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Yeah I am so great full. I missed her

Sorry for the slow update I got a new Varta Battery at £174 and the car drives again. For anyone with the same issue, clearing the faults did not work with the OBDeleven or the garages own diagnostic tool. I had to take it for a short drive and the lights went out themselves. On the plus side the ga...

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I will probably buy a battery and change it myself. Garage will only charge more to test. Really disheartened with them after this. Got impression they didn't want the job and just ended a diagnostic fee

Thank you for replying guys

Battery is approx 2 year old. I changed it myself

I asked garage and he said no chance it's battery. He said it's some faulty electrical thing or maybe ECU.

Been a while since I been on here (divorce, court and moving 3 times) eek. Anyway my Passat has given me much grief this past 2 weeks. It is a 2016 DSG. It cut out at 15mph and wouldnt restart until I cleared faults with OBDeleven. I could hear the fuel pump making a knocking noise so replaced it wa...

I read a few places it is 120k and nothing mentioned for age

A quick google

http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/forum/show ... e-interval

I've told the guy what I think and thats all I can do, its time for him to put his hand in his pocket and go to a garage

He approached me as he has seen me work on my old passat and the one i have now

I think battery is good Mine can take 2 -3 seconds if not run for a few days either, his takes 6 + seconds - i hear it. Never failed to fire. He drives it most days but never only had issue on cold start. Even the other day it was 21 degrees and it must have been 5 seconds before it fired. I was thi...

I had mine remapped to 230 and not looked back (except at the cars I've just passed)

See link in my signature

So a neighbour bought an almost identical passat to mine 150Bhp Tech Business or highline. Very similar except some options and trim. Engine has done 94k and on a 15 plate Some mornings it can crank upwards of 6 seconds before firing. Says it never happens if engine is warm. Its done this past few w...

So past 3 days car has needed a jump to start and got a new battery earlier. So far its behaved -not repeating fault by cycling ignition. Friend will monitor next few days 3 of his windows no longer work which he neglected to tell me and he severely damaged the drivers door so that needs replaced. S...

Thanks for all the tips. Car started first time this morning and drove it to mine so no longer at Lidl - yay! After arriving at mine, turned ignition on and off several times and lights behaved, but on the 9th attempt glow plug did not light up and the ABS / EPS came back on. I cleaned battery termi...

Cheers Ray

Battery was replaced by a good brand fairly recently -within 3 years.

I will check the points tomorrow. Besides battery are there any other earth points that must be checked? I don't know where they'd be and although i will check i don't want to overlook something

Ok so i don't think its the relay Today the glow plug light came on and went out with all other lights as you would expect and the ABS /ESP lights stayed off too Cycled ignition upwards of 10 times. Glow plug light each time. Outside temp was 17. So i unplugged the suspected relay to see if the faul...

An update (and explanation as to why I think its the 53 relay). Google " VW 109 Relay " and you will find loads of folk with the same symptoms. Its glow plug / fuel pump to ECU. However it refers to Golf's, Jettas and Caddy vans. Would have imagined it would be the same? After reading this...

(This is a friends car - my old car) It is a 2005 1.9 AWX TDi. It cranks but doesn't fire. When the ignition is on the glow plug light does not come on, not even for half a second. All other lights appear and start to disappear but the ABS and ESP lights come back on. My friend says this happened se...

To clarify The glow plug light does not come on at all. I owned the car for 6 years so used to seeing the light sequence. The ABS and ESP lights go out and then come on again. It feels wrong. I believe this is a different fault to the stalling - the lights were not doing this a few weeks ago. Additi...

I did some googling and coming up with potential ECU connection being dirty or failing ECU Second is the glow plug relay - particularly mentioning relay 109 - related to other VW's The 2005 Passat does not have this relay but it does have 12v 40a labelled 53. I don't have a spare to test and will ha...

Ok so garage aparantly blocked off egr My mate picked it up. Drove 1 mile to Lidl and it wont start. When ignition comes on all lights as normal except ABS and ESP lights (circle arrow with triangle inside with ! Mark) comes back on after the rest go out. Also the glow plug light does not come on at...

Cheers for the tip

I believe i know what your talking about. The bit that rotates about 90 degrees just off the EGR?? Makes a sucking duck sound on engine stop??

Not sure about stalling problem either I witnessed it not starting. Guy spent an hour on it and said he wont be billing for that as a favour. He only charging for work mentioned After a description of stalling when driving. My friend described it as the engine stopping in 4th gear at a round about. ...

So car is running fine

The mechanic plugged up egr and clear fault and now it starts.

Needs both rear suspension plus 1 front shock, rear pads and discs, mirror indicator bulb and a tyre

£390 inc mot certificate

Sounds not too bad for all the work

I bought the pro version for 80 odd on ebay Disables it as soon as i had the chance, about 1 and a half years ago. No issues You can use the standard and just use the credits under apps to disable. You can do things like Scandinavian lights, needle sweep etc but this and more can be done with the pr...

The battery is 12v, check replacements https://www.google.com/search?q=passat+b8+battery&oq=passat+b8+battery&aqs=chrome..69i57j0j69i60l3.4762j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung-gs-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 It only fires up to 14v for auxiliary components when the engine is...

Any advice much appreciated The car is at the garage and now it wont start?? Mechanic said after turning it over a few times it throws up an oil pressure warning. There is oil and i dont believe its lost any since i checked it a few weeks ago. Mechanic believes oil pump is done but will wheel it int...