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I'd totally disagree with anything hammerite these days. Years ago it used to be excellent stuff, but the modern stuff has been reworked and is watery rubbish which does nothing to stave off corrosion and takes at least 2 if not 3 coats to get decent coverage without monsterous drippage. Personally I'd steer clear of the stuff. When I painted my estoril scallops I used Halfords 'Volkswagen (volcano?) black' gloss with a clear laquer top. Very successful it was too.

I asked this question to a few companies a couple of years ago.... responses were: AP specify a minimum of 3mm. Wilwood recommend a minimum of 0.100". Bremsport recommend a minimum of 0.125". Pic below shows the porsche caliper where it touched the wheel. Other owners had insisted there was sufficient clearance. Looked too close to me so kept a close eve over the first few miles. A bit of flex in the components/wheels brought about touching. Its not always so easy to gauge how close the calipers are as you say because of curved surfaces etc.... HTH

yes. You use the unlocking output signal to do the unlocking side of things. But for the locking you don't use the locking output on the alarm (duration isn't long enough & you get windows only half closed). Instead you use the timed output with a relay. It operates a second or so after the locking output does its stuff, but the duration is programmable to give you enough time to use it for full closure. Only complication is if you hit the lock button then remember you've left something inside. If you try to unlock as it is still doing its closure thing it gets a bit confused! HTH I've fitted Ai606 alarms to my last four cars (inc 2 corrados) & not had any problems at all. Great alarms with very well designed fobs. I like a good fob.

Yeah - great tools though shame about the random sizing - if you get both sets you even get a couple that are almost identical! Bought mine on promo at the local builders merchant -all in one pack for about £16 Used 'em several times in anger and its alwars got at least the head off the bolt!

Well - if anyone wants one of these I've got one sat here brand new, boxed & never used. Genuine VW part. Half price??

TomTom every step of the way. Very simple & intuitive to use. Very well designed (solid main unit with minimal 'plastic' guff on the mounting system). Had Tomtom first on a PDA years ago then moved to an all in one unit 520? a couple of years ago. Perfect in every sense. Money very well spent. Exceptionally good support too - after 7/8 yrs the GPS receiver battery went & they still took back the old one and replaced it!

Use the search luke..... http://the-corrado.net/.archive/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=56978&p=708313&hilit=spec#p708313 Don't know whether they've got any better recently but AFAIK they're not dust sealed for road use anyway..... let alone the disatisfied comments linked above.....

I've always drawn parallels between the corrado and Audi coupe of similar vintage. Turns out the S2 coupes were almost always fitted with fixed rear windows but there was a super expensive option to have electric pop-out windows from new. Parts are very rare especially in the UK but make a top mod. http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25307

Have the full installation guide here on pdf for that alarm. (courtesy of eBay several years ago!) If you want a copy just PM me your e-mail address. Cheers

yeah sometimes they're not a perfect fit. I've got both sets and also got quite confused over the sizes as some sizes overlap and there are gaps elsewhere in the size range. Just round it off some more and bang on the next size down! Having said that, they are excellent bits of kit. Has removed several rounded nuts successfully for me. It does help if you can hammer them on. Snap on also do a set. But at £20something quid these are a great bit of kit.

Lots of previous discussions about S2s. I've had two corrados and two S2s. One a late 1995 ABY and one an early 1991 3B. Bought the first for about 5K in 2003 and the latter for about 3K in 2005. Prices seem to have held steady for a long time now so 4K is nothing new. Just be very careful when buying. My first was swesome - well looked after and 100% reliable. The second was a nightmare with bodge jobs galore after having an engine rebuild. Can be very costly to run..... but then again so can any car with 'history'.

Personally I'd avoid like the plague things like rad weld. Its not a clean nor a long term fix and *could* do more harm than good. For examples (mixed feedback re causing sludge ETC) http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=43334 My A3 has a coolant leak too and needs top ups every few weeks to stop the bottle sensor detecting 'low fluid'. Mine stems from a leaking end cap on the radiator. Should really get a new one but coolant is cheaper than radiators and I really can't be bothered with the strip down right now! Has been leaking for over 12 months now!

I'd doubt you'll find anyone who can do it. Many years ago, alarm remotes sent out a single code by radio frequency. Thieves used to rig up scanners to pickup, record and replay the codes to get into cars. Since then (early 90's?) alarms have moved on and are now pretty much all 'rolling code' transmitters meaning the code changes each time it is used & both alarm & remote know the sequence of code changes. As a result, thieves were thwarted. But since they all now seem to have 'rolling codes' I'd be very surprised if anyone still offered a service to copy a static code - there is just no business there. If you can still get a new fob you should just be able to get the alarm to accept its code... but you'll still have to get the installers instructions etc.

Looks like defferent branches stock different things. I've been buying the genuine branded G12+ from my local (worthing) branch of GSF for a couple of years now. After a non-genuine mix up (where everything went hideously wrong) in my old audi I wouldn't trust anything else. Last purchase was priced £4.95 +VAT a bottle.

