MoonlightVR

Had mine almost 2.5 years. Excluding servicing, bits and pieces: 17" BBS RS's - £900 4 Conti S.Contacts - £400 H&R coilovers & top mounts etc - £650 (GB price, self fit) Eibach rollbars - £300 fitted All 4 Pagid grooved disks & FR pads - forgotten - circa £300 fitted K&N 57i - £50 Private reg VR6 *** - ££££! VW auxillary instrument pod - £100 Oil pressure sender for above - £30 Alpine head unit - £260 Focal components - £115 Infinity 6x4s - £40 Blaupunkt active sub - £60 Sigma M30 Cat 1 alarm - £375 Uprated headlamp loom and quality bulbs - £40 Air con overhaul - £200 Bosch silver battery - £45 Samcos - £160 Lupo wipers - £40 Italvolanti wooden steering wheel - £115 Raid Snap Off boss with custom boss - £100 Golf Highline gearknob - £35 Autostyle carpet mats - £65 Tinting for rear lights - £30 New headlamp lenses - £50 New indicators - £50 New spoiler - £30 New grille - £25 New badges all round - £25 17" BBS RCs with Yokos (winter) - £600 s/hand Windscreen - £50 excess Body mods - circa £1000 Removed roof aerial Removed rear wiper Removed rear tow eye Rolled and flared arches all round Resprayed front end Passat delocked handles colour coded So somewhere around the £7000 mark. Wish I hadn't done this now :cry: Been worth it though :D

No worries Storm 2. A company as good as Bilstein will ensure that each kit is tailored to the car application, so I'm sure the Corrado VR6 kit will be as good as the Golf one. Euro Car Parts are a Bilstein dealer so you could try them? http://www.eurocarparts.com/ I'd call them to see if they do kits for the Corrado, cos alot of these places only do Golf parts :roll: . If you're struggling let me know and I'll ask my mate who got me my kit.

This is much more of a prblem on foam filters like RamAir that use a thick oil to trap dust. Cotton filters like K&N don't cause this problem unless over oiled.

Aah, 17" RS's and beige leather. Clearly the guy has good taste :D :D

I'm not too worried about effort or smell - more about shine :) According to Meguiars own website it's the best wax they do for shine and finish. They offer a money back guarentee if you're not 100% happy. http://www.meguiars.co.uk/ Then click on NXT generation icon.

ROTFLMFAO! :lol: I was thinking more along the lines of obsessive complusive disorder!

Ask any windscreen fitter what the worst car is to do a bonded screen on and 99% will say the Corrado! It's all down to the windscreen aperture being very small and tight on space, and the actual surface between the glass and the bodywork being very small, hence the high chances it will be fecked up. This is why many fitters pump too much Sikaflex onto the bonding surface - it's a poor way of ensuring the screen is sealed all the way round. As Kev says this why so many C's have excess sealant visible around the A pillar trim when you looking from the inside the car. If they put the screen in wrongly and don't have enough sealant the screen will leak like buggery! I'd suggest you use a good company like Autoglass or RAC and make sure the fitter has done Corrados before. My screen went last year (was the VW factory original!) and I used my local RAC Windscreens. They had a chap in there who always does the Corrados cos they all know how hard they are to do! He reckoned he had done over 100 in his career!! He did an absolutely perfect job with absolutely no sealant visible from inside, and completely creak and leak free :D So it can be done, but the fitter has to know what he's doing.

I've always had great experiences of setups using H&R springs. So you could go Koni TA dampers all round with H&R springs, or go for a H&R cup kit which use dampers made for and approved by H&R, with their springs. I recently put a Bilstein Sprintline (not the Sportline) suspension kit on my dad's Mk2 Golf GTI. He's 65 so was pretty fussy about having a decent ride quality!! This kit came very highly recommended by a good friend in the trade I went for it. I was amazed by how good it was as I'd say the ride is only marginally firmer than VW fitted as standard to the car. It's not cheap at around the 430ukp mark, but yet again you get what you pay for! All of these kits lower the car modestly - around 30-35mm, but probably offer the best ride quality. HTH Asim

Yeah mate do it!

Lee, the company I work for has a drug for the condition you're suffering from!! :lol:

Cheers kvwloon, looking shiney! 8) A bought the clay detailer and the new NXT Tech Wax last week. The NXT wax is supposed to be Meguiars best ever wax. Have only tried it out on a wing so far but feck it's good stuff! Certainly the easiest wax I've used to apply and then remove. Hardly any effort at all and no dust or white residue in the shuts/seals etc It visibly darkens the colour of the paint and seems to hide and fine swirl marks too :D Am well impressed. Will take some pics when I get a chance to do the whole car.

