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Interesting thanks fendervg. I did mean the toothed wheel directly without a motor attached, thought this was possible but I have a spare motor somewhere so can do it this way instead. So it could be possible to get one of my broken mechs operating with perhaps golf or another car that had a similar setup to the Corrado with moving interior panel. Any knowledge part numbers or VAG grouping models with Corrado style interior panels would be great! I'm happy to buy another mech to salvage parts (just not an overpriced corrado one - my golf mech cost 30 quid!).

Well I've overcome my inner rage (kidding, sort of) about the lack of photos and become a contributor. Bigger picture and all that. I use facebook, it's great, but it's not a forum. We need a forum. What can i do/pay to help? Robin really helped me out on facebook yesterday with my leak situ etc. but the forum is a much better place to do this sort of stuff. At least it will be there for others to see in the future.

Hi, I've searched high and low over the internet. I've found details of repair kits for the original roof now sadly discontinued and I've fitted a mk3 golf mech with a Passat B4 moonroof that I've now found has caused a leak into my drivers side 3qtr panel. I want to go back to stock with the original steel panel and corrado mech. As it stands today I've fitted the steel roof in place of the passat moonroof on my mk3 mech but know I can't get the original interior blind to operate with this set up. The Passat roof doesn't fit as well as the corrado panel and I believe the drain channels get overloaded in the weather we've been having recently. The mk3 golf mech also seems slighly longer and I had found the sound deadening material on the roof had drooped into the drainage area also allowing water to escape. Fortunately caught intime and no rusty-ness has happened - lucky these cars were so well waxed from the factory as I had 2cm of water floating in the rear of my sill ( I park on a slope so it collected there). In my shed I have a Corrado mech and Passat mech (almost identical) but both have snapped the cast alloy part on the drivers side. The golf mech seems much stronger in construction. Before I go mad and order a carbon roof skin to do away with this bloody sunroof is there any knowledge out there reading that knows of any of the following: a) a repair kit for the original roof? b) knowledge on combining mk3 golf mech parts and building a hybrid corrado/mk3 golf mech that operates the original corrado inner blind? I'm not paying another 250 quid for a corrado roof only for it to break a week later :(. I love a sunroof but am tempted by a carbon roof (sparyed to match the car) as can see this sunroof issue being unresolvable the rarer these cars get. Also what is the size of the tool/star nut that would enable a mech to be operated without a motor installed (for testing purposes)? Cheers all Matt

Nice and I am warming to stock ride height. Not a fan of that exhaust either but it sounds nice. Fingers crossed we see similar results, only becuase it makes spending money on them less painful at times!

I'll take a set too/add to the list 1 ChrisL 2 Cressa 3 Robrado974 4 VW rule 5 Todge 6 1xshaunx1 7 VR6 South (potentially) 8 Ferny427 9 Corroda 10 Neil20vtc 11 Culshaw 12 Ferarrifeet 13 Dragon green 14 STU175 15 fendervg 16 jonnyHull 17 easypops 18 Erallus 19 James 20 blue95 21 volksworld13 22 spen 23 ger040 24 Keyo 25 g0ldf1ng3r 26 StueyB 27 Krishen 28 Mystic Rado 29 gotvach 30 edd (drivers side) 31 ben_wooduk (drivers side) 32 JamieG60Davison 33 Billzeebub 34 akacheesy 35 34jezr 36 Corrado16ved 37 kingKenny100 38 peacedub 39 kalzter 40 Storm Warning 41 1.8tCorrado 42. pfnsht

Battery tray looks great! Were the corrado's originally waxoiled? My engine and battery tray is covered in wax.

I saw a purple one whilst in Pembrokeshire last week - it was parked on a drive in Roch near the coast. Nearly missed it! The one that sits in my wife's village on axle stands is still there. 10 years now. It has a Storm badge but is on an M plate so guess it isn't the real deal. It is green with cream leather and the correct wheels though.

Nice pics, although they may not be that much safer (for longevity of access) on this forum, as I found myself.

The E30 325i Sport was the other car I wanted when considering the Corrado. The price difference was waay too much to stomach. I remember tidy examples being available 2500 about 10 years ago.

