UKPassats

dizzydiesel wrote:...the car suddenly went missing off his web site after that!!!!!

My old car is now gone off the guy's website too... all very suspicious!

The problem with tensioning the belt is that if the bearings on any pulley (whether the PAS pump or the alternator) are shot, you can't tell when the engine is stopped & you're tensioning. Start the engine & it makes a racket again... I would suggest loosening the belt off, and "jigglin...

The noise is at low revs (up to about 1200rpm) It is a clattery noise, It gets a lot worse when you steer at slow speeds and low revs e.g parking. If you apply full lock when not moving the will be a lot of vibration and squeaking under the bonnet from the near side front area. Knackered power stee...

I dug out some pictures tonight... one showing 98k, one showing 99,999 miles, and one showing 100,000 miles (I was in Germany for the weekend at the time).

"Hello... is that Trading Standards?"

blade wrote:Definatly shop him.................if you don't want to, PM me the details and I will do it.

All in hand...

strictlyVAG wrote:yeah and take the tow bar off

Sitting in my garage right now, gonna advertise it soon!

Here's what I posted when I was pre-empting selling it... viewtopic.php?t=1584

I'm sure it would be difficult to find a similar car on Autotrader, would it?!

I recently traded in my Passat... it had a full VW service history when I bought it, but I did the last service myself in my 7000 miles of ownership. The car had 97,000 on it when I bought it, and 104,000 when I sold it. I saw the car for sale today, advertised as having a full main dealer service h...

Its defo for the 1.9 TDI man. Checked the axle weight for the front of mine, its 1070kg. So Weitec are saying that to achieve a 50mm drop, the weight at the front needs to be 1110kg so mines aint that far off that weight so id guess it would bring my car between 40-45mm lower then. The thing with w...

golddust wrote:and with the massive savings on fuel with a tdi you can afford a big house in the country without any neighbours ;)

Come on guys, I'm hoping for a sale






Besides, it doesn't wake the neighbours up like your TDI's at 6:15 every morning...

no its not a 4mo. havnt looked underneath but I thought it might be the same pipework as the 1.9TDI except different manifold and downpipes ? I would quite like a custom job but cant help but think thats gonna cost a packet compared to an 'off the shelf' system I’ll contact Millteck direct and se...

I was changing my rear springs over as I've been trying to find which springs will work best with my completely worn out struts and when putting the rear strut back one of the top bolts sheared off whilst I was torquing it up. My problem is that I have no way to remove this and I have work tomorrow...

Oooh oooh oooh... pick me... pick me... :D :D :D Right... The B5 Passat V5 was a 10V motor, and produced 150bhp, the B5.5 has a 20V head, and produces 170bhp. All chrome V5 badge on the rear means a 150bhp model, V 5 means the 170bhp 20v model! This link might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V5_e...

that was the second time the wife has ran out of fuel in the bus. ( 52 plate passat sport 130 tdi) First time the needle was just above the red and this time it ran out on quarter full mark, reading 80 miles to empty on trip computer... hmmmm any ideas, whats wrong, or should i get a new fuel sende...

You didn't ask, but I'll tell you anyhow... I get around 400 miles from a fill, which really is from "overflowing at the pumps" to "0 miles" left on the trip computer... usually 58/59 litres goes in then, meaning it's doing about 33 to the gallon - I'm pretty happy with that, con...

This is what you need : http://www.weirdlittlebiscuit.com/passat/leak/ Excellent find! I did have a good look before I released all the water through the heater hoses' grommit - they go into the engine compartment at the rear of the engine - all the water just flowed down there & onto my drive ...

I hoovered out the Passat last night, washed it too, and was just locking it up for the night when the alarm went off (was immediate on locking the car). Had a few attempts, no good. Mild panic, then logged into this site, used search, and figured something was wet! Back out to the car, scuttle pane...

eshrules wrote:the estate is the same size as the saloon? really? hmmmmm <cogs turning>

They are the same length - looks can be very deceiving, but they're the same floorpan. Same towbar fits both saloon & estate too (just the 4mo floorpan is obviously different).

well i am savin for the revo, and lookin into the coam mod with a new k&n or the like fillter and a dv. what sort of return should i get from this and is there anything else i should be lookin to add to that set up? Consider an exhaust system to complete the easy-breathing exercise - they do ma...

REVOMIKE wrote:Do all passats with a/c have them ??

As long as you have climate, then yes!... If you have normal "push a button& turn the dial to the blue bit" air con, then it won't have it!

Jesus Christ, that's slammed!!!!!!!! Awesome

I have to pick up some kitchen worktop this evening... how long is the load area of the Passat (Estate) with the rear bench folded? I'm guessing the B5 & B5.5 will be the same...

My car is too far away from me to go & find out

Ronin wrote:What about Audi TT wheels?

Only curious as they don't get a mention.

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René

Like he said. All TT wheels up to 2006 were 5 x 100, not 112.

Audi A4/6/8 offsets are better suited to the Passat, wheels from the Golf 5 or Jetta are about 10mm out.

Dakota wrote:I don`t quite understand the ET thing...

This might help - the offset referred to is the ET (Einpress Tiefe (D) = offset)