Failed tail shaft center bearing

[njg02]

Exchange? Talk to the Touareg owners about the centre bearing carrier. Oops. Sorry

[Umai Naa!!]

Yeah, that's one thing I had hoped would be an exchange part.

[Sunny43.5]

Am I missing something here whats the deal with the Touareg part ?????

[Umai Naa!!]

The coversation flow went like this:

Exchange water pumps>cost of exchange parts>no exchange tailshaft for Touareg.

[njg02]

The centre bearing WILL fail on touaregs. The fix, if you go via VW is a whole new tailshaft assembly, not a new bearing, not a new carrier, not remanufactered, not second hand, but a whole new tailshaft assembly.

[Umai Naa!!]

That's right. You can't buy the parts individually through VW.

I think they were up to revision M of the tailshaft part number last time I ordered one.

[whiteVR6]

I sold one recently was about $900 exchange

[Sunny43.5]

I think where this conversation went off track was the business of VW asking for a deposit before supplying a new part especially when its a metal component . I do not know that any one in Australia would bother too much with exchange recoed parts , but I might be wrong . Its totally wrong the way you have to buy a whole new part for the sake of something simple as a bearing in Touaregs. I have the same problem in the sunroof industry a simple broken part in the factory BMW X5 sunroof will result in a bill of over $6000 to fix as typically BM don,t sell the part that breaks all they want to do is sell the whole sunroof assembly . Wrong Wrong

[Umai Naa!!]

I can sort of see it from BMW's end, though.

Perhaps dismantling the sunroof assembly to replace the part could result in incorrect tolerances and clearances in certain components, resulting in failures elsewhere.

[buzuki]

i replaced a shifter mechanism in a jetta just because the park microswitch was stuffed. $1000 later . . .

I agree some stuff should be replaceable without buying a whole component