Email jimidee75 at hotmail dot com
Bit of backstory:
Years of effort have gone into this thing and I will miss it but it’s time for the old girl to go.
Picture of how it was.
Things that were done: Sprayed satin black in Rustoleum by myself and brother in law (full compressor spray kit). Modified engine, 2 litre 8v bottom end with a PB 1.8 8v (digifant, mk2 Golf Gti engine) top end with 10k since the rebuild. Lowered on coilovers, with various bits of interior mods to make it more interesting/fun. The doorcards have been covered with old t-shirts and magazine cuttings as well as the standard pool ball gearknob and Momo wheel/wheel boss. I changed all of the original plastics/carpets from grey to black and changed the seats for velour in the back and Mk3 gti front seats. It ran as my daily very well for 4 years, though it did need regular work as I was doing around 12k a year.
It does have all the standard B3 GT kit including:
4 x electric windows (one touch driver’s side), power steering, electrically adjustable + heated wing mirrors, central locking, digital LCD multifunction computer in instrument cluster, electric powered sunroof, full roof bars, fold down rear seats, Bosch digifant multipoint injection, front fog lamps, clear front indicators, larger fuel tank, rear load cover, 6 speaker stereo.
It was my daily driver until 3 years ago, when a company car was offered and I had to find somewhere to put the Passat. It wasn’t in the greatest form of its life when it was parked up but the plan was to get a lockup and store it until I could afford space/time to work on it. That never came to happen, it has now been sat under a decent car cover for 3 years in a farmer’s yard. The car is too far gone for me to resurrect as is, I would strip the valuable parts and send the shell off to be weighed in but I have way too much of an attachment to send it there myself. The parts for B3’s are sufficiently scarce now that if I parted it out it would be worth a decent amount, but I do not have the time or space to store it nor any of its parts to do so. I would just prefer it to go to someone who can use the parts properly or make sure they’re sold to people who need them rather than letting the local scrappy have it and send these rare bits to the crusher without a second thought.
So it’s being offered at roughly scrap value as a non runner/spares car, as I know how much of a pain it is to pick up lowered cars, especially ones that don’t run, so I’m not after silly money for it. I was going to buy a Mk3 Golf VR6 as a parts car to convert it but I just don’t have the time or money.
The money I get for the car will be used to go towards the charity 50cc scooter run myself and some friends are doing this May. 6 of us managed to get from Leicester to John O’Groats last year in only 6-ish days, with all camping gear and survival parts etc onboard the mopeds. This year 7 of us are going to attempt to get visit Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England on the same bikes, visiting the NW200 along the way. Again whilst carrying all of our own support gear on our 50cc scooters that cost less than £200 each. Looking to be around 800 miles and take 8 days. We’re working on which charity to do it for this year but all the money I get from the sale of the Passat will be going towards this trip (not to the charity just to make it clear).
The listing is brutally honest, mainly to point out that if you are thinking about saving the car to use (Genuine B3 GT wagons are not common at all) you may need to know what you’re getting into.
Essentially to be treated as a “Barn Find” car after being sat for just under 3 years in open air under just a car cover. Some of the plus/minus points to consider.
Good/possibly rare:
• GT body cladding panels + badge (missing jacking point covers both sides)
• Momo Corse steering wheel and steering boss (was mouldy + not necessarily a re-covering job)
• Headlight brows (if that’s your thing)
• Sebring stainless steel rear exhaust section (has a welded/patched collector box)
• Genuine B3 VR6 tail lights
• Lower door pockets with larger speaker holes factory fit
• Black tonneau/boot cover
• Mk2 8v 1.8 GTI head Digifant PB engine original, with Mk3 GTI AGG engine 2.0 bottom end conversion (fitted and ran for 10k miles) though doesn’t crank currently
• Genuine VW roof rack bars with key for B3 passat (not pictured)
• GT front bumper with fog lights (bad condition, holes, one fog light cracked)
• Central locking pump working
• Mk3 GTI front seats (5 door, bolster on driver’s seat wearing through, musty)
• GL/VR6 rear seats in velour with armrest (also musty, would need cleaning)
• All electric windows working
• Electric/heated wing mirrors working
• Sunroof (poor condition, tilts but does not slide)
• Standard front door cards available with cut out for larger 4x electric window switch (not fitted to car)
• Spare set of good quality headlights with clear indicators
• Spare silver tailgate with minimal rust and better condition standard lights/number plate tub included/fitted
• Brand new front door handles with full key set boxed to go with car
• Full set of black interior plastics (in ok condition)
• Black interior carpets (in ok but dirty condition, boot carpet unusable)
Bad
• Windscreen is cracked from fence panel falling on the car whilst in storage.
• Coilovers (TA technics) locked in current height and too far gone to use, fitted in 2012 (probably)
• Head unit is a DVD touchscreen Kenwood thing with an aux input but hasn’t worked well for years, has a secondary processor box mounted between glovebox and lower storage box that needs removing.
