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Lol! I had a bunch of similar stories with my Passat, too. 😁
The first was a CEL that no one could fix. I took it to the VW dealer, the mechanic came out, said "this is a Passat."
I said yep.
He said "nope."
"What do you mean, 'nope'?
He said, "Every Passat between [years] gets a CEL and no one can figure out why. Scrap it and buy a Toyota."
He wouldn't work on them!
Timing belt tensioner gave out on I-40, miles between cities, in a snow storm. $400 to get it back home. Found out the valves got crushed and piston heads scored.
The alarm system would randomly close all windows and lock the car (the tire dealership was pissed when this happened to them, with keys in the ignition).
Or, usually sometime in the night, the alarm system would disarm itself, unlock the doors and lower all the windows. I come out the next morning and everything is opened up.
The rust underneath!!
I held onto it for about two years after buying another car ('08 Dodge Caliber R/T) because I was thinking of converting it [somehow] to all electric. But my hatred for it got me to just junk it.
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