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Figured I'd add to this. So it seems I have an Auto Watch system in the car. No idea what code it is, or what model and I only have one key fob. I have been having some issues with it when I pick my fiance up from work. She works at a hotel and there's a lovely no parking zone right in front of the door. Of course this is where I generally park at 2330 when I pick her up. It's not like she's going to have me towed. So it's an old building and everytime I parked the car in the parking lot, I became more convinced that the hotel was haunted and that poltergeists were fuc*ing with my head. See the imobilizer would do it's arm after 30 seconds trick, then it wouldn't disarm, and I'd sit there cursing at my lovely problem of a car. In my mind the ghosts are laughing at me. I might add at this point that the car has been absolutely perfectly reliable EVERYWHERE else. Last night was no different. A bit after midnight we got back in the car only for it not to start, again. I had not locked the car. So I tried using the key fob and managed to arm the alarm with us inside it. Fun... move just a little. Alarm goes off. Thankfully, the key fob silences it. But doesn't disarm it. so I try various things opening doors etc, locking with the Key in the door and attempting to turn the key. Everytime I open the door, alarm. Everytime I turn the ignition, alarm. Eventually we reason that it might be from the wireless signal emmitting from the hotel, or possibly the big power cable running to one of the other buildings on site, passing right over the car. We throw the car into neutral and push the car 10 meters. Jump in, silence the alarm jam the key in and turn the car over. It worked... so either the ghosts got tired with us, the car was out of wirless range or it was simply away from cables... I figure it's likely the cables... so if the immobilizer starts failing on you... might want to push it from any power source.

you go girl! :D

Currently I'm getting a rear bench retrimmed in audi TT leather and style to suit the fronts, but I'm getting pddoff trying to get the TT fronts to sit low enough, so I'm now thinking pick up some recaros and get them trimmed to match :? fekin cars! So lemme get this one strait. You buy TT seats. You install them. You decide to have the rears retrimmed to match. Before that happens you decide to swap front seats so you decide to have them matched to the yet untrimmed back seats? Even though the Corrado rears are just normal seats that happen to have recaro material covering them, ie: rather pricey... :drinking: Why not just wait it out and buy some leather Recaros?

ugh... yeah... count me in for those. I've been jonesing for them since I saw a set 7 years ago when I got my first corrado. maybe we can do a three way trade/sale thing if you want BigPants' seats...

yeah the subframe is actually bolted on, where as the normal seats have the subframe built into the integrety of the seat. driver and passenger Corrado Recaros are actually the same seats with the switches on opposite sides. you can swap em right across.

All corrado Recaros are electric, some are heated some are not. I'd be interested in the full interior, if you want to keep it intact. Andrew

I swear, everyday I get just a litle bit dumber. :( :( On my Corrado at home, the top "switch" is a light is both an ABS status light and Handbrake warning. On later models it's also the check engine light as well. Over here, on this one at least, it's just the ABS status light. It's icon is very similar to that of the handbrake warning. When I quickly glanced at them, figured they were the same, thought "Omg.. f*cking Corrado" and somewhat panicked... I was also half asleep. Mods.. Please lock.

It would certainly have failed the MOT had it been knackered at the time. The genius that I bought it from seems to have given it a really good go and ripped the welds it's bolted into, both of them. So It needs to be rewelded and retapped. I guess I'll go shoot some photos...

This will firmly establish me an elemetry. The car is a 1992 2.0 16V (Facelift/Transition) I seem to have have two parking brake lights. I know this is stupid but they seem to be marked the same way. One is where it should be, beside the vent, left of the wheel... the other is in the cluster, in the lower lights (ie: high beam blue light). It has the older style cluster. Thing is, my parking brake is disconnected. This light in the dash like to turn on some and I'm paranoid it's actually the CEL. Nothing appears wrong with the engine, but I'm paranoid, given it's a Corrado. The car didn't come with a manual/book so I'm like a blind man in an orgy; I'm going to have to feel my way through this. :scratch:

that must have been pleasant. It might be too mangled for the washers.. someone obviously has tried that in the past

Hey guys I'm hoping to commission one or so of the community to help me with my parking brake. Just bought the thing and the parking brake and well, for lake of a better term has been pulled so hard, it's broken the mounts welded to the center tunnel. So I need the help of someone with a grinder to grind the mangled mounts off, a welder to weld new metal in, and a tap kit to thread the mount... Can anyone give me a hand at asome point? Andrew

It's been my experience that you want to stay the hell away from all in one types. Think about it... a cleaner is designed to take the gunk out of the leather, then the conditioner is designed to put different gunk back in. Two in ones are counter productive. The best and I do mean best stuff I've used is a product called Lexol. Wonderfull stuff.

If they're Porsche Recaros they'll bolt up to any MK1/2/Corrado Recaro base. Otherwise I'm not sure...I've seen people post their cars on Vortex with Boxter 944 and 911 seats installed... Given they were Americans it can't be too hard. As far as Power, I wired in my Recaros... It was simply a 10 amp fused lead with a Y to each seat going to the main power block on the fuse board and a shared ground.

not sure about the product called 'brown bread'.. seems popular at home and was cheaper than dynomat... don't know about the ease of instalation.

can some one post a pic of the center console on the humpless back seats... as in where the hump would bolt in?

so my demented view is, if you're trying to skirt speeding tickets... get an Irish plate. The plate is white, wheel's on the same side and the tax disc is there as well. But I'm not sketchy...

nice fatties... :D :D

Doesn't matter... I'll never drive anything french.

dead corrados suck man... sorry to hear your loss, glad your family is ok.

nasty... not liking it. the prototype shots have a bit of dodgeness in the 1/4 panels. .. ick.

Er, no, they were not. Early cloth Recarros had a blue or red logo depending on what colour the seats were, later ones the same rules apply; seat colour affects logo colour. Corrados never had Recarros with exterior colour matched embroided logos. odd... Could have sworn they were... maybe a strange Canadian thing or more likely just variations on the thread or sunfade...

anything's possible, If I were you I'd just go and fine a fine sharpy and make em black. I did this with my Mk2 and it turned out fine and didn't run. Corrado recaro logos were usually more or less color matched to the original car, this is likely why your seats have odd coloring.

If you put a turn signal bulb (single connection) into a brake light connector (dual connection) the turn signal bulb will span both leads and do very interesting things with your lights. It's even more interesting when you have daytime-runnign-lights. Can't comment on the fogs however, Canadian Corrados never got them.

I have an extra loom. it is complete, except that the plugs for the fuse panel (I think) are snipped.. not hard to fix. If someone is interested in this, let me know, I have no use for it, it came with my Recaros and I'm Canadian (all Can-spec rados had heated seats).. this also mean buyer pays shipping from Canada.

Dispite what people say, swapping door cards and getting your window switches to work is NOT A PLUG AND PLAY situation. about a month ago I searched and found the thread that I wanted, a thread that said which color wire goes to what post. I simply cannopt find that thread. After searching on and off for about 3.5 hours I'm ready to tear my hair out (and it's receeding anyway :( ) Can anyone shed light onto this?