davidwort

that reply made me chuckle :lol: I've always thought the first aid kit thing is a bit ridiculous, like a plaster and TCP is going to be much use if you come off the autobahn on your roof at 140mph :cuckoo: Like the idea of moving the weight to the centre of the car though, so, who'll be the first to get 50/50 weight distribution in a Corrado? (and I'm not allowing the time I carried 6 bags of sand and a couple of cement back from B&Q)

just remember to remove it from the car if you ever need to use the fuel tank access cover :onfire:

That sounds like the valve in the water tank cap is shot, the drain is underneath so you don't see the water spraying out of the top of the tank, is drips down onto the passenger side inner wing area. For your heater in the car one of a few things can happen, either there isn't enough water in the system and the matrix is just full of air, the by-pass valves just before the water hoses go into the bulkhead and into the matrix are blocked/jammed or the controller flaps under the dash are stuck shut for some reason, but you would usually feel some heat from the dash vents in that case. you need to check both inlet and outlet hoses going into the bulkhead/matrix have water in them and get hot showing a flow of water, if your header tank cap is black and not blue, then you have the earlier type which could do with replacing anyway even if it isn't leaking.

If you check on the koni website there are a number of different dampers and the full listings specify which ones are gas charged and which ones have multi position baseplates. So just because they don't rebound by themselves doesn't mean there's a problem, they misght not be gas charged ones. I can't see why moving the baseplate will make the ride any different, all your doing is shortening/lengthening the damper which changes the ride height, the springs won't be compressed any more or less and the dampers are designed to work at a range of heights, well at least the models with adjustable baseplates are. A badly worn damper will either be leaking oil or be very easy to push the pistons in (or pull them out), most 'sports' dampers will take several seconds to compress even under your full weight leaning on them. At the very least you want to make sure both dampers compress at the same rate under the same weight.

has your fluid level gone down? Make sure there's not a leak from the slave cylinder, there's no reason it has to be bled unless you disconnect and remove/replace the slave cylinder. From what I remember if the rubber boot around the piston on the slave is ripped the piston could have come out when you fitted it and not be acting on the clutch?

more like fuel economy, it's quite a bit better than the previous car and this will be a relatively big seller so needs to do it's share for VW's product range average emissions as well as keeping it in as low a taxation band as possible.

First C I ever saw with a 24V engine in it, the smooth quiet engine seemed spot on for the character of the Corrado IMO, I never went much on the TT dash and mk4 switchgear etc. though. What I always admired was the work he put into the car himself, rather than just paying other people to do it.

It's also worth remembering that if you source parts from VW you'll get the latest version of any superceeded parts, particularly important for critical engine parts that had weaknesses in the early versions such as timing belt tensionners. When it comes to parts like bearings it's very difficult to tell as many manufacturers have plants that produce the same components but in different locations, e.g. Germany and China and it may be that the German plant supplies VW but the Chinese one supplies other outlets.

This should be most of the info: 535 419 563 housing (mounting tube) polo column (1995-2000) 535 419 503H lock barrel 357 905 851D (same as polo 95-00, mk3 golf and passat 88-96) If you grab a second hand 95-00 polo complete column, lock/housing, tube, then all you should need are a couple of bolts to replace the Corrado shear bolts, the plastic corrado trims (late/early if still available) and the corrado tube. don't get the polo column with an integrated UJ at the bottom, there's two types, you need the one with the separately bolted on UJ, similar to the corrado one but more flimsily made, obviously you bin that bit anyway. early dash upper trim 535 953 515 early dash lower trim 535 953 516 OR late dash upper trim 535 953 515 B late dash lower trim 535 953 516 B

you can get the lower bearing separately from VW for the fixed column, but I don't think you can get either top or bottom for the adjustable one?

12 years and I've done 85K of the 165K in it, other cars have come and gone alongside it and I plan on another 12 years, then my son can have a drive in it.

the 2L cars have the same 70 litre tank as the passat, so use the same 15 gallon fuel/temp gauge module in the dash, part no: 357919045M

a temp gauge unit from a passat will swap into your Corrado cluster, no need to source a whole new corrado dash.

try putting it in a different position, the usual location on the adjuster might just be worn, worth a go. if it moves on all settings then it's likely to be the joint itself and either a second hand column or a fixed polo column and lock with a fixed Corado outer tube (I think about 40 quid from dealers) can be fitted.

