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I recently purchased a 2006 Passat. The dealership added a 5W40 synthetic blend which lead to a low oil pressure issue. The car ran about 1,000 miles on this oil. I took my vehicle to an import garage who changed the oil and filled it with Mobil 1 0w30. The shop owner said that there was a...

Short story: In a month of everything going wrong, my car was stolen, recovered, and now it broke down on the highway with a completely broken CV joint. Could it be due to something the thieves did? Long story: I was carjacked, kidnapped and robbed, 2 weeks ago, but thankfully they let me out...

Out of the frying pan.... into the fire. Something major has just gone wrong. I've just gotten my 2000 1.8T Passat out of the shop for new control arms and a new axle.... but now, with only 30 mi on it, she's had some kind of major failure that has me sorta baffled. Ever since it came out of the...

Just found out that my 90,000 mile passat is a total loss due to oil sludge. Every oil change between 3k and 5k. With penzzoil euro 5 40 full synthetic ( receipts to back up each one ) and VW says "sorry you are on your own" They did offer a $1500 voucher towards the purchase of a new VW car...

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My 2006 needs a new transmission, clutch and flywheel. This failed catastrophically as my daughter was starting to slow from 55, approaching the turn into our driveway. I think she tried to go from 6th to 2nd at about 45mph, she claims it never went into gear (go figure!). Anyway, according...

Driving to work today when I get "STOP Oil Pressure" warning and all the beeps and bells to go with it. Stopped the car immediately and popped the hood. Oil all over the front of the engine and leaking badly down the front of the oil pan. Had no tools with me so I was not able to take much of a...

Started my car and went for a short trip today. When I restarted leaving the store, I got an oil pressure warning. My car has 170k miles and has been burning/leaking some oil but it hadn't been that long. So stopped and put a quart in. Backing out I saw a pretty good bit of oil on the pavement...

I just had my oil cooler replaced, which initially seemed to stop my chronic slow coolant leak, but 2 months later, I'm losing coolant again. None of the upper hoses seem to show the crystalline pink deposits I was finding around the oil cooler the first time, and I do end up smelling coolant...

Hey, I just wondered if anyone else here has heard about problems with the timing belt tensioner on the V6 Passat (mine is ATQ). I had mine replaced 10,000 miles ago, along with the timing belt, water pump, drive belt, and drive belt tensioner, all of which were genuine VW parts from the...