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Has anyone ever managed to negotiate for them to pay fuel and travel expenses rather than the garage to pay someone to drive it up, pay for the fuel and for the guys return train journey back? Or am I being unreasonable? Any help appreciated When mine was delivered, the dealership seemed quite keen...

Car now showing as in the UK, think it was unloaded yesterday so hopefully not long now. :D Mine still has a Ship to get, to get it across the Irish sea. Yep, spot on. Got a call from the dealer y'day to arrange handover! Unfortunately I have to delay it slightly because of work and the chap doing ...

Good news, The City of Rotterdam is due to leave Zeebrugge today and arrive in Grimsby on the 18th :D After it's tour of the bay of Biscay and Morocco :roll: My car will be better traveled than me! When I said I wanted to take it round Europe, this is not what I had in mind. :lol: Still, if we're v...

djbrad wrote:Mine came from Santander to Tynemouth stopping off at Sheerness on the way, and after 2 weeks sat at the port I am finally getting it on Sunday!

Ah, very good! Why the 2 week delay at the port though? I'm down south so I assume mine will offload at Sheerness. What colour etc did you go for?

So I hadn't had a update on my order tracker since the 25th June, when it updated to 'in transit'. Thought I'd speak to VW live chat and see if they could give me some info. They reckon my lovely new automobile is on the 'City of Rotterdam' with an eta to the UK of 19th July... seems fairly reasonab...

So I got a nice message late last week from the dealer saying my build week has been confirmed at 20/06! Managed to get the sports pack/DCC onto the spec before it got locked in, so happy days. Kept the colour as white. All the nice pictures of Silk Blue GTIs almost swayed me though. Ordered red 'GT...

Evening all, Thought I'd say hello - I recently put down a deposit on a new build Polo GTI with a projected delivery date of late August. I currently have a 2009 Fiesta Zetec 1.4, which I got when it was about a year old - so the Polo is a significant upgrade in power and cool factor! It's also the ...