UKPassats

Here's mine :) or rather here's my old car...

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There was no oil showing on the dipstick - so it looks like it's dumped a lot of oil. (It was leaving a line of oil all over the car park). Didn't have any errors showing up on the car dash and couldn't tell if it was in limp home mode.

I sold my car a couple of months ago to a work colleague - I borrowed it to take it drive to KFC - and on the way back I heard a pop and then a wheee... sound and anytime I accellerated it made the noise, and then when parking there was loads of smoke, and oil was leaking. :0

We've had someone ...

How old is your car? saloon or estate?
What do you get if you stick to 70mph on a motorway? - you should be seeing around 49mpg/50mpg
Have you had your plenum drains unblocked?

Do your brakes stick on at all at the front or rear, or is there any excessive wear on any of your pads (any of them wear down quickly or more on left than right etc)? I had very poor mpg for a while due to brakes sticking.

Needed a new brake servo in the end:
http://www.ukpassats.co.uk/phpbb ...

Looks good - Did you spray them or leave them as is? Tyres could do with some "back to black"

Let me know when you get the centre caps - they should be in the post now.

Paypal are totally biased toward the buyer in my opinion - I think you're generally okay to use them to buy stuff - but selling is always a risk - and you must use recorded delivery (trackable online) - and must make sure you're sending to confirmed address. Horrible horrible company, but even ...

Have you checked your plenums to see if they're blocked? Is there any stagnant water around where you park your car? Is your pollen filter dry? Are you carpets dry?

I paid £290 for cambelt + pretensioner kit + alternator + waterpump and this was the cheapest locally to me. Most wanted £350 for cambelt and waterpump. Make sure you get the waterpump done at the same time as well.

The garage found a cup of water in the brake servo - this is being replaced - hopefully this will resolve all my problems with the car.

hi there had a nasty experiance yesterday as i was driving aalong the m4 and applied my brakes to slow down and the pedal went down and didnt come back up this and there for all the brakes where jammed on and came to a holt on the motorway manged to rev the car and forcefully get it to the hard ...

yeah - I don't like that site

Looks a lot like my first passat :)

Check with VW to see if there's any recalls regarding the plenum chamber - it'll possibly need unblocking.

Also I'd definitely recommend replacing the headunit - but would also recommend trying it with the stock speakers - they are surprisingly good in my ...

Wow - nice car

But also - Wow that's a lot of work needed for a new car! :o

Mine are different 1JO AH, and the new one I got is 1KO and G, so hopefully I'll be able to send mine back for the right one.

edit - beaten to it :) You can pull the key apart - the bottom part with the buttons and keyring loop seperate from the top with the key blade and logo. When seperated you ...

dave_1 wrote:Hi
What frequency did you get?
For what year car?

Dave

Mines a '51 / 2001 reg car - both the original key and the new key are 434mhz.

I'm in a similar position, except I bought a spare key off ebay, none of the above have worked for me either. I've got vagcom but only the shareware version and it wont let me save a new key to the system :( I think I'd need the full version to do this...

If you search for the vag com locator on ...

I tried the above and it didn't work for me... looks like I'll need to use vagcom.

The manual says this:

Syncronisation:

If the vehicle cannot be unlocked by pressing the opening button, it could be that the code of the key no longer matches that of the control unit in the vehicle. This can ...

Found this on vwvortex:

Programming the remote…
You can do this with either a VAG-COM or two keys of your car. But if you only have one key, then a VAG-COM (or your dealer) is your only solution. See the VAG-COM instructions here:
http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/cars/vw-remote-matching.html ...

Just had a look at the map - has anyone got Vag Tacho in the Northwest?

I've ordered a blank new key off ebay - they say it comes with the transponder - and they've emailed instructions for programming the remote - but it doesn't look like they've sent any details on how to program the immobiliser... (or will it program the immob as well, if it's blank?) or do I still ...

Pay off mortgage, buy a few houses to rent out, then quit my job or go part time, and do some other fun job regardless of whether it's profitable or not :) rally driver springs to mind, and travel the world. Buy a new car - (or two) - family car like the Passat R32 - BMW MINI Cooper S (or whatever ...

They've changed my flexi today - said it was contaminated. They also said the rears were very low so are changing them as well.

This didn't fix the problem :(
When it does lock on - pumping the brakes seems to cure it for a bit - but then it happens again 5 minutes later :|

Looks like it's ...

Apparently this is quite a common problem on the Audi A4, A6, Superb, Passat, due to the plenum chamber filling, and the brake servo sucking up water...

http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=46527&highlight=Brakes+Sticking" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www ...

They've changed my flexi today - said it was contaminated. They also said the rears were very low so are changing them as well.