GTD Delivery Dates

**Hacker59** · 23-04-2010,12:20 PM

I ordered a GTD about 5 weeks ago through my company car scheme (LEX) and after a couple of days they came back with a 12th July delivery date. Last week I was contacted by LEX to say that the delivery date had now moved to late August due to problems with supply issues with GTD models. that will just be the 6 months lead time then !

**chris.fulton** · 23-04-2010,12:46 PM

Sounds about right unfortunately. I ordered mine at the end of January and have a build date of 1st week June and therefore expected delivery around the start of July. The situation doesn't seem to be improving at all

**jamief** · 23-04-2010,03:04 PM

Well my GT TDI took nearly 7 months, so count yourself lucky!

**Keithuk** · 23-04-2010,04:11 PM

Welcome to VWAudi Hacker59.

Well it sounds about right if you search these forums for deliveries there are plenty of posts. Mine was under the old scrapage scheme which they had to deliver within 20 weeks else the had to supply a courtesy car (if you don't have a car) if they couldn't. Now that has ended I would assume its back to normal.

Vincent Vega · 23-04-2010,08:29 PM

I ordered my GTD on 28th February. The salesman called a couple of weeks ago to say that the car is provisionally scheduled for build week 23 (week commencing 31st May, assuming they count partial weeks from 1st January). If my maths is right, that's around 13 weeks from order to build. Add a week or so to build, three weeks to get to the dealer and a week for them to prepare it and for me to get around collecting it, that's 18 weeks. For a Golf! Do they build one a day or something?

Edit: I see that chris.fulton's car is also scheduled for week 23. Do they build the GTD/GTI/R in batches?

**jjh** · 24-04-2010,03:33 AM

I ordered a GTD on 29th August for delivery 4th January.
I expect to pick it up in two weeks time.

**Keithuk** · 24-04-2010,11:28 AM

Originally Posted by jjh

I ordered a GTD on 29th August for delivery 4th January.
I expect to pick it up in two weeks time.

That is ridiculous. You ordered yours before mine an you pick it up in two weeks time.

I ordered mine on the 19th September and they said 12 weeks, so it would be a nice Christmas present. They rang me last November and said it would be delayed another month because of the popularity of the scrapage scheme, bull. I picked it up on 27th January and the excuse was the GTD and GTi are very popular and they can't keep up with demand. Thats is more plusable but still bad management considering there is a world recession. So the was just over 18 weeks.

Quickest and longest delivery times for your cars?

**chris.fulton** · 24-05-2010,11:05 PM

Was speaking to my dealer today who has told me that my build date has now moved to week 31

.

Vincent Vega, have you had any change to your date as both our cars previously had the same build week?

**dataconn** · 25-05-2010,12:05 AM

Although, not a gtd, mine originally had a build week of 21, then it was moved to 22 (new model year), then brought forward to 16!!!! Its been built and is now waiting at the dealer.

gtd's / gti's are built in batches.

**percymon** · 25-05-2010,04:30 PM

GTI, GTD and R are built in batches - production dates move about wildly due to other order load and availability of components - flat bottomed steering wheels was the last excuse from VW !

Whilst its annoying having extended waits for cars I think i'd accept a few extra weeks slippage in delivery time if it meant the build week moved into 2011 model build and i gained a few extra features as a result.