UKPassats

I must either be missing something or getting old as I don't like the look of any of those.

Just got a phone call from VW that my B6 is ready for collection after its first service and is being treated to a new set of wipers and new front tyres. I've only done just over 8000 miles in the car and managed to work my way through a pair of p-zeros, this either says something about my driving, ...

door card off and then the silver panel behind that. It has a rubber seal running around the rear side of it which can crack and leak water through into the car. It's quite hard to remove as you have to remove the window and the door latch.

If it's coming in through the bottom of the door it's possible the rubber seal on the inside of the inner door skin.

When I removed mine the rubber was perished so never sealed up again properly. Got some dumdum tape from the dealers and replaced the perished section and the leak was sorted.

Whilst in there it's also worth checking the condition of the rubber seal on the shiny metal door panel, mine had perished over the years and were letting water through after breaking the original seal so had to replace them with some dumdum tape.

On one of my many drives up to Gloucestershire I finally got fed up with the annoying creak/rattle from my interior and me and my passenger started jabbing/poking at things to find out what it was. Turns out it was the plastic casing for the interior mirror/rain sensor. I moved it from side to side ...

Didn't know that as the only B6s I've ever been in have had the climate control.

Sticking mine on demist (which also seems to fire up an electric heater) clears the screen pretty quick but on rainy days it seems to fog up again really quickly after it is turned off.

Won't be able to make this as it's the same day as a meet with a Porsche club.

Sorry chaps.

The B6 doesn't have an 'ECON' button (or at lease mine with the 2zone climate control doesn't) it does however have an aircon button and when the light is on the aircon is on.

I'm always in need of spares. My interior is a bit tatty but got no funds for this car at the moment hence the lack of any real progress, just going through doing the parts I can that don't require me buying new stuff. I rubbed down the front indicator lenses yesterday to get the dodgy black tinting...

Well I've made myself scarce lately due to being busy and not making any progress on any cars due to lack of funds but now the weather is starting to pick up I thought it was time to start pulling parts of the Porsche again (well it doesn't cost me anything to do) First up was to separate the fuel d...

Terrible news this. There are some more pictures of it on this site http://jalopnik.com/5154411/german-test-driver-killed-in-next+gen-911-convertible-crash" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; It was a 998 Cabrio prototype and it just went under the barrier Hopefully they'll take...

There is indeed but didn't notice the screw until it was too late. doh.

I'd be careful buying any Passat parts from China as their model is longer and has a few other differences littered around it.

Can someone send me some snow to...pl6 Was driving home from Gloucestershire last night (after the Severn bridge finally re-opened) and drove through some ridiculously snowy areas and came off the M5 onto the A361 and halfway down the snow suddenly disappeared. I thought the missus was making it up...

So in the snow yesterday it took me about 30 minutes just to dig myself out of a hotel car park in Gloucestershire as the snow height was about the same as the ground clearance on my car. Had to drive past work as the snow was just as deep in the entrance so decided to turn around and come back afte...

lee1 wrote:i thought this was suposed to be a free country

It is unless there is something that might threating the labour party or make them look bad in which case they'll introduce a new 'anti-terrorist' law to stop it.

*dons tin foil hat*

I've just had an interesting morning in the snow. Miles away from home got stuck in the hotel car park, dug it out then got stuck on a hill and had to be towed up by a passing 4x4 (one out of the 4 that drove past).

Needless to say Pirelli P-Zeros are useless in the snow.

This is what greeted me this morning (excuse all the snow on the window but there was no way I was going to open it)



There's a Clio under here somewhere

I think I'm going to be painting the ones on the Porsche when I strip them down for a rebuild, going to go with black though as I want to keep it nice and subtle.

Very nice, I wanted Xenons on mine but it would've been a 16 week wait for it as there was a massive backlog at the time.

I ended up with heated leather seats instead so not all bad

Nice car. Love the wheels on it, just needs a bit of a drop to sort out the cavern between the wheel and the arch ;)

What you need is a 1998 1.8 20v in light blue ;)

On a more serious note the most common fault on these cars is the plenum chamber filling up with water due to blocked drain holes and that water coming in through the cabin filter and killing the CCM/corroding the wiring.

My B6 seems to be quite happy releasing the handbrake when I pull off now but I very rarely engage the handbrake unless I am parking the car up and leaving it. If I am just stopping in traffic or at lights I let the auto hold take car of it and it behaves absolutely fine. The only thing that it gets...

Hi Dave, thanks for that. I got there in the end with the smaller sized socket, but it took a couple of attempts with th e spring flying off! :oops: The engine is a 1.8 none turbo 20V ADR (1998 build) 1999 register with the nee 153 tooth belt / tensioner. I've just heard that these 10mm head bolts ...