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.got myself a new backseat today. with head-rests. its completly mint, its been covered by a leather seatcover. the cover didnt look very good, but the seat underneath is extremly mint
two pics. they are actually darker then this, but the flash makes them bright
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Originally posted by Houseyjust thinking out loud here..
would it be possible to use the original golf GT ABS harness? eventho i’m using the passat abs unit? its too damn many wires on the side of my abs unit as it is..
the EDL is not needed at all, so, the golf harness does not have this plug, but the abs unit would operate as it should anyways? shouldnt it?
It will work as it uses the same connections as the non EDL master cylinder, of course the EDL side of things wont work as it is no longer connected [
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but, it should work as normal, without the edl? great, i don’t need EDL 
and i want to tidy up the wiring, which is friggin impossible with the passat harness
so. i’ll have a working passat ABS/EDL harness with ECU for sale in a while then its been tested, and it works as it should
operation “change the ABS harness”
Reason: the passat harness isn’t quite good enough when it comes to fitment for me, so i’m changing it back to the original golf one, tidying up an already cramped enginebay
The EDL function will be lost, but i don’t care, don’t need it way more fun without it. (since the brakes are applied when the tires are spinning below 40kph)
first, a pic from when the passat harness is installed, as you can se, its a ****load of wires. which makes me cry when i see it
heres the passat abs harness taken out, took me about 10 minutes to remove it. only 1 wire need to be cut, this is a black/yellow wire from the fusebox to the abs relay
this pic is taken with most of the golf abs harness installed. the rear is back together, all i need is to route the power/gnd wores trough the firewall, and resoldier the black/yellow wire
got tired when this was done, but, heres a pic with the rear seat back in place where it should be. all wires beyond here is now routed in the appropriate way, i even ran the power-cable for my stereo amplifier when i did this
this was all i did today, did not finish it, but will do that tomorrow, and test the abs to make sure it works
well. this didn’t work… the abs pump starts to run. but the abs it self does not work 
so, this could be one of 3
1. Defective ABS ECU
2. you can’t use the ABS/EDL unit with ABS only ecu/harness
3. broken harness ( this is by the looks of it mint)
my bet would be on either nr 1 or 2…
GODDAMNIT!!!!
well, thanks chris, but my mind has been set [] i’m going to remove the abs [] meaning less electronic **** that can fail 
got myself a new brakebooster today, only in the need for a brakefluid reservoir with outlet for the clutch MC
i know there are a number of these passats on the salvage yards these days, so i’m just going there to pull one
just havn’t done that yet
started to remove the ABS today. got the abs unit out. and found that the bracket is different from abs to “manual” brakes.. the abs brackets has 3 holes, and the manual brake booster has 4
hopefully i’m able to modify the existing bracket, as the top two ones line up with one another
will have a look at that tomorrow
well. couldnt wait until tomorrow. so i went back to the garage. and started the modifying process. didn’t turn out too well. can’t get the back rod centered, making the brake pedal choppy.
so, i’ve ordered a new bracket, new fluid reservoir, and a new lid w/sender from my garage neighbour (who is in germany every once in a while to get parts, as he sells original spare parts)
he will be going down to germany the 2nd week in june. picking up the parts i ordered from him
and while i’m at it, god damn theres soo much more room down there when i’ve removed the abs i love it
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