New Skoda VRS

[dazag]

dazag -
Lol no sorry not Steve Jarvin (but it is my dealer too! Matt sold me my car) but my very own house! Oh and if you get the car serviced at Steve Jarvin, MAKE SURE you check that everything claimed has been done. I haven't had the best experience with the Service Dep and next service I'm gonna try the dealer in Artarmon.

Why don't all the Sydney RS owners organise a cruise!?

I'm based in Newcastle and will be getting the VW guys up here to service the car, as the Skoda dealership here doesn;t have their own service department. Oh and trust me I'm a stickler for how a servicing is carried out - I've had some fun with Mercedes before and being an aircrat technician myself, I'm very thorough with making sure everything is done as per their work sheets, or when i pick the RS up - the delivery sheet.

Lucky SOB with the Skoda guys making the visit to your house. I do video work on the side and have been playing with an "ad" idea that i will put together and possibly offer to VW/SKODA Aust for their use.
Maybe a Sydney RS cruise would be good footage to use.......

[Gaz]

Dazag,
Why Steve Jarvin's?
I shopped around and despite a (tiny) moment of guilt, choose Jarvin's over our local dealer because the price was fair, and the dealer (Matt) seems to have integrity...
Who is doing your tint, and will it be strictly 75% or darker?

[paul_segr]

Dazag,
Why Steve Jarvin's?
I shopped around and despite a (tiny) moment of guilt, choose Jarvin's over our local dealer because the price was fair, and the dealer (Matt) seems to have integrity...
Who is doing your tint, and will it be strictly 75% or darker?

I ended up getting mine from Wollongong, due to a similar experience as Gaz with the local dealer.

I spoke with the dealer yesterday, he was expecting my car (Black RS TDI Wagon) today, hopefully. He was chasing up to see where it was. I will post pics as soon as I pick it up.

[dazag]

Dazag,
Why Steve Jarvin's?
I shopped around and despite a (tiny) moment of guilt, choose Jarvin's over our local dealer because the price was fair, and the dealer (Matt) seems to have integrity...
Who is doing your tint, and will it be strictly 75% or darker?

We got a good deal with Matt, he was recommended to us by a guy who bought a Skoda of him a few weeks before. Plus Matt put the ground work in to get details about delivery dates etc. Where as the local guys here were plucking dates out of their a$$ I reckon and seemed scared to call Skoda Aust to confirm stuff for us. Although they did really look after us with test drives and matched Matt for the deal, but we felt more at ease spending our money with Matt.
I should give him a call and see how our Silver TDI wagon is coming along, although I might not be able to pick it up for a couple of weeks as the wife is so close to giving birth to our first baby........the skoda may have to wait for pick up.

We're getting our tint done locally now as we wanted darker then the Standard tint.

[Jake02]

Hey y'all,

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...8&id=668475019
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...4&id=668475019
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...2&id=668475019

The shots of the new RS from the shoot at my house on my Facebook page (oh btw if anyone has a Skoda and Facebook join the group SKoda Car Club Australia!). Sorry I don't have more, didn't have enough time! As I said before, you lot with orders on your new RS' will LOVE them!

[MJKooLio]

Wait, what...... two at your house?!??!??!?

=D

[TuNeS]

I am still eagerly awaiting the phone call so say "come and pick it up!". I went to the Skoda dealership today as my dad is looking to change his Liberty 3.0R over to a FL DSG Diesel Estate/Combi/Wagon. The salesman said it shouldnt be too long now! At least these photos confirm they are in the country. To make the wait even worse, I sold my car earlier than I expected......Public tranpsort is the pits!

Also, jsut a side note, one of the guys said they have landed a deal for the QLD police to start using some octavia's. This is good news as it will help raise the awareness of Skoda in Australia.

[indulis]

I'm based in Newcastle and will be getting the VW guys up here to service the car, as the Skoda dealership here doesn;t have their own service department.

Just make sure that they actually can do full service and repairs, I tried to get a new key coded to my car a week ago and the 1st VW dealer I took it to could not do it. I had to take it to a VW dealer that had the Skoda <whatever_magic_thing_you_need_to_recode_for_new_k eys>. So, I am thinking that the statement from Skoda that "all VW dealers can service Skoda" has its limits, sort of like taking your Skoda to TuneMasters or wherever- they can change the oil and do some of the servicing, but not all of it. I expect the VW dealers can do more than TuneMasters, but it would be nice to know exactly where the limits are- when I was thinking of buying a Skoda I rang up Skoda Australia and asked them about service (as the WA Skoda dealer at that time was closing down, new one open up now luckily). I was told then that all of the VW service centers could do Skoda. But it is not quite true.

[FezV10]

Hey y'all,

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...8&id=668475019
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...4&id=668475019
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...2&id=668475019

The shots of the new RS from the shoot at my house on my Facebook page (oh btw if anyone has a Skoda and Facebook join the group SKoda Car Club Australia!). Sorry I don't have more, didn't have enough time! As I said before, you lot with orders on your new RS' will LOVE them!

I'm in final negotiations with the Skoda dealer on a Black RS Petrol Wagon and the these pics confirm I'm making the right decision.
I've decided to get a burger with the lot:
DSG / Leather Upgrade / Sunroof / Sat Nav / Xenons / Front Sensors / Bluetooth / Media Device Interface / Darkest Legal Tint.

George from Skoda Richmond is very helpful and keen to do a deal - I'll publish what I paid when the deals done.

[pinzvidz]

That'll be a nice car Fez. Our order won't be quite optioned up as much. Thinking about holding off just a few more months so our order can be build/compliance 2010.

Jake thanks for the pics!

Another winner for me with the RS - I'm impressed with VGA's decision to lower the octane requirement to 95RON for most TSI engines, which of course, includes the RS.