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grinderman - April 25th, 2012 at 08:36 PM

I was just on carsguide.com checking out latest news on vw related stuff and found a story on a new factory in the kombi's original birthplace Hannover,Germany. They (VW) claim to 'care' about their heritage and want to offer a full restoration service on any model kombi back to original specs and can even add custom touches to suit customers needs. They put together a full photo collection of the build and do up a factory certificate of restoration, how cool is that !! I also wonder how expensive is this service.........

Phil74Camper - April 27th, 2012 at 07:30 AM

Yes, this story was in the VW Club magazine last month.

Here is a typical news blog, with photos. I would imagine that a VW factory restoration would be VERY expensive! Of course you would also have to ship your Kombi over to Germany, then home again...

http://www.autocarmagz.com/volkswagen-commercial-vehicles-oldtimers/ 

Matt Ryan - April 27th, 2012 at 09:57 AM

I've seen estimates of between 40,000 and 100,000 Euros, depending on the level of restoration.


Been looking around the internet and have found no references to this on any official VW site. Just lots of magazines and other sites quoting "an official VW press release".

I'm not 100% ready to believe it yet.

Regards,

Matt.

Phil74Camper - April 27th, 2012 at 11:17 AM

Here's one Matt - see press releases dated 29/03/12

http://www.vwn-presse.de/tbwebdb/vwn-presse/index.cfm?vl=en-GB&cl=2 

These are only summaries - looks like you have to be a registered user (ie dealer) to get the full report.

BTW, scrolling down the bottom there's a news report (30/01/12) that the T5 Transporter has begun SKD (Semi-knocked down) assembly in Jakarta, Indonesia. I hadn't seen that one before. It says for the 'local market' so there probably won't be any opportunity to import them to Australia.

helbus - April 27th, 2012 at 07:23 PM

A factory restoration would probably be like we do at our work for Austin Healeys. The brand name makes no difference, the amount of work is still the same, and the factory restorations at my work are about $100K - $150K

Matt Ryan - April 27th, 2012 at 08:59 PM

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Originally posted by Phil74Camper
Here's one Matt - see press releases dated 29/03/12

http://www.vwn-presse.de/tbwebdb/vwn-presse/index.cfm?vl=en-GB&cl=2 

These are only summaries - looks like you have to be a registered user (ie dealer) to get the full report.

BTW, scrolling down the bottom there's a news report (30/01/12) that the T5 Transporter has begun SKD (Semi-knocked down) assembly in Jakarta, Indonesia. I hadn't seen that one before. It says for the 'local market' so there probably won't be any opportunity to import them to Australia.


OK.......... now I'm convinced. I should have just googled vw press releases when I was looking, instead, I just typed in VW AG and followed links from there.


Regards,


Matt.

farkengruven - April 28th, 2012 at 08:40 AM

There are restorations.....and then there are restorations......
How is someone going to know the quality and accuracy of a 'Factory' restoration? Are the cars in the VW museum a sample of the quality and accuracy?

AA003 - April 28th, 2012 at 07:23 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Phil74Camper
It says for the 'local market' so there probably won't be any opportunity to import them to Australia.


I would say that we are local.

Our local agent is Singapore.