[T3] just seeing if you were paying attention!

[Dave Hall]

Some of us have parts books (a 2-inch thick ring binder with about 600
yellowing pages) and a few have the VW microfiche which superceded them.
There is also a booklet of just the illustrations that customers could buy
to identify a simple number to order the item they were after remotely by
phone eg through their dealer, which the dealer could then look up in their
parts book or microfiche for the part number and version the customer's car
needed.

The explanation based on a Type 3 part number 311 867 015 A  would be VW
Type (=3) and model version (=11) first used on; main group (=8, body) and
subgrouyp (=67 interior trim); part designation (=015 trim panel, door,
left); modification letter (=A, from chassis no 316 000 001 to 316 500 000 -
that's the 1966 model year).  There are other codes that signify colour for
certain parts.  

As a general rule, numbers are ODD if they are for either side or only for
the left-hand side, and EVEN only if the part is handed and that specifies
right-hand side.  

Like all things, there are situations where things can get a bit confusing,
such as where certain parts were initially only used on Squarebacks, and so
start with 36, but if later the same part was used on other models as well,
the part number will usually stay the same.  The modification letter
sometimes sometimes represents a minor change, perhaps in material, but
sometimes may be a quite different version of the same component, that can't
be substituted.   It's a bit of a minefield.

There's a scanned copy on a website somewhere, but I've not made a note of
it, having a book at my desk anyway.

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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-----Original Message-----
From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Gary
Forsmo
Sent: 11 December 2012 19:09
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: [T3] just seeing if you were paying attention!

Since Jim referred to MICROFILM ... is that how y'all (Dave H.  That's
Southern for all of you guys :-))  quote part numbers.
Are there microfilm(s) which cover all Type 3's, all years, all models
including Type 34's or do you have "hard copies" of part number books that
only dealers had?

Even though Jim tried to explain how part numbers not only identify the part
but whether it's a left- or right-fitting part.  Hearing you guys discuss a
specific number, I still can't figure it out.  :-(

Is there any help for me?
I'd like to have a book, microfilm or PDF(?) file.  Does any of that exist
to help those of us uninitiated?

Gary "Frito" - '69 Variant, FI, MT
Rockport, TX (winter)
Lake Geneva, WI (summer)
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