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Had a messaged left on my phone from the dealer today and have been told they put my order through and got back an expected build date of around Feb-March!!! I ordered in September! They then went on to say he has managed to hijack a normal A3 slot and turn it to S3 and he said he's had a play around with spec for eg take badges on and off??? ( not sure what he means) and it has been brought back to the last week of December- first week of Jan, they also mentioned that a confirmed build date won't be in place till week 40.

What does he mean by 'having a play with spec'? Can't get through to them now which is frustrating, 7 months to build a car which let's face it isn't that much different to the base model is a bit of a joke if you ask me.

Another concern is that they gave me a trade price for my year old beemer which means aswell as the deposit I have to pay £400 to walk away from my bmw, if it drags on any longer it will only depreciate more so who take the extra hit? I certainly won't and I'd rather walk away.
 
If you're happy to wait till March you'll get the new '15 reg plate which is what I'm doing. If you get it in December it'll be the '64 if that's what you're happy with.

I ordered at beginning of this month and they told me to expect it in March.

The S3 is more or less a shell of the A3 but with slightly different optional add ons.

If you're not happy with it be patient and try to get through to him telling him you don't want anything changed.

7 months does seem a bit extreme, seems like they only got 1 factory for the whole world?
 
Just been told he's now gone on a two day course :mad:
I'm not a person who's bothered by plates really, thing is you'll wait 6 months for the new plate and in the same waiting time it will be out of date again.
Thing is I do t want them thinking that I'm desperate to buy because then they'll try and get extra for the wait out of my trade in, I'm perfectly happy with what I've got and just fancied a change so it would be a shame to wait all these months only to walk away at the end

I'm not bothered waiting unless.

A: they still honour their trade in price for mine.

B: if he's messed with options to get it sooner then he's added on rather than took off or changed, if for instance it arrives with normal seats as opposed to SS then I'll simply not take delivery of the car.
 
Yes, there is only one factory that all the sedans/saloons are built in, ie Gyor Hungary.
 
Mines a Sportback, I'd understand if it was a saloon.
Even the A45 boys get their 'hand built/assembled' cars quicker than this!
I'm not a great waiter at the best of times so if there is any significant changes to dates or spec from now on I may go back to my original plan of buying a dealer stocked RS3

Also made a mistake on my original post it was the start of August I ordered
 
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tankclark said:
Another concern is that they gave me a trade price for my year old beemer which means aswell as the deposit I have to pay £400 to walk away from my bmw, if it drags on any longer it will only depreciate more so who take the extra hit? I certainly won't and I'd rather walk away.
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If you have a fixed p/x price agreed for your Beemer then you're laughing. This happened to me when I was supposed to be getting my Golf GTD in June last year and it came in Sept due to an admin ****-up on my order pushed me back from 1st allocated order at the dealership to 4th. My fixed p/x took me from an expected £1500 equity in my old Scirocco to £2500.

When I was looking for my deal, one of the local dealerships knew they couldn't get me a GTD for quite a while, so proposed a variable p/x value, but promised my car would have at least £750 equity by the time the GTD arrived (it was a worse p/x price and worse % discount offered - I didn't go with them).
 
Lol I never thought of it that way, I'll have to dig the paperwork out but om sure he said they gave a firm bid for my current M135i in December, I hate waiting though it annoys me ha ha
 
I agreed a guaranteed equity for my trade-in of £2k which was actually £1k more than I had in it. That worked for me while I waited 5 months for my S3 as it ensured the numbers we worked out for the finance still worked once the car was ready to be picked up. I doubt they will agree a fixed trade in for 4-5 months time. Think they might do 3 months tops.
 
Ordered my car beginning of April and collected 6 Aug, HAD to revalue at Belfast Audi, they would not trade-in at the price quoted in April. Lucky I sold to WBAC 3k over Audi trade in quote :) yet another reason I won't buy from BA again.
 
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Ordered my car beginning of April and collected 6 Aug, HAD to revalue at Belfast Audi, they would not trade-in at the price quoted in April. Lucky I sold to WBAC 3k over Audi trade in quote :) yet another reason I won't buy from BA again.
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I got a class discount at BA - near best offer in GB, had offer on trade in, but was bottom book at a4 is near 8 years old. I will look to sell privately and have a few perspective buyers already....

WBAC is last resort, but always add 2k on real worth.
 
With a fixed trade-in value in the contract of sale, they should never be able to revalue your car downwards (they could refuse to sell you the car you ordered though). I suppose it depends on how easily they can sell your car, If it wasn't an S3 would they stomach your p/x being worth maybe £1200 less to them than they would've given you? VW UK and Audi UK can compensate a dealership for diminished p/x value if it was not the dealership's fault that the car was built and made available well after allocated build schedule, for delays of at least 3 months after planned build date.
 
