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Are these normal problems for a 2004 Passat

I have a 2004 Passat with 50,000K miles. Since I've had the car I've had to replace: - the battery, - both fog lights (strangely they both went out at the same time) - the A/C serviced twice (once the Freon needed to be replaced) - one of the key fob no longer works - and now I have a headlight that is out.

Do other Passat owners have to replace these items with such frequency?

Headlights on all my other cars lasted considerably longer.

Of course the Dealer says this is normal, but I'm starting to think either I have a lemon, or VW's are a piece of crap.

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Andrew Schumer
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Jim Behning

I've heard of the headlamps going out more frequently on late model VWs (i'm sure the DRLs don't help).

For the fob, they sometimes go out of frequency if not used for a while and/or are used too much outside the range of the car and just need to be reprogrammed. there probably is a procedure in the manual for this (my '00 Eurovan has a DIY reprogramming procedure...see if your passat does).

battery going out...if yours is an early '04 (that you got in fall of '03) that means 3 years on a battery which isn't great but isn't alarming either. IMHO 3-5 years is normal for a battery everything else seems a bit unrealistic though...I wouldn't call the car a lemon at this point...remember that lemons are usually problems that happen over and over repeatedly, not different problems.

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Matt B.

not too abnormal other than the AC issue.

Reply to
Lost again

My daughters 2003 Jetta goes through lightbulbs, both front and rear, more than a car should.

Reply to
Charlie

Get the long life bulbs that cost more. The cheap ones go fast. I had a brand new rear/brake light combo go bad on me in one day. Of course this was in my Jeep which can really shake those bulbs. The ones that are long life have LL on the end of the part number.

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Peter Parker

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none2u

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