Our main theorem is that the pullback of an associated noncommutative vector bundle induced by an equivariant map of quantum principal bundles is a noncommutative vector bundle associated via the same finite-dimensional representation of the structural quantum group. On the level of K_0-groups of vector bundles, we realize the induced map by the pullback of explicit matrix idempotents. Finally, we construct quantum quaternionic projective spaces together with noncommutative tautological quaternionic line bundles and their duals. As a key application of the main theorem, we show that these bundles are stably non-trivial as noncommutative complex vector bundles. (Based on joint work with Tomasz Maszczyk.)