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griggsey wrote:looks tidy.

Its always nice to see some OEM rides on here aswell.

Keep this thread up to date.

Thanks mate, will do, lots of things to tidy on her already.

So I am back in the Passat fold. I originally had a B5.5 estate, which after 230k and doing 70k in 2 years due to driving to a job far away each day, it died a horrible death and was exchanged for a.....1.8 TDCI LX Ford Focus :roll: It was an impulse buy because the estate was losing water every jou...

Both of my dipped beams are not working at the moment.

Side lights, all indicator bulbs and full beams are fine.

I have checked the fuses (15amp), replaced these, and also put new bulbs in and still nothing.

What else is there to check?

Thanks

Sorry Karl its a 2001 estate 1.9TDI 130 sport

My car has a coolant leak. Unfortunately I can't get to the car at the moment as I am away but I want to pick up the part on my way home tonight. Its leaking from a small rubber cap which feeds off the passenger side of the bay. It literally fits onto a hard metal coolant pipe on he right of the eng...

loving the standard rims, so FRESH looking

tunk wrote:Fuse 44 is for the heated seats 30a fuse (should be green).

sweet cheers mate, will try that

where is the fuse box on the passats by the way? (sorry im being very lazy lol)

The heated seats option stopped working in both seats a few months ago, just never got round to asking why

as both went at the same time, is this a fuse. if so which one? car is a 2001 b5.5 passat

Thanks

next up was spraying the throttle body and manifold tray http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/ManifoldTray.jpg http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/TBSprayed.jpg manifold tray dry and crinkled http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/CrinkledManifold...

Next up was to remove the inlet manifold, as this was getting sprayed before http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/EngineBay.jpg during http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/EngineBay3.jpg dirty TB http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/EngineBay2.jp...

Another Seat enthusiast was breaking his mint LCR, so I had to have the LCR spoiler as this is bigger than the LC one http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/LCRSpoiler.jpg more wrinkle paint http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/Wrinklepaint.jpg new turbo bolts and n...

Sooo, bit of an update Started stripping the interior as part of the weight saving exercise http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/stripduring.jpg puddle of water in the drivers side footwell http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/puddledriversside.jpg One of the drai...

ordered the new turbo bolts today with nordloc washers from Bill Brockbank at www.badger5.co.uk, and ordered all the new gaskets and gubbings to go with the re-install of the turbo Already got the fully synthetic oil purchased from halfords a while ago waiting to go in Ordering the 19mm oil and petr...

battery cover http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/Batterycover.jpg and decided to give the car a quick clean and wax, as she needed protecting over the cold months http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/Snowing.jpg Paint is a mess, rough surface to it, despite clay...

sooo, bit of an update metal etcher http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/IMG_9269.jpg charge pipe done http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/IMG_9266.jpg Black wrinkle paint http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jamiebennett81/IMG_9268.jpg charge pipe http://i253...

got the turbo off yesterday, and some pretty obvious issues with it Hot side has a big crack running through it, and the scraping sound around 4000rpm adds up as there is quite a bit of movement in the shaft, and slight scraping around the sides of the intake where the turbine sits Annoyingly enough...

well, the turbo is *no swearing* I put the bits back together tonight as I found the TIP was hanging off, and the jubilee clip was not even remotely tight, so I tightened this all back up, as I thought this may have been causing the squeeling sound... Sadly not. Speaking with my mechanic, he says if...

well, is it the turbo or isn't it? Started removing the bolts from the turbo...then I thought the other day "that TIP felt very loose"....so I inspected it and it was hanging half off the intake to the turbo. The jubilee clip was not even remotely tight, just spinning around the TIP to th...

well I went to take off the downpipe yesterday, and out of two large chests of tool drawers, do you think I had the right size spanner...did I flip! 15mm...too small and 17mm...too big!

Went to Halfords today and got a new pro 16mm flexi spanner, yay, new tool!

well it seems soaking the turbo bolts in WD40 for 24 hours did the trick. Managed to loosen all 3 of them, which is good news so far Sprayed the downpipe bolts tonight and will be leaving those for 24 hours to soak, and will have a go at loosening those tomorrow ready for the tubby to come off at th...

blimey its all uphill there pal to get it back to former self ! good luck ant Cheers mate. Some essential cleaning products arrived in the post yesterday: Victoria concours wax (Red) Meguiars clay bar Chemical guys speed detailer Going to wash her tomorrow possibly, to get most of the poo off, then...

Well as promised here are the images of car in her current state...not exactly pretty compared to the pictures when she was on form Just sprayed a load of WD40 onto the turbo bolts and will leave these soaking over night, as they weren't budging earlier... http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6155/6254102...

I used to have a 2003 20vt cupra ...had it from new in platinum grey .. fantastic car and loved it ... I still get to see it once a week .... as the ex wife kept it !.... so now I can slowly watch it degrade :hyst I couldn't bare to watch it degrade :hyst I will migrate this thread into the Seat Le...

glws...those carbon and polished bits are pure car sex ^:)^ cheers mate she has now been sold and I have got my old car back, after selling it a year ago, i badly regretted it. It came up for sale and I grabbed it :ymhug: This is her back in her prime. Nothing has changed since I have sold her...ju...

now for sale guys, spread the word

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