Tbh it won't affect me too much as any significant delay will mean me pulling out altogether, I'm not in a position were I have to get rid no matter what so I won't accept paying too much to get out my agreement.
 
Ordered mine in week 13 with quoted 14 weeks delivery (ie about week 27)
After a while they said it was BW44, which ties in with all the stories on this forum.
I asked specifically about the px deal and everything else and they said everything was fixed - so no problem finance-wise.
Terrible wait though. Just keep telling myself it will be worth it (and it's down to BW38 - so getting close now)
 
I was told all S3's though I think this means HB and SB, not saloon are built in Germany.

I would be surprised if the dealer would honour a trade in price that far out. Your BMW is bound to depreciate a fair amount before March next year. Certainly mine wouldn't agree a trade in if I'd had to wait.
You could always try one of the bigger dealer chains like Sytner. I was able to piggy back onto a stock A3 order just before it was closed, and got my car in six weeks. You could try that?
 
If they ever caused a problem with your p/x, offer them the option of honour the trade in or you'll go elsewhere for a car in stock?

Your Beemer will deprecate, but you agreed a price based on trading your car for it, you shouldn't pay more for their delay.

Then again, at least you don't have the delays from 3 years ago... I ordered a car in July and picked it up mid march!
 
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Yeah the dealer said he had people waiting up to a year for the last RS3, I made it very clear that the only reason I was changing now was because i put such a large deposit down on my M135I PCP agreement meaning that December is the point my deposit starts to get overtaken by the depreciation, I specifically said I'm happy with what I've got so if I've got to pay thousands to get out my current deal then don't worry about it and I'd walk away. He said don't worry about it, he then came back and said the car is looking like it will be here at the end of December and we can give you a firm bid of £23,000 for it now.
Even if it rolls into March it means I'd have made 4 more payments on my current deal totalling £1600 so I can't see them having to take a big hit if it is delayed.

Another option if they try to stick to their guns is going for a private sale or I've got a feeling the dealer I bought my car from would buy it back as they estimated it to be worth over £1000 more than Audi at the same date of December
 
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Yeah the dealer said he had people waiting up to a year for the last RS3, I made it very clear that the only reason I was changing now was because i put such a large deposit down on my M135I PCP agreement meaning that December is the point my deposit starts to get overtaken by the depreciation, I specifically said I'm happy with what I've got so if I've got to pay thousands to get out my current deal then don't worry about it and I'd walk away. He said don't worry about it, he then came back and said the car is looking like it will be here at the end of December and we can give you a firm bid of £23,000 for it now.
Even if it rolls into March it means I'd have made 4 more payments on my current deal totalling £1600 so I can't see them having to take a big hit if it is delayed.

Another option if they try to stick to their guns is going for a private sale or I've got a feeling the dealer I bought my car from would buy it back as they estimated it to be worth over £1000 more than Audi at the same date of December
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Always worth going back to the supplying dealer and a few other local BMW dealers (not related to each other) - far more prospective customers for your M135i at a BMW garage than at an Audi garage, and as a result they'll probably be able to charge more on their used forecourt for it (and give you more). What's the worst that could happen? They could offer you less than £23k, or require the car sooner than the Audi will take to get here, well worth an ask and having the £23k as a "worst case" offer.

I take it that if an Audi dealership is willing to give you £23k for it in a few months then it's probably a year or so old? It'll probably be up for £27-28k (franchised dealerships generally like to make 20% on the used models and lose interest when a car hits 5 years old).

Most of the time the dealer has to honour their p/x price because they don't want you to walk away, but when you're looking to buy a car they know will not be in the showroom for long, they know it's a game of 2 sides.

I've generally found that you lose far too much on a car getting p/x'd at less than 2 years. The price offered to me for my car at 1 year old will probably only be £1500 more than at 2 years old. I'm going to have to keep my car another year to get back most of the £6k deposit I put down as equity in the new one.
 
Yes I think that's what I'll do, only reason I didn't is because it introduces a third party to the table and means more paperwork and headache, I know there's no easy way of doing what I'm doing I'm just a sucker for a new car 3 in 3 years lol I've lost 22k in that time in depreciation lol
 
tankclark said:
Yes I think that's what I'll do, only reason I didn't is because it introduces a third party to the table and means more paperwork and headache, I know there's no easy way of doing what I'm doing I'm just a sucker for a new car 3 in 3 years lol I've lost 22k in that time in depreciation lol
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We've all been there mate! Try not to think of the thousands I've lost on depreciation - had a lot of fun though!
 
tankclark said:
I know there's no easy way of doing what I'm doing I'm just a sucker for a new car 3 in 3 years lol I've lost 22k in that time in depreciation lol
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Yay, I'm not the only crazeeee one out there
 
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