AFAIK you can only do this on the rare fixed columns, not the adjustable column fitted to the vast majority of Corrados. The joint that makes the column adjustable is as big a problem as the bearings though.

who knows? :? I bought a golf VR6 rack that's a TRW one and there's a similar one listed on e-bay at the moment as a Corrado VR6 one (maybe it's a different year or actually from a mk3 golf?) mine was definitely 'plus axle' because of the tie rods, but also identical to my 16v rack (TRW body), so I thought 'great' there's a bigger choice of cars to source quick racks from, as opposed to a mk2 8v or lesser model golf/ibiza with the slower PAS racks.

Which is why I mentioned the Golf VR6 rack I have and James' fitment of the SEAT rack to a VR, I'm only going by what I've had in my hands so it would be interesting to get a few other cars checked, the ZF racks I've seen are pretty distinctive, they have a latticework of strengthening on the outer casing which is alloy, whereas the TRW ones are smooth steel tubes with a welded bracket to mount the gear change rods for cars with rod change boxes.

I think we've been here before, the only ZF racks listed on ETKA are for LHD VR6's everything else is TRW I've got a mk3 golf VR6 rack which is identical to my original 1990 Corrado 16v rack (bar the 36 splines) James Renshaw fitted a new SEAT ibiza cupra rack to his corrado VR6 (which is the same part number as the superceeded rack for the 1992 onwards 4 cylinder corrados - 22 spline and only tie rods had to be changed)

Must admit I did think about that, and I've had one before so know what they're like to work on. Very light, and the 1.9 I had was impressively quick. But completely unforgiving! If I had a pound for everytime that thing went straight on when it was meant to go round a corner..... :pale: Definitely interested in Andy's idea about the Jetta though, always heard they handle better due to the weight over the rear axle........ and I'd certainly be interested to hear a price on the Seat shell, but would it need to be trailered to the track? mk1 golfs are also definitely an option, thinking about it I've seen quite a few well built mk1's that run rings around most things. So many options! :lol: That's the thing about a mk2 golf, very forgiving handling, much more so than a mk1 and the mk2 is so much better engineered body and running gear wise. Mk2 Jetta is heavier than the equivalent golf 4 door, and that's another problem, 4 doors, which makes them even heavier than a 3dr golf.

yeah, but that was Jabba's IHI turbo G60 and they had very sorted suspension and tyres on it. I'd say a mk2 is a good bet, cheap to get panels for (used or new) and a pretty well balanced car from the outset, get a second hand ABF lump in it, perhaps a flowed head and lumpier cams and you'd be laughing.

all the 16v, mk3 GTI and VR racks are essentially the same, in fact even some polo GTI and Ibiza racks are identical. the main difference is the change from 36 to 22 spline input shafts and all you need is the corresponding UJ the VR/mk3 GTI racks simply have longer tie rods for the plus axle the mk2 16v rack (36 spline) has the same part number as the pre 92 4 cyl corrado the only problem you might have is retro-fitting a VR rack to a mk2, as I'm not sure if a 22 spline UJ was ever available for the golf, but there may be one from a SEAT etc that fits if a mk3 one doesn't.

That's because it is the same rack :) In fact, apart from the gearbox and top mounts there's not much difference in running gear at all from the 16v golf and 4cyl Corrados and the G60 golf shared those too!

Now I'm not sure exactly what this means but it looks like Motor manufacturers are going to have to drop average emissions far faster than they thought: BBC news item 130g/km in four years time, that could mean many more diesel cars and so diesel climbing even higher in price compared to petrol? Makes the V6 VW petrol engines look even less likely to survive and things look bad for the remaining UK car industry too, we'll all be in 1 Litre Kias soon :gag:

yeah, OK, I'm exaggerating, but the drivers door window switch was popping out of the trim and wouldn't clip back in and at least one other switch was a bit dodgy, can't remember which, I had a good fiddle around :) sort of thing you'd expect more from Vauxhall. I know the Audis aren't built down to a price so much, but with the exception of steering wheel stalks they always seem to have much better trim fit and feel, surely VW could learn from even one or two generations ago Audis, it's not like they're a secretive competetor, perhaps it's to make sure every VW owner aspires to an Audi someday :shrug:

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