• BBS RA wheels are essentially square/mismatched set of 4, 3 match, one has a different offset, not worth keeping
• Knackered (1 flat) tyres
• Heater controls snapped (common B3 problem) just before it was put away
• Tailgate is sealed shut. The lock is corroded/seized and the tailgate itself has rusted itself to the latch and will no longer open
• Fuel lines split 3 months after putting it into storage and hasn’t been running since, now won’t crank over.
• Welding completed on one sill for MOT in 2014, other side probably gone
• Welding in rear sill (check side) probably also needs re-doing
• Chassis has done 240k miles, engine 10k since rebuild though wouldn’t crank when tested
• Gearbox is unknown age, possibly as old as the car but obviously been replaced as the car was registered as an Auto and has been changed since
• Satin black, sprayed in 2011, is only Rustoleum although it was done with a proper spray gun/compressor setup. Not in poor shape and hasn’t allowed any moisture through so consider it solid
• Door handle on driver’s side is broken/very unreliable, lock mechanism still works with main key for car
• Passenger side door lock does not match main key for car
• Ignition barrel worn, had to fit a starter button to dashboard to fix
• Aerial snapped
• Roof rails in ok but mostly poor condition, not corroded massively
• Roof lining was removed for respray but damaged in process, fitted but not really “salvageable”
• Lower lip/splitter on bumper was held on with hope/cable ties, with one holed.
• Was quite low before tire went flat, now very low and probably has seized brakes.
Inspected when the pictures were taken at the start of February.
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The shell isn’t visibly rusty anywhere except the original sill-repair. The doors are all solid around the bottom as far as can be seen but the GT bodykit may well be hiding some rot. The strut mounts at the front are solid, though the subframe mounts/rubbers will likely be long gone/perished.
The engine pictures show how badly the engine bay has fared over the last few years. I didn’t check the oil but as the engine didn’t crank over with the battery hooked up, the rest of the electrics worked fine, I figure this is probably a boat anchor at this point (a boat anchor would be less rusty).
Worth pointing out, this is a PRE-catalytic converter car, does not have one and does not require one in future.
The interior has suffered from a lot of condensation/mould. Though after wiping off the steering wheel it doesn’t seem to have actually damaged the leather itself, obviously everything would need decent cleaning to be useable again but it depends on what your plans are. Nothing is utterly ruined, just musty/damp.
I do have a lot of documentation for the car with receipts of some of the major work done but it didn’t have any service history when I bought it, it has even less now. The receipts/MOTs/work done/parts documentation is all in a folder for reference. Although it’s lacking service history it does include all of the previous MOTs back to the early 90’s.
If you’re seriously interested, let me know. If it isn’t gone soon it will go to the crusher with no parts saved whether I like it or not.
Bit of backstory:
Years of effort have gone into this thing and I will miss it but it’s time for the old girl to go.
Picture of how it was.
Things that were done: Sprayed satin black in Rustoleum by myself and brother in law (full compressor spray kit). Modified engine, 2 litre 8v bottom end with a PB 1.8 8v (digifant, mk2 Golf Gti engine) top end with 10k since the rebuild. Lowered on coilovers, with various bits of interior mods to make it more interesting/fun. The doorcards have been covered with old t-shirts and magazine cuttings as well as the standard pool ball gearknob and Momo wheel/wheel boss. I changed all of the original plastics/carpets from grey to black and changed the seats for velour in the back and Mk3 gti front seats. It ran as my daily very well for 4 years, though it did need regular work as I was doing around 12k a year.
It does have all the standard B3 GT kit including:
4 x electric windows (one touch driver’s side), power steering, electrically adjustable + heated wing mirrors, central locking, digital LCD multifunction computer in instrument cluster, electric powered sunroof, full roof bars, fold down rear seats, Bosch digifant multipoint injection, front fog lamps, clear front indicators, larger fuel tank, rear load cover, 6 speaker stereo.
It was my daily driver until 3 years ago, when a company car was offered and I had to find somewhere to put the Passat. It wasn’t in the greatest form of its life when it was parked up but the plan was to get a lockup and store it until I could afford space/time to work on it. That never came to happen, it has now been sat under a decent car cover for 3 years in a farmer’s yard. The car is too far gone for me to resurrect as is, I would strip the valuable parts and send the shell off to be weighed in but I have way too much of an attachment to send it there myself. The parts for B3’s are sufficiently scarce now that if I parted it out it would be worth a decent amount, but I do not have the time or space to store it nor any of its parts to do so. I would just prefer it to go to someone who can use the parts properly or make sure they’re sold to people who need them rather than letting the local scrappy have it and send these rare bits to the crusher without a second thought.
So it’s being offered at roughly scrap value as a non runner/spares car, as I know how much of a pain it is to pick up lowered cars, especially ones that don’t run, so I’m not after silly money for it. I was going to buy a Mk3 Golf VR6 as a parts car to convert it but I just don’t have the time or money.
The money I get for the car will be used to go towards the charity 50cc scooter run myself and some friends are doing this May. 6 of us managed to get from Leicester to John O’Groats last year in only 6-ish days, with all camping gear and survival parts etc onboard the mopeds. This year 7 of us are going to attempt to get visit Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England on the same bikes, visiting the NW200 along the way. Again whilst carrying all of our own support gear on our 50cc scooters that cost less than £200 each. Looking to be around 800 miles and take 8 days. We’re working on which charity to do it for this year but all the money I get from the sale of the Passat will be going towards this trip (not to the charity just to make it clear).
