UKPassats

You can hand-crank it shut if it's electric and the motor has failed. Take out the interior light adjacent to the sunroof switch and its mounting plate, and you'll find somewhere to put a flat-bladed screwdriver to wind the mechanism. Hope that helps RB hi thanks,but its not the motor somethings br...

and tonight my sunroof is fooked,just need rhiannas umbrella as its stuck open on tilt

the standard bolts you have will have the vw radius seating most aftermarket wheels have a 60degree taper seating the easiest way to check would be to put standard bolt in one of the mounting holes and see if it will move around in the seating,if it does they are not the correct bolt seating.And dep...

while on one of my weekly jaunts to the breakers i found a old jag and decided to rob it of its bonnet lifters,as i thought if they could take the weight of the huge jag bonnet they would make light work of the passats.And for the two quid they cost me it was worth a go,lucky for me that i found a b...

a mass gathering of b3 passats sounds like a plan,count me in

mine yesterday @birches valley staffs after a spot of biking.

what colour?

hi how do you go about changing the power steering belt on a 2e b3 any help would most welcome and would save me hours of head scratching

cable change & passat subframe

smithy220 wrote:cheers bud

15" ive just discovered this site is well helpful

straight swap i would assume bearing in mind they did g60s and vrs from the factory

cheers bud

not the best place to ask then?

need to order one asap just wondering what size is it as i dont have the old one to measure

while watching tv this evening i was distracted by a knock on the front door,upon answering the door i was greeted by my next door neighbour explaining to me that some bastid kids had just smashed my b3s rear window :( and had seen them run off.what the *no swearing* is wrong with kids these days?ma...

blootak wrote:hummm i will investigate

but first which is the servo non return thing?

its behind the right hand side of the rocker cover, black plastic pipe with a smaller vacuum pipe coming of it and a green blanking cover should be on the other spare pipe thats not used

Horney wrote:If you want more power out of the 8v then all the above is good advice but for the same money you can wack an ABF in there and say hello to 150bhp straight away.

Nick

yeah i know what your saying but if its going to get a new power plant it would have to be forced

sounds similar to what i found with mine earlier,discovered it was the spare nipple on the servo non return valve doo dah the plastic cover that blanks it off had cracked and the end broke off causing a nice air leak and some hunting

Passat VR6 wrote:Why not just dump the lot and fit a VR6 in it !!!!!

because of these two crooks

thanks guys for all the pointers i have decided to put up my g60 corrado project up for sale so if it all sells the b3 may be in for a rude awakening :wink: until then i will go for pb head.ecu chip.and various bits of exhaust including decat.bmc cda.essex racing fpr.nology ht leads and new service ...

hi brought this of dazmeister of here and i must say I'm loving it,after initially looking for a estate car of any description to carry my mountain bikes i thought it was best to stick to what i know and decided to stick to vw. http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d87/marksmith1973/06072008451.jpg http...

thanks matt thats the informative info i was after,i think i will deffo go for the pb head as its due a cambelt change and the head gasket seems to weep a little sometimes,so it would be rude not too :wink: i think thats as far as i would want to go with it to be honest although a t60 swap could be ...

lowrider76 wrote:You could always bolt on a 1.8 head to your 2.0 bottom end...

what would the results of that swap produce

hi peeps I'm new to both the forum and passat ownership but not new to dubz :wink: after selling my mk2 1.9tsr golf I'm finding my standard passat a little too tame for my liking so I'm looking for some bolt on power upgrades,just wondering what works and what doesnt I'm considering the following. 1...