UKPassats

Nice tidy work Neil .. well done.

The Nokia bracket was a great idea.

Love the motor too! Lets see some pics of the rest of it sometime too.

Looks like you got all the bells and whistles on there - with CD stacker and SatNav.. and oh .. the 6speed 130horse! Oooh yess!

EI1DF out.

:roll: .. ehhhhhh .. no. !

Got laptop problem sorted (CDROM drive intermittent) .. and
have got VagCOM activation code in - so have fully functioning VagCom

.. now need a) time to learn to drive the thing and
b) transponder chips to arrive .. still haven't appeared - tho' got an email saying they ...

Criminey - quad band! --- I just got a pic on screen that showed 144 and 432 - and ASSUMED dual-band .... that is an AWESOME piece of kit -
its TINY for that power ..

.. just lookin' at the specs now .. up to 50W on 2 and below! And 35 on 70cms!

And it can listen on 800 as well! (that's a US ...

A bit off-topic :lol:

.. just looked up on the web - and I see that FT 8900 is a dual-band baby .. nice .. 2m & 70cm -

.. the weird thought I had was that you can listen to VW key-fobs!! ..
.. most of the B5s are 433MHz, and the B5.5s are mix of 433, 433.9 and 434.

.. oh you can listen to Audi ...

Quick note: . you asked about Audi A3 above .. no - won't work they're 5x100. A4 and above! (+Merc!)

Hi Neil,
No advice on the radio install OM

.. just popped in to say hello

and 73s de EI1DF

.. been QRT for a good many years now - so no /M install since 1991 !!

Hope you get inspiration. What about sideways on the passenger side of the Trans Tunnel - just in front of passenger seat?

[edit ...

OK!
Armed with radio keys and Torx keys ..
I'll be back!!

Thanks, that's cool Dave ...

have checked all those fuses on the main board - the appropriate ones - AND all the other ones too!! JTBS!

The first two pics tho' look interesting - looks like behind the Climatronic unit -
.. will whip out the radio and have a look-see there ..

the first pic ...

Thanks Dave .. that'd be great ... and much appreciated

looks like my setup was totally horlicksed by those dealer guys ..

and ya know - they even charged for a replacement fuse!! -- one that I reckon is blown again - wherever it is... I have a suspicion they might have trapped the fan wires and ...

Well done you too fluke ..

That job looks so straight-forward ..

A related question - well 2 questions - somebody out there may be able to help..

Been looking at my non-working stealer-fitted brand-new fan -
:roll:

Two questions...

1. What resistance should a working fan have (i.e. Ohms on ...

Mine's a '99 Sport TDi (called a Trendline over here) .. and the "computer" you're talking about was not standard - it was part of an option package that they called the "Technical Pack".
Assuming it was probably similar in UK ..

Hi Paul ..

I'll be havin few days off next week and week after - and it's one of my projects for my "hols"..

I'll let you know directly - once I have success..
Bit of glitch with the old laptop I have - but its solvable (FLW!)

See ya

Euge

Hey s-line .. thanks for that - and I hadn't you in mind at all - about the buzz! .. Its in all the forums I've looked at. I've seen some guys on some American forums getting right stroppy over stuff I know they are wrong on! I have had to change my mind a few times too on the technicalities of it ...

Seems so .. and I'm open to correction here - as I haven't managed to get my own VAGCOM fully sorted yet (hardware problem) ..

.. but the buzz out there is that - if a key has already been coded to one car - it cannot be coded to another one. So those second-hand keys off eBay will only be useful ...

Yep - a source of NEW transponder chips ..

http://www.automam.net/keyblanks.htm

Look down the page for:-
Chip-48

That's us! 8)

ps or maybe everyone already knows about this ..

Thank you, good Sir!

Hi .. any more info on those "vestertec" fogs> I see you got them on a PW groupbuy - but any more info? - where they made? - are they any good? ....

This seems to be standard reading for all door lock funnies --

http://www.taligentx.com/passat/mainten ... mechanism/

Just lets have pics of the new rails!!

Ya beat me to it Passat130!! ..

The 135 with the Duncan Cab! Could do with some colour coding

But great to see the progress on the Ssat, Slowpolo.

Sweet sweet sweet.

Well done. .. rool

Thanks fluke .. that was dogs ..

Had a bog 1300 mkII back then myself .. loved it. They were just so much fun - even with the 1300!

.. ah.. Waldegaard, and Russell Brooks, and our own Billy Coleman .. the Golden Years ..

.. they had such control - flick the tails any which way.. wow..

Ummm .. try this for contorted thinking ... well - first off .. bein' from Ireland ... once heard the country being referred to
as the Land of the Spud (by a radio ham in Florida.. that's another story) ..

.. and as Potato Blight caused a major ruckus here about 150 years ago (i.e "The Famine ...

Omigod ...

well - that's your offer of Ryvita done for, Eddi !!

Heyyyy.... ya knowww ya gotta line up a pic - like good & proper, maaan.