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'tis a nice pic... I really should get the rotater working tho :(

Well no, sorry that was my point. You can have traction control and no ABS - you just need to fit a speed sensor to each wheel. However, you don't often find traction control on a production car that doesn't have ABS because if you've gone to the effort of putting the speed sensors on, you might as well fit the ABS ECU and pump too. At a basic level, the traction control just needs to know how fast the gearbox is spinning (already can from the speedo sensor) and how fast the wheels are going. If they don't match, then it kills some of the power to bring things back in-line. The later Corrados (at least the VR6) apparently do have some form of very crude traction control, so that if you light the wheels up it will sort of cut the power. Can't say I've ever felt it tho. If you look at the clever stuff then the traction control learns at what point stuff starts to slip so it's semi-predictive when it cuts the power. The really clever stuff on the 4-wheel drive cars also controls the diff and ABS, so it can actually control how much power is delivered to every single wheel and if needs be, apply some braking to wheels too. Those setups also know where the steering is pointing, what the inputs are from the pedals and I'd also wager a have a box of gyros in them to work out what the car as a whole is doing. It's some spooky clever schitt.

So take the details, run it through the system, destroy them. Job done... it just sounds like another can't be arsed excuse to me.

Aye, as above - it's usually a red and yellow wire that you need to switch around, but check in the head unit manual first!

Make sure you're sitting down when they tell you how much they are tho. For the complete rubber I think you're looking at around £150 a side! :shock:

No idea TBH they were numbers I'd heard but probably people talking schitt :lol:

Not necessarily, but you need speed sensors on each wheel to control the power and these are usually installed with the ABS. Some traction control systems just limit power to wheels, some actively brake other wheels too, in which case you need ABS.

If you've got an axle off the car, you might as well get it shot blasted and powder coated at the same time. Doubt it'd cost much more than £80 (might be wrong tho! :lol: )

Anything normally aspirated is going to be lots of dosh for very little gains, such as: Shrick VGI ~ £1000 + remap (£300?) Shrick cams (e.g. 268s) ~ £800 + remap Those two combined will give you at most 50bhp more and stretch your existing torque curve down to around 2k rpm. Otherwise you're into supercharger and turbo territory. The more common, thus slightly easier of the two is to supercharge it, which is going to cost somewhere aruond £1500-£2000 and get you something in the region of 150bhp extra with similar torque. Vortech and Z-Engineering seem to be the people that supply most of them, but I'd have a look at the forced induction VR6 thread for better info on that.

Yeah, some dealers won't do it because you might never turn up. But if they're happy to take payment at the same time (thus they've got money for the parts and aren't out of pocket) then it's just because they're a bunch of useless twonks.

Aye, what Dec says. Unless you physically hit the axle in a crash, it's unlikely to get bent, so should be good. Might be worth seeing the car it came off tho, just to confirm there's nothing wrong with it. Either way, chances are that it'll be fine. Problem is, you won't know for sure until you've had it stripped, painted, new bushes fitted, on the car and then on the alignment rig...

Sadly you could only get OE AC on LHD cars (woo for acronyms), so that is as good as it gets on a RHD Corrado. The parts I had on mine were all official VW/Diavia bits and that was how it was supposed to fit.

Excellent news. Now for the issue regarding Kylie...

"State Express 555 was launched in 1895 and is one of British American Tobacco's best-selling cigarettes. Now sold in more than 55 countries, the brand is particularly popular with smokers in China, Taiwan, Bangladesh and Vietnam." http://www.bat.com/group/sites/uk__3mnf ... KN=1&TMP=1 Which would explain why I've never seen 'em in the UK!

Crappy luck Gav, let's hope it all manages to sort itself out. Does this mean if you do get the charger kit that Kylie's gonna have another boobie tho?! :D

As John says - I'm sure you could make £2k-£3k on it by breaking it. It is a lot of work to strip the car, but as I found out that's the least of your worries. Keeping track of who you've sold what to for how much and whether you've been paid and where it's gotta go to is the hard bit. Then the continual search for boxes/jiffy bags/bubble wrap and trips to the post office...

Tobacco advertising mate - not allowed on TV any more...

Suspension is very much one of the areas where you get what you pay for. If they're uber cheap then there's a reason...

Wow superb find! If it's rot-free then I'd have it mate! Even if the drivetrain is a sack of crap, it's cheap as chips to replace. The steering wheel is definitely original (I freakin' love that wheel) but not sure if it was a Storm-only option or not (and even if that'd tell you it is or not). Edit: Having read this it sounds like it's definitely not a Storm (wrong colour paint, no badges, wrong wheels, non-matching leather). Sounds like it's probably still a fully-loaded GLS tho and still a bargain!

PhatVR6 had them on his Corrado, so they will fit. You do need at least 17s to clear them but no idea what kind of spacers etc you may need tho...

You'll need coilies to go stupidly low, but you're probably going to need arches pulling so you don't shred the tyres. I'd also suggest you get some dental insurance...

Champion result! 8)

As above - don't drive like a loon and you'll get the power down. If it's still lighting the tyres up, buy some with pronouncable names. If it's still lighting them up then you're either driving like an idiot or have a seriously fondled G-lader.

I've got pics kicking about somewhere of two horrific (I believe American, I know at least one was from NY) monsters of Corrados that I saw in Canada. One was a black, completely standard looking valver on steelies... apart from the airbrushed manga character down the side. Then inside all of the plastics had been painted (badly) primary blue or yellow... and it was peeling off...and the seats were ripped to hell. The other was also black with the world's worst bodykit, purple-tint windows and vents all over the show. Sadly it also had nos in it so went like the clappers. The owner had a beard.

Aye - a bit of emery paper/nail file/et al to get it back to a nice shine and/or a squirt of electrical contact cleaner (can get cans of it in Halfords)