This link takes you to the website that can answer your question. We'd need to know the make (sedan/wagon/GLS/GLX). Click here and you'll know in a minute: http://www.car.com/content/own/service/index.cfm/action/SeriesSelect/nextaction/RecallsView/year_si/2001/make_vch/Volkswagen/model_vch/Passat/model_id_int/5561
so take it to the mechanic to find out if some one has tamper with it