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Well, here we go. As the crapy cold winter months start fall upon us, I have decided to start working on the sound system in the W8 first. I really want to tear the whole car down all at once but my living situation may change early next year so I need be cognizant of any sudden changes that may...

I bought this car for my wife back in November 2015. Got the car CHEAP. Body and interior is in excellent shape. This is why the car was so cheap. Milkshake anyone? Getting ready for engine and transmission removal. Notice the front of the engine. PO had used some kind of chemical in...

Hi all, My wife has a 2003 Passat GLX Wagon with about 160K on the odo. It runs fairly well, but the ride has deteriorated over time. She really loves the car and want to keep it even though I've offered to buy her a new one. I'm thinking about investing some money to improve the ride and update...

I have a '98 1.8 manual transmission. It has 237k on it. It has some obvious issues and perhaps other not so obvious ones. I recently scored a solid turbo from an '04 and got some guidance from another 'picker' on what and how to work on this engine. I am now motivated to do a bunch of...

Here are some pictures of my current project on my '98 GLS prompted by the need to pass emissions SOON :icon_eek: Back a while ago the original passenger side CAT got something tangled up underneath it and broke the honeycomb structure on the inside of the CAT into 3 pieces. A couple of weeks...

I thought this might be a interesting thread to start (and a bit of an intro)... While this is my first thread, I've lurked on here for a while and have gotten some great info here (many thanks), also not new to the VW/Audi community. In our house we had 3 VW/Audi cars; 2001 Audi A4 Quattro...

Hey all. I'm looking to redo the inside of my B5. She's a 2000 1.8t with @147k on her. The outside does not look a day over 30k but the interior looks like hell took a dumb on it. Window switches don't work center vents don't open or close. Sunroof/moon roof inner door fell off. one side...

To begin with, I have to admit that I wish my car were show worthy. It is, however, a workhorse. It primarily gets me, the wife and the kiddies to and from work and school with occasional doggie duty, load hauling responsibility and pretty much anything else that I can think to throw at it...