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    Goodbye From The 'Dude

    Well almost 2 years later, I forgot to follow up on you! :D What did you end up buying??
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    Who Here Has Written To VW About The BS Issue?

    What? No bump for 2013? :confused:
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    Who Here Has Written To VW About The BS Issue?

    I seem to recall there was a way, but I sadly forget how now. What if this job was performed at an independent shop? Perhaps Oilhammer or MOGolf can chime in on this one?
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    Diesel Exhaust Fumes Cause Cancer WHO sais

    I was kind of hoping, that when the hundreds to eventually thousands of people who will google the words WHO, diesel fumes, and cancer, instead of the media articles popping up, an educated and intellectual thread would come up first, stand on its own, in defence of what I too agree to be non...
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    Diesel Exhaust Fumes Cause Cancer WHO sais

    Diesel Exhaust Fumes Cause Cancer sais the WHO Diesel engine exhaust fumes can cause cancer in humans and belong in the same potentially deadly category as asbestos, arsenic and mustard gas, World Health Organisation (WHO) experts said on Tuesday........ Discuss? Link...
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    2012 Volkswagen Passat TDI, Routan Recalled

    I have a soft spot for SRT8's, but it ends there.
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    Who Here Has Written To VW About The BS Issue?

    Thank you! It is when I read success like this, that it proves once again, that sitting and doing nothing, reaps no results. Although a $2500 reimbursent towards a new gear driven set like some others experienced may have been the right thing to do, I guess this qualifies.(wink)
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    Goodbye From The 'Dude

    Obviously yes. OK
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    Goodbye From The 'Dude

    Not to say you did not read carefully up top, but I did make specific mention of the Sorento etc, so worth to re-read to get the full feel of things. I will answer your question from the perspective of the test drives, which I'm assuming is why you are asking. The two finalists were the Kia...
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    Goodbye From The 'Dude

    The first 160000km were mostly 80%highway 20% city and was my daily driver. We then moved to the city and I passed the Passat on to my wife so the remaining 23000km were 100% city driving!!! I drove the Touareg during that time. The replacement for the Passat is a brand new 2011 Chevrolet...
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    Goodbye From The 'Dude

    Was meaning to do this last week, but here it goes. I recently sold my 2005 Passat TDI, bought it brand new in December of 2005, and logged a final count of 183000km. First wanted to say, this was one the best cars I ever owned. I literally payed hardly anything out of my pocket during that...
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    2005 Passat TDI

    sold!
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    2005 Passat TDI

    There is no "issue" with sunroof! However, the increase in headroom with no sunroof is quite significant with these cars, unlike say a newer CC, where there isn't as much difference with or without. With no sunroof, I have had passengers describe the roof room cavernous like a pick up truck...
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    2005 Passat TDI

    $10900 NEGOTIABLE, zero rust, never in any accidents, leather interior, controls on steering wheel, mint, VW OEM HID headlights covered in 3M film, 16 inch mags, etc, etc...
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    2005 Passat TDI sedan FOR SALE in VA.

    +1 The mods should be doing a much better job keeping FOR SALE threads in check. Sorry. I guess you are interested in the OP's vehicle???? Coming back to your pricing philosophy, unfortunately, that is not how things work. If you take your vehicle in for a trade in through the dealership, they...
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    2005 Passat TDI

    Important that I should mention, the RC2 flash I had installed a few years ago, is now back to stock programming. This occurred after I had the glow plugs replaced under the last recall by VW. I opted not to have the car flashed back with RC2, since it has been the wife's daily car for the last...
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    2005 Passat TDI

    I agree with the Jetta' s selling and holding their values. I'm not too sure about the a lot of interest part, as far as this forum is concerned, as most traffic here seems to be Americans? I'm located near Montreal, in QC, Canada.
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    Survey -- Oil Chain Failure Rate / Mileage

    On the latter part of your title question, that last point is an obscure one. The vast majority of the online members on here are doing it proactively. It's either complete failure or proactive action, not much in between. I'm at 179995km, and I haven't done it, and don't plan too. It is no...
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    2005 Passat TDI

    I thought about doing it, but it wouldn't reflect in the selling price anyways, so no it hasn't been done, and makes no sense for me to do it from that perspective. Generally speaking, whether it has been done or not, just like any other "mod" on a vehicle, doesn't really affect the price of the...
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