Morning folks,

Just passing on a couple of tips relating to part numbers; for those of us without full access to ETKA.

Apart from the fairly ubiquitous ETKA-like sites such as 7zap.com and nemigaparts.com, I've come across a couple of other handy sites.

 

The first one; oemwolf.com will tell you about whether (and by what) any given part number has been superseded. You just put the part number - stripped of any/all spaces - in the search box and click on "Find it" (enter/return doesn't work). It'll then tell you about superseding part numbers, sometimes in a seemingly never-ending recursion.

 

The other site, which I just happened upon this morning, can let you go the other way - backwards in time - and tell you previous revisions of a given part number.

Here you put your part number in the search box, click "Search" and then click on the "OEM part numbers" tab just above the blue "Contact us" banner. You will be given the anteceding part numbers.

https://www.oemvwshop.com/

 

Both sites can be very useful. For example where ebay has no offerings for a recent part number, but knowing what that part number was before its latest version may open the search net much wider.

Edited 17 July, 20205 yr by Wino

And now a question about ETKA that I would like to understand, if anyone knows?

 

In this screenshot of roof lining part numbers (for a 9N3 Polo but I don't think that's relevant) there are a bunch of two-letter codes, and some two digit numbers. In the same column as more readily understood terms like 'rear' and '4-door'.  Anyone know what the two-character codes are referring to?