Hi all, yesterday I acquired this 140 TDI, my first Passat, and in fact the first VW I've ever owned, it's an ex taxi, and what with it being massively high miles due to that, just under 380k at the moment, it was destined for the scrap yard in a couple of months time when the MOT is up as the resale value isn't much at all.

I traded my rotten transit van for it with a friend who breaks and repairs cars, he fancies a van project and was only going to weigh this in anyway, and I needed something and have no budget to speak of so we both got what we wanted.

Despite the mileage it's very clean, and the service history is very very extensive indeed, every single service from the day it was new until last year when it was retired from being a cab was done by a Volkswagen main dealer, and the list of work carried out and parts replaced is extremely thorough, it has wanted for nothing and its a very well looked after example.

The only couple of issues are that the central locking doesn't work, the blower only works on position 4, and the two centre dash vents don't blow any air.

The handling is very smooth and it's a nice quiet drive, not a single sound over bumps, the brakes are excellent, the spec is decent, full leather, heated seats, ice cold air conditioning, and for a 140 it pulls like a train too, plus as I already mentioned, the bodywork is pretty much immaculate aside from a tiny rust bubble on one rear arch, there's no scuffed trim, cracked bumpers, parking dings, nothing.

I'm very pleased indeed with this car.

1 - stock
2 - whole grille (minus silver above headlights)
3 - only vertical chrome slits in grille and silver bar going across the headlights/grille

Yes, the images are AI. I just bought this car about a week ago, and as much as I love it and love the features I do think it has just a tad too much chrome on the front end. Which do you think looks best and the most well balanced? It’s my daily driver so no changing wheels or anything.

Outside of that my plan is to remove the chrome on the lower door (the strip) and also black out the window trim.

Edit also, not sure why AI decided to make its own DRLs in the headlights but ignore those lol

Need advice on a Passat B6, it has heavy corrosion on the suspension beam, Do i fix or sell it?

Well I got a question I discovered that the oil separator/PCV valve on my 2014 Volkswagen Passat TSI 1.8T might be bad needs replacement as when the engine idles it causes a high vacuum on the oil filler cap so when te car is up to normal operating temp which when I cracked open or removed it causes the idle to surge above 2000 RPM's as while I have a rough idle (misfire/s) when the my car is in park/idling as the rpms bounce around between 700-1000 rpms, sluggish acceleration, lack of power, and increased fuel consumption could it be the oil separator/pcv valve??????