UKPassats

dont be silly paint them black! ;)

looks good mate i just wish i could slam mine aswell but my car is a taxi aswell as my family car so i cary a full load alot of the time plus far to many speed bumps. a lot of the time its just me but sometimes its full with a full boot and have no probs at all. i do take bumps slowly just in case ...

i got done for my german pressed plates, the camera in their car could not read it (i know this because the nice officer made me watch!) i was polite, apologised and pleaded ignorance. said i didnt realise they wer illegal, only bought them because they looked better. whether they believed that BS o...

mines down 55mm, depending on which ones you got mine are ap they can settle up to 10mm or so

just an 'enthusiastic' drive home from the garage settled the backs a bit

looking good mate, i had to take the mud flaps off mine couldnt stand the scraping noise, how you getting on with them?

the website is TT only at the moment but if you email or ring them justin or dave will sort you out

Jk* wrote:

88rsr wrote:theres the bmc cda kit which replaces the whole airbox on passats i believe?

Not for the V6, I have already looked into this.

TTS Roadsport (ttshop.co.uk) told me they could do a BMC for my v6 will special piping think they quoted me

Passat's use the audi Torsen system as the B5/5.5 is based on the B5 S4/C5 S4 system. As said best keeping tread depths as similar as possible.......it's a slow burner, but eventually wears out the diffs if you have uneven tread. Think different widths are ok cos lambos are most certainly wider at ...

yeh sounds good to me.

i have a few mates with VAG cars, ill pm some of the members from our area on here to gauge interest

weekends are best for me as i work away a lot, maybe 15th/16th august?

Looks really good now its dropped, have you thought about some spacers for the rear, they look a little lost on the rear. :wink: Certainly like the way you have gone with this...good work. :cool: cheers mate spacers should be on this saturday all being well! being a fellow '4motioner' ill ask your ...

hi guys thought i would do a quick update as its now dropped 55mm, i took the mudflaps off aswell due to a lot of horrible scraping noises!

spacers, w8 exhaust and valance to come

hi guys, couple of quick pics, i washed her specially for you! only got a couple the batteries ran out on the camera they are more charcoal than black, its lowered 55mm on coilovers http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9708/dscn0751e.jpg http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4240/dscn0753u.jpg Excellent, thank...

rorajf wrote:I posted up a photoshop request about this actually, have you got more pics mate?

i got a few pics but before its been lowered, ill give it a wash and put some pics up over the weekend

mine are not gloss black but will give you an idea, see below.

Dan

in a village just north, Brixworth if you know it?

there is a couple of others on here around this area so maybe we could do a mini meet sometime?

paulking22 wrote:I am up for a meet, I'm in Northampton so the closer the better .

Seriously though, I am happy with any venue just can't do Sunday's.

Im in Northampton aswell!

found these guys in performance vw, thought it may be of interest to some of you

they are US but do ship here and do some different stuff to what ive seen before

http://www.tmtuning.com/vw/

Dan

B5.5 Northampton

the wheels are genuine 18" rs6 painted charcoal, there is a thread in members motors with a picture. my car goes in for coilovers on the 30th so i will have some better pictures after then. i think the cv joint has gone as it is making the noise which several people have said about on here, was...

Delorean

What do i win?!

i would be defo up for a meet, as a relative newbie would be good to see faces and get some inspiration! looking at those names and locations who might be interested, would around nuneaton be central to everyone? i dont know the area but maybe we could look into a suitable place if everyone agrees Dan

have you had the arches rolled or do they tuck inside nicely? i'm on the look out for some coilovers as we speak, your car has inspired me lol i have 5 mint condition speedlines (well centre caps are a bit shabby) but they are all mine and i'm keeping them lol :D but i'm thinking i may have them re...

thanks for the comments guys. i expected some negative ones about the choice of colour!

black wheels always seem to divide opinion

thanks for the quick reply.

the car is goin in to TTS Roadsport for coilovers and few other bits, i just wanted to know before hand what else im likely to be paying out for!

hi all, when changing my wheels i noticed a lot of oil inside the front passenger wheel. it is all over the back of the brake area , sorry for not having a better description as a novice to anything mechanical does anyone have suggestions what it could be. i thought maybe CV joint but there is no so...