2.0 TSI 245 DSG engine

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Sorry for the delay! Photo of the rear as promised
Thank you so much for sending your pictures. I haven't seen the VZ1 2.0 anywhere online or in person.

I ordered a white VZ1 in May via Leasing options but I still have no build date.

Would you be able to confirm if the car comes with heated steering wheel? The updated brochure states that the VZ1 model has a heated steering wheel.

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Splosho

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I've ordered: 2.0 TSI 245 VZ1, the only option I picked was the Magnetic Grey paint. Ordered from Leasing Options "pipeline stock" (whatever that means), signed the lease 11th June.

How about you? We might end up on the same boat... eventually!
I've ordered the exact same as you VZ1 245 petrol in Magnetic Grey from Leasing Options! I ordered end of May but everything got officially signed on the 1st June because of the bank holiday. I'm hoping so a few of us now with VZ1 petrols seem to be getting slots around the same time :) @Cookie76 definitely hit the jackpot!
 
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I've ordered the exact same as you VZ1 245 petrol in Magnetic Grey from Leasing Options! I ordered end of May but everything got officially signed on the 1st June because of the bank holiday. I'm hoping so a few of us now with VZ1 petrols seem to be getting slots around the same time :) @Cookie76 definitely hit the jackpot!
Although from the pictures I don't think @Cookie76 got the heated steering wheel that's just been added to the spec.
 
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Although from the pictures I don't think @Cookie76 got the heated steering wheel that's just been added to the spec.
I think it depends on when it got built. If you look on Autotrader some of the VZ1 e-hybrids have them, so I presume they're the latest built. Whereas the earlier ones don't have them. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/new/202109026920099?sort=datedesc&aggregatedTrim=VZ1&make=CUPRA&model=FORMENTOR&radius=1500&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly New&onesearchad=Used&advertising-location=at_cars&postcode=bl95jj&include-delivery-option=on&page=1 I know that the supplying dealer for VZ1 2.0s seems to be Swansway Cupra Crewe, as I enquired with Leasing Options who's the supplying dealer for mine
 
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Yeah it's Swansway Crewe who are supplying mine. Guess all the leasing options orders went through them. Although interestingly when I ordered I was only given the options of black, white or graphene grey but you got to pick magnetic grey. So maybe there was allocated build slots for only so many formentors in each colour.
 

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Yeah it's Swansway Crewe who are supplying mine. Guess all the leasing options orders went through them. Although interestingly when I ordered I was only given the options of black, white or graphene grey but you got to pick magnetic grey. So maybe there was allocated build slots for only so many formentors in each colour.
I was given the option of black or magnetic grey and told that they were the last two they had available, this was mid June.
 

johanr77

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I ordered third week of May and never got the option of magnetic which I would have taken over Graphene if I had the choice.
 
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Splosho

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I ordered third week of May and never got the option of magnetic which I would have taken over Graphene if I had the choice.
That's strange, I just ticked the option box for magnetic grey as it was the colour I wanted. Then when ordering they just double-checked it wasn't the graphene I wanted, to which I said no, and that was that. Mine was ordered just over a week after yours
 
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thor4fun

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My 245 is in a perpetual state of "confirmed for 37 build week";) Josh from Cupra UK is great, it's a shame though, that he has close to no visibility on what's going on in the factory. I think my code 30 has remained unchanged for close to 3 weeks now.
 

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My 245 is in a perpetual state of "confirmed for 37 build week";) Josh from Cupra UK is great, it's a shame though, that he has close to no visibility on what's going on in the factory. I think my code 30 has remained unchanged for close to 3 weeks now.
It's a shame that Cupra UK seems to have no idea what's going on at the factory. By the sounds of it, there is a big backlog of cars that have been built but are waiting for parts/chips at the factory. Having a knock-on effect on orders that were given a date for a potential build week and then reassigned a new potential build date. As mine was meant to go to build last week but has now been assigned for week 50, but everything is changing all the time at the moment, so who knows.
 
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Thank you so much for sending your pictures. I haven't seen the VZ1 2.0 anywhere online or in person.

I ordered a white VZ1 in May via Leasing options but I still have no build date.

Would you be able to confirm if the car comes with heated steering wheel? The updated brochure states that the VZ1 model has a heated steering wheel.

Thank you
Yes have heated steering wheel 👍
 
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Hi,
sorry for my English. I am from Croatia. I decided to buy Formentor with this engine (245 2.0 TSI).
Cookie76, have you had any problems with the car so far?
Have you tried to push the throttle all the way during the start moving? Did the car slip?
 

anewlime

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Just had an update from Leasing Options; new provisional build week = 48.

I'm not holding my breath!
 
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anewlime

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Hopefully, it will! When did you order your car? There seems to be a few being finished at the moment, so hopefully, they are starting to reduce the backlog
I ordered 11th June but was told at the time that the car was already on order from Cupra.
 

Splosho

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I ordered 11th June but was told at the time that the car was already on order from Cupra.
Ah ok, I got told the same, the last thing I heard from Cupra was week 50 but that was three weeks ago since I last asked. Just decided I'm going to wait now and when it'll turn up it'll turn up. Not helping that for the past week I since a Formentor a day whilst on my commute/driving locally
 

anewlime

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Ah ok, I got told the same, the last thing I heard from Cupra was week 50 but that was three weeks ago since I last asked. Just decided I'm going to wait now and when it'll turn up it'll turn up. Not helping that for the past week I since a Formentor a day whilst on my commute/driving locally
A guy down the road from me has one, it pains me to drive past it on his driveway every day!
 
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