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I do this on two cars each year. It gives a great result. I only cover the alternator and have never had any problems on the VR6.

From many aspects, one of the best cars I have had.

As you are in Fife, why not get Star Performance of Dysart to have a listen/look? They seem to have a very good reputation and considerable experience with Corrados.

G60SC_Stoney wrote Yep, but I got a set of bits for about £4.99 from Lidl, all in a neat wooden box about a couple of years ago. They will probably come up again some time.

I have had a mains Black and Decker for about 4 years - it always seems to deliver OK.

Thanks for that joe and the good link. Sounds like my man was talking cr@p.

Blue_Joe What is powder coating, bluejoe? When I had my alloys refurbed, the guy was talking about powder coating and painting. He was making the point that, on alloys, powder coating was not as good as spray painting.

jonrb wrote Sorry, jonrb I was not really directly addressing your point - merely commenting on things like reliability. Remember, I bought a Corrado even though I knew they do not have a good reliability record. Enjoy your TVR. If I were rich enough to own a collection of cars I would probably have a TVR in it.

I have used a lot of Autoglym stuff for years. Did not recognise all the products in your list, though, jedi-knight83. Presumably, the ordinary punter cannot buy all the Autoglym stuff you use as a professional?

I would have fuel filter changed (unless it has been done within last 10k miles). We have seen on this forum how gunged up they can become and some owners/garages fail to change them regularly, too. Cheap.

Horses for courses. Always seemed to be some wild, unfettered and brutish power thing about the TVR's image. If that is what people want over everything else, fair enough. Nearest thing to a fine "sports car" with quality build and reliability I have seen over the past three decades seems to be the Porsche Boxter. For reliability, though, you would not buy a TVR, Corrado or Alfa Romeo. Recent surveys have shown that for 8 or 9 out of 10 in ALL aspects (ranging from customer service to practicality), cars like the Honda Jazz are best. Boxter came close on most things, but obviously not on practicality and running cost. Understandably, Honda Jazz or Skoda Felicia/Octavia would not be regarded as too cool by some motorists on a forum like this.

Powerflex are too hard for day to day road use unless you are used to, and prefer, very sporty firm suspension, I believe

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I used them for a few small things (ChipsAway, I think). Some bits Ok - others not. Would not get them again - guys on forum were strongly of opinion that they were not great and improvements were only temporary. For your Storm, personally, I would avoid them.

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Yes, I had same problem - because they are not for coolant, even VAG technician phoned me up from workshop to ask me where they went. I installed one of them but left other out as using it would have dipensed with the services of a valve of some sort.

You're daft as a brush, man. :wink: Get well soon!

A new slant on "carpet bombing".

The stereo, eh?

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Coilpack failure is common after about 100k miles grimmy. Test it by spraying water onto it from a plant mister with engine running. If engine falters more, coilpack is probably cracked beyond repair, though hairline cracks will be difficult to see. (When peering in, keep your tie, hair and ZZ Top beard, etc out of the way of the idling engine, please.)

Bad luck BTJ, hope it turns out better than you currently believe. What always strikes me when reading about incidents and criminal behaviour like this on this forum comprising a few hundred regulars, is that if you take into account the population of the UK compared with our relatively small forum numbers, the scale of such bad and illegal behaviour going on in the UK as a whole must be phenomenal now. We really need some action from an elected government (whoever they are) to come down hard on the devious, skiving, thieving tw@ts who are mucking up the lives of the well-behaved majority. PS - I have heard accounts of why some scousers are to be encountered in the northeast of Scotland, but will not say anymore lest someone thinks I am being unfair. Maybe others will know what I am hinting at. (No - they aint up here to sell clothes pegs.)

dr_mat wrote The doctor and I are strongly agreed on this. You have to live with it, in most cases the source of the loss in unfathomable. I trickle charge mine every other day, car then runs fine and no-frills Quantum battery is about four years old. (£25 over here for a small Draper trickle charge unit.)

NottsCounty wrote Seeing that, bugged me, too, fusspot that I am.

Phil K wrote Very true, I believe. My local non franchised garage has experience of everything from Ferrari (owner has had them) to every bog standard small car you can name. I believe the wide experience of a garage like this - assuming the guys are all competent - gives you a better chance of having things fixed at a reasonable price. I even buy the parts and pay them for the labour. Have been using them for 20 years but have not needed anything too complex done on Corrado, but would trust them to make a reasonable job of most things. In my experience, some VW "technicians" are liable to phone you up and ask you how the spare you supplied for your C should be fitted.