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check your power steering fluid did you change the water pump at the same time?

orange coolant and crunchy pipes mean rust, at some point someone has put the wrong antifreeze in and now the block has rusted and all bit's of rust go round with the coolant and block up all the pipes the rad and heater.

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a retaining panel of some sort

check for air leaks on the intake aswell

yes its an interference engine He claims that the engine just died and that he heard no kind of nasty noises when it did. and i'll bet he tryed to restart it and bent a few more valves

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[ QUOTE ] Any VeeDubbers thinking of going ? [/ QUOTE ] we are going with 4 golfs 2 mk3 vr6's a mk2 (vr6 engine) a mk2 (1.8t engine) and a polo diesel (with a 4 hour head start )

try this http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/cars/absbleeding.html

is the car on the crappy avs or the fixed servicing?

your clutch master cylinder is fecked

with the engine cold and the heater/climatronic all off both fans should be off when you turn on the heater/climatronic the fans should come on slow speed with little to no noise

its over boosting try a new N75 as posted (about £40 and far cheaper then a turbo)

[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Was trying to avoid bending over for it Will try John Fox.. Was hoping someone would know of an independent source.. [/ QUOTE ] The dealer should be your first point of call. Then you know what sort of cost to expect, it may suprise you. I bought some rear pads for my sister's A3 1.8t the other day - £25 all in - not bad at all If they were £80 I probably would've gone elsewhere.... BUB [/ QUOTE ] jaystock do mintex pads for under £8

my old A3 2.0 tdi used no oil at all in the 6 months/ 2k i had it (thinking about it audi had it for about 5 months changing bits that broke or fell off)

is there any smoke from the exhaust when or just after its lost power if so what colour smoke?

the immobiliser on the key can only be coded once , so you can't get an ebay key recoded, you can get them to open the doors but not to start the car

if your have a 5.5 passat and if you can get hold of oem xenon headlamps ie w8 they are plug and play

[ QUOTE ] I reckon the previous owner mixed the VW coolant with blue stuff, which started to cause sludge, hence causing water pump failure, leading to blocked waterways and minor head gasket failure. As for more heat from heaters, VW say, its a common problem with my engine code, that the engine dont get that hot, could drill hole in thermostat to increase flow. [/ QUOTE ] glad to hear its all sorted now but don't drill a hole in the stat as you will increase flow to the rad and over cool the engine and make the heater cooler aswell ps how long was the car driven with a faulty water pump as this maybe also started the headgasket going from over heating in the block

its a renault so join the AA or RAC and change the cam belt,tensioner, rollers and anything else the runs off it at least 50k before renault recommens

[ QUOTE ] Can i join this club .. ? just got a V6 Tdi Passat and i think i'll be lucky to get more than 40MPG ,its on 38 at the moment.. do these V6's do much more than 40 ? [/ QUOTE ] i was getting 18mpg round town and 30mpg on a run in my auto V6 tdi passat and that was with my steel toe caps in the boot

its the same as any other golf with just a few more bits in your way

get new top bolts before you start the job and spray wd40 over the top clamp a day or two before aswell

i was waiting for a post to say the thermostat did not work, you need to do a snif test to check for exhaust gas in the coolant, just make sure they use diesel chemical and not the petrol one

now 02 1.9 tdi avant before 04 passat v6 tdi was only getting 18mpg round town 03 audi S3 chiped,miltec,porker brakes ect,ect had elec proplems that 3 audi stealers can't fix plus to fast with new baby in the back his neck may snap with all the g's 03 audi A3 (8p) 2.0 tdi sport with a few toy's, bits that went wrong 2 gearboxs, 5 wiper motors, new bonnet (old one damaged by bad fitting of wipper motor), 2 ECU's, ABS unit, 2 rims (kirbed by audi fitter) 1999 pig 306 Dturbo s did over 40k only needed 2 tyres and a set of brake pads 1990 pig 309 td did over 300k with just tyres,brake and a few services