davidwort

there is a VAG relay that has the buzzer incorporated, I had one from a SEAT (I've got one of the old Maplin self build kits on mine), looks like a regular relay but has a little grille in the end for the sounder, unfortunately it's not a direct fit to the Corrado fuseboard AFAIK, but it's not hard to wire up, courtesy light feed and sidelight feed to it.

is it a daily driver or has it been shut in a barn for 5 years? If it's on the original size pulley and has been properly serviced then I can't see it's going to be a problem, it's a bit like saying will the cambelt snap. You could always drive it 2 miles down the road, remove the fuel pump relay and call the AA to take it home for you :)

WTF does that mean?

win 7 IE9 mucks it up for me

that seems to be an Internet Explorer thing, Chrome is fine, but I agree, it doesn't seem to happen on other forums, wonder if it's a colour scheme thing with I.E. not reading a stylesheet properly? - white cursor???

Mmmmmm Works on my machine too could be a non-return valve on your computer?

yeah, how else would your passenger light up a smoke while you're at the petrol station?

just to clarify, the 1pin black sensors on the side of the head are for the idle stabiliser and coolant gauge and are 049 919 501 (0-125 deg C)

Yeah, the small sensor, black top, original ones have a flat spade connector, those ones look more like the little oil temp sensor on the back of the head but it does say coolant on the gsf site. The 1.8 has 3 identical ones around the water outlet on the head, think the 2l has two the same and one with the rectangular 2pin connector.

I'd take out the abs relays rather than fiddle with connectors in the engine bay to disable the abs, they're nice and dry under the dash (passenger side.)

16v's have sensors on the side of the head for the dash, ecu, idle control, 2 or 3 are the same, may vary from 1.8 to 2.0. putting the heating on full in the car makes no difference :) it's just a flap in the dashboard. Can get blockages in rads, not always air, but it can be hard to get air locks out sometimes, you need to fill slowly from header tank and check the volume you put in. blue tank cap is just a revised part, black ones can in theory not release pressure correctly but I've never com across a problem one, plenty of original black news in use :)

Water pump isn't too bad, only pas pump and alt has to come off nothing else, the only issue can be the mounting bolts of the alternator bracket that go through the pump into the block, be careful none snap I have seen that happen on one, and fit a new stat and do it with the new pump off the car a lot easier. the pas bolts aren't always immediately obvious, I did have a thread/guide to this somewhere

Aerodynamics, see the original Honda insight. looks like vw have lopped yet another cylinder of their Diesel engines to do this though :) essentially what you have is a turbo diesel 2cv, only less practical :lol:

Looks clean enough from a distance, you'd have to check it close up though, not sure who would pay that much for it?, still some way off being a concours car so it's over the top as far as I'm concerned, could still need new clutch, brakes, wheel bearings, suspension, rear bushings, front bushings, engine mounts, rad, matrix, oil cooler, water hoses, the list goes on.

check if the shoulders on the base part of the arm are restricting how close the arm can get to the screen (remove the blade and carefully lower the arm to the screen, it should stop about 1cm short), a lot of people have ground these down to stop this happening, partly depends on the profile of your wiper blade, shallow ones often don't get to touch the screen fully.

that's the trouble with some modern cars with big rads and air con rads, they just have unprotective wide gap plastic mesh grilles, looks mean but no protection at all, I've had the odd bee squished on the front of my corrado rad but basically no stone damage at all.

you could always have a look :) removing the screw lid on the tank is a struggle 1st time, but you'll be able to see which pump it is, maybe with a torch, don't use a mains lead-light though :onfire:

They're not always that bad, the one on my 8v (similar fitment to 16v) came off fairly easily although there's not much room to swing a spanner :). NTK ones are pretty good too.

Nice buy, yep, amplified outputs are for centre and surround speakers, sub is line out so will need an active sub

Either fit late headlights as well or keep the original grille, anything else is a bodge.

Yeah, the sensor wire goes up behind the head against the bulkhead and connects to the main loom at a bracket.

when you get the old one off the car, hack it open and show us what it's like inside, just out of interest.

basically the same as the 16v wiki http://wiki.the-corrado.net/16v_fuel_filter_replacement.html there's silly 'U' clips on the plastic carry case on the late cars though, once the nuts are removed you have to bend the clips to remove the case and they break if rusted, not really needed though.

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