From the Audi S2? Only one I know of from previous experience http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8743 two downsides: 1- curve of rear window means shroud would need trimming to suit corrado's flat window 2-price of parts from VAG - you won't find one at the scrapper as they're rare parts as std fit positives: 1-easy & professional looking retro fit 2-no LED glare reflections with fitted shroud

Mine had a comlog fitted when I bought it. Swapped it out for a Toad ai606 instead which has been faultless. The conlog was a dealer fit option and not factory fitted - hence it will have been fairly crudely fitted under the dash and spliced into the loom in a haphazard way. Just take the lowed dash off, find the unit and trace all the wires. Not too bad a job if you've got a basic understanding of auto electrics / alarms.

Thats the weirdest bit of hear say I've heard of late! Pattern parts are just that - made to fit the same application and designed to perform in the same way. They often buy tooling such as dies and presses from OEM manufacturers such as the case for body panels etc when OEM manufacturers put them out of action (for one of many reasons). Sometimes they get things wrong in their designs and sometimes the toolings are at the end of their life which is why the OEM manufactures have moved them on. OEM manufacturers in my experience do not pull parts off the production lines and catagorise them as grade 1, 2, 3 etc. It'd be a ridiculously inefficient and expensive process. In the case of new car manufacture all parts have to be 100% of course so they'll set up the facilities to do just this until demand at the assembly plants is met whether this be batches or continuous. They'll slip in extra batches to go off for aftermarket parts but by no means will these be inferior parts! I've worked as a manufacturing quality engineer in plants across europe for Ford's largest tier 1 supplier for several years so I do know what I'm talking about (for once!). Things do get a bit mixed up when pattern parts are made by originally sourced suppliers, and these go one of 2 ways - either they're exactly like to original parts in every way - or, they've been denied rights to produce the parts under their own name and therfore they have to build tooling again to manufacture - hence why these parts can be of a sub-standard.

Got mine from halfords. RRP at about £25 but I paid just £8 with my trade discount card! Power supply is just like a big mobile phone charger with one LED. Plug it in it lights up red. When full, LED changes to green and switches to 'monitor mode' supposedly allowing permanant hookup. Again comes with long wire & I just drilled a hole through the wall of the lounge so I could keep the mains side of things indoors. Other end had either croc clips or a fitment which is permanantly hooked to the battery. When being left I just dropped this down though the engine bay and hooled up to the charger. Seems to work well. Only dons side is the haldords quick disconnect terminals aren't fully weather resistant. I'd not be looking to change the terminals to something a bit more winter proof!

Well if it doesn't work on the key either then I'd suspect it to be the control module (part of the cl-pump unit IIRC?) and nothing to do with the alarm. All the alarm does is hold a long long pulse which is tapped into the lock signal wire. you could try swapping out the c/l pump or perhaps trace back along the lock signal wire (down drivers side sill) all the way to the door till you find where the alarm installer patched in the alarm wire. Then separate & check the alarm wire is giving out the 12v signal when alarm is activated.

This happened on my A3 recently. Thought it was a leak but was actually the carbon internals of the pump breaking > impeller less efficient as it starts to break down internally > generating less vacuum > circuitry thinking there was a leak > over-running to compensate and create sufficient vacuum > over working itself. Three weeks later pump impeller totally disintegrated. Luckily secondhand pumps are cheap and I fitted a mildly modified corrado G60 one to the Audi. Now fixed and no more over-running.

Get one from the dealers. Spent a while getting the GSF one fitted and it didn't solve my cooling problems - just changed the symptoms a bit! http://the-corrado.net/.archive/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=61713&p=722716 Fitting an OEM one for pennies more solved all problems instantaneously! sealing ring - 038 121 119B £1.39 thermostat - 044 121 113 £10.58 all in £14.06 oct '07

I heard that too. But after I'd already bought a set! Anyway. Findings for anyone who cares is that no, you don't need the short roof kit, but without it the bars are quite close together at about 580mm between bar centres. Add the 477 Kit in and you can space the rear bar a bit further back making the whole thing a bit more stable (720mm between bars) especially with big things mounted on top. Seeing as 477 kits come up on eBay all the time (think mine was £10 +p&p) I'd say it was worth it. My before & after pics on this thread: http://the-corrado.net/.archive/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=43066&p=787294

I'd have thought it quite obvious what he's asking. Is the Logic 950 alarm a Cat 1 / Cat2 or otherwise certified alarm for insurance purposes. I'm fairly sure it is both an alarm & immobiliser but its not Thatcham approved now. Lots of old alarm systems have been delisted. Current appoved alarms both facory fit and aftermarket are on: http://www.thatcham.org/security/pdfs/compliance.pdf

Original mats from the dealers a few years ago. Excellent fit but a bit flimsy with an orrible foam backing. Logo just stuck on but out of harms way so didn't go anywhere. Would certainly buy again though.

Nice job on the headrest there. I bought a machine for leather a few years ago and have still not got round to buying any hide! Used it for some canvas & vinyl work but no leather. Tried to do a Recaro headrest myself but it turned into a right mess! Seems to be just too fast for me & each treadle touch just results in 10 stiches! What have you got? Is it a walking foot? 1400 odd rpm motor? And where is your hide coming from? Only found Martrim and Boyriven so far & couldn't bring myself to buy in practice hides!