The official I have ordered/received my new MKVI thread

[CJYoung]

put down my order for a Golf R 2weeks ago....now for the wait

[Prodigy]

put down my order for a Golf R 2weeks ago....now for the wait

Tornado Red hey? You are the 2nd person i've heard of ordering an R in that colour. Many issues in ordering a non Australian spec colour?

[aVex]

thanks Corey - I have just written back to him asking for contract amendments to be made. He is adamant that 18" Detroits now come standard on MY11.5 vehicles but I have asked him to include that as a no cost line item in the update documents also. As you say it pays to be explicit now to avoid misunderstandings later.

Late update - he is insistent that Detroits come on the car as standard. I have tried the search function on this forum but cannot find the thread on MY11.5 upgrades. Can someone confirm the wheel situation and also the thread location please?

I paid $1200 for my Detroits. My soon to arrive car is MY11.5

[langers_sydney]

Build week's are basically the "calendar weeks". It gets slightly confusing as the 1st of 2011 was a Saturday, and I"m also not sure what day of the week they count as "the start". But you can approximate what week is what just by looking at your calendar

As for what happens with your orders if the spec changes.
As you can see from the table in the link above here, they designate a particular product week where the model year's change over (it's different for each model year and each car model). So if you had a GTI in August last year, but it wasn't built until December last year - then you'll automatically get a MY11.5, as that started production from CW45 for the Golf.

Hope that makes sense.

makes perfect sense, big thanks....

[MiiLos]

Late update - he is insistent that Detroits come on the car as standard. I have tried the search function on this forum but cannot find the thread on MY11.5 upgrades. Can someone confirm the wheel situation and also the thread location please?

i have noticed the Detroits come standard on the UK VW website now - this would be great if its now the same for AU. Although my recent options price list sourced from a dealer includes the Detroits as an optional upgrade. Is it at all possible you get something in writing from your dealer so that i may get the wheels free too?! would also mean i could option the Sat Nav if this does pan out lol!

[CJYoung]

yeah,

in regards to ordering, i was advised that the wait my be a couple of extra months. the reason being is that they have to change the computer programs to match, cant really remember what she said but im gonna ask again clearly pretty soon. Also i think that they prefer to get all the Oz colours done first then decide to do all the reds i think. going to get clarification soon though. the wait she told me for a Oz spec colour was 6-8 weeks so she put down the delivery date for 29th Oct (that is 8 months due to the red)

hopefully it comes a lil earlier, not sure if thats been the case for anyone though.

[Prodigy]

yeah,

in regards to ordering, i was advised that the wait my be a couple of extra months. the reason being is that they have to change the computer programs to match, cant really remember what she said but im gonna ask again clearly pretty soon. Also i think that they prefer to get all the Oz colours done first then decide to do all the reds i think. going to get clarification soon though. the wait she told me for a Oz spec colour was 6-8 weeks so she put down the delivery date for 29th Oct (that is 8 months due to the red)

hopefully it comes a lil earlier, not sure if thats been the case for anyone though.

She told you OZ spec colours were 6-8 weeks? More like 6-8 months at the moment for any colour R, so if you've been quoted 8 mnths for Red thats pretty good.

[Corey_R]

She told you OZ spec colours were 6-8 weeks? More like 6-8 months at the moment for any colour R, so if you've been quoted 8 mnths for Red thats pretty good.

Yeah - it's simply not possible to get a Golf delivered in 6 to 8 weeks. There is more than that involved in shipping and compliance/pre-delivery...

[Klink1313]

Yeah - it's simply not possible to get a Golf delivered in 6 to 8 weeks. There is more than that involved in shipping and compliance/pre-delivery...

I wonder if she meant that the next R batch are scheduled to be built in the next 6 to 8 weeks? Latest info I have from my dealer is that my week 5 build has been moved to a week 13 build so that fits with the 6 to 8 weeks? May not be the production batch that the Red one will be made in though.

[Corey_R]

Possibly. That was my initial thought as the 6 to 8 weeks makes no sense as a delivery date. But then, the 8 month thing makes no sense either in that context as any car ordered now wouldn't get built in the next 6 to 8 weeks and would probably take 8 weeks to get here anyway...

Oh well. No point with endless speculation - lets just see what happens and see whether CJYoung is actually successful in getting the custom colour done. Thus far I haven't seen any examples of a custom colour being performed at the customer's request. Even the red and white R32's which ended up in this country in 2009 were apparently a mistake...