UKPassats

DMitch16 wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2019 2:45 pm

mclean1979 wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 9:03 pm
When it's time to say goodbye to the car I will be sad because I can never buy a vag car ever again

Why ever not?

I feel let down by dieselgate.

Car completed 111111 miles today :0

2010 2.0 tdi cr Passat b6 highline plus wagon

Purchased aged two years at 19k miles for £15, 000 in 2012

One front suspension arm
one steering column fault (fixed free)
one set of brake disks
two sets of brake pads
one manifold flap restrictor bracket (£60 ...

I'm interested to know why people do this pulse and glide technique. Seems utterly ridiculous to turn your engine off constantly and vary your speed so much in cycles. If you were in front of me and I couldn't get past I would be going nuts.

Why not just drive in a sensible and economical way? Is ...

Thank you, mclean. I did notice. I saw that your mechanic pulled the inlet manifold to install the repair bracket which is the only way I thought it could be done on the black plastic manifold. There is another way though. We've been sending out wrench kits to our customers overseas that want to ...

Hello, this is Jim from Dieselgeek here in the States. I just want to state for the record that I developed this part and we are the sole seller of the "genuine" part. Any other claim is not true. Buying from copycats just rewards the copycats. They cannot even seem to write their own copy for ...

Keeping a keen eye on things but taken no action as yet. Not happy to hear that the fix has caused issues with some cars and certainly not taking the car into the main dealer for them to mess with my software. I'm annoyed that there is no explanation about what exactly they want to change.

My light came on the other week, scanned it and had the same fault, but been clear since. I've seen the fix also done by drilling and tapping a hole, and using a long bolt through it.

That's how mine started. Would go off for a few weeks, them a few days. After a few months it stayed on ...

You lucky lucky person. Onebenefit of the bigger job was that my mechanic cleaned out my egr. Good luck with the repair

I dont recall if I had the same exact code as you but it did state p2015 (I used cheap Bluetooth dongle and torque app).

I would try to get someone knowledgable to perform the range test before shelling out for the part

The engine cover pops off easily and you can see yourself. I was able to identify the manifold using the video on dieselgeek (I've never had the engine cover off). UK are mostly plastic manifold. Aluminium manifold fix can be fitted in 10 mins without removing it but like I said, 3hrs labour if it's ...

Got the p2105 fault and intermittent emissions warning light. Light ended up staying on after a while. Months later put it into indy. He very simply placed a screwdriver under the motor arm to bring the motor arm back into correct range and rescanned with vcds. No fault recorded.

Ordered part from ...

No worries, this is the one I got. You can get it cheaper but it worked well. Took a few weeks to arrive
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01AC7 ... ref=plSrch

Elm 327 and torque. It plugs into the port just under the right hand lower trim in the footwell

All depends what you want to do with the VCDS lead. If you just want to read and clear fault codes on modules something like the carista app on an android phone with a bluetooth dongle for £5 off Fleabay is pretty good.
There are several different code readers available at various prices.
Of ...

Just had mine changed for the second time for £279.74 including VAT in comparison it makes mine look very reasonable but that's what you get by not using VW garages. :esm :esm by the way mine has done 186,903 and getting 47 mpg however my wife gets 55/60 mpg not such a heavy right foot!!! Will be ...

£462 paisley, local vw Indy Inc auxiliary belt, timing, pump and anti freeze. 2.0 tdi

Are they genuine vw parts? Are you fitting them yourself? If you are getting them directly from vw I don't see how they can be the wrong ones.

My mechanic says that 70-75k is reasonable for original shocks so clearly so getting is amiss.

Have you considered engine mounts?

Think I have traced a creak to this and will find out for sure shortly

Give it a course of Shell V Power, like about 900L -- cost you more per gall but that'll shift any intermittent grot in the fuel rail. About the same as two bottles of Forte if you use all the Club Card discounts
What are you running it on now? Hope not supermarket soup?

I have the shell card ...

Give it a course of Shell V Power, like about 900L -- cost you more per gall but that'll shift any intermittent grot in the fuel rail. About the same as two bottles of Forte if you use all the Club Card discounts
What are you running it on now? Hope not supermarket soup?

I have the shell card ...

For the big 1500 mile run I filled the tank with esso's premium diesel. From there it's been a mixture of asda and tesco regular diesel. There is a shell on the way to work so I'll give it some of the good stuff as a treat

Well it's back to normal and even had a little bit of tough idle yesterday (think that's what it is called, the car vibrates slightly and feels like it is moving). Mpg city driving on an 8 mile trip was 47 mpg two nights ago bit now back to regular 35 - 40 depending on how I drive.

Weirdest thing ...

Hey board,

Per title, last night my 2.0 tdi cr 2000, 75k miles appeared to have a very noticeable increase in both power and mpg (per trip computer).

How is this even possible?

Over the last 6 months I have been doing far less motorway miles and the car was starting to feel sluggish but two ...

Take it to a specialist. After a year messing around with Kwik fit and a vw garage I finally took it to an auto electronics place with the proper gear for air con testing. Nitrogen test found leak at condenser. Regassed and still no engagement from compressor so both changed. £300 plus vat for ...

Four years, 60,000 miles and only non consumable is steering column fault which happened a few weeks outside warranty and was covered by manufacturer and stealer. I have an issue with air con compressor just now but I have to say that this has been my best car by miles and the first one I have ...