The Cupra (Black) Lease thread

[jonwm]

Not sure if I'm thinking too much about it, but this colour thing makes no sense, do you think they are protecting the used prices in 2 years time by varying the colour?
For all we know they could have had hundreds of dynamic and didn't want to flood the market with 1 colour?

[jonwm]

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Shall we put together a simple table of who ordered what, when, build date and delivery?

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I did think of this at the very start, but have no idea how to go about it

[jonwm]

See i cant even amend the quotes thing

[jonwm]

MOBB said:

=Name=||=Car=||=Manual or DSG=||=Colour=||=Date Ordered=||=Build Week=||=Delivery Date=||

2pad	ST Black Editon	DSG	Ice Silver	13 Sept	TBC	TBC
DanTheManc	5dr Black Editon	Manual	Dynamic Grey	12 Sept	TBC	TBC
Mobb	5dr Black Editon	DSG	Dynamic Grey	9 Sept	TBC	Est end Nov 16
jonwm	5dr Black Edition	DSG	Dynamic Grey	7 July	36	30.9.16

[jonwm]

Seriously I tried really hard then too, where did I go wrong??

[jonwm]

simonh9 said:

DanTheManc said:

Fixed

Name	Car	Manual or DSG	Colour	Date Ordered	Build Week	Delivery Date
2pad	ST Black Editon	DSG	Ice Silver	13 Sept	TBC	TBC
DanTheManc	5dr Black Editon	Manual	Dynamic Grey	12 Sept	TBC	TBC
Mobb	5dr Black Editon	DSG	Dynamic Grey	9 Sept	TBC	Est end Nov 16
jonwm	5dr Black Edition	DSG	Dynamic Grey	7 July	36	30.9.16
Chris	5dr Black Edition	Manual	Monsoon Grey	24th Aug	TBC	TBC	Status Code 00
nutterburger	5dr Black Edition	manual	Monsoon Grey	7 July	37	14.10.16
m44sgr	5dr Black Edition	Manual	Dynamic Grey	12/7	38	TBC
Speedy300	5dr Black Edition	Manual	Nevada White	14/9	43	TBC
simonh9	ST Black Edition	Manual	alor	12/9	43	TBC
kennyh14	5dr Black Edition	DSG	alor blue	23/9	?	end Nov
Joeseppi	ST Black Edition	Manual	Monsoon Grey	6 July	38	TBC
nickp82	5dr Black Edition	manual	Monsoon Grey	07th July	39	??
Mr Tom	5dr Black Edition	manual	Ice Silver	Sept 9	43	Nov/Dec

4 x Dynamic Grey
4 x Monsoon Grey
2 x Alor Blue
2 x Ice Silver
1 x Nevada White

9 x Manual
3 x DSG

3 x ST
10 x 5dr

Edited by DanTheManc on Sunday 9th October 09:58

Edited by DanTheManc on Sunday 9th October 10:03

Next we need an histogram of time from date ordered to build week, then when we get more data, we can look for patterns in variation due to colour, gearbox, body type... taking it too far? ;-)

Surprised no reds so far. Is it because the metallic was free that people didn't go for it (so in effect you're getting a worse deal)

If you really want to go into detail.....
Ordered 11am on the 7.7.16 car went for final production test at 22:07 on the 13.9.16...

[jonwm]

Jonno02 said:

Surprised at how many manuals are being ordered!

Was thinking that too

[jonwm]

Joeseppi said:

Yeah build week was confirmed as 38. Was expecting to have it within 2 weeks but she said it was still on the boat.

Do you know the number for Seat customer services?

0500 222222

[jonwm]

To be fair my experience in the last few days were a bit strange with SEAT CS, I think because there are only a few checkpoints SEAT CS don't really know where they are.

My car was in the UK, dealer was on there way to collect it from the docks to get it registered in September, SEAT CS had said an hour earlier it was on the docs in Barcelona!

[jonwm]

Nickp82 said:

Joeseppi said:

jonwm said:

0500 222222

Thanks Jon

Just spoke to Seat CS and I felt more fobbed off by them than by the dealership. He said I need to speak to the dealer as there is nothing he could do.

I'll call CVL and see what they say. Not holding out much hope though

Edited by Joeseppi on Monday 10th October 14:11

Edited by Joeseppi on Monday 10th October 14:12

Given Jonwm's seemingly smooth experience and the fact he has been in his car for a good few days I think the lesson I would learn is that if you can deal direct with a main dealer it is worth doing!