Damn fine looking machine 8)

Fair enough. The 211 E55 is a saloon at the end of the day, but I certainly wouldn't describe it as a barge. Considering that it needs to have some ride quality plus the handling to match it's 476bhp, I thought it was pretty much spot on :D

I've driven a couple of those - fast in a straight line but handle like barges when it comes to cornering - not my idea of a fun car to drive at all. :shock: Were they 211 (latest) series??

Cheers Kev. I don't think I could bear to see it being driven off into the distance! :oops:

Certainly have mate, hence why I should really sell the C. :cry: Am giving the Mk1 a pretty extensive make over, and you know how much time that takes up....

All in the eye of the beholder mate.... But then we are both from the smooth and subtle school :wink: I wish I didn't get so attached to my cars cos I should really be selling it but I just can't bring myself to do it :cry:

Cheers Chubbz :) I'm very surprised that In Pro et al have decided only to go the crystal route on aftermarket lights. IMO an all red version would outsell anything they currently do. Oh well :roll:

100% with you Phat. They are mentally loud when you want it, and very respectable when driving sensibly. IMO the K&N looks the neatest in the engine bay too, but is the look really that important?!

No, later cable will only fit later cars. But if you've bought a later cable for your Storm you should be ok, since Storms are later cars :D Only way to be certain is cross checking the chassis number.

Sure you get a stepped paint level, but it's not that bad looking IMO. Especially if you clear lacquer afterwards. I would not recommend this. My lights have no red on the amber stripes and they only just flash amber. If you spray the amber parts red (even lighltly) you'll get a very marginal amber which is likely to get you into trouble with coppers/MOT testers. It'll be all that effort for nothing! :mad: I would also recommend a green indicator bulb. Green flasing thru red gives amber :D Brooksey, I'll dig out the reference for the bulb. My lights have been on the car for 2 MOTs now and I've never had a problem, and my MOT place is pretty strict! As Kev says prep is the key. My method: *Choose a warm sunny wind free day! *I rubbed down all the raised lettering first with 600 grade wet and dry. *Do the whole lens surface with the same grade to get a key. *Wipe surfaces with alcohol based degreasant. *Mask the stipes on the indicator lens. If you look closely on the lights they are made up of a plain plastic row and then a "crystal" effect row. I masked the crystal row (so this will stay amber). *Mask up the brake light and the black plastic suround and black middle stripe. *Spray the red lacquer (I used FoliaTec) evenly in thin layers. I between layers put the light in the sun to cure. *Keep building up the layers until you're happy it matches the brake light lens. *Allow to cure for the rest of the day and overnight. *Next day remove all the masking tape. *Give the red lacquered surface a very fine key with 1000 wet and dry. *Wipe down all the lens surfaces, including brake light. Mask up the all the black plastic parts of the light. *Spray all the lens surfaces with clear lacquer. *After about a week rub down the lacquer with a mild car polish like AutuoGlym SuperResin to get a high gloss finish. Pic attached of the lights from a distance. Cheers Asim

If going with coilovers make sure you go with a quality set up. Cheap coilovers are not worth it as they simply will not last and will ruin ride/handling. FK Konigsports are the cheapest quality coilover set up out there as they use pukka Koni TA dampers. As Kev says, also consider Konis own set up, or for alot more dosh H&R, Leda or Bilstein. IMO you get what you pay for. Coilovers are not high maintainence as long as you spray the threads with protective wax when new. In my experience quality coilovers provide a better ride that standard struts with lowering springs due to the fact that they still have a fair degree of spring travel. At the end of the day a shortened conventional spring will always be compromised solution, which is why the quality branded springs like H&R and Eibach drop the car by modest amounts.

Can get them for around 540 if that's any good to you?

Have a K&N on mine which is fine if you drive sensibly :roll: Floor it and it makes a TVR sound like a Fiesta! It's LOUD! Have driven a couple of VRs with the Ramair, which I have to say sounded great. Much more subtle when flooring it. But I prefer the K&N!!!

The headlamp washers are only really needed in the winter, eg. when the roads have been gritted and you get all that filthy spray from cars you are following. The washers are really good at getting most of the salt spray off the lenses, which really helps night vision. I've applied Rain-X to my lenses which helps the washers work better. For the rest of the year they're pretty much useless! If you go to a Scandinavian country you'll see that pretty much all the cars have headlamp wash, due to their prolonged winters. They're also good at getting taligaters to back off on the m/way cos they dump a huge amount of water on the front of the car which flies straight onto their windscreen! :lol: They use up so much water that the washer bottle on h/wash cars is 7 litres! :shock: I'll get my coat.... :lol: :lol: