Wanted - piece of rear tinware, the piece that the heater hoses go through, must be genuine VW, been struggling fitting a repro piece, I don't why they even bother makin this stuff !
Apologies for taking so long to come back to you - did you get hold of the tinware? If not I have dug this one out of the garage - I've given it a thorough grit blasting so that you can see that there is not rot / holes. ther is some minor pitting but nothing serious. Its an original German VW part.
cymrusteve - there seems to be two types -thin (as in your pic) and thick - I have the thick type which have vw part numbers on em -
(as can be seen, pic borrowed from VW Heritage site! - they sell both types)
I never knew there were 2 types - not sur which way up the thin ones go - the thick ones go with the "tapered" end pointing upwards. Maybe the thin ones go the other way up?