Volkswagen spare parts in the UAE

Volkswagen supply runs from 7 in Abu Dhabi through 5 in Dubai down to 1 in Umm Al Quwain — a gap of 6 listings across 7 emirates.

Column three is the salvage route: 1 of the 22 are used-parts yards — Umm Al Quwain 1. A used Golf GTI panel is cheap; a used Volkswagen gearbox needs a written warranty.

Some Volkswagen parts are not Volkswagen parts. The Touareg shares air-suspension, cooling and oil-system parts with the Audi Q7. The Touareg shares air-suspension and cooling parts with the Porsche Cayenne.

Ask for the Volkswagen number and the Audi number together — the same box, two prices.

Every other make on this site carries a generation table because we could verify every row of it against Volkswagen's equivalent — the maker's own material, model by model. We have not finished that work for the Golf, Passat, Tiguan, Touareg and Jetta, and we would rather show you nothing than a table we cannot stand behind. Not a thin one, not a rounded one, none.

Writing one from memory was the alternative and it was refused. A generation code is precisely the string a counter searches on, and a wrong one puts the wrong part in a box for somebody who trusted this page. That is the one failure a site like this cannot take back, and a plausible table would be a worse outcome than an empty space.

The workaround costs you one photograph and it is better than the table would have been. The chassis number on the plate resolves the exact build, engine included, and every counter and salvage yard in this market takes it over WhatsApp. Send the number rather than the model year and the guessing stops at your end instead of continuing at theirs.

One word does most of the damage on a Volkswagen estimate. On a DSG car, gearbox can mean a mechatronic unit, it can mean a clutch pack, and it can mean a complete replacement box. Those are three jobs with a long distance between them, and an estimate that does not say which one it covers has not answered the question you asked.

The second thing to pin down is whose badge the number was read off. Volkswagen shares hardware across its group, so one component can sit in the system under a Volkswagen number, an Audi number and, on a Touareg, a Porsche one. Prices attached to those numbers are not obliged to match. Ask which badge yours came from before you set it beside anybody else.

The third is what the estimate does not list. Cooling and suspension work can be quoted as a single part or as a set, and a figure covering a pump on its own is not comparable with a figure covering the pump and everything that comes off with it. Ask for the part numbers the price is built from, then compare the lists rather than the totals.

You will not find a dirham figure on this page. Nothing we could source puts a UAE price against a Volkswagen part with a shop and a date standing behind it, and filling the gap with an invented number would make this page less useful than the honest blank.