It could be just me but time slots to turn in only two days a week? What?

akafirestorm

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I went online to check the dates available for turn in at the Highland IN. VW, Team30 VW here in NWI and I even went to the Irving TX. VW same thing.
No matter what month January, February, March even into April cause December is unavailable for all of them, lol. They all have only two days per week you can schedule a slot. Highland was Tuesday Wednesday. Team VW was Friday and Saturday. Irving was I believe Wednesday and Thursday. Each had 7 time slots each day through both months.
Holy Crap Highland sold a ton of these TDIs as did Irving who I bought it from. Two days a week 7 slots a day only:eek:!
Now I could be just going Koo Koo and wrong but I don't believe everybody has already booked a schedule for other days for all three dealership up through march, lol!
 

ELVATO

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I think someone mentioned in another thread that it may be because there is an ambassador per area, and they travel between dealerships on different days.
 

Yukon4Runner

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They are rolling out the buyback dates slowly to keep customer service high...in theory at least.
 

Eggieztdi

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My turn in location (southern Indiana) is running appointments 5 days a week. She is currently not very busy and is still at the dealership everyday of the week. Like others have said, some specialists are regional, therefore could be covering a large amount of dealerships. To me, this would make sense for a more urban area.
 

MacBuckeye

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When I scheduled at the dealer they were only accepting appointments two days a week. Possibly due to the volume of vehicles they have to handle. 10-15 per week maybe? That would fill up a car carrier if all of the vehicles were being shipped off. That's just one dealership. The logistics of handling all these cars will take some time. Turned in my car yesterday.... just waiting on $$$$.
 

Got Haggis?

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it totally depends on the dealer.....i cancelled my appointment to reschedule a week ago and checked out appointments at various dealers..none had weekend appointments in my area - my original dealer still only had tuesday appointments - but some other dealers (same company even, different locations) had increased to 2 days a week
 

chasingleprechauns

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I went online to check the dates available for turn in at the Highland IN. VW, Team30 VW here in NWI and I even went to the Irving TX. VW same thing.
I'm fairly certain San Antonio is out of the question for you from Irving, but Ancira VW here had wide open slots from 10 am - 6 pm, on the hour, five days a week (except for lunch). I didn't look past Christmas, but there were a ton of appointments available when I scheduled mine about a week ago. I know the Ambassador is at Ancira full time -- I called and talked to one of the sales managers who mentioned the Ambassador was in place, waiting for work (I had read on here maybe buybacks weren't happening in certain areas because the dealers weren't ready, so I called just to check). I don't know about the other SA-area dealer, but I'd guess they're ready, too.

I'm just taking a SWAG here, but maybe the placement of the Ambassadors is based on an aggregate of registered vehicles in an area? Texas has the second-highest number of registered TDIs, but I can't imagine there are more in SA over DFW area.
 

akafirestorm

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I'm just taking a SWAG here, but maybe the placement of the Ambassadors is based on an aggregate of registered vehicles in an area? Texas has the second-highest number of registered TDIs, but I can't imagine there are more in SA over DFW area.
That's what I thought and I agree DFW is huge couldn't believe they were doing two days a week but maybe there just ramping up/:cool:
 

Mike.

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I live in Boise, WAY smaller then DFW and we only have one dealership. The days I had to choose from are Tues,Weds, Thurs, Sat. They have to be ramping up.
 

TDIinMA

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Yep, the guy who took mine in yesterday said I was only the 6th one for that particular dealer.
 

Cincy_TDI

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Found the same thing here in Cincinnati. Only a few appointments a week and not very convenient to what we needed.
 

chadwick1979

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Clarksville, TN
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When I went to make an appointment about a month ago, my local dealer had only 2 slots each day on Wednesday and Thursday for the next few months out. I guess they are only taking a total of 4 cars a week. Then I just got a call from VWoA that their system somehow had me doubled booked on the 21st with another person and ask if I could come in 30 minutes early. I can't wait to get this all over with.
 
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