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a few months back i purchased a kenwood mp3 headunit, whilst selling the car i took the headunit out to put it in whatever new car i bought. in the new motor is a sony cassette headunit with a 10 disk changer. all my MP3 cds are now useless as the disk changer doesnt recognise them, If i replaced the cassette headunit with my kenwood one, would the disk changer work with it?

i know hes not out of business yet, i spoke to him last week and he said to bring the car down, then i phone to confirm and he puts it off till saturday, then when i got angry on the phone he said hes going out of business, funny that. ive sent all the information of the car, including the origional advert claiming the wrong mileage, to a good friend at trading standards. il leave it in their capable hands for the moment and they will let me know when he goes out of business. if he doesnt stop trading il take him to court, i just hope he doesnt manage to get his grubby hands on anyone elses money.....

just to bring you guys up to speed if anyone was interested, i was due to tow the car down today and have him look at it but when i phoned he said he wouldnt be around till saturday, and i was to ring him on sat to organise it, after weighing up my options and speaking to a few people ive decided im not taking the car back to him, i have a friend who has agreed to do the work, and to be honest the guy has messed me about so much i dont want anything mnore to do with him. he said he was going out of business at the end of the week so il keep my eye out to see if hes still trading, in the meantime a letter is going to trading standards as i believe they like to investigate people like this. thanks for ur replies

Hi guys, does anyone know a good paintshop in the surrey, berkshire, hampshire area, i managed to put a small dent in the passenger door of my mates Civic type R a few nights back and just wondered if there was anywhere particular i should go.

in hindsight i can see your right, the problem is that when you see a dealer who specialises in corrados you tend to think they are an enthusiast themselves. in fact you wouldnt think a corrado specialist would want the hassle of having everyone know they arent as genuine as they make out, perhaps he doesnt even know this forum exsists, anyway im not trying to make this into a witch hunt as he has agreed to look at the car and come to some sort of agreement over the price, lets hope he makes a good job of the work.

dr_mat, you are absolutley right. i purposely did not include the name of the company in the post for this reason, i just wanted peoples opinions, i have actually spoken to the guy today and he still maintains he can prove the mileage is in kilometres, aparrently all cars that are imported to germany have to be changed over to km, i dont know how much truth there is in that but he has agreed to look at my car and come to an arrangement about the work, and will give me the documentation when i take the car over next week. hopefully we will agree on a course of action which will get my much loved G60 back on the road, thanks for your replies

cheers guys, its definatley the clip you have pointed out, seems to be missing and the gear lever is slipping out to the left. il get down the dub garage tomorrow.

my gear box seems to be broken. i used to have to push the knob down and accross to put it into reverse, now the gap between 1st and reverse is minimal and i dont have to push it down to get it accross to reverse any ideas

g-man you have PM

unfortunatley i cant get hold of the previous owner as they are in germany, i do still have to origional advertisment for the car, clearly stating the mileage was 82 k. its not the fact the head has gone but more to do with the mileage, the car was 2700, a good price for a g60 with the supercharger just rebuilt and 82k, however not a good pice when its done 130 k thanks for your replies,

