FWD for Brian Haygood OT: Passat b4 transmissions..

[rocco.crossing at gmail.com (Rhett Farnum)]

If she has a B4 passat with an automatic transmission I highly recommend
pushing it off of the nearest cliff.  These cars are going for around $3000
or so with no big defects.  If she can trade for a manual then great,
otherwise, she should probably find a different car.  I love my '95 Passat
GLX wih 5spd, but the automatic trans in these cars is lousy even on its
best day.  I know Duan was able to revive one of his but I haven't heard of
any great success other than replacing the trans with a rebuilt, but these
cars just aren't worth that anymore.



On the verge of a rant, but hope it helps someone else stay away from the
dreaded automatics.  They really give the rest of our Passats a bad name :)



Brian


On 2/8/06, Rhett Farnum <rocco.crossing@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If I rememeber right my brothers old Passat was a 96. He had issues with
> the neutral/park switch where the car wouldn't start untill you slammed it a
> couple of times into park so the switch would ecknowledge that the tranny
> was in Park.
>
> VW and their fun electrical shit!
> Rhett
>
>
>  On 2/8/06, Greg Pallett <greg.rocco@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > So it word has gotten out around work that I am a vw guy.  One of the
> > teachers (I work in a school) has a 96 passat with the dreaded Auto
> > transmission.  She thinks it needs some work.
> > I am aware that that era passat has a lot of issues with the
> > transmission, but what can you tell me about it?  Does she just need
> > to have the fluid changed regularly to prevent any problems?  Or does
> > it likely need some special attention?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > GP
> >
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