Could be the One

People have completely rebuilt the interior after a fire, so if you have the time the resources the spare parts an the willingness to retro fit climate it is possible. I knew of one that had exactly this done to it. His A2 was written off but high spec, bought a lower spec and transferred all the bits over he wanted including the climate and all associated needed parts.
 
I stand corrected then :) Must have been one heck of a job though, for all the reasons I mentioned. Major kudos to whoever it was!
 
Unfortunately the story had a very sad ending. It took a few months of work to get all the swapping over complete. His business partner got their company in very serious trouble so he was forced to sell the car to help pay debts.?
 
Proghound said:
Given that it would need so much more than just the basic power supply in electrical terms, and a large variety of parts mounted in difficult places to access, I'd imagine a climate retrofit would be a whole order of magnitude harder than an OSS retrofit. While the latter does involve relocating one of the roof's lateral structural supports, it's otherwise a mainly physical challenge to fit a complete component assembly. And to date I've only heard of one OSS retrofit (actually seen it too, on @Phoenix's 1.2TDI at AITP a couple of years ago), although I'm sure there must be others. I'd say a climate retrofit is therefore as good as impossible for most intents and purposes.

Just to note for safety's sake, for those who haven't seen the subject discussed before, while the 4-5 seater conversion (or vice versa) looks like it'd be easy, the difference between them lies in the design and strengthening of the entire floorpan of the car. A definite no-no to attempt ?, don't go there.
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I'll second that, for 20 years (73-93) I worked as a research & development technician and test driver for Leyland Motors, Leyland Truck & Bus, Leyland Vehicles, DAF. returned for another 5 years which was MI Tech. The second spell we tested everything down to indervidual components. Noise & vibration, environmental, thermal shock, water and dust ingress testing to name a few. The point is it was around the time buses introduced seat belts and some wanted a retro fit solution. We made a seat belt pull test rig and the first test ripped the seats out of the floor. The second pulled the floor up several inches with the seat attached, so some things are a No No.
If you only knew what tests are carried out on every part, it would make a great TV program.
Seat sweat tests were only if you had a strong stomach though. ? The smell lingered for days.
 
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