I've been very surprised by how easy the Golf has been to work on so far, actually. Oil changes are super easy because the filter is a cartridge on the top of the engine, reservoirs are easy to reach and the battery doesn't require anything else to be removed to replace.
In about 85 I had to replace the tie rods on my 81 Rabbit Diesel, no power steering. It too had the fixed rod on the passenger side. All I could find at the time were the single tie-rod ends, but I used the inners off of a 84 Cabriolet, and after 85 I had separate inner rods and outer.
On my 2012 Volkswagen Passat s it had a high and a low horn. I ended up added 2 high and 2 low horns. Every time I honked it at someone it scared the living daylights out of them.
I had shake and brake at 30k. warped rotors, replaced the rotors and pad, all good again
And also removed and cleaned my spark plugs. All these collectively seemed to have a great impact on the engine\u2019s performance! The engine runs much smoother and feels a lot more sporty!
Yeah I bought the water pump assembly from the dealer that came with the thermostat installed.
I have a Tiguan 2015. I tend to get a waterpump problem. At first, I've tried to fix it at another workshop. Cost me $700+ with only 3 months warranty and in less than a year, the waterpump broke again. Tried fixing at the agent, they gave me $800+ with 1 year warranty and I was also able to claim it after 1 year & 2 months.
Since the battery weighs ~40 lbs this isn't really a significant weight change from front to rear so I've no idea if the car handles any differently. Would I recommend this mod? Probably not as it's not cheap and has no real performance advantage and more crazy than anything.
I have to literally remove the nose of my B5 1.8T Passat to get at my water pump. Second one in 110,000 miles.
I’m on #4, but luckily all were replaced under warranty. Most recent was in 2019 when supposedly they had finally found and fixed the issue (not sure what ended up being the cause)
One of them hadn’t even failed yet, and they replaced it under recall since a new revision had come out
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