My Passat

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Podie

46,630 posts

276 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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Did you get the brakes fitted?

Any other tinkering?

big dub

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4,045 posts

218 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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No paperbag

I waited till after last winter, as my winter wheels are 17" and wouldn't fit over the brakes, but haven't had the money to get bigger winter wheels, so the brakes are up for sale. :-/

Only change has been to the airride. I had a manual management before with a tall/fat 5 gallon tank and 2x 380c compressors, I've changed all that for an Airlift V2 management, skinny 5 gallon tank and 2x 440c compressors. The main reason for the change was that the old set-up took up a lot of the boot space. So now I've been able to drop the boot floor back down, and I just have to get the build how I want it now. I'll post a pic once it's done.

colin_p

4,503 posts

213 months

Wednesday 25th November 2015
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Top work.

[edit] yours is NOT a shed, obviously!

The B5 / B5.5 TDI Passat seems to be a best kept secret on here. Especially now as they are so cheap, they are very good for shedding. Exactly the same mechanically as the same era Audi A6 if you ignore the exotic engines.

A standard one might be boring and not the fastest but there really isn't anything better for shedding especially with the good old bullet proof 1.9 PD TDI engine.

GrantB5

572 posts

89 months

Monday 2nd January 2017
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No idea if you still own this or not but how difficult was it to the Passat CC seats to fit, more so the rear. Yours look a half decent fit and I was told it can't be done.

Although I have b5 estate..