Also what helped me was the stage I got in, I saw the deal on PH thread / CVL, rang the dealer who when looked at the finance was shocked himself how cheap, I went in the next day and ordered, by this stage the deal was not that old and he had only had me in ordering a Cupra Black, no one else, not even a call, he duly placed the order there and then.

We don't know how long CVL took to send the orders over / Dealer key them in, plus the take up was probably more than they imagined, I would have thought mine was a good 2 weeks in the system before the influx of order went in from the lease companies.

I got the impression when I collected that his initial excitement of me getting the Cupra (think he had delivered 5 all year when I went it) had turned from how rare to utter carnage that had been the last 3 months of people ringing for the "best" deals and having to do handovers on 50 (number made up) Cupra's over the next coming weeks with people ringing up asking where they were....

He also knew that I would sign papers electronically so sending a truck down for mine wasn't an issues as they had dealt with me previously, CVL dealers don't know you lot from the next person so have to follow the correct procedure with regards finance and handovers, my handover was him giving me the Key and saying see you later, I left my part ex there with no money for it and went back the week later to sort the paperwork out for it.

[jonwm]

aww999 said:

I am consoling myself, throughout this long wait, with the thought that all you early birds will have to give the car back sooner as well

Good point that

I'm concerned already about the next "deal", I did the official handover to the wife yesterday after 8 days of keeping it mint

It went like this:
Me: OK there is NO damage to any alloy or panel, there are NO stains on any of the seats or carpet or headlining, can we keep it this way?
wife: FFS just send it back, I'm not driving a car that I have to be worried about constantly"
Me: But its really fast...

End of conversation, she went to work in my Audi

[jonwm]

I cant do the multiple quote things...

Nickp82 - Yeah im going with ALA, I wasnt going to but swaying towards it now £131 I think it is for the 2 years with 2k initial protection and 15k GAP

simonh9 - Comes with Conti SP5, mine still have the colored bands in the tread :-)

[jonwm]

YoEddie said:

Spitting my dummy out a bit I know, just frustrating when you have ordered something so long ago and with build/delivery impending you are told it isn't going to be what you wanted!

Also £250 of high street vouchers? Who even shops at HMV and Sports direct these days - rather just have £250.

I guess I better learn to like white cars over the next few weeks.

When its sunny everyone thinks mines white anyway, when its dark they think its blue, no one has said its grey yet, so your only 50% hard done by :-)

[jonwm]

Those who can't have dynamic think yourself lucky you got the option to change colour. I met a guy of the Seat cupra net forum last week to show him my dynamic one and today he's been told his complete order has been cancelled, no details as to why yet.

[jonwm]

It's Dave, he's not on PH asked him when I met up with him

[jonwm]

Quite an interesting picture being painted now, Mine was actually week 37 not 36 build, Nunpuncher ordered day before me and was built 2 weeks after mine yet delivered in December sometime when mine was delivered in September, other week 38's will no delivery date.

Seems like the demand really stretched Seat, I don't think the dealer setup is coping well with it, most dealerships are smaller or shared sites and compared to VW there in short supply so physically getting them in and back out the door might be an issue.

[jonwm]

As I mentioned earlier, the lad I met the other week just updated his cancelled order thread with the below...

"The whole order has been binned, no alternative offered. Need to find something else now.
I'm still not convinced the order was placed correctly.........Order Form is 10th Sept and nothing in Finance system after a month....seems dodgy!
Dave"

[jonwm]

sumo69 said:

jonwm said:

As I mentioned earlier, the lad I met the other week just updated his cancelled order thread with the below...

"The whole order has been binned, no alternative offered. Need to find something else now.
I'm still not convinced the order was placed correctly.........Order Form is 10th Sept and nothing in Finance system after a month....seems dodgy!
Dave"

Did he order via a broker or direct with a SEAT dealer?

I suspect the issue is with a broker - not heard of any cancellations or paint changes with a direct order.

Or am I wrong?

Direct with a seat main dealer

[jonwm]

Ashleysayer said:

jonwm said:

Direct with a seat main dealer

which one - Im awaiting n update on mine with Lookers - they have said my build week was cancelled but that i should still expect a car in December sometime - should have n update tomorrow

Wolverhampton mate, can't think of the name now, not lookers though

[jonwm]

nutterburger said:

Mines just been delivered on a truck. Only got 5 miles on the clock.... I'm a bit scared to actually drive it now!! Took me 10 minutes to find the sd card slot!

I genuinely thought they had no CD player