just found this

mk2matt · Post by **mk2matt** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:03 pm

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 11073&rd=1

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:39 pm

wtf! well you dont get many of THEM now do ya...

shows how much salvage you can get off a single polo?

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:51 pm

Makes you wonder how many people would go to the trouble of welding in an entire side to a 1980's polo really.. much as I may love my car, anything that needed that much work would mean scrapyard time...

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 7:27 pm

is it not a replacable panel then?

my pidgin grasp of german suggests they're claiming its an original VW spare part......

bstardchild · Post by **bstardchild** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:42 pm

Tahrey1043 wrote:is it not a replacable panel then?

my pidgin grasp of german suggests they're claiming its an original VW spare part......

Sure it's a replacebale panel...... just cut the old side off and weld the new one in.......

Don't laugh but I have a complete original and unused MKI Escort Van side in a lock up garage......

Must get that listed on Ebay sometime

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:49 pm

Rough translation:

I have a side panel for a Polo Coupe on auction. This is an original Volkswagen spare part.
The condition is good, and I could not find any dents.
No guarentee.

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:51 pm

Given that he talked about how good the condition was and how there were no dents, I would assume that the translation was meant to be "This is an original volkswagen part" rather than "This is an original volkswagen spare part", ie standard part taken from a car rather than replacement part from VW..

bstardchild · Post by **bstardchild** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:54 pm

GroovyCarrot wrote:Given that he talked about how good the condition was and how there were no dents, I would assume that the translation was meant to be "This is an original volkswagen part" rather than "This is an original volkswagen spare part", ie standard part taken from a car rather than replacement part from VW..

Groovy - I think the reference to no dents would be it's been stored well

Its in zinc primer so I reckon it's a rplacement panel ex VAG

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:56 pm

Fair enough then

Didn't think that VW would actually provide replacement side panels for a car like a mk2 polo.. although I suppose if he's had it for 10 years or so they would still have been about..

toXXin · Post by **toXXin** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:59 pm

You'd be surprised who'd actually want one.

I work for Nissan and I still have lots of people asking for rear quarters for K10 Micras (the box ones before the bubble ones)...Nissan still hold stock of them and I sell quite a few!

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 10:09 pm

Blimey

Wouldn't have thought there were many mk1 micra enthusiasts out there, and surely it'd cost more than the car is worth to have a new rear quarter welded in...

nuttinnew · Post by **nuttinnew** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 10:27 pm

I've got a mk2 Polo rear quarter

No mk2 Polo though.....

toXXin · Post by **toXXin** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 10:57 pm

GroovyCarrot wrote:Blimey

Wouldn't have thought there were many mk1 micra enthusiasts out there, and surely it'd cost more than the car is worth to have a new rear quarter welded in...

Not a case of enthusiasts, some people won't part with a reliable car.

We had one elderly chap insist we fix his Micra. We did advise him it would be more than the car was worth when we called him to advise the prices, but he still insisted. Â£760 later, his H plate 1.0 Micra was roadworthy again.

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 11:24 pm

Blimey.. you'd have to be pretty attached to your car (or, I suspect, pretty senile..) to splash out Â£760 on a 1.0 micra in one go..

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:06 am

its been the case with me mk3 from time to time....

...fix it at Â£300 and get it back by the end of the day, or have it declared fit for only spares/repairs (when everything else bar e.g. a shocker, zorst manifold gasket and a couple bearings is A-1 fine) and go out looking for another car which could prove equally knackered after not very long?

hmmm

end-a ther day, its slow, it may be drinking oil, but its still rugged and hasnt let me down once.

still i might draw the line at having an entire side replaced on it! That's some MAJOR body shop time required there (im thinking Â£thousands). one for the person with their own welding kit!