I have been searching everywhere for an accident damaged golf, passat, a3 etc and no luck so far. Want a whole car really for the engine, box, loom, clocks,keys and ecu. Its all goin in a mk1 golf so figured it would be easier to get everything and label stuff as i remove/transfer, plus i know it works and i have everything! All the breakers i have tried wont sell me the whole car, or if they will its silly money. Keep your eyes peeled guys all help much appreciated

Strikes me what you need to do is buy a car from a salvage dealer.

I bought a 1.8T A3 for about £700 delivered. Frontal impact, the radiator was U/S and the airbags had gone off, and the front passenger's seat smelled of wee wee.

I've since sold it to someone who is putting it in a Golf

There's a W reg Golf turbo for auction in Cardiff at Pengam Partmart (01443 834779 ). It's at £810 at the moment. You need to register before you can bid. Is that the kind of thing you are looking for?

John

Yeah the Audi sounds about right golf too(cant see it though some field error on the auction section?) I have tried a few salvage dealers with no luck whch i found strange as there common cars, plenty non turbo stuff or they were asking far too much. would like to keep it under a grand if poss. I will give em a ring cheers for the info mr henderson

Audi A4 1.8T

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Have you looked for Seat Ibiza's?

I'm fairly sure VAG put this lump in them as well. Since Seat's are popular among the young drivers there might be more accident damaged ones of them around.

Octavia VRS as well they offer more BHP than the golf , if you go for a golf try and source as late a model as you can as they have the KO3s turbo on and are mapable to around 210 earlier models are 195bhp> I run a 2001 1.8 t with engine code AUM 150bhp standard I think the Octavia is 180 BHP as are Audis and the aniversary Golf

You will struggle to get whole car these days. If youre gonna do it, then do it right! Get yourself a 1.8t with a BAM engine code. I think this is the most powerful of the standard engines. Comes from Audi S3, may also be the one in the seat cupra R but not sure about that. 225 bhp!

problem with the BAM engine is the insurance loading, i have to be carefull what donor i use as they use the group as a base for the new policy

Try www.car-transplants.co.uk (if I'm allowed to post this) they sell damaged cars, I've seen a few A3's on it