The prefix on VW part numbers can tell you what group it belongs to, in
effect: Brakes, Body, Engine, Electrical.
I'm not experienced enough to know what all the three digit prefixes mean
but that is my understanding on shortening the search by number process.
www.importecparts.com/vwlist.html
This is a link to a giant VW parts list, I think with a little
exploration you'll be able to catch the prefix sequences and that might
be of some help to you.
Auto wrecking yards subscribe to a service that will feed back all
applications for a given part number ..... I'd love to have one of these
interchange list myself.

Stan Wilder

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:46:32 -0800 Zoran Mladen <zmaninco@YAHOO.COM>
writes:
> Hey folks,
>
> Anyone with EKTA know the answer?  The question is, if
> you have a part number, and you want to know what it
> fits and where it goes, how do you make this request
> in EKTA?
>
> I was an the VW dealer today and asked how they did
> it.  One of the options after "Functions" is selected,
> is titled "ATP".  When they do it, it lets them enter
> a part number, and then it comes back with a listing
> of every VW and year the part fits.
>
> On my version of EKTA, I type in the part number and
> effectively get a formatted window, but no text.
>
> Anyone have insight to this?
>
> Z
>
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