UKPassats

I have changed a dash instrument cluster and a climatronic, but never one of these. I imagine it would not be very difficult as long as you have a bit of electronics knowledge and know how to use a soldering iron carefully (this was my job for 20 years). The leds can be purchased from ebay, google s...

Just traded in my B5 and got myself a 2 litre 140 B6. Superb car or so I thought until I read some of the posts on here concerning this vehicle. It would appear I have bought what appears to be a problem model, believe I have the BKP engine (too cold to go out and check) well it is the 57 model so I...

Thanks for all your help, still looking and would like any comments.......can I find a spec list for that era anywhere???

Just wondered if anyone could offer a little help here. Looking to buy a B5.5, with about £3000. I currently have a petrol B5 (1997) and wish to upgrade to a diesel a bit newer. Want to know a little bout model specs, what to look for, what sort of mileage I should consider etc. Thinking I could ge...

This is relatively easy as long as you are ok with a soldering iron. I changed my 1997 passat from green to blue, and it took me a couple of hours. To go from blue to white would not be a problem as white leds operate at a similar voltage to blue. You will need to by surface mounted leds from ebay a...

I fitted a set of HID upgrades and put the car through an MOT test with some trepidation. Well it passed with no comments at all, and the garage is a reputable one so I am sure it was checked. The car incidentally is a 1997 passat 1.8 SE with ordinary (non projector) headlamps.

I replaced all the needles on my 97 B5 and also all the leds on the pcb to get a blue lit dash. This was prior to purchasing Vagcom. The needles needed drilling out to 1.7mm dia to get them to fit but a pcb drill and a vernier are not expensive.

Good luck

Has happened to me 3 times now, once with a cc and twice with the bank. CC was for £1250, and bank was somewhere in the region of £1200 each time, and I got every penny back on all occasions. The credit card took the longest though at about 3 months. I am fastidious about security but still got do...

I was under the impression it already has an intercooler!

Forward from the original post, I have managed to get the car to start and run with the immo 3 cluster. I cannot however get the rev counter to work, and it shows 'low oil pressure stop engine' in the display even though this is not the case!! I feel I am fairly close to getting this working, but ne...

Following on from this, is it possible to swap a immo3 cluster into a immo 1 car?

I would like a bit of general advice re a cluster swap!! I have a later cluster with the silver rings and when I fit it into my 97 B5 when I eventually get it to start the rev counter does not work. It also comes up with a low oil pressure warning. Is there some sort of incompatibility here or am I ...

mines in astate as well.

try this one:

http://volkswagen.msk.ru/index.php?p=page09_b5

root around a bit they are all there.

Has anyone on this forum got Vagdashcom or anything similar to access the SKC from a motometer instrument set. My vagtacho will not login and just says 'access denied'

The little bullet you refer to is just a component with an electronic number in it, when you touch this on the connector in the boot it is effectively a key. I googled the number off the component in mine to find this out.

12v LOL...........no seriously, just measure it and find one that fits with the terminals on the correct side. I have one out of an Astra in mine and it works ok, as long as it has reasonable capacity. A friend of mine used to use wheelchair batteries, and I have also done this when I worked for a c...

I have a 1997 1.8 SE and it has the trip computer, and now after converting it a BLUE DASH of which I am very proud.

My wife has kindly offered to buy me Vag com for my birthday!! I am wondering what version I should get, the shareware or the proper cable from Rosstech. I have a 1997 passat and dont want to get the shareware version for $100 when I really need the full version for $249. Any advice would be gratefu...

Inside this is a little chip with a security number on it. If you briefly touch it on the little socket in the boot it enables or disables the alarm horn AFAIK.

http://volkswagen.msk.ru/

most of this is in Russian, but there is also a lot in English and the manuals are excellent