[Vwdiesel] front wheel bearings

[Terry Briggs]

Will napa know what that is, or is it just a dealer only part.
On Apr 14, 2007, at 12:42 AM, LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 4/13/2007 9:19:40 AM Central Daylight Time, 
> vbriggs at stny.rr.com writes:
>
>> Ok, thats understandable, I didn't think it was the actual bearing
>>  number, so thats a VW part number then.......
>
>    Yup, the first three is the "series" so to speak.  Often it's the 
> body series like a 311 is a type 3, 211 is a bus, 178 I believe is a 
> Rabbit, 068 is a diesel, 069 is a 5 cylinder diesel.
>    The second three is the "group number" like suspension, brakes, 
> engine, and so on or sub groups of those I mentioned even.  The last 3 
> and any letter are the actual number of that specific part.  The rest 
> are identifiers.  That's why a decent VW parts man can rattle off the 
> whole number as if he's memorized half the parts inventory!  Ford has 
> a, or used to anyway, a sensible system.  It contains year, body and 
> so on often in 5 alpha-numerics.
>    (Not that I have ANY of them memorized!)
>       Loren
>
>
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