I don't think I am going to get my Avant.
10-04-2008, 10:39 AM
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I agree on the seats-I think the S-Line package is a must for me.
The Avant looks much better in my opinion with the S-Line. Everything in the package makes the wagon just that more unique.
I would wait and just get what you want or buy a used car at a good price and sell 4 months later for almost no depreciation.
I would wait and just get what you want or buy a used car at a good price and sell 4 months later for almost no depreciation.
10-04-2008, 10:44 AM
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+1 on the beater suggestion
i'm supposed to get my avant at the end of this month. it's been a 4 month wait for me so i say stay the course. avant premium+ sports are money indeed!
10-04-2008, 12:28 PM
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Try calling around on your own -- It's worked twice for me!!
Understand one thing -- for some reason, the computer inventory that dealers have access to is by no means complete and accurate. I don't know why.
I've had this experience twice now with Audi.
When I bought my B5 A4, the dealer told me there were none in the country in the combo I wanted so I ordered one through him. The next day, I tried calling around on my own and I found one 10 miles away. I went in and bought it, then picked up my deposit check from the first guy. He couldn't understand why it wasn't on the computer.
Flash forward to a decade later: Yesterday, I drove home a new avant equipped just the way I wanted it. Originally, the dealer told me there weren't any available in all of Southern California. Ultimately he had one trucked in from S.F. and I bought it. But when it looked like it might not work out, I called around to the dozen closest dealers and apparently found two identical cars. I never actually checked them out because I didn't want to screw my dealer and he did come through at a good price.
The point is, again my dealer (not the guy from 10 yrs ago) couldn't understand how there could be cars in town that weren't in the system. I can't answer that question, I just know that there were.
Make some calls, dude. Sure there might be sleazy dealers that will lie to you in order to try and bait and switch you, but you just might find something, including inventory already ordered that arrives in one month, not three. Yeah it sucks. And it's so 20th century. But if it works....
Good luck. Post if you get any bites.
I've had this experience twice now with Audi.
When I bought my B5 A4, the dealer told me there were none in the country in the combo I wanted so I ordered one through him. The next day, I tried calling around on my own and I found one 10 miles away. I went in and bought it, then picked up my deposit check from the first guy. He couldn't understand why it wasn't on the computer.
Flash forward to a decade later: Yesterday, I drove home a new avant equipped just the way I wanted it. Originally, the dealer told me there weren't any available in all of Southern California. Ultimately he had one trucked in from S.F. and I bought it. But when it looked like it might not work out, I called around to the dozen closest dealers and apparently found two identical cars. I never actually checked them out because I didn't want to screw my dealer and he did come through at a good price.
The point is, again my dealer (not the guy from 10 yrs ago) couldn't understand how there could be cars in town that weren't in the system. I can't answer that question, I just know that there were.
Make some calls, dude. Sure there might be sleazy dealers that will lie to you in order to try and bait and switch you, but you just might find something, including inventory already ordered that arrives in one month, not three. Yeah it sucks. And it's so 20th century. But if it works....
Good luck. Post if you get any bites.
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