Facelift UK RS3 Saloon/SB (400ps) Order Thread...
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Just had a call from my dealer. My car is complete and awaiting transport (despite what the tracker says).
He is hoping that it will be here by the end of the month.
That is rather exciting!
He is hoping that it will be here by the end of the month.
That is rather exciting!
Complete as in at the factory complete but waiting for train? How does he know? My dealer emailed today to just say it hadn’t left.
looks like there will be quite a few of us in the dealer come March 1.Got an email today from dealer to inform me the build date had slipped back to week 4 2018.
Back to looking at March delivery
I’m struggling to, when I’ve had a threat that I will lose £660 if my car is late for the PPF.
Mine will come early ish December but i said i will have it for the 1st Jan, will be a 2018 registered car then.
Keen for PPF myself, where are you getting covered and what’s the total cost if you don’t mind me asking?
There must be a deal to be done with them - that seems to be totally unreasonable.
Tell me about it. They have done a deal now, I lose £300 if I have to change my date... ***!!
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What did you do in between RS3's?Got an email today from dealer to inform me the build date had slipped back to week 4 2018.
Back to looking at March delivery
TX.
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Oooooft think il pass lol. Just il get the car detailed and treated with some ceramic coating
Yep it’s not cheap. There are cheaper places, but film on the panels isn’t something you can go cheap on. I tried with the S3 and it was a miserable failure and that was £800, needless to say I didn’t pay and the car was put back because I had 5mm edges on some of the panels and they weren’t even straight.
A good installer will make it near invisible.
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You could, but it’s never as good as original paint... if it was, I’d go for that option.
PPF will have a 10 year warranty against any discolouration / lifting, sorted.
It’s not the most expensive for front end kits, I’ve seen closer to £2000. A full car is £4000 and that’s insanity.
All I had in my head was that it’s silly to pay £2,400 for Exclusive paint and not take measures to protect it. Plus stone chips on a blue car will look horrendous....
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Blimey, so your exclusive paint and protection for the front is over £4000?!
I got an email yesterday saying my build date had been moved forward to 7th November .. which now would mean I'd miss out taking advantage of the sport pack I believe
Sorry yes the 6th ... I thought it was the end of November the pack was released .. good news if it is that week although after several emails and phone calls my dealer still hasn't come back to me yet about weather I can add it
My dealer contacted Audi UK who have agreed to pass on the £545 saving to the dealer who have then passed on the saving to myself and already applied to my order. This is despite my build week moving forward to week 44 and obviously lockdown long ago. If they can do it for me, I can’t see a reason why no one else shouldn’t be able to take advantage of this saving. However, I think you will only get it if you’ve already selected all 3 options individually that are contained in the ‘sport pack’. If you selected sports exhaust & mag ride (£2000 options combined) but then did not add the TPMS, then I don’t think you will get the saving even though the sport package with TPMS is only £1700. Of course this only matters to people whose order is in lockdown and anyone whose isn’t can easily amend their order to include the sport pack.
Most of us who already placed orders probably would not know about the sport pack existence until a time when it might be too late to do anything about it, so a BIG thanks to forum member ‘AudiNutta’ for bringing this to the attention of all!
I suspect some dealers (or it could be just your sales exec) won't be upfront with their customers about any saving they might get from Audi UK and will try and pocket the money for themselves. My dealer first told me even though I had selected sports exhaust, mag ride & TPMS at a cost of £2245, they couldn't combine it for the £1700 sport pack and reduce my invoice for the difference as the sport pack wasn't available at the time I placed my order and because my order was in lockdown. But to my surprise I got a call earlier this week to inform me they are applying the discount to my order after contacting Audi UK, this is on top of the very generous discount I already got from them!
Hope you get it too and if there is anything I can do to help, just ask.
Thank you, much appreciate the offer of help.. you informing me of this is just what I needed. I have quoted your message about Audi UK in an email to my sales manager, for one last attempt.
Like you said, if Audi UK can do it for you I really hope they can do the same for me.
Thanks again
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Update on trying to amend my order and the response is as follows;
Too late to change I’m afraid, I’ll have a talk with my Manager and see if we can match the price of the Sport Pack on your options, you will still have a tyre pressure monitoring system just not with visual pressures and temperatures.
Our salesman has been liasing with Caitlyn at Audi UK who is a Supply Analyst. A little frustrating as there's no consistency, some people are getting amended orders and or discounts. I'll be pushing for the latter seeing as they're adamant that TPMS can't be added despite the car not going into build until week 3
Too late to change I’m afraid, I’ll have a talk with my Manager and see if we can match the price of the Sport Pack on your options, you will still have a tyre pressure monitoring system just not with visual pressures and temperatures.
Our salesman has been liasing with Caitlyn at Audi UK who is a Supply Analyst. A little frustrating as there's no consistency, some people are getting amended orders and or discounts. I'll be pushing for the latter seeing as they're adamant that TPMS can't be added despite the car not going into build until week 3
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Tried to get my dealer to amend mine for the sport pack. I had ordered exhaust and mag not tpms , because that wasn't an option either at the time as far as I was aware. Anyway told me order is locked down for build in November so can't change it . Lousy customer service , it wouldn't have been hard for Audi uk to have informed the dealers and then for them to have contacted their customers that were impacted. I presume the dealers get bulletins when new options are available , clearly once they have the order they lose interest . Can't wait for the customer service questionnaire from Audi.
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TPMS has always been an option, Audi just forgot to put it on the online configurator, along with Matrix Lights.
I'm 12 weeks away from build, I don't understand why Audi are incapable of amending my order.
Yeah I hear you re TPMS , another thing my dealer could have pointed out when I placed the order if they were on top of their game .
Have you checked the api? I was expecting delivery on 4 March and the api has updated to a week 46 build (13 November)
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I can't even get on the tracker, it won't recognise my details. Dealer is telling me week 49 but Audi UK are saying week 3. I was always advised it'd take a little longer as it's got Exclusive paint.
I don't want the car until the 1st March anyhow to get it registered on an 18 plate.
Was this from Worcester Audi?
I sent a screenshot to my sales manager from here, he hasn’t yet replied. I spoke to my case manager at Audi UK for the S3 today who asked the sales office, who said they won’t be applying any discount and to speak to my dealer.
