Recommend good salvage yard?

Wiring harness part need - dealer can't get it for my 95 GTI VR6 - any recommendations for a decent salvage yard that either can locate or has good electrical part inventory?

Reply to
Stephen Timinski
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Do you mean a salvage yard that does business online, or one located near you?

Reply to
Papa

Stephen , what area are u in, i am in the london uk area, West London.

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VW Internet

Doesn't matter - have to find a very difficult part that no one is able to get at the dealer and no one seems willing to id the part from their car. Located in Missouri but as long as they can locate it will pay to have it shipped. Simple part but controls a ton of electrical bits - radio, cig lighter, rear hatch release - maybe other things that I can't test. Basically its just a junction fuse that connects into the fusebox and connects into the interior wiring harness - plug and play type of thing easy to identify and pull out without cutting any wires. Was very careless when I was pulling apart my car - threw it out in a parts box.

Reply to
Stephen Timinski

St. Louis Missouri, think the UK GTI's are a little different - mine was made in Mexico, not Germany and the harness might be a little different. Would pay to have the part shipped - really desperate here - can't seem to find it anywhere.

Reply to
Stephen Timinski

Try the VWvortex forum, and the following online sources: GermanAutoParts.com, Far Out Parts, Discount Auto Parts, RSJ Parts, Specialized German Recycling, stopshopanddrive.com, Speedy Car Parts, thepartsbin.com, or The Auto Parts Store. One of them should be able to help you.

Good luck.

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Papa

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VWs only, they have everything both new and used.

And I mean EVERYTHING.

Have been using them for almost 20 years.

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Dave

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none2u

Actually you don't have to call them.

You can submit a part5 request on their WWW and THEY WILL CALL YOU.

Have done it many, many times.

Last was two weeks ago, bought a Complete ANSA exhaust for a 90 Golf for $150 INCLUDING shipping.

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Dave

Called them - don't have parts of or complete wiring harness - said they chop them when they pull parts - no standing cars available. Kind of in a bind with my VR6 - no one local and German Recycling hasn't checked back - called yesterday.

Reply to
Stephen Timinski

I'm just curious. About how long is that wiring harness (long path)?

Reply to
Tom's VR6

Very short - basically contains the following : see picture: and quick connects between a few leads Very short - don't know if it connects to the back of the fusebox though. Contains a 15AMP and 30AMP fuse - basicaly looks like one of the accessory relays that sits on top of the fusebox but doesn't contain any relays. Should contain a red/white brown/red (i think). When I ran power to the red and white going to the cig lighter/radio and power to brown/red radio and seatbelt chime fired up. So the radio/cig circuit is ok its just missing some sort of junction between the fusebox and rest of the circuit.

Heres the picture

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Any help would be appreciated

Reply to
Stephen Timinski

If the thing you are talking about is contained totally or mostly in that picture, and if it is under a foot long, I suspect that is not what people are thinking of when you inquire about a wiring harness.

Reply to
Tom's VR6

It is probably a foot long or less. Its not described in any of the dealers part list except they think as part of the interior wiring harness - most likely a very small section that connects quick connects from the back of the fusebox to other sections of the interior harness to provide power. Can probably duplicate it - if I saw or someone provided where the connections come and go - think its basically a protection circuit. Last night ran a lead to the radio's red/white at 12V and a lead to the brown/red (12v) - don't know if I should have don't it but I did - the radio powered up and then the seat belt warning chime started up. Hopefully didn't trash the radio because I briefly touched the radio's shell and created a spark - didnt retry to see if it would fire up again.

So if anyone has a 95 with part in the picture has any information regarding where the leads come and go on the back of the fuse connectors - I could at least duplicate the circuit. The Bentley manual doesn't have this circuit anywhere and I really don't want to randomly power up sections of the harness for fear of either creating shorts or worse - especially since one circuit has 30A.

Reply to
Stephen Timinski

The VWvortex forum has many posts with answers to questions such as yours. A lot of experts participate. You really should try it.

Reply to
Papa

I've used them for years and generally they've been great. Posted several days ago - at least 5 - zero responses - either they don't know or can't be bothered looking under their dash to check it out. Know that several of the people there have 95 GTI's - either don't have the time or can't be bothered. Also left a post at

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which doesn't get very many hits lately. One guy seems to know about it and am just waiting for a response. Currently reassembling the dash - just took a break - not that big of a deal putting it all back together - just tons of screws.

Aside from the electrical problems the putting in the heater core really was a snap - if I had to do it over again (1) don't touch the electrical system (2) Keep EVERYTHING in one place (3) most likely wouldn't have to remove the crossmember - was worried that the box clips wouldn't come out easily so I thought I'd need the extra room - probably could position the box to remove it after the clips came off. Surprised was able to get them off without breaking anything and they were very easy to put on - as long as I concentrated. Will have to live without the radio, cig lighter plug and interior hatchrelease for a while until I'm able to sort out this missing electrical piece - hopefully it doesn't control anything else. Car is getting up there in age and I really don't want to put any more effort or money into it. Noticing some underbody rust under the side skirts and found a couple of really weak - well couple of rust throughs although the paint looks pretty flawless. At my mileage 145K - timing chains are just waiting to pop up - and god knows what else could surface with the engine. Nearly time to dump it and move on to something requiring a little less worry.

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Stephen Timinski

Yeah, that's me. But you make it sound as if it just a matter of looking under the dash, and does not involve removing the panel under the dash, and who knows how much more disassembly.

That thing you lost/discarded is hardly in the same category as a screw or nut.

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Tom's VR6

Basically just pull the fusebox cover - takes a second no screws, unclip fusebox from two sides drop about an 1 inch and there you go. About a week traced and photographed manifold recovery system for someone which involved pulling the airbox to illustrate the charcoal canister and feads. Guy was converting a 4cyl and Bentley manual didn't illustrate the parts - what did that take 15 minutes?

Yeah, not a lost screw - but when you are working in 32F - at night - without the benefit of total shop lighting its pretty easy - especially when you have other things going on and the piece is relatively small that could fit in the size of a box of an aux water pump.

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Stephen Timinski

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could/would be of help.

--- Frank

99 Passat GLX (but not again)
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Frank Pajerski

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