Steering rack for vw passat?

cottager83

Folks, man in garage says need new steering rack, reckons will cost between 1000 and 1200, anybody got any cheaper way of getting this done??in limerick btw, cheers

YbFocus

Look for a car in a scrap yard that got a rear shunt?
What year is it?

Henry Ford III

Alternative to a new rack...

_Conrad_

Price the job with different mechanics, locate a used rack. Which type of passat is it? If it's one of the older ones, like one that i have here, then changing the steering rach shouldnt actually be all that major for a properly equipped mechanic. The old ones are dead simple, even the late 90s to early 00s ones are relatively crude under the skin

cottager83

Cheers for the replies, its a 06 1.9 tdi, 105 bhp, not even too sure if it actually is the steering rack would like to get a second opinion on it, can anyone recommend a genuine garage in the limerick area other then the main dealers that would deal in vw? thanks

Henry Ford III

Call in to Daithi beside the Claughan Bar Dublin Road - not far from Frank Hogan's. Tell him everything you've said here.

john kinsella

Sorry to be resurrecting an old thread but I had this issue with my Passat for the last while.

The key wouldn’t catch when trying to start the car and it would take a good 10 mins of messing about to eventually move the bloody yoke. And when it was driving I was intermittently getting the steering wheel warning light,.

Turns out it was the immobiliser unit / steering column which was knackered.

Although they have recalled all the cars of these years 05 – 08 in the States nothing is being done here.

I know of a friend of mine who paid €1,500 for the replacement steering column but now they can fix it by just changing a part instead of the whole lot.

The whole thing cost me €450.00 yesterday in a VW garage so make sure you don’t let the garage talk to you into a full replacement.

Car is driving perfectly now