The listing is brutally honest, mainly to point out that if you are thinking about saving the car to use (Genuine B3 GT wagons are not common at all) you may need to know what you’re getting into.
Essentially to be treated as a “Barn Find” car after being sat for just under 3 years in open air under just a car cover. Some of the plus/minus points to consider.
Good/possibly rare:
• GT body cladding panels + badge (missing jacking point covers both sides)
• Momo Corse steering wheel and steering boss (was mouldy + not necessarily a re-covering job)
• Headlight brows (if that’s your thing)
• Sebring stainless steel rear exhaust section (has a welded/patched collector box)
• Genuine B3 VR6 tail lights
• Lower door pockets with larger speaker holes factory fit
• Black tonneau/boot cover
• Mk2 8v 1.8 GTI head Digifant PB engine original, with Mk3 GTI AGG engine 2.0 bottom end conversion (fitted and ran for 10k miles) though doesn’t crank currently
• Genuine VW roof rack bars with key for B3 passat (not pictured)
• GT front bumper with fog lights (bad condition, holes, one fog light cracked)
• Central locking pump working
• Mk3 GTI front seats (5 door, bolster on driver’s seat wearing through, musty)
• GL/VR6 rear seats in velour with armrest (also musty, would need cleaning)
• All electric windows working
• Electric/heated wing mirrors working
• Sunroof (poor condition, tilts but does not slide)
• Standard front door cards available with cut out for larger 4x electric window switch (not fitted to car)
• Spare set of good quality headlights with clear indicators
• Spare silver tailgate with minimal rust and better condition standard lights/number plate tub included/fitted
• Brand new front door handles with full key set boxed to go with car
• Full set of black interior plastics (in ok condition)
• Black interior carpets (in ok but dirty condition, boot carpet unusable)
Bad
• Windscreen is cracked from fence panel falling on the car whilst in storage.
• Coilovers (TA technics) locked in current height and too far gone to use, fitted in 2012 (probably)
• Head unit is a DVD touchscreen Kenwood thing with an aux input but hasn’t worked well for years, has a secondary processor box mounted between glovebox and lower storage box that needs removing.
• BBS RA wheels are essentially square/mismatched set of 4, 3 match, one has a different offset, not worth keeping
• Knackered (1 flat) tyres
• Heater controls snapped (common B3 problem) just before it was put away
• Tailgate is sealed shut. The lock is corroded/seized and the tailgate itself has rusted itself to the latch and will no longer open
• Fuel lines split 3 months after putting it into storage and hasn’t been running since, now won’t crank over.
• Welding completed on one sill for MOT in 2014, other side probably gone
• Welding in rear sill (check side) probably also needs re-doing
• Chassis has done 240k miles, engine 10k since rebuild though wouldn’t crank when tested
• Gearbox is unknown age, possibly as old as the car but obviously been replaced as the car was registered as an Auto and has been changed since
• Satin black, sprayed in 2011, is only Rustoleum although it was done with a proper spray gun/compressor setup. Not in poor shape and hasn’t allowed any moisture through so consider it solid
• Door handle on driver’s side is broken/very unreliable, lock mechanism still works with main key for car
• Passenger side door lock does not match main key for car
• Ignition barrel worn, had to fit a starter button to dashboard to fix
• Aerial snapped
• Roof rails in ok but mostly poor condition, not corroded massively
• Roof lining was removed for respray but damaged in process, fitted but not really “salvageable”
• Lower lip/splitter on bumper was held on with hope/cable ties, with one holed.
• Was quite low before tire went flat, now very low and probably has seized brakes.
Inspected when the pictures were taken at the start of February.
The shell isn’t visibly rusty anywhere except the original sill-repair. The doors are all solid around the bottom as far as can be seen but the GT bodykit may well be hiding some rot. The strut mounts at the front are solid, though the subframe mounts/rubbers will likely be long gone/perished.
The engine pictures show how badly the engine bay has fared over the last few years. I didn’t check the oil but as the engine didn’t crank over with the battery hooked up, the rest of the electrics worked fine, I figure this is probably a boat anchor at this point (a boat anchor would be less rusty).
Worth pointing out, this is a PRE-catalytic converter car, does not have one and does not require one in future.
The interior has suffered from a lot of condensation/mould. Though after wiping off the steering wheel it doesn’t seem to have actually damaged the leather itself, obviously everything would need decent cleaning to be useable again but it depends on what your plans are. Nothing is utterly ruined, just musty/damp.
I do have a lot of documentation for the car with receipts of some of the major work done but it didn’t have any service history when I bought it, it has even less now. The receipts/MOTs/work done/parts documentation is all in a folder for reference. Although it’s lacking service history it does include all of the previous MOTs back to the early 90’s.
If you’re seriously interested, let me know. If it isn’t gone soon it will go to the crusher with no parts saved whether I like it or not.
