GTD Delivery Dates

[Hacker59]

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]

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]

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

[Keithuk]

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]

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]

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

[Keithuk]

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]

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?

[sr1976]

I ordered my GTD last week of March, should be built this week with delivery by mid-July. But my lease company has given me estimates of anything between 8 and 20 weeks so far so god knows when it'll turn up!

[Vincent Vega]

Some news! Unfortunately, not the "good" kind, more the "informational" type.

I called my dealer today, and he has actually been able to find out why my car is still on hiatus (he checked his system this morning, and there is no build week). After previous shortages of RCD510s and steering wheels, there is now a shortage of DSG gearboxes! So he's not expecting anything to happen until this shortage is resolved. He is going to get his "brand director" to call me at some point, to let me know what's going on.

On a slightly different topic, he also mentioned that as it is almost sixteen (!) weeks since I ordered, I would now be entitled to a hire car. I said I didn't mind giving up my Mini (awful car - I'll be glad to see the back of it), but he did that I didn't have to worry about any loss of value, and neither would they, as VW would cover the amount due to my car being delayed, and in any event I'd probably end up with something like a Golf 1.4 S, so not to bother. So I won't.