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Excellent, its been driving me loopy googling that all morning!

Many thanks for your help madrob!

Cheers madrob, its close but not the one. I'm after the long black plastic part that sits just underneath the headlight and indicators, about a foot long and bolted to the metal bumper reinforcement... think your right with the idea of a scrapper tho, will drop by on the way home on the off chance o...

Hey guys Its been quite a while since I had time to work on the B5, she's been sitting for quite a while. First things first I need to repair all the old/cracked/scratched body parts, and after removing the front bumper I've found that behind a crack on the nearside theres a black plastic thing that...

same here, got some genuine a4's and need more space to take the width!

Hi all I'm putting together my long overdue list of additions for my B5 (delays due to new house and lots of money been spent on it) and have been trying to find some wheel arch extensions. I know a lot of you probably won't like them but hey, if we all liked the same thing it'd just be boring! So f...

I’m a big advocate of buying ex-cabs, having had two before the passat, both at over 150k. They have very stringent MOT’s and are generally kept well.

May be going against the grain there but that’s my experience!

I'm looking for recommendations for a decent vw indy service centre in the birmingham area. I've read good things about Volks in Coventry here at ukp, but would ideally take me passat somewhere closer to B'ham city centre. Work and moving house makes it hard for me to travel far! If i can't find an ...

great find fluke! love the fear and loathing one on the web site

Have a look in your handy haynes manual, I followed the instructions there to take out my carpet while suffering with the VW swimming pool feature!

Bobman also posted some pics of doing the same viewtopic.php?t=546

May come in handy

Thanks for the advice bobman. Its dead on the edge of wall/tread. Not gonna risk it, just got two new front tyres.

has just gone through my tyre, four days after buying a new set

225/45/18's are sooo expensive!

sorry, rant over!

Would be interesting if his airbag went off!

krismc PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject: yeah agreed, put the blanks on, or even as a trick effect the chrome covers. i heard early b5's are prone to this lock problem, they were improved from about 98> If they did, they missed mine! (1999) blanking it off sounds a good idea to me ...

where does the law stand on making door handles live nowadays? :wink: love to watch the little gits fry! I'm thinking about covering the lock entirely and just using the fob. Its not very often I use the key anyway. Is there a practical way to stop this happening and not having to replace the fuse e...

... by my passats alarm going off :shock: ran outside to find all windows down, and found that some little *%$£er has simply popped my passenger side lock clean out! Must have used a flat head screw driver to turn the lock mechanism once the lock cylinder was out and dropped all the windows. Thank ...

My wifes just told me that her nail polish remover is largely ammonia. Its a trip to boots then?!

White spirit sounds good to me. Thanks strictlyVAG

I'm trying to remove the tint on my front side windows... went a bit over the top and my freindly local constabulary have told me under no uncertain circumstances that it is to be removed :( I've found a helpful link - http://www.doityourself.com/stry/automtintremoval and it seems ammonia is the pri...

F20 16v. I missed that car... until my 'ssat!

Like the rover Mach110 K series engine? I Used to have one of the 600's with Honda engine, went like stink!

Tis indeed bobman, got a bit of touching up to before I post any pics. Love this silver/blue colour, its the dogs danglies

Very nice

I've just got the privacy glass installed in my saloon ready for a similar install. No kids to benefit from it... I just like gadgets!

Good luck with stage 2 and get some pics up so we can see the finished product

Hey Mach110, fellow brummie and noobie!

Thanks for the paint code number bobman, I've been looking around for that

Got any plans for your dub Mach110?

The festy has served me well, although I'm not exactly sad to see it go. I've sold it to my young Brother-in-Law who's just going through Uni and wants something cheap and reliable. Poor kid thinks I'm doing him a favour! :wink: Jumping into the Passat feels like I'm sat on a sofa in comparison! Gon...

I'm already starting to feel the pinch in my pocket! Costs soooo much more than my good old Fiesta 1.8d to run and service etc... then again you get what you pay for :wink: Hi fellow brummies erl72 and bobman, I'm in Sutton at the moment, soon to be moving into a smaller house in Great Barr... to pa...

Hello ukpassats! I've been a voyeur of your forum for the last couple of months after purchasing my first ever VW Passat.. a 1999 1.8 SE. This site was a deal clincher, as the Passat at the time of purchase the Passat didn't have any power to windows or interior lights, alarm was malfunctioning... s...