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As far as I know traction control is a very basic form of ASR they operate in different ways. Traction control is easily implemented on any car with ABS by using the ABS sensors to measure wheel speed it is possible to detect a wheel breaking traction and reduce the power to the driven wheels to res...

E-bay is the place to go but from Germany. I recently bought some chrome lights for my 2002 estate, £75 all in, arrived in about a week. Only problem with them is that they don't have a seal to stop the boot filling with water. Got around this though with a few hours work.They are a good make as th...

Look on the cassete flap door it says Gamma. This is the type of radio fitted.I believe some of the radios are manufactured Grundig and some are Sony. I know there was a Beta model fitted to older cars so I presume there may also have been an Alpha model.

If you wanted to make up your own lead or work out what the connections were this is a pretty good site. http://www.passatplus.de/umbauteile/stecker/stecker4.htm Theres absolutely loads of other stuff on this site if you click on the icons at the top. Its in german but you can convert it using Babel...

I thought there was a well known problem with the 1.8t engine in the Passat, whereby they suffer from oil pressure problems. Before I bought my diesel I considered a 1.8T and eventually was put off by the many bad stories I have read. Did a quick Google on "Passat 1.8 low oil pressure" and...

No the EGR doesn't need to be connected for the MOT. It's main function is to allow exhaust gas to be admitted back into the inlet tract. The exhaust gas has a much lower oxygen content than fresh air so it dilutes the incoming air and this reduces the amount of nitrogen dioxide that the engine prod...

It's far easier to fix the source of the leak rather than move the CCM. I have done three pollen filters now, one on my car and two of my friends and it's not that difficult a job.I did the last one in the car park at work over lunch.

Diesels do not have a throttle body, When you put your foot on the accelerator this puts more fuel into the engine.Diesels run with a lot of excess air which is why putting extra fuel in makes so much difference to the power output.This is also why diesels don't need a turbo dump valve because there...

Been looking for one of these for a while at a reasonable price and came across this on Fleabay. CTAVGUSB003 MP3 / IPOD USB interface http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180167620383&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:UK:11 Normally these are around £70 so this was a bit of a bargain...

The CCM is pretty much responsible for the interior lights, Central locking, Windows etc so sounds like thats where the problem might be. Have you actually taken the carpet up and had a look?. The main cause of leaks is the pollen filter seal, not the battery drain hole getting blocked. If water has...

You obviously don't have a lot of speed bumps around your area. I have lowered my car only 40mm from the standard height and it manages to foul on speedbumps. If it was lowered another 20 or 30mm I would quite soon rip the plastic engine shield off I am sure.

And there a million and one other things that you are not supposed to do that are illegal and unsafe on the roads and people do them. Mobile phone use, speeding , undertaking , incorrectly formatted numberplates, driving around with foglights on front or rear when the conditions don't warrant it etc...

I strongly suspect you have something wrong with one of the calipers. Either one caliper is not providing as much pressure as the other, Possibly got some air in the system or the piston is sticking, or the one caliper is not releasing properly.Don't just replace the pads without trying to find out ...

I changed the rear discs and pads earlier this week as I suspect the discs were the originals and looked a bit worn, 92K and they were 8.5mm so were 75% worn. I found pushing the piston back to be difficult as well. You can buy specific tools for doing this but I made one instead. I found that you n...

A HID bulb is rated at 35W so it doesn't produce as much heat as a normal 55w headlight bulb.A HID bulb doesn't have a filament, It works by strikeing a plasma arc with a 25KV pulse and then maintaining the arc with around 80V.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-inten ... harge_lamp

The offside I found a little more tricky.Didn't want it too near the turbo or any heat source and didn't want it to get wet. In the end I took off the front bumper and fitted it here.Easy job to take the bumper off. http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k57/karlthekarter/offsideballastlocation.jpg You w...

I fitted some E-Bay HID's to my car about a year ago and I have had no problems with them at all. The Nearside ballast is easy, Just remove the cover from the power steering resevoir and theres a nice place there. http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k57/karlthekarter/Nearsidewithcoveron.jpg Cover remo...

I would never fit fit mickey mouse tyres to a car that I or my wife would drive. The tyres are cheap for a reason and if you had posted on the forum asking what people thought of them or done a search on google you would have found people would have told you that they are poor quality tyres.It reall...

You definately need 16 inch or larger wheels to fit 312mm discs.

I have a 2002 TDI 130 estate and it has rust in the same place. I cleaned it up and painted on some silver hammerite when I took the intercooler out to clean it up

There are some exhaust systems on E-bay. Take a little bit of finding as they are mostly listed in Germany.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SUPERSPORT-DUPLEX ... dZViewItem

These are the wheels I have on my car, standard wheels are ET 37mm and the B6 Passat wheels appear to be ET 45mm.

http://www.4130-products.com/wheels/Catalunya.html

I have a 2002 130 tdi estate and fitted a diesel tuning box. I am able to switch the box on and off from a switch on the dash, switched off the car does 0-60 in 9.7 seconds, switched on I can consistently do 8.3 seconds and got it down to 8 seconds on one run when I managed to get it moving without ...

I have a 2002 estate and recently enquired at the local VW garage about the rear valence on my car as the previous owner must have reversed into something and scratched it.The price was around £43 total and it was even in stock. I should have thought yours would be a similar price.

I have a set of 16 inch alloys off a 2006 passat SE on my 2002 Passat and they fit just fine.Owner was upgrading to 18 inch alloys.