davidwort

that repair kit would work if the cable end has cracked, but may transmit a bit of vibration from the box as it's machined metal and the original is rubber .

the metal cable ends can crack, and the rubbers can split but generally as the cable is quite rigid horizontally when clamped in the the gearbox mounted bracket it's more likely as 'Jim Bowen' said that something's missing like the fat washer so the cable end is being pulled down or something.

Welcome back! any 16v questions just shout, there's a few of us that know them very well :)

Cheap pattern top mounts only last 5 minutes, they are not strong enoughenough for the weight of the front of the Corrado and are really just mk2 mounts, if you can get febi passat ones they might last, otherwiseotherwise convert to mk3/vr style ones with new top plates and bearings to suit

^lol and can anyone tell me what stuff's good for removing the glue left from those pesky little euro stickers on my numberplate

well if Google Trends is any guidance I reckon this is going to be a less than democratic result either way, 'EU referendum' is down at no.12 'Love Island, Miss Great Britain' is at no.5 https://www.google.co.uk/trends/

...but with a very unhealthy level of sarcasm... anyway back to cats, here's the cat: [ATTACH=CONFIG]84047[/ATTACH]

and you can see every spec of pollen on it, who'd have a gloss black car!

to be fair my cat makes more sense than most of our politicians put together, good idea, I might seek his opinion tomorrow. This has always been a very civilized forum, I wonder how these threads have gone on some other forums :)

20 years now, pic from last weekend: [ATTACH=CONFIG]84041[/ATTACH]

I have some test info on the KE motronic system, will pm you

Could it not be the valving in the rack rather than the pump? When you say it wouldn't bleed what were the symptoms? Was it groaning like it was pumping to the rack even when you weren't turning the wheel?

At the more realistic end of the market I went out in a 25 grand Nissan Leaf the other day, plus points being it clearly had the immediate max torque that an electric motor offers and there's plenty of places to recharge for nothing, but god is it a soulless cheaply made plastic hatchback, and once you get above 40 the tyre noise is really intrusive, there's plenty of quieter equivalent petrol and diesels. Range anxiety is a problem as air con or heating sucks a lot of the 100 mile max away and refuelling every day would just be a pita. I'm not sure if the battery degradation gauge is a good idea either, not nice being reminded daily how your battery is getting worse, imagine having a 10 litre fuel tank that got smaller every year you owned the car, then you had to pay several grand for a new one! Needs a few more generations and 300 mile range IMO but if you spend an hour in heavy traffic each day commuting and don't mind what your car looks like it would do the job ok.

Hi Gareth, I'm probably not far from you in Wootton with a 16v, give us a shout if you want a second pair of eyes on anything, I know the 16v pretty well, having owned one for 20 years :)

Order one of these (IR thermometer), invaluable for tracking down cooling problems, and it's just as useful for central heating http://www.gearbest.com/temperature-instruments/pp_218366.html?wid=3

If it's rear footwell it could be running forward from badly sealed rear light clusters

The stuff I used was called this: MASTIC TAPE 8mm X 6m POLY BUTYL SELF ADHESIVE STRIP IN GREY( 400917093732 ) but the seller http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/caravansuppliesinternational doesn't seem to sell it i've had no problem with this stuff sealing it does the job better than anything else I've tried this looks similar http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mastic-sealant-tape-6x5-grey-/152047967877?hash=item2366c3de85

I present the allegro vanden-plas:

might not be pretty but this worked a treat: ebay sourced adhesive strip:

Make sure you apply the tape/mastic stuff in the right place along the bottom of the door, there are small drain holes in the inner door skin and if you cover these with mastic or don't apply the mastic straight then water will sit in the membrane and find a way through often.

I actually did the head gasket on this car kip about 4 years ago now, while I was at it I lapped in all the valves, the head faces were good iirc but the old gasket had rotted and water was escaping. The plugs should tell you a lot, what do they look like?

that was taken in 2008 leaving the Nurburgring campsite where the 20yr anniversary meet was held, must have been about 50 corrados in convoy all left at the same time through the nearby villages and there'd been several hundred at the campsite!

early indicators have a 'plugged' hole in the corner so you can adjust the foglight level, so those look late to me, and they are listed as VR6 which suggests late. Although being aftermarket indicators, that have matched fogs, they may not include the fog adjustment 'hole' anyway.

wow, that's a detailed reply! I for one would not like to make a living out of working on old cars, after 10 or so years every job becomes a pig with plastic cracking, items corroded together or rusting away, broken wires, crap over everything, bodged rapairs, what should be a 10 minute job becomes a day long nightmare. I have seen both sides of the customer-garage dealings and although much of the motor industry leaves a lot to be desired with customer service I do believe the customer should show more interest and understanding in the work on their vehicles. My dad used to keep every worn/broken part to show the customer, some are interested, others just happy to pay whatever trusting the garage, some argue every little point as if it was some turkish market carpet haggle. I'd certainly want updates from a garage if I knew they were looking into a problem on my car, but the customer has some responsibility to make sure they can be contacted and that they keep in touch, particularly on an older car. But the bottom line is, either you want the job doing or not, are you going to scrap the car because the job ends up costing a few hundred pounds more than you expected?

wow, that's approaching the price the car was new, a lovely car, I wonder where it will go next?