Haval, Tank, Ora and Wey: one Great Wall catalog behind the badges

New names in Europe from November 2023

In November 2023, Great Wall Motor made GWM its main brand in Europe and renamed the cars. The Ora Funky Cat became the GWM Ora 03, and the Wey Coffee 01 became the GWM Wey 05.

GWM changed the badge and left the car alone. A Funky Cat and an Ora 03 belong to the same vehicle family, and you look up both by VIN in the same catalog.

One car, a name for each market

The same small electric car goes by the Good Cat in China and by the GWM Ora in Australia, and European buyers met it as the Funky Cat before it became the Ora 03. A service history from one market can use a different name from the catalog in another.

Search by VIN and you reach the same car whichever name the paperwork uses. Keep the VIN on the job card next to the part numbers, and the next person who orders for that car will not have to untangle the names again.

European parts supply after the Munich closure

GWM closed its European headquarters in Munich at the end of August 2024 and said it would keep serving its existing European markets, with the business run from China. In October 2024 it put a new spare parts warehouse in Amsterdam into operation, and it kept its national sales partners, such as the Emil Frey Group in Germany.

If a GWM part sits on back order in Europe, ask your supplier about the Amsterdam warehouse before you chase it anywhere else.

Badge first, then the build

GWM shares engines between some of its brands, and the parts around an engine can change from one model to the next. Decode the VIN to get the combination the car left the factory with.

The Ora cars are electric, so you look for battery, motor and charging parts where a petrol model would have its engine groups.

An Ora 03 brake job, step by step

Take the VIN from the windscreen or the door pillar and run it through the free VIN decoder. The first three characters should read LGW, and the decoder confirms the model year before you log in anywhere.

Open the GWM catalog, decode the VIN and go to the braking group. Compare the entries against the build the VIN resolves, check each number for a supersession, and write the final numbers on the job card with the VIN beside them.

GWM parts on VINsearch

The GWM catalog on VINsearch covers Great Wall, Haval, Ora, Tank and Wey, with genuine part numbers and exploded diagrams for the build you decode. For the wider picture, see Chinese car parts by VIN.