If your timing belt was never changed and it's at 120k km I would stop driving the car and get it done ASAP.
There's a few shops around that are good like Auto Strasse, maybe DM Motorports.
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Not in Montreal, but 2 hours north-west in Ottawa...
As the previous message suggested, there is a much more active Passat TDI community over at tdiclub.com. Your questions are VERY MUCH going to be answered over there. For example, do you know anything about the Balance Shaft Module (BSM), and the risk of the chain-drive on it to fail? Come read about BSM over at tdiclub.
oke:
But yes, there are a few of us diesel Passat owners around you that browse PassatWorld.
Oh, by the way, 120K km is the published mileage for the Timing Belt job. But please read about the BSM, as you have to do Timing Belt to reach the BSM, and the BSM is expensive... (but failure is way more expensive).
As the previous message suggested, there is a much more active Passat TDI community over at tdiclub.com. Your questions are VERY MUCH going to be answered over there. For example, do you know anything about the Balance Shaft Module (BSM), and the risk of the chain-drive on it to fail? Come read about BSM over at tdiclub.
oke:But yes, there are a few of us diesel Passat owners around you that browse PassatWorld.
Oh, by the way, 120K km is the published mileage for the Timing Belt job. But please read about the BSM, as you have to do Timing Belt to reach the BSM, and the BSM is expensive... (but failure is way more expensive).
ok, TB. water pump, A/C belt + tensioner have been changed.
he showed me the old belts and it seems as they were not used up so much, however since history of TB change is not available to me, he said it's better to change than be sorry later. < some of you ,ur own words !!! and i shall be thankfull for that !). so for now i'm ok.
Question about performance:
some people i know, mentioned to me about chip in the car, to get better torque, HPs and fuel economy.
I was looking into it and frankly, i'm confused ,
the car is not manual, its tiptronic.
how can i get better fuel economy with the chip if i'm increasing the HPs???
looking on the long run, will the chipping may cause other issues in future? i don't necessairy want to spend thounsands of $$ for something i shouldn't have to do in 1st place.
Question about lights:
I was looking into converting the regular headlights into HIDs.
i know that i can not run HID as DLs (day light), beacuse these are not ment for it.
So i was wondering to keep my fogs on during day and use the HID at night.
( i seeit on some audi's, used to have it on my old Golf 2001).
my question is: To have the HIDs should i get myself the Euroswitch?
if yes, could someone point me where can i get the switch within Canada?
thanx
he showed me the old belts and it seems as they were not used up so much, however since history of TB change is not available to me, he said it's better to change than be sorry later. < some of you ,ur own words !!! and i shall be thankfull for that !). so for now i'm ok.
Question about performance:
some people i know, mentioned to me about chip in the car, to get better torque, HPs and fuel economy.
I was looking into it and frankly, i'm confused
, the car is not manual, its tiptronic.
how can i get better fuel economy with the chip if i'm increasing the HPs???
looking on the long run, will the chipping may cause other issues in future? i don't necessairy want to spend thounsands of $$ for something i shouldn't have to do in 1st place.
Question about lights:
I was looking into converting the regular headlights into HIDs.
i know that i can not run HID as DLs (day light), beacuse these are not ment for it.
So i was wondering to keep my fogs on during day and use the HID at night.
( i seeit on some audi's, used to have it on my old Golf 2001).
my question is: To have the HIDs should i get myself the Euroswitch?
if yes, could someone point me where can i get the switch within Canada?
thanx
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