Small update. Swapped the sensor from behind the badge with the sensor from the wife's golf. Mine didn't have the error on the golf after turning ignition on and off a few times. Golf sensor in Passat had more errors. Sensors look identical other than the VW sticker all other codes and branding were...
So error message this morning "front assist unavailable" Had this after VW had changed the waterpump and they claimed it was cob web in front of the sensor. This was immediately after the repair. Anyway they got it working again and this was 2 months ago. Anyway it's not working again. Tak...
What a brilliant post to see. All too often all we do is complain about bad service and forget to reward the good. Hopefully you'll get many happy years of motoring out of it now.
Might be worth looking up my post which sounds similar. Mine was a sticky valve on the waterpump. Basically car would overheat in first 15 minutes of driving sometimes enough to put on warning light. I'd stop the car and the switch would unstick meaning it would be ok the rest of that day. Fault was...
Yeah I can normally hear the fans working overtime to cool the engine when I stop.
It's in with VW for a new coolant pump. Apparently some Microswitch that can fail.