Tracking Progress on your Polo and Polo GTI

[wiz]

Ordered and deposit paid on the first day possible. (Late Nov I think it was.)

bugger...one month later and it is reflected by a three month longer wait period...oh well I guess I'll just have to sit it out. Hope you enjoy your ride when it arrives.

[gavs]

Well, IF VW Aus would give the dealer something more to work with, I'd be using that to track the build. When the dealer shows me the email saying saying it's got a week 9 build without any other detail, it's a little difficult to track. Will have to hit them up for the 'NADCON' thing too. Thanks anyway.

Brian, speak to your dealer because I popped into mine yesterday and there is a little box further down the menus which has the Head Office allocated build week (date will be in red). When the extra vehicle build slots were made available last month, they were all allocated as week 9 builds. Mine as of last night went to a week 12 (last full week of march, also my birthday week, that will be an awesome present!) build slot, now just to wait to receive the actual date and VIN.

[Brian916]

Brian, speak to your dealer because I popped into mine yesterday and there is a little box further down the menus which has the Head Office allocated build week (date will be in red). When the extra vehicle build slots were made available last month, they were all allocated as week 9 builds. Mine as of last night went to a week 12 (last full week of march, also my birthday week, that will be an awesome present!) build slot, now just to wait to receive the actual date and VIN.

Will see about doing that tomorrow when the 'other' car is getting tyres.

[FL00DY]

Heard this morning that 2 mates have been changed to a 2012 delivery date What are VW playing at?

[wiz]

Heard this morning that 2 mates have been changed to a 2012 delivery date What are VW playing at?

From what VW told me, anyone ordering this year won't get their car until the second QTR of 2012....sheesh, by then we'll all be looking at jetpacks as a viable transport method

[pologti18t]

From what VW told me, anyone ordering this year won't get their car until the second QTR of 2012....sheesh, by then we'll all be looking at jetpacks as a viable transport method

Would anyone seriously continue their order if given that lead time?

[themmc]

Have asked for NADCOM output from dealer. My delivery data has gone from around May (build wk9) when ordered in late Dec to maybe August. August isn't going to do it for me. Have spat the dummy at the dealer when he tried to make excuses that "it was out of VAG's control". B******T. It's their fault.

[gavs]

Have asked for NADCOM output from dealer. My delivery data has gone from around May (build wk9) when ordered in late Dec to maybe August. August isn't going to do it for me. Have spat the dummy at the dealer when he tried to make excuses that "it was out of VAG's control". B******T. It's their fault.

After all the digging that GTI Joe and I did (see thread here: http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/f128...ery-54045.html ) in regards to info, Wolfsburg cannot release any more build slots because all factories are already running at max capacity. That's not to say that they couldn't jiggle things around to get more Australian orders through the system but when annually, we are luck to make a months worth of european sales, why would they bother..... Unfortunately, this is what we happened to find out, believe me whan I say unfortunately you are not the only person in this boat, the only way out? Get a diesel Polo, it's the petrol models that have all the hold ups.

[pologti18t]

After all the digging that GTI Joe and I did (see thread here: http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/f128...ery-54045.html ) in regards to info, Wolfsburg cannot release any more build slots because all factories are already running at max capacity.

Isn't the problem slightly different for the 5 door Polos built in South Africa.
One initial delay was to cars ordered with the Audio upgrade. And i thought there was some industrial action happening down there as well.

[FL00DY]

From what VW told me, anyone ordering this year won't get their car until the second QTR of 2012....sheesh, by then we'll all be looking at jetpacks as a viable transport method

Thats crap ...

Would anyone seriously continue their order if given that lead time?

it's not that great a car to wait 12 months for. I know someone that had a Polo GTI ordered, the dealer rang to tell him 2012 and he took a demo Golf GTI for only a few $$K more.

Have asked for NADCOM output from dealer. My delivery data has gone from around May (build wk9) when ordered in late Dec to maybe August. August isn't going to do it for me. Have spat the dummy at the dealer when he tried to make excuses that "it was out of VAG's control". B******T. It's their fault.

I wouldn't go blaming your dealer or VW Aust, we're too small a market to dont have any influence over VW factory builds.

When I got my old Polo GTI, the list of options were so small there was a good chance that something on the boat was what you wanted. Thats what happened to me, my car was on the boat when I signed.