New TDi owner with part number question

After over ten years of being in the forum without a diesel, I have finally purchased a 2011 toffee brown Jetta TDi sportwagen with a manual transmission.

It is in the process of replacing my 2005 Subaru Legacy GT 5MT wagon, and although the TDi is definitely not as powerful, I get potentially twice the fuel economy now.

The car is lowered with Neuspeed springs, and my guess is that the previous owner took out the front spoiler holder 5K0805915A9B9 and front spoiler 1K9805903 with the car being lowered. It seems to be missing the two damaged/scuffed pieces in the following (taken from this forum) picture. It'd be appreciative if someone could confirm those parts for me.



The driver's side rear window also has seem to become disconnected from the regulator, and I THINK it's the plastic spreader pin that's fallen out. I can manually push the window down, and the window will electrically go up, as some sort of VW's fail-safe operation that I've read.

I'm hoping that VW (European) maintenance won't be the nightmare that I've imagined to be.

Go to Mr. Google, VW parts. You will find some on-line VW OEM parts
sites. You drill down to illustrated parts catalog pages. There are many
sites. Here is one:

http://www.vwpartsvortex.com/

Select "Search Everything" answer Golf 2011 TDI see note below.

Select BODY

Select BODY/BUMPER & COMPONENTS - FRONT

See exploded illustration, item numbers and part numbers.

I see the part numbers you quote:

Item #11 5K0-805-903-A-9B9
5K0-805-903-A-9B9 / SPOILER
$143.00 $102.96

-OR-

Item #12 5K0-805-915-A-9B9
5K0-805-915-A-9B9 / SPOILER RETAINER PLATE
$68.00 $40.80

I don't see the parts you say you are missing, but take a look at the
illustrated parts figure. There is no spoiler so to speak I know of.
It is aerodynamically smooth in the front, no fake down force spoiler.

You want to find door or window parts, poke around the menus.

On-line VW dealers are going to be cheaper than your local dealer,
going with wholesale verse full screw you retail. However I find talking
to parts counter guys at the VW dealer. I will say, I bought my car
here and can you cut me a break. They will sometimes give you a
discount. Mark-up to retail can be 30% to 60% over wholesale cost.

Shipping is usually a wash for no sales tax. Once you have
part number you can search that on Amazon, eBay, Google... get best
price. There is always salvage yards, but the skid areas take a
beating. On eBay you can find knock off parts from China cheap....

NOTE: They don't always have the Jetta SportWagen variant, really it's a Golf with a
back end stretch, with some exceptions. Do not select Jetta, if it does not give you the
Jetta Sportwagen (JSW) option, It is assuming Jetta Sedan. The Jetta Sedan before
2010 was like a Golf as well. In 2011 and on, the Jetta sedan platforms changed and
no longer have much in common with Golfs. So if you don't see Jetta SportWagen go
with Golf before Jetta. To make matters more confusiong the MK6 JSW is more like a
MK5 Golf with MK6 front end. MK6 Golfs (not JSW) have differences to a MK6 JSW.
Like side view mirrors for example are different between MK6 Golf and MK6 JSW.
I bought aftermarket side view mirrors (mirror part) for MK5 Golf to fit my MK6 JSW....

ttcheung said:

I'm hoping that VW (European) maintenance won't be the nightmare that I've imagined to be.

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Welcome to the nightmare. Look at it as a hobby....