Scarcest parts, what to take home from a scrap car?

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sipo

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Hiya,

I'll be purchasing a new to me 75 1.4TDI. The car is in great shape, has working OSS and leather interior along with proper sound deadening! Seller states he has one almost complete scrap A2 (75 TDI with 500k km) in the yard and he's giving me the chance to take everything I want from it. I'd take the whole car but I don't have a trailer or a license to tow such thing.

What are the most sought after parts on TDI's? I was thinking to get at least front and rear lights, cupholders, probably some sensors and additional Webasto heater. Any specific parts I should take home with me?

Thanks!
 
All the coolant hoses, the coolant expansion tank, the bracket that supports the turbo pipe onto the sump, the oil filler tube, the fuel filter and its heatshield and the gear selector cables.
 
You'll need to do a lot of homework reading up on here as to what could be specified, what production differences there were, and how to remove the better or more desirable parts and systems fitted to the donor car. As for a list, here are some items for a start. Good luck :)

- Front lower control arms if they are the cast type and the balljoints are OK.
- Rear axle, if not badly corroded.
- Gear linkage cables if they seem OK.
- Tandem pump if not leaking (check the rubber hoses beneath it for swelling and softness)
- Rainwater collection cups & drainage tubes if missing from your car
- Later (aero) wiper arm if it hasn't scratched the windscreen
- Scuttle panel complete with washer jets if the later oval type and your car has is the earlier square type.
- Engine undertray
- Door mirror glasses if heated
- Any hard-touch items that your car has in soft-touch - climate unit or rotary controls, headlight switch, electric window switches, door lock switch, ASR switch & blank, B-pillar switches. Check that all the same buttons are present on rotary dial control units, the same shape climate units, 4 vs 2 electric windows, foglight/non-foglight headlight switch etc.
- Handbrake grip & button, gear lever, steering wheel if in leather and your car has plastic ones
- CCCU if its part number ends in AF (or AE and your car has rear electric windows)
- Any options fitted that your car doesn't have - Sport/heated front seats, double-DIN dash and handbrake tray, BOSE, electric rear windows, PDC rear bumper, towbar, Votex bodykit, SideGuard. Include all mountings, control boxes, switches etc. and as much of the wiring looms as you can, at least get the ends. These can eventually be retrofitted to your car, some more easily than others.
- Other bits that commonly break such as the glove box handle (take the entire glove box unit), the horizontal vanes from the outer and central dashboard vents (people stick phone-holders through them). Speaker grilles if the same colour.
- The more time you spend in and around the two cars, the more things you'll see :)
 
alarm switch and fuel release switch
coolant hoses from oil cooler and from head to header tank
heated mirror glass
oil filler tube from block 1st section
egr assembly asv etc along top
climate panel
glove box if good
mudflaps
gearbox shift tower & cables if time and able to as not easy
bumpers front and back foglights

all of course if any good!
 
dj_efk said:
Can you take the whole car? 😉
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I’d love to, but as I said I have no license and no trailer. And the car is on the other side of the country!

Thank you all for these precious tips. This is such a warm community. It seems like I’ll be taking a while under the scrap car before I can leave!
 
Evening Phil,

This vehicle might well be in Finland Sir:

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Kind regards,

Tom
 
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