VW parts where to go?

jogdish

Hello,
I am looking for an online shop that will sell parts for a VW jetta ( new model ), the item i want is some indicator glass ( the transparent plastic stuff ). Every website i visit either seems to just sell generic stuff, or is American and doesn't list my car ( exact model ). I would like the official VW part - but i can never seem to find a website that will do that for me.

My only experience of buying parts has been for computers - there you have part numbers and its fairly simple - i assumed the same would be true for cars - am i wrong?

Suppose im really asking where do the garages get their stuff?

Thanks:
Patrick

Wonda-Boy

Why not ring MSL VW garages...they are the largest VW car sales in the country. The service department in deansgrange is like an airport hangar.....they will sort you deffo.

TroutMask

I get all my VW sundries on eBay - generics are fine for indicators etc - just buy 2 - the right and left side and they'll look the same. The generics can be high quality and indistinguishable from the real deal - only you will know.

mathepac

OTTO

TGi666

you could try calling a dealer up north might be cheaper to get one sent down that the local stealers

Ronnie Beck

jogdish wrote: »

Hello,
I am looking for an online shop that will sell parts for a VW jetta ( new model ), the item i want is some indicator glass ( the transparent plastic stuff ). Every website i visit either seems to just sell generic stuff, or is American and doesn't list my car ( exact model ). I would like the official VW part - but i can never seem to find a website that will do that for me.

My only experience of buying parts has been for computers - there you have part numbers and its fairly simple - i assumed the same would be true for cars - am i wrong?

Suppose im really asking where do the garages get their stuff?

Thanks:
Patrick

Id say you'll have to get a new indicator. Just go into a vw main dealer parts department with your registration no. and tell them what you want(that's all an independent mechanic does, but he'll probably get 20-30% off the retail price). You might be able to get a spurious one in a motor factors. Part number will be on the part itself or you can ask the parts dep. for it.

something like 1K0949102

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/VW-Wing-Mirror-Indicator-Turn-Signal-Bulb-Right-Side-1K0949102-O-S-MK5-Golf-/320834088218

el tel

If you want genuine vw parts who don't you just contact or visit a vw dealer parts dept. They will have what you want and indicator lenses shouldn't cost too much and possibly same or less than pattern parts if such things are available. I'm amazed that people consider the web the first port of call for stuff like this. Are you housebound or something?

TroutMask

el tel wrote: »

If you want genuine vw parts who don't you just contact or visit a vw dealer parts dept. They will have what you want and indicator lenses shouldn't cost too much and possibly same or less than pattern parts if such things are available. I'm amazed that people consider the web the first port of call for stuff like this. Are you housebound or something?

Sound right in theory - and you may well get lucky. However, I've had awful trouble sourcing VW parts from dealers (esp. MSL!!). Most dealers are the same with small stuff - they don't want to be bothered unless you're getting it serviced by them and dropping the fat stacks. I couldn't even get a proper service on my VW in Dublin, so I now take it to the North & get it serviced there. I get the impression that the VW dealerships here are only interested in you if you want to buy an expensive car

Ronnie Beck

TroutMask wrote: »

Sound right in theory - and you may well get lucky. However, I've had awful trouble sourcing VW parts from dealers (esp. MSL!!). Most dealers are the same with small stuff - they don't want to be bothered unless you're getting it serviced by them and dropping the fat stacks. I couldn't even get a proper service on my VW in Dublin, so I now take it to the North & get it serviced there. I get the impression that the VW dealerships here are only interested in you if you want to buy an expensive car

I have always found the main dealer here in galway very helpful when it comes to getting parts. I go in, order the part, give them money and they ring when it comes in, normally 2/3 days later. Can't comment on anything else they do.

The_Mask

Bradys msl, on the old navan rd. I have an audi A6 and i get any parts i need there and then.

mickdw

TroutMask wrote: »

Sound right in theory - and you may well get lucky. However, I've had awful trouble sourcing VW parts from dealers (esp. MSL!!). Most dealers are the same with small stuff - they don't want to be bothered unless you're getting it serviced by them and dropping the fat stacks. I couldn't even get a proper service on my VW in Dublin, so I now take it to the North & get it serviced there. I get the impression that the VW dealerships here are only interested in you if you want to buy an expensive car

Crazy stuff. I've never found this. Vw dealers in mayo and Galway that I've used are always very helpful whether you are spending 500 or 5 euro.
Just this week I got some bits for 6 euro. They rang to say the parts had arrived and even offered to bring them out 40 miles to my local town as they were on a parts run to the local trades.

dieselbug

Dont know where in the country you are but, Michael in parts at Laharts in Killkenny is a gentleman to deal with. They deliver over a wide area at least twice a week.

TroutMask

mickdw wrote: »

Crazy stuff. I've never found this. Vw dealers in mayo and Galway that I've used are always very helpful whether you are spending 500 or 5 euro.
Just this week I got some bits for 6 euro. They rang to say the parts had arrived and even offered to bring them out 40 miles to my local town as they were on a parts run to the local trades.

Sounds like good service. I never experienced this in Dublin so I go online for parts. Sometimes I go to the North for a major service. One time I went to McLaughlin's VAG breakers in Buncrana for an emergency part sourcing. When I get my car serviced in the North - it drives like a dream. My Dublin VW services have always been so-so: they have varied between passable/mediocre and unsatisfactory. So is this really 'crazy stuff'? I don't think so because I'm not getting ripped off anymore. I can't comment on Galway & Mayo dealers because I've never used them.

Mar4ix

vw dealers may get parts , and not any more supper expensive. , try shopp around, there is number vw dealers around, i was buying from karmann, kind of ok prices for dealer.