Skoda New Dealers - NSW

[Antiplastix]

Hey there s an idea, I might stick Bugatti badges on the Octy. Do you think it ll fool anyone?

[K1W1]

Can anyone remember the Chevy dealer Stack? They used to drill holes in the car & rivet a badge on.

That was realatively common until the late 1970's then stickers that lasted became available.

When I was in the trad we used to put our stickers inside the rear window making sure that they were not on the heater wires so people could remove them but one thing I would never do is put my stickers on a car that was in for service regardless of what was on it.

[K1W1]

Hey there s an idea, I might stick Bugatti badges on the Octy. Do you think it ll fool anyone?

Get a couple of hydraulic jacks to make the spoiler go up and down as you accelerate and brake and nobody will know it's not a Bugatti. After all how many people have actually seen a real one in Sydney?

I'm thinking Porsche Panamera badges for me. They are just about as rare as Bugatti's.

[SKODA vRS147]

Holy **** guys, so anti dealership yet you expect freakin huge deals and gold star aftersales service. Next you'll be pulling the Skoda & Octavia badges off your cars as Skoda dont pay you to advertise their vehicles either.......... time to go clean skin fellas?? Or god forbid if you pull the Skoda badge off and put a VW badge on - kinda like the Holden guys putting a Chev badge on to replace the Holden lion

I hate stickers, so i agree there, but a tastefully small little logo that you can hardly notice on a number plate surround I have no problems with. All I was saying is that it was better then what SJ Skoda put on the vehicle, and the RS looks better for it. If I was stressed about dealership logo's I would have bought my own surrounds. Now if i had my own surrounds on and the dealership put theirs on, then there would be a drama!!

I'm with you on this one - You cant have it both ways.

We all want Skoda to stay and be a force to reckon with in the market place so to a certain degree we have got to support the dealers and get the word out.
Although i do hate picking up a new car with loads of stickers all over the rear window. The worst company i have come across for that is Klosters.
just glad i wasn't around to experience the drilling and inserting of advertising badges that would have made me a very unhappy chappy.

[K1W1]

I'm with you on this one - You cant have it both ways.

We all want Skoda to stay and be a force to reckon with in the market place so to a certain degree we have got to support the dealers and get the word out.

We are the mug punters. Getting the word out is not our job that's what Skoda are supposed to do with a proportion of our hard earned if they are serious.
Tell me guys. When you buy a house do you leave the big sign board from the Real Estate Agent permanently on display on the front lawn?
When you take your clothes into the dry cleaner would you be happy if they embroidered their logo on your suits before they gave them back?
Would you like your Dentist to tattoo his details on your front teeth for all to see?

As I explained earlier my beef is not dealers putting stickers on cars when they are delivered (at the time that they put the stickers on the car they still legally own it anyway) it's service departments putting stickers on customers cars that they do not own without the permission of the customer. It's my car and it's my decision what is on it. If I want to put a sticker on my Skoda advertising the local Ford dealer the Skoda dealer has absolutely no legal or moral right to remove that sticker and replace it with one of his while I own the vehicle.

[brad]

I used to work at Wheels Rockdale. The owner learnt everything he knew from Matthews Tyres at Campsie including putting an oval sticker on the rear windscreen. Cars with those stickers were everywhere! We weren't allowed to let a car leave without applying a sticker. Our customers knew this & would take great delight in driving out of the workshop onto the driveway, get out of their car & rip the sticker off, scrunch it up & throw it at the owner Cranky Crawley.

[dazag]

wow, I never knew people were so passionate about such a small thing as a logo on a number plate surround, I mean it saved my $40 having to replace the crappy ones SJ Skoda put on it originally, although I have been looking at the chrome surrounds on the Superskoda website, they look trick
Maybe i shouldn't have posted anything about THE GOOD SERVICE I got from the Newcastle dealership and kept my mouth shut. I appreciated what they did & have done, so thought it was worth commenting.

As far as advertising the brand, I'm currently story boarding an Ad to shoot later this year with my Octavia RS as a concept ad and i will be pitching it to Skoda - and charging accordingly if they like the concept. Even the unfinished general clip I did on YouTube has around 13,000 hits, which is twice what the Skoda Aust RS-P clips have received - go figure.

Off my soap box, I'm going for a drive.................

[SKODA vRS147]

I bought my Skoda through Steve Jarvin, but they're shutting up shop with Skoda, and really I wasn't overally impressed with their service department anyway - bit of a long story
I have just had my RS serviced by the guys here in Newcastle, and if the service i got was anything to go buy, they will do very well!!
It's the little things as well as attention to detail that really have an impact......
- Free courtesy car (another Skoda Octavia wagon)
- replaced the number plate surrounds ( previous steve Jarvin ones with the Nissan part blacked out - very 2nd hand in my opinion ) with some very nice looking Newcastle Skoda ones - free of charge
- washed & detailed the RS
- Fault found the tow bar problem - ECU not programmed and a blown fuse - SJ told me it was a Control Unit issue ( I'm still yet to connect the trailer up to confirm all is good ) but the guys at Newcastle did mention it might not be the correct control unit fitted as the only way to get the lights to work without tripping a globe caution light was using the North American code, but I have to check it on my trailer, as they were only using a load box to test with.
And then of course the guys did a good job on the service, and phoned me as soon as it was ready to pick up.
If anyone in Newcastle or surrounding areas needs their Skoda serviced, then chat to Ashley at the Audi/Skoda service centre, you wont be disappointed!!

Thats good to hear as i will need a reliable service agent for mine.
Will probably do the Majors at the supppliers and the minors locally, and before anyone comments about the rationale on this it is nice to provides some income to my supplier (excellent service upto now) and it is a good excuse for a trip to Sydney and a visit with family at the same time.