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Special Service Tools - General Information
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Tools Listing Information
Page 1 (100 series) | Page 2
(200-249) | Page 3 (250-299) |
Page 4 (300 series) | Page 5
(400 series)
Page 6 (500 series) | Page 7
(600 series) |
Page 8 (700-999) | Page 9
(1000-up) |
Page 10 (Other)
Local Manufacture of Tools (600-799) |
8/70 Spare Parts
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| Remarks about the tools numbering system, thanks to Joerg
Lottermoser Additional information and comments welcome The "Classical" VW tools are named VW 100 to VW 820. The "VW" is part of the number. Tools with different prefixes are not VW tools. So 547 is not a tool in the VW list, it's V-547 (it's made by Matra, but this company also made tools for other manufacturers and for the free market). V-547 is used in VW workshops, but like screwdrivers and wrenches assumed to be a standard tool. Another example: 286c which is P286c and I think this is a Porsche tool (Porsche used VW tools as far as they could be used for their purpose, but made own tool for special applications). I haven't found a VW 286 tool, so maybe for the close relationship between Porsche and VW this number was not used in the VW tool list. Early tools are sometimes mentioned with a
capital T following the number so VW113 and VW113T or VW202a and VW202aT may
be the same tool but VW202 and VW202t are different. In late 50s some tools got new numbers. There were some tools for local
manufacturing numbered between VW 351 and VW 385 which got new numbers in
the VW 600s and VW 700s range. I guess in the begin the local manufacturing
range was VW 350 and above. When there were more and more tools VW decided
to use VW 600 and above for local manufacturing tools. Some of the
local manufacturing tools could also be ordered ready for use from the
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Remarks about the tools numbering system as it related to Transporters, thanks to Julian Parodi In the 1951 catalog it is written: " The special tools required for the repair of the type 29 delivery van are supplied in a closed collection for subsequent insertion in this special tool catalog" 1955 VW Bus Shop manual Supplement with information:  Here is the table of early/late tools for the Transporter:
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Tools Listing Information
Page 1 (100 series) | Page 2
(200-249) | Page 3 (250-299) |
Page 4 (300 series) | Page 5
(400 series)
Page 6 (500 series) | Page 7
(600 series) |
Page 8 (700-999) | Page 9
(1000-up) |
Page 10 (Other)
Local Manufacture of Tools (600-799) |
8/70 Spare Parts
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