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I would really have a close look at the car to check it out for yourself, I'm sure someone on here wouldn't mind tagging along to give you thier opinion on it as well. It seems odd he mentions the door being faded but no other panels, the doors are usually one of the last things to fade, its usually the roof, bonnet and spoiler that fade noticeably on the red cars, so it may have had the door replaced from another car or has had various other panels painted. As mentioned, history of the charger is a must, a rebuild will cost around £330 and a good replacement anything between £600 to £900. the sunroof depending on the fault is usually around £70 to fix, and I would budget maybe a couple of hundred quid to replace coolant pipes ect... although is he sure it's a pipe and not the radiator that is leaking, geniune VW rads are expensive and a lot of the cheap patern ones are pretty shoddy.

The search is your friend clicky daves 16v is the person you need to speak to.

corrected it for you :lol:

Yeah but then when someone asks why you have a steering wheel in your trousers you can say "It's driving me nuts" :tumbleweed:

:scratch: It's meant to have air in the system, they are air pressure/vacuum activated

could be a leak in the pipe to one of the locks (either a split or just blown off connector) a leaky lock cylinder worn out vanes in the pump or a jammed pressure sensor mech or microswitch in the pump try disconnecting the pipe from the pump and block the outlet on the pump, then acticvate the locks if the pump cuts out straight away or after a couple of seconds like they should it points to a leak somewhere, if it still carries on going the problem is with the pump.

why did he spray damp start into it in the first place? i could understand him trying it on a car that wouldnt start in the morning but if a car has spluttered to a halt after running normally it would ususally indicate a problem thats not going to be solved with some bodge spray. just tell them damp start shouldnt be used on that engine (shouldnt really be used on any engine that has stopped running like that) and get them to replace the damper.

If your trims went all curvey when you removed them, leave them on top of something flat on top of a hot radiator and they will relax back to normal. The halfords double sided foam tape (with the green backing) or 3M double sided trim tape are ideal for the side trims. I have never understood why bodyshops paint around the side trims, it takes twice as much effort to mask them off and paint around them than it takes to remove them.

might be better just to get a cheapo pipe fed oil pressure guage (can get them for less than 20 quid on ebay) it doesnt need to be perfectly accurate but it will show if there is a dip in the oil pressure when the buzzer sounds, it's always a good idea to have a proper oil pressure guage anyway. Are you sure your dipstick is correct for the car and has the correct plastic tube on the end of the dipstick tube, if it doesn't the oil level may be incorrect.

Yeah, but with views like this you wont get any sympathy from me :lol:

oh nevermind, if it had been anywhere north wales or tewkesbury you could have borrowed mine.

where abouts are you based?

best to go over the whole thing with a carpet cleaner, it's the only way to really get rid of the smell rather than mask it, it's also shocking the amount of yellow crap that comes out of the fabric of a smokers car. if you just want to mask the smell, the neutradol gel air freshers work well, or you can get air freshner sprays especially for masking the smell of smoke from halfrauds, thier own brand one is just as good as any other.

I had the same happen to me, i managed to just get a stud extractor to it by putting a block of wood and a jack under the sump on the pulley end, and lifted it just enough to get at above the chassis leg.

the ceramic cats dont like being splashed as it can cause them to shatter internally but the metal ones should be fine, the heat shield wouldnt really stop much of the water anyway as they are full of slots.

Use rain-x anti fog as dr_mat suggests or go to a local motorbike shop and get a visor anti fog stick, they are designed for use on plastic and should last for ages.

As far as i know the OEM one's are all metal, i have seen the inside of an early G60 cat and a 1995 VR cat and they where both metal, which is probably why they all seem to last so long.

the advice of removing the heatshield is for the steel heatshield under the cat not the aluminium ones above it, the brackets that hold the steel heat shield on to the cat tend to break with the constant hot/cold cycle and they either start to vibrate making a really annoying noise, or it falls off completely. the cat heat shield doesnt really do much apart from maybe stop the cat setting fire to long dry grass, or impact from stones, although the corrado uses a coated metal catalyst rather than ceramic so its quite tough. but yeah removing the aluminium heatshields from the underside is a very bad idea, as you say. also screwfix do some large stainless repair washers that are ideal if the hole in the heatshield is too big.

get your mate who owns the property it's parked on to write you a simple receipt saying he has sold the car to you, i doubt very much that the original owner has any proof whatsoever that he owns the car and if it was disputed your mate can say the car was taken in lieu of rent money so he was the legal owner, so if you have a receipt and the v5 there is not much the original owner can do about it.

they should physically fit the golf but the spring and damper rates may not be quite right.

I would imagine the headlights on the polo are a bit higher off the ground than the corrado? if the lights on the polo are higher off the ground they will be pointing down a bit to knee height on the garage door but if your corrado is lower than the polo they may be pointing upward to illuminate the same spot, and obviously the further the distace in front of you the higher the beam will shine. measure the height of the centre of the lights on the polo and the same on the corrado and then subtract the difference from the height of the polo's projected beam on the garage door and use that point for the corrado.

its more likely just a blown off or split boost pipe somewhere, check all the pipework especially around the throttle body. if you are running the original rubber hoses they do tend to expand a bit under boost and burst when they get old. take the outlet pipe off the silencer box and have a feel around for bits inside the box. does it still seem to be producing good power? if it does it will probably be one of the boost return pipes that has gone.

The digital odo is just from a later model the earlier ones where all mechanical, the DDI guages are just an overlay that replaces the dial faces.

are you trying to fit the seal with the sunroof panel still in the car?, it is much easier with it removed, and it also makes it easier to see what part of the mechanism is not working properly.

I'm not too sure what they are for, the side markers on the us spec bumpers maybe?