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all the new problems ive had: heater matrix split week before christmas last year, fixed week later heater resistor packed up, fixed with 78p thermal fuse from maplins (vw wanted £58!) rear pads+wheel bearings wore out, fixed after much swearing at caliper carrier bolts wishbone bushes started clo...

the letter B refers to it being VW's midsize car paltform, so the Golf, Jetta, Audi A3 etc are on the A platform (compact car), the Audi A6 is on the C platform, and the Pheaton, Audi A8 etc are on the D platform. The number refers to the version- so the current new shape passat is the 6th generatio...

same here, direct line wanted another £200 to renew this year, and im the same age as you. They did try to match all the quotes I got but they wouldnt do mods so cancelled anyway. Hare you tried Brentacre? cheapest by far for me, beat last years direct line quote but with all mods declared. Good gu...

esso garage at top of my road is still 99.9 for unleaded so could be worse . . . still a rip off though. Put £30 worth in the GT last week and it didnt even go past 1/2 way on the guage

any news/pics on the haircut front? ;)

yay the celebrity stool makes an appearance again! 8)

shaved wiper does look good but its quite a useful thing ;)

especially in winter, with the amount of poo that gets sucked onto the rear screen on a wagon!

dont seem to have got your pm? if you cant get it to work email me at matt_whiting (at) hotmail dot co dot uk unfortunetely dont really need anything at the mo, except an exhaust but its going in for a stainless one in the new year . . . dont need any trim, mines all complete now :) Cheers though, i...

got the seat base off (cover and foam) and given it a clean, came up nice actually so would be fine to fit.

So all good to go if you want it

cool good work!

it is the same fabric. Ill go see if i can get the fabric off and clean it up, if it comes up ok ill drop the cover in the post

PM me your address and i'll get it sorted

hmm just been to have a look at the old seats, been keeping them in the old fiat uno thats on the end of our drive waiting to go the to scrappers, and all the old seats have gone mouldy, big white mildew spots all over them. took most of it down the tip, still got the passenger seat tho and ill have...

i now have a spare passat GT badge- I have painted the lettering silvery grey (but masked off the little space between passat and GT)

would be easy to spray it black again though. Its in one peice and all the lugs are on the back.

I can see how much it is to post to canada if you want?

yea you should just need the bit with the gears on behind the facia plate, part 1 on this picture: http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q140/lufbramatt/119000.png also try to get the cables if you can, "just in case". The mechanism inside the heater box is pretty chunky so im pretty certain ...

by the way what pattern is your fabric on your seats? ive also got a set of GT seats, drivers seat has a hole in but the passenger seat is fine, if you cant get the one from the scrappers then your always welcome to the one ive got :) mine is medium grey with light grey horizontal and vertical lines.

fan werls on 2 and 4....... lol Mine works on all speeds but I can't change the direction - it's stuck solid on the windscreen setting, can't get warm air on my feet in winter :( mine used to be exactly the same- when i took the dash apart to do the heater matrix it turned out one of the arms that ...

see if you can get the GT door trims +arch covers off it, the canadian guy on here really really wants a set . . .

my best freebie was a free ticket to the goodwood revival earlier in the year 8)

im in the same office as the purchasing department so they always get free chocolates and stuff from their suppliers which they share out

hehe good work! Eddi has done a similar thing on hers, we couldnt work out why her car always sat about 15mm lower than mine even tho it had stock suspension on, turns out the 195/50/15's she has are smaller than the standard 185/65/14's on my old bus. only a subtle drop but makes a difference! need...

not sure why it dosnt work but its not a tested item on the mot so doesnt matter if its broken

number 1 all over then leave it another 14 years ;)

i think you need to provide us with a photo, then like we do with lowering cars/ choosing alloys, we can fotochop your hair into various appealing styles hehe

pm markspassrat on here, he has a bodyshop in leeds should be able to sort you out ;) really nice guy.

has a purple b4 too hehe

hmmmm annoyingly thats true, the files i looked at happened to be in english.

Still, some useful pictures in there though lol

Gary wrote:

Then Sally came down to the garage and informed Gary that was his shirt she ironed for tomorrow



Looks like you're making good progress tho Gaz, keep it up! 8)

click here

all the VAG technical documents for most models available as PDF's, just click through the folders to find what bits you need

First level is what part category you need, then the model (b3, b4, b5 etc)

looks great with body colour blue centers imo