12 months ago was my 21st birthday and my present was money towards a new car. i had wanted a corrado ever since i could remember but as all 18 year old guys i could never afford the insurance. finally though there was light at the end of the tunnel. after 8 months of deciding what to get i finally thought it was worth the gamble and went looking for G60s. after going to see a few absolutle wrecks i was presently surprised when i found a G60 from germany with 127k km (about 80 k miles) it was being sold by a company who specialised in corrados, so i made my way down and met the guy who i had arranged to view the car with, he said there was someone else coming to look at the car but i could see it if i wanted. unfortunately the car was blocked into the garage by other cars and we could not get it out for a test drive. i was extremley keen to buy it though so i had a good look over it ( taking into consideration the great buying guide on the forum) the engine was sweet, there were a few scratches and chips, but nothing more than you would expect from a 14 year old car. i was getting to thew stage where i was really keen on the car, and then, the other guy turns up. says hes moving to germany and needs a car to take his stuff over, he ended up nearly putting a deposit down on it but i got there before him, because i had not driven the car we agreed that i would drive it when i came to collect it and if there were any problems i would get my full deposit back, perfect, i couldnt have been happier, and 4 days later i collected my new g60, it was only when i got home i realised there was something fishy going on, I had driven home and the trip mileage was reading 20, the exact same as the number of miles from the garage to my house, no problem you may think, but this was a car which was reading 127K kilometres, i finally realised it was a US spec car and they use miles over there, the next day i rang the guy to ask him about it and he said that the clocks had been changed over from km to miles and it was reading miles now but up till it was imported it had been running kilometres,' ABSOLUTE HORSESH1T' i thought, and began getting angry with him on the phone, he protested that the car had only done 80k miles and agreed he would send me the documentation from the company who changed the clocks over, i was still absolutley dumbstruck by this point but thought the guy sounded genuine and thought id give him the benifit of the doubt, stupid i know but sometimes you do stupid things, the car seemed fine though so i was happy with it for the meantime, untill the battery went dead on the 3rd day of having it, another 50 quid at halfords but i couldnt be botherd with the hassle of going back and speaking to him so just replaced it, next up, it was running low on oil, funny that, especially when the car had "supposed" to have been serviced the day before i picked it up. just put some oil in it and carried on as usual. again i couldnt be bothered with the hassle of driving 40 miles there and back for him to put oil in it. then the cat went, and the break pads, and the electric windows stopped working. i was beginning to get massivley pissed off and so called him. " im afraid the break pads and cat are wear and tear so theres nothing i can do". was his reply. how helpful, for a guy who is supposed to be a corrado enthusiast. to his credit he did end up putting me in touch with a company who put a decat pipe on it, however i had still not received the documentation for the clocks so went over to speak to him, he actually had the cheek to get angry with me when i asked him what mail company he was using because it sounded like they sent everything via australia. so i left again waiting and waiting for this information, and to this day i have never recieved it, i actually rang trading standards and they said i had a good case for taking him to court, when i chalenged him about it again and told him i wanted him to take the car back he told me the company were about to go bankrupt and id get nothing, so i plodded along as usual in the hope that maybe one day i might get this documentation. untill last week on my way into town before going off on holiday in the evening, and the car started feeling a litlle sluggish, then it over heated and water was pissing out of the tank onto the engine. i called a tow company and had it sent to a garage who i know the owner of and told him to sort it out for when i get back from holiday. so i return on monday morning to find out the head gasket has gone. you can imagine how im feeling at the moment and worst of all it went out of its three month warranty while i was on holiday, i purposley havent mentioned the name of the company or the name of the guy, out of pure hope that when i ring him tomorrow he will agree to do the work under warranty, however if he does not i am going to personally make sure he goes out of business, as i said before i have good grounds to take him to court, and if he does go bankrupt then at least im safe in the knowledge that under that name and company he cant do to anyone else, what he has done to me, its very hard to explain to everyone that your an idiot and you made a mistake so i dont want replies saying, "you should have done this or that", i already know what ive done wrong and the last thing i need is people reminding me. if you want to know the name of the company i will post it up tomorrow provided he doesnt agree to do the work. thanks for reading and i look forward to your replies

sweet mate thats great thanks for your help

its a black sponge one, can i just get the kit from whoever sells the filters

hi guys, i bought my g60 a few months ago and it has an after market air filter, the problem is its pretty dirty and grimey, i was told you could soak the sponge in petrol and it cleans it out, im a little sceptical of this, if this is true whats the best way to do it, or am i better off just getting a new one.

how do you get the digi rev counter

how hard a job is it then, do i need any specific tools?

sorry i didnt get to make it guys, havent been up to bracknell for that meet for a few years, u gonna be at no rice next week?

il pop up there for a bit if people are going

fitted the new lambda sensor today and everything is sweet :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

its really weird, the car idles fine and goes a little roughly at low speeds but as soon as i get on the motorway it gets much worse.

ive got a left hooker g60 which had german plates for a bit, you've waved to me a few times!

i pass a blonde in a nice blue c every now and again. a few times at the mongolian bbq roundabout in camberley... is that you?

i had my cat taken off my g60 yesterday and replaced with the straight through pipe, after leaving the garage and getting half way home it started coughing and spluttering and chucking out smoke at the back, the wierd thing was that when the cat was taken off they said the lambda sensor wasnt plugged in, from this im presuming the previous owner unplugged it because it had broken and just sold the car on, any ideas as to why this has hapenned, and if im right then how much am i looking to pay for a new sensor. many thanks in advance

it was fine before, and suddenly just stopped, i can push it by hand fine but it slips back down ?

can anyione explain why the electric windows in my US Spec G60 seem to stop about 10 ml from the top of the window, i can push the window the rest of the way up if i need to but it does let water in if it rains cheers