My 92 vw passat will idle good but soon as i drive it about 5 bloks it dies

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SOURCE: 92 vw passat and the odometer does not work

Okay i had this same problem, i paid $600 dollars for an electrician to fix it.
You might want to check to see if the horn works. Usually when one thing on the dashboard goes out of wack so does the hole thing (specially the gas meter mine left me on the street). Check the horn, the speedometer, the time on the dashboard. If you want to tackle this problem yourself i recommend that you check all the electrical fuses they should be under the string wheel and the relays. Check those, or if you have a friend or someone who knows about this kind of things, you might want to ask them for help. I strongly recommend you check the relay before you consider taking it to an electrical mecanic. I am not sure of the name (or if it even exist) but try searching for the odometer relay.
Hope this helps.

SOURCE: 1999 VW Passat low idle

replace your fuel filter first. If that does not do it, then try an air-flow meter. (if the check engine light is on it may be an airflow meter.

Arnie Burke

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• Posted on Sep 02, 2009

SOURCE: engine lught and idle trouble with 1992 vw passat

hav der auto scanned at ein shopp discount places-probly a 02 sensor is old which ist located on muffler und controls lean/rich-wedersehn

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SOURCE: 1998 VW Passat it seems the idle is to low how do

Idle is automatically set&monitored with a timing sensor on the camshaft, i found my engine(1.8 20v turbo) would idle low then go high and almost stall sometimes and all i did was remove the fat black pipe on the throttle and clean inside the throat with a cotton rag dabbed in wd40.Hold the throttle open manually and clean on and around the throttle plate as the oil burnt&recycled creates a hard carbon that stops the throttle working correctly.When did you last change the sparkplugs, air filter, oil and oil filter and remove damp from the spark plug area using wd40 on surfaces applied with a cotton rag.These contribute all to your problem.As you dont state milage etc it could be a worn engine or slipped cambelt(1-2 teeth can make a slight diffirence).

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