super duper amazing new body kit, engine, drive train[pics]

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06-13-2008, 04:52 AM

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WhiskeyMassacre

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Almost forgot. Another friend's mom had an '07 Passat, and had the emergency brake fail on her due to an electrical problem. I would hope that in my car the emergency brake wasn't the first thing to go wrong...

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...how? My car IS a fancy Passat, and i've taken the rear hub apart to put my STaSIS coilovers on. It's purely mechanical. I have no idea how that could have happened.

On another note, exhaust for 3.2 = sexy. That would be my first thing to get.

I don't know. I am just going off what my friend told me. I thought it was a little weird too. Maybe the service guys at VW were just feeding her a load. If you've actually taken the thing apart, I'll take your word over his. Interesting...

06-13-2008, 05:08 AM

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i think the $34k everyone is thing of is with navigation, the non-nav stickers for 32k(its on vw's website if you don't trust me) and they have been out for a few months so we got a pretty good deal plus we had a trade in

r32s are made in good ole wolfsburg, germany

as for aftermarket exhaust, the cheapest prefab is around $899 but all the ones that sound any better than the stock (which sounds heavenly) are $1400+ so i am going to try to get wheels first

...maybe axis superhiros in black with blue outerline......then it would really show off the big brakes

06-13-2008, 07:38 AM

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my friend has a gti, it runs sooo smooth, is it the same for this?

06-13-2008, 04:58 PM

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Everybody does them, but a clean set of BBS LMs would be amazing on that car. IMO.

06-13-2008, 06:10 PM

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it is incredibly smooth, especially the transmission, you can't even feel it shift in D mode

idk about bbs, a bunch of people have them on vwvortex but i've never really liked that style of rim. i like 5-10 spoke wheels

06-14-2008, 01:17 PM

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we got it for about 29k so pretty far off on that. as for the manual issue i know i know but it is all they offer, its one of those new dual clutch tranmissions like they use on the new evo x mr and most of the ferraris and lambos. i am happy with it. a stick wasn't really practical for me since most of U.T.'s campus is on step road and parallel parking would be a biscuit with a stick. the transmission is butter smooth though

I drive a stick on UT campus. It's not even close to bad...