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Hi you said its a 98 car, and the red light on the remote comes on when you push the buttons there is no red light on the remotes for that age of passat. The remote should have the semi circular buttons, if it has square buttons it for a B5.5 and wont work as the frequeny is different.

If temp sensor goes open circuit the ecu thinks engine cold all the time and will run the glow plugs longer than usual, (a trick for testing power to glow plugs when engine hot, disconnect temp sensor) sensor is located in water pipe at rear of head behind and below egr valve pointing towards driver...

Since there is no requirement for a cat on a diesel car why dont you do as I did and make up a bypass pipe then you can go take the old one to the scrappy, I got £50 for the old one from my car, the turbo seems to spool up quicker with it removed.

Re no plate lights, remove lights and check for power and ground at light, mine had no ground ie earth connection, fixed it by connecting brown wire inside bootlid to metalwork inside bootlid, that also fixed the bootlight which didnt work, otherwise the wiring that runs up the passengerside hinge w...

From inside car lock with the button next to the electric window swithes on drivers door and see if all doors stay locked

Dont want to be smart but what was the HC reading? If it passed the HC check then its unlikely to be the cat, was engine really warm when it was tested? The reason I ask is we often get motors in which have failed the emission test at the local fast fit centre because they never made sure the engine...

One of your doorlatches isnt deadlocking, go into car and lock with button on drivers door usually the faulty door will lock then unlock straight away, often happend when the coutesy light switch in a latch stops working, close all doors wait for interior light to go out then open doors in turn and ...

Did you check if the front wheels were fouling on the brake caliper?

Only problem I had was the mounting bracket on the new one was a different shape from the old one so you couldnt just line it up against the mark left by the old one, needed to measure position of wheel in arch relative to otherside so dont remove both at same time.

They are available from Euro car parts, they come complete with mounting bracket and are a simple bolt on job. I replaced one on my car and the noise was still, there turned out to be a knackered shocker. Hope this helps

Have done a few of these at work all turn out to we waterpump impeller come off shaft, 1 inparticular I remember guy thinking he had a leaky radiator kept topping up header tank and kept going till headgasket went, ended up costing him almost a grand to it sort out!!!!!!!!!

Tempted by set of 17" Monza alloys for my B5 There genuine BBS with as new Quality tyres for £400, I know you can get new 18" copies with economy tryes for mot much more but am concerned with there quality!!
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You can legaly drive your vehicle to the testing station for mot without mot or road tax providing it is insured and the test is booked in advance ( that means is is booked in and most importantly the testing station has your details and registration no written in the book because if your stopped by...

the fact all three codes come up "sporadic" makes me think of an intermittent wiring fault, look in wiring diagrams for wiring common to all three components and look in that direction

Had these on my B4 tdi with Mintex pads and the discs were worn out before pads forget it

You can switch on/off airbags using Vag-Com by opening airbag controller and using adaptation option, I did this recently at work to switch one back on, cant remember which block it was but have looked at it on various models and can only switch on/off passenger airbag on my car ( 99 B5 tdi ) wherea...

We are talking about diesels here!! There certainly are no oxy sensors on my car, as far as I know the only ones with sensors are the most recent cars with particle filters.

Thought of that but due to shape of pipework it is impossible to see inside to know if youve got it all out. Have also been told the gasses going through the empty box will ressonate giving a strange note. other way would be to cut open box smash out cat then put pipe inside to direct gasflow and we...

Was thinking about doing the same myself but not wanting to chop up the cat on the car as it was replaced by the previos owner. Simple solution, bought second hand one on E bay cost including post £25, have made a jig to hold it all together, plan is to cut out the cat and replace it with a suitabl...

Hi mate I thought the same as you and that sport meant it would have sport suspension, apparantly sport package was mearly sport seats and alloys, if your car still has its original shocks sport ones are red in colour hope this helps.