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Can you still purchase them from main dealer I want a front windscreen rubber I would rather someone on here tell me you can still get parts rather than them saying............ Sorry mate GET OUT there older than gods dog them

Some parts are still made, lots are discontinued, all are expensive.

Parts still available, I use my local VW dealer who knows his way around the parts system and also knows what a Type 25 is (was), some dealers don`t recognise the term "Type 25". Use your chassis number and they find what you want double-quick.

its £28.00 from http://www.ahschofield.co.uk/...and they are only in glossop.just up the road from you...

sukhoi27 wrote:its £28.00 from http://www.ahschofield.co.uk/...and they are only in glossop.just up the road from you...

Thanks Sukhoi I thought he only did panels you live and learn

cheers

I think simon brickyard was selling gen vag wipers over in for sale general

Hacksawbob wrote:I think simon brickyard was selling gen vag wipers over in for sale general

Vag wipers? I'll tell my missus....

Lovin' your work, Wobbly!!!!!!!!!!!

It depends on how old your van is.

EVERY car manufacturer is required, by law to supply a full range of spare parts for a vehicle for 10 years after the vehicle has gone out of production.
VW say they will supply parts for 15 years after manufacture ends.
In reality, VW will carry on making parts as long as people are buying them.
If you want to buy parts for your van that fit and work and will carry on working for years to come hen buy the genuine VW article.
If you want to buy cheaper parts from GSF, then do so but GSF will not supply all the fiddly little bits you need to keep your van on the road.
Some parts GSF sell are made by the same people that VW used, like VW ball joints are actually made by Lemforder etc..
The trick is knowing what parts you can buy from GSF that are the actual parts made for VW by the same manufacturer and which parts to buy from VW.

In the next few years you are going to find more and more parts becoming obsolete, you simply won't be able to buy them from VW, 2 things will happen..

1. The licence on some parts will expire, meaning that other manufacturers will be allowed to start production of said parts now that they are not in effect treading on VW's toes.

2. Smaller, fiddlier parts will be lost for ever and you will have ti buy second hand, this is when people breaking T3's will start to earn money and more and more T3 breakers will appear, as as what has happened to T1, T2 parts etc, parts coming in from "Rust free states" etc...

We are at a funny time at the moment as a lot of the earlier parts are becoming obsolete but generally all of the later parts are still available.

My advice is to buy as much stuff from VW as you can afford to do, so they see that the parts are still selling and they will carry on producing the parts, as soon as demand dries up will be in the hands of the sometimes greedy VW scene breakers, you think your van is expensive to run now, just wait till it happends, because it is only a matter of time.

Don't knock GSF/JK either, lower quality parts (some parts, compared to genuine are) as they are selling the bits you need at a lower price and sometimes lower quality, but lower quality parts are better than no parts.

Simon.

post apocalyptic doom, grimness and devastation. Where will we be without our parts?

Partless?