Want to buy new VW - any advice on where to buy?

Lum

2 cars does not make a statistically valid sample.

Any car from any manufacturer can be a lemon, but the risk is reduced if the OP buys a Kia Picanto as opposed to a VW Polo.

I have a 19 year old Nissan with the notoriously unreliable ceramic blade turbocharger, the one where the blades fall off and bits of the turbo end up inside your engine block... still on it's original turbo.

verityboo

dodo69 wrote: »

I beg to differ! I have just completed 26,000 hard miles in a new VW Passat and it has been excellent - £30 Road tax, 60 mpg and amazingly refined. In contrast to friends Toyota that has been back to the garage regularly for faults. We cannot generalize about cars - years ago I bought a beaten up Proton Persona for a few hundred pounds. It never missed a bat in 12,000 miles and I sold it for what I paid for it. Six years later I parked beside it in the local Asda last week and its still going strong!

Of course many people buy VW's and never have a problem. It's just that the odds of having a problems with a VW are greater than with the Kia suggested above. The OP seems to suggest that reliability is a priority, hence the suggestion to go for a car which is least likely to go wrong. Failing that, go for a Skoda as their dealers are far better.

My colleague is having her 2 year old VW Fox serviced today, they have just rung to say the battery terminals are loose, its not covered by warranty & would she like them tightened for £60 :rotfl:

blunther

I've just bought a shiny new VW Up! Ordered in Mid March and picked up last week. Love the little beaut.

No discounts available now as they are in such high demand. We managed to get three years' servicing and a tank of fuel thrown in. You're looking at a September delivery if you order now at the earliest apparently. Lovely car though. The Bluemotion I got has free tax, and the insurance is as low as it goes.

Bought from Kevin at Birmingham Volkswagen. Nice guy, no pushy selling on the options of the gap insurance or anything, and he kept me regularly updated on the progress of the order. My first new car - always driven bangers, so it was a new experience for me, and very enjoyable.

andy8442

Walk into any VW dealer find the spec you want, tell them the price you want to pay, (RRP minus 12%) give them your details and walk away.Make sure they know you are serious, then just let them stew. At some point in the near future some sales target will have to be met, and if they know they have a sale in you,believe me the phone will call.

Be patient, and be hard. You will get the car you want.

chubsta

i did look at the skoda as being a possible alternative as they are basically the same car but the vw does look slightly better and, more importantly although i feel ashamed to admit it, there is also the brand snobbery - i am old enough to remember the truly awful cars Skoda made in the 70s and their reputation still sticks with me, even though i only hear good things about them now...

mgdavid

chubsta wrote: »

i did look at the skoda as being a possible alternative as they are basically the same car but the vw does look slightly better and, more importantly although i feel ashamed to admit it, there is also the brand snobbery - i am old enough to remember the truly awful cars Skoda made in the 70s and their reputation still sticks with me, even though i only hear good things about them now...

that is SO last century!
wake up and smell the coffee...

timbo58

Skoda are a great company and have some really fantastic dealers too.
However I got my new high up last week and had already looked at the Skoda citigo in the dealers and didn't like the differences Skoda had made, it wasn't significantly cheaper either, so a VW it was.

I had an Audi TT before which had started to become expensive (not that it was ever a poor mans car!) -i.e. £1000 to keep on the road with all servicing and wear & tear replacements last year alone.

I've also had a Skoda favorit and a felicia before and been impressed.

I bought the VW on PPP (Finance) and it'll pay a large amount of it's own costs in the 3 years on finance as it'll save £230+ per month on my insurance/tax and fuel/servicing bills.