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Greetings! The basics: 2003 GLX 4Motion wagon, ~153,000 miles. The story: The silver lady was stopping OK, really. But I had noticed a couple of issues with the brakes. I had a somewhat soft peddle and the hand brake travel was quite high. Additionally, it looked like there was quite a bit...

Gather round, friends and car buffs, so I may tell you about my family's experiences with one of the most notorious cars ever to hit the road: the Ford Pinto. My father first ordered the car - a 1972 Pinto "Runabout (hatchback)" in the early fall of '71, but we had to wait a couple of months...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." :) As I reported earlier, my AUG 1.8T has been running at about -2.4% (idle) and -24% (slope) adaptation and throwing occasional P0172 "too rich" codes. The MAF at the time was a remanufactured OEM unit from AZO, and it reported a...

This has nothing to do with VW, but does show the unimportance of using a proper gas cap. In 1963 my father and mother paid me a visit. They lived in New York, and I lived in Baltimore. The trip was 204 miles. My dad had just purchased a new Chevrolett Corvair.For those too young to remember the...

Hi guys and gals...ok so I just paid for my 2ND FUEL distributor in six months - the mech I just got my GL back from says don't let it get under half a tank or the pumps have to work a lot harder and that because I don't keep it as full as much as possible my dizzy will keep going! ...any truth...

Hi everyone. Recently, the CEL started intermittently flashing on my B5 APU 1.8T with 'brake fault, stop' etc. Got VAG-COM on it which led me to the apparently common fault of the ABS ECU failing. I found the PDF online which instructions on how to fix it, thought it would be a piece of pie...

Ferarri 599 GTB Levi Strauss Edition :lol:

I've had my B5 GLX 5MT for 8 of its 11 years. Apart from the usual stuff, it's been fairly reliable and enjoyable...and I don't plan to part with it any time soon. We've had my wife's B5.5 GLX 4mo Tip Variant for only a year now (bought from family). I've had my fair share of seat time in it...

Pardon my noobish-ness, but I am way over my head now and I need some serious help. About a month ago my son's B5.5 1.8T (91K on the clock) threw it's first CEL (P0171). So I came here, did the search and determined that most likely it was vacuum lines. I decided that replacing the 3.5mm...

Not trying to rain on any parades or anything, but remember the story on the news last week of the kid who killed himself and 4 of his buddies driving his M5 absurdly fast on a runway in FL? Apparently he posted on an M5 forum, and earned a few admonisments for his potentially reckless...

Installed one of their "OEM" coolant sensors, Part# 059-919-501A OEM, on my 2000 GLX. Worked fine for 2 months, then DOA.

I SLEW THE DRAGON... Well, maybe I didn't actually "slay" it - the guy in the Elise that blew past me better qualifies as a "slayer." But at least it didn't slay me, and by the fourth time through, I knew it well enough to actually have some fun! If you are not aware of the "Dragon's Tail,"...

Take this in guys/gals, don't make the same mistake I did. A few of weeks ago the engine on my 1998 V6 Syncro started making some weird noises when idling which changed into more of a low pitched squeal under load. I took it to my local VW specialist which has done all the work on my car for...

When I was in the process of changing to new wheels/tires today (ASA JH3s/Yokohama AVID 4VS) I discovered that the left front outer CV boot was torn as grease was all over the wheel well and inside of the old wheel. There are two VW dealerships in Omaha so I decided to do a little price...

So this is how it went… I go online and check the various sites (vortex, passatworld, audizine, Audi world) for classifieds because I’m looking for wheels and such. So when I came up to Audiworld.com I saw something odd in the Wheels Classifieds. The ad wrote : 18'' BBS CH Wheels FOR SALE!! and...