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posted on August 6th, 2016 at 10:27 AM |
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factory birth certificate
wanted to order a birth certificate for the type 3 panelvan
but i think i read somewhere i cant get one because they were a ckd
am i wasting my time trying to contacting wolfsburg about this ?????
any help on this ?????
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posted on August 6th, 2016 at 11:10 AM |
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Yes you are wasting your time.
I read it on samba, so it must be correct.
Sometimes Volkswagen dealers sell spare parts. Amazing isn't it!
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posted on August 6th, 2016 at 12:26 PM |
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ckd ?? =
want any vw bits old but like me, Made in Germany!!!
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posted on August 6th, 2016 at 12:40 PM |
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Quote: | Originally
posted by bushed
ckd ?? =
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ckd ?? = Assembled in Australia from parts from Germany
I read it on samba, so it must be correct.
Sometimes Volkswagen dealers sell spare parts. Amazing isn't it!
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posted on August 6th, 2016 at 07:03 PM |
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CKD is short for Completely Knocked Down. Basically a car from another place, assembled somewhere else. This was to get around import tariffs (taxes)
on vehicles from overseas to protect the local car manufactures. For example. A locally built Holden car of the late 60's like a Torana would have
no import tariff obviously. All or most parts were made in Aus, and all labour was Aus. So for Aus companies to be able to be competitive in the
market, the tariff on complete cars was introduced. So if you had a complete driving car imported such as a VW Beetle Cabriolet (convertible) then the
tariff applied. For the VW sedan, they came in CKD and all of the labour was local, and many parts like glass, trim, tyres, paint were locally
manufactured also. The more local component, the less import tariff applied.
Volkswagen AG (Germany) have no records or birth certificates of CKD or local Aus manufactured vehicles. It does not exist. The vehicles were treated
like LEGO assembly and there are no records.
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posted on August 6th, 2016 at 07:48 PM |
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well said and makes sense
happy to mock up a few CKD certs for dubbers, lol
want any vw bits old but like me, Made in Germany!!!
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posted on August 7th, 2016 at 06:27 PM |
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ok .......... so my original rego certificate is going to be as close as i get.......... that will have to do
thanks for the replies
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posted on August 7th, 2016 at 08:08 PM |
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The horsepower was a tax rating. I think it was something to do with bore x stroke. It would have been 17.1hp.
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posted on August 11th, 2016 at 07:58 AM |
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Yes that's RAC Horsepower. It's not measured horsepower, it's calculated from the formula RAC HP = 2/5 x D squared x n, where D is cylinder bore in
inches and n is number of cylinders.
Cars like the Austin 7 were named after their RAC horsepower rating.
Because the taxation figure was dependent on the bore (and not the stroke), it led to a generation of British engines with very small bore and very
long stroke - the opposite of what the Americans (and VW of course) were doing.
The British government abandoned this system in the late 1940s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_horsepower
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posted on August 11th, 2016 at 10:23 AM |
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posted by Phil74CamperThe British government abandoned this system in the late 1940s.
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.....and we got rid of it in the 1970s. We're not backward.
I read it on samba, so it must be correct.
Sometimes Volkswagen dealers sell spare parts. Amazing isn't it!
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