Never made this first post...here it is

Hello everybody, I've already written out this response twice and have forgot to post as I do it at work, lol fail.

Anywho....

For anybody looking to order parts for the touareg, especially T2....they are expensive. Thankfully I had access to 20% off at the dealer for some hard to get parts and the rest of the engine related parts were purchased from www.thevwpartsstore.com.

Anything that was too big and would be costly to ship from US to Canada we would order from Europe, such as the hood/bumpers/fenders/dash.

I've worked on many vehicles in my past but I've never worked on such a complex, well built and very strong suv.

The biggest trouble we would have is not being able to fully understand where some parts would go. Using google/ElsaWin helps 95% of the time, but then there are parts that you cannot exactly find where they should be or how they should be mounted. Sometime as simple as a bracket laying around can take a day or two to figure out where and how to install.

We are painting the front bumper, fender and hood this saturday, my PDC sensors should be in sometime next week and it should be ready.


Lastly, anybody that thinks or wants to undertake a project of this calibure, be financially ready as this was not an cheap project. The parts alone cost as much as the touareg itself when we bought it.

Was this worth it? Would we do it again?
...Now that we have the knowledge it would be a lot easier...but at the current cost of all the parts we probably wouldn't do it again. If the prices were more reasonable then sure. We paid just over 300.00 for a rubber hose about 2 feet long that connects part of the intercooler with the turbo system....BAZINGA!


So final thoughs?

1)ALWAYS ask for pictures of the parts you are being sent. If you make a far drive for parts...GET PICTURES so you don't waste your time.

2)If you need a part and you cannot find it or cannot find it at a reasonable price, use Google Translator and translate the part name into German and then search it on ebay.de. Ebay.co.uk is also good

3) If you need OEM VW parts cheaper then the dealer, use www.thevwpartsstore.com, Zeb is the man and has dealt with me quite a bit.



Hope this helps