[MattKellett]

Rob, I hope this works for you.

I was one of the unfortunate souls with a W8 Passat that had this problem, in fact every W8 Passat has this problem or will.

My adjusters were replaced under warranty at 46k, the bill I saw to VW was 10k!!!

They failed again at 120k, and like you I came across this write up.

So with the help of my mechanic we zapped the adjusters and bingo, it cleared the codes and reset the adjusters. At this point I thought it might be a good idea to sell the car, but I delayed because I really did love my Passat wagon and I hoped with this fix all would be good.

It stayed fixed for around 1.5k! Again we tried to zap, but with no luck. So we waited overnight and the next morning we zapped again. Finally they reset and I promptly traded the car to a VW dealership - they didn't even take the car for a test drive or read the codes, more fool to them I thought.

With VW, this was covered under the emissions warranty. So you might want to double check that.

I hope this is a solution for you, I hate to be a downer, but I wouldn't bank on it!!


Cheers

Matt