Scirocco Central

Mine has now been confiremd week 8, should have it mid march :-)

wooo hoo! mine should be here next week! damn i'm excited. ordered the retro fit bits of stowage compartment with cover / cup holder with cover too today. Should be here tomorrow. Then I'm taking it to a mates for him to fit it (he likes ICE installs so will be much more adept at taking the centre console apart)

Great to hear GT, just make sure he takes his time & doesn't force it

S

thats awsome GT, you gonna be waiting till first of March? I wish I had mine ready for then. Spamdog you heard more about when yours is rolling off the boat??

nope i'm registering it in Feb so VW can pay the 2.5% VAT increase!!!! It's getting a tracker installed and i'm taking out GAP insurance too.

ah yes another thing....has anyone on here replaced the manual bonnet stand/strut with a gas strut? I think the attachment points are there, VW just find it amusing to p'off the Roc owners by using the cheaper solution!

croydonvw wrote:...well one things pretty sure, the snow will be gone by the time we see any R's on the road

You were wrong about that!

I'm in the same boat as you... BW18 for a Golf R I ordered on 1 Nov 2009.

GTI2RocR wrote:ah yes another thing....has anyone on here replaced the manual bonnet stand/strut with a gas strut? I think the attachment points are there, VW just find it amusing to p'off the Roc owners by using the cheaper solution!

Not seen anything yet, someone was going to do something, but abandoned buying his Scirocco before getting it sorted as a "how to".

Have looked at the Eos strut as the Scirocco has the base mounting point (as do Golfs) in the engine bay. But there is no corresponding bonnet mounting point without drilling and tapping. In any case, it looks as though going this route would mean cutting away the cowling by the off-side headlight, near the radiator to fit this particular strut. So I concluded the standard VW strut wasn't possible easily.

C.

GTI2RocR wrote:nope i'm registering it in Feb so VW can pay the 2.5% VAT increase!!!! It's getting a tracker installed and i'm taking out GAP insurance too.

Hi mate
Got an insurance quote today from AXA but it had to have a tracker fitted,will you get it done at VW? or somewhere else?
cheers blakest

blakest wrote:

GTI2RocR wrote:nope i'm registering it in Feb so VW can pay the 2.5% VAT increase!!!! It's getting a tracker installed and i'm taking out GAP insurance too.

Hi mate
Got an insurance quote today from AXA but it had to have a tracker fitted,will you get it done at VW? or somewhere else?
cheers blakest

I had mine fitted at the dealer (by themselves or by 3rd party i don't know)
cost slightly more than an approved nationwide installer i found but as it was a dealer fit option i just went with it to save hassle!

My R has been in production since Monday not too long now

Anakin wrote:My R has been in production since Monday not too long now

Our R's could be sailing over together, mine was at check point 3 out of 8 on tuesday, must be almost if not already built by now

Mine is also a checkpoint 3, spoke to dealer today and he said I should have it in the next couple of weeks.:-)

Nick Roc wrote:Mine is also a checkpoint 3, spoke to dealer today and he said I should have it in the next couple of weeks.:-)

Mine is now built and ready for shipping, probably sitting at the docks right now....could make the ship tomorrow

Hi Folks,

I've not posted for a good while, because I've had no news whatsoever until a couple of days ago.
My dealer has recently emailed me and told me that my Roc R is frozen for production on the week commencing Monday 22nd March (Wk12), and he anticipates the car being with him around the week commencing Monday 5th April.

I've emailed him back to query his dates as I just can't see the car arriving so quickly?
I travel back to my work on Tuesday 13th April for a full month, so I reckon there's a fair possibility that I'll just miss its arrival, and it will have to sit in the showroom until I get home in mid May.

If that does end up happening, I'll just ask him to send me 100's of pictures by email

Regards To All

Mine was BW3 and came over start of 2nd week in feb. So maybe he's being bit optimistic but not impossible. If a ship is available with space then no reason why yours can't be on
it as soon as it's made!

Georgeous

it sounds like hes privvy to anticipated shipping schedules, have faith it can happen if it hits the ship schedules right, mine was a week from build complete to dealers forecourt last oct. even my dealer was astounded!

S