageway just to get to the M74 at Gretna so it's an awful slow route if you're going from anywhere south of Manchester.One thing worth mentioning is when I was on the website for the Dublin Ferry was a Tesco Clubcard logo. On the Tesco Clubcard website, you can triple your vouchers to cover Ferry costs. Each £10 worth of Tesco voucher is worth £30 of Ferry charges for P&O, Stena Line, Irish Ferries, DFDS Seaways.
I've £20 worth of vouchers at the moment so thats £60 off the Ferry cost. By the time I fly to Liverpool, at about £30 one way, should only cost me another £40 ish on the Ferry once I've used my vouchers which makes the overall cost quite easy on the pocket.
https://secure.tesco.com/clubcard/boost/search-res...
For me the drive down to Dublin and the ferry to Holyhead was a much nicer trip. The Liverpool ferry is quite a long crossing so didn't seem a sensible compromise.
ETA: and I've been following this thread because I missed out on the Alltrack deal; however, I've just ordered a big brother A6 Allroad on 3+23 at £337 per month having been on the lookout for something appealing since
Jobbo said:
ETA: and I've been following this thread because I missed out on the Alltrack deal; however, I've just ordered a big brother A6 Allroad on 3+23 at £337 per month having been on the lookout for something appealing since
Nice - only three times the price 
What engine have you gone for?
Jobbo said:
I flew to Belfast to pick up my BMW last year and went through the options for getting back. While the Cairnryan ferry is the fastest, it's 100 miles of single carriageway just to get to the M74 at Gretna so it's an awful slow route if you're going from anywhere south of Manchester.
For me the drive down to Dublin and the ferry to Holyhead was a much nicer trip. The Liverpool ferry is quite a long crossing so didn't seem a sensible compromise.
ETA: and I've been following this thread because I missed out on the Alltrack deal; however, I've just ordered a big brother A6 Allroad on 3+23 at £337 per month having been on the lookout for something appealing since
Absolutely, I've driven both routes and the Holyhead route is a nicer drive with plenty of nice scenery to look at - I always like driving through hills/mountains and the Scotland route is a bit flat and mundane in comparison. For me the drive down to Dublin and the ferry to Holyhead was a much nicer trip. The Liverpool ferry is quite a long crossing so didn't seem a sensible compromise.
ETA: and I've been following this thread because I missed out on the Alltrack deal; however, I've just ordered a big brother A6 Allroad on 3+23 at £337 per month having been on the lookout for something appealing since
Nice buy with the A6 and a pretty good price (as long as you don't compare with the alltrack price
) Standard kit is excellent on that car and from the seldom few that I have seen on the road, they look ace.Jobbo said:
hornetrider said:
Nice - only three times the price
What engine have you gone for?
The 272PS version. I thought it was only just over double the price, but then it is a much better car What engine have you gone for?
The offer for the 190bhp DSG was 120pcm inc vat, so getting on for 3 times
Wow, I remember it being cheap - didn't realise it was quite that cheap! I'd happily have slummed it in the Alltrack for that price.
272PS is the metric BHP, I think it's 268BHP. It's the mid-range one; the BiTDI has 313PS and the base one has 218PS. All 3.0 V6 diesels. The BiTDI gets the 8sp ZF gearbox, while mine gets a 7-sp dual-clutch which I'm looking forward to trying. By all accounts it's better than the traditional auto. Very hard to find much info other than Audi's own brochure so I'm not sure whether mine will have the exhaust noise fakery which the BiTDI gets; that makes it sound like a lovely petrol V8.
272PS is the metric BHP, I think it's 268BHP. It's the mid-range one; the BiTDI has 313PS and the base one has 218PS. All 3.0 V6 diesels. The BiTDI gets the 8sp ZF gearbox, while mine gets a 7-sp dual-clutch which I'm looking forward to trying. By all accounts it's better than the traditional auto. Very hard to find much info other than Audi's own brochure so I'm not sure whether mine will have the exhaust noise fakery which the BiTDI gets; that makes it sound like a lovely petrol V8.
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