Nice stories, especially Tony's as that is my life too. Basically you've got to be somewhat both eccentric (in your love for older metal) and committed to run one as a daily. For me I either cycle or train it to work so don't have the panic of it not getting me to work. I am sure it would though. I would confidently drive mine to the South of France, but it has been mechancially refreshed, mostly by Stealth with only the steering rack and bottom end being major original parts. If I was buying one I'd I'd be looking for one that has had some sort of mechanical refurb (if I wasn't planning on doing that myself) and one that had decent bodywork. I wouldn't worry about mileage - mines done 154k but it's like tiggers broom and hands down better than a 60k car in original parts. I wouldn't restrict to the VR6 but you had may as well since they are still cheap cars tp buy. The mechancial refurb will mean you should only have basic servicing costs to consider over the next 5 years.

Ahhh no, but I get your position. The Corrado is a hard car to keep tip top (parts not available or too expensive). Where as the golf you can make perfect for the cost a used Corrado wing (I jest but you get the picture). Sometimes I wish I bought a Golf.

Interesting I should check the washer situation with mine too as didnt fit myself. I had eibach send me the replacement springs for the rear. Thanks for the tip

Looking good. I've got the B12 kit too (with the revised rear springs). Did you fit the original rears? I didn't bother as new they'd be wrong looking the size of the spring. Edit - now seen your previous pics and see you did have it fitted. New setup is much better imo - gaps looks consistent front and back. I reckon the original springs in the eibach kit were really for the -50mm sportline kit.

These look great and suit the older dash. Wish I went older sometimes as the generic standard gaughes that go infront of the gear stick look fine on that dash but on the non-existent vdo gauges look right on the newer dash.

I still haven't fitted the seats! They are in my bedroom - this missus is very patient. Perhaps this week I'll get it done. As for the thread - leather looks great, cloth is best for comfort and heat control and for me cloth recaro's with leather outers would be the ideal combo.

You will get a better non-Strom VR6 for 5K with probably half the miles. @200k the Storm will likely need (if not already) timing chains (& head refurb + clutch as makes sense if in bits), bodywork tidy inc. underside and general refreshing all round on bushes etc = so £6k to £9k’s spending if you get professionals to do it. My 150k vr6 drove nice when I bought it (FSH, tidy MOT history, long term owners) but my timing chain tensioner was on its last legs (unknown to me until I had the chains done) and my suspension bushes were all shot as I have found since having them all replaced! I reckon my car isn’t worth more than 5k and it wants for nothing as mechanically it has been completely replaced/refurbished in the last year except for the bottom end of the engine. It isn’t for sale though but I’m sure you could find something similar. Also there are more than 16 storms left, most were not registered on the log book as Storms so the “how many left” guidance isn’t right.

Hi Toby, Cheers for keeping us in the loop and for the support to date. I hadn’t realised you’re absorbing costs for us. I’m not sure making the forum paid only is the best approach and might do the opposite and drive newbies away. At the moment although I’d normally be happy to pay I’m a newer member and was a tad disappointed all the old build and how to guides have lost their photos, my own build thread has lost everything and there are probably less than 15 people contributing. At the moment that makes paying for use of the forum difficult to justify but I can see you need money and appreciate you opening up to us on plans for the forum and would pay for that reason. I don’t understand why the CCGB club don’t want to join forces as their website and forum needs desperate attention and we are all in the same community. This website has a far superior design and stronger footfall (albeit declining) and the CCGB has strengths in offering more as a club. Together they seem to offer strengths on both sides of the coin. The CCGB want to improve their website and forum and to me it seems short sighted of CCGB to not consider using Toby’s expertise, this forum’s superior look and feel and google analytics ratings. I’m not sure MOT reminders and things will help. However like the idea of broadening the appeal of the forum to have sections for other cars. Look at Pistonheads – it started as a forum for TVR’s! I’d happily moderate and can help with financial planning (I’m a trained accountant as well as financial systems specialist). Cheers Matt

Ahh thanks Si. That is disappointing if so as I purposely didn't use photo bucket since all the old threads have lost their photos too!

Hi, All the pictures from my members thread have disappeared. I used the forum's picture loader. Bit of a shame as I was hoping to use it as a diary. http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?108687-My-Candy-White-VR6

Wow I am seriously lacking in the wheel department with just the speedlines. Want soemthing BBS related at somepoint. BBS RS with gold centres ... mmmm.

Probably a weak part rather than anything more sinister than that. I had a o2 sensor go on my other car (also a Seat but an Exeo) when it was 4 years old and circa 50k on the odo where as the one on my Corrado was original at 150k @ 24 years old!

Following your journey with interest, as you know I've just finished my mechanical work on mine. Fair play on you getting the engine out and to Vince. My tensioner had started to disintegrate and bits would have found their way to the sump. Vince wasn't that worried about it and said there is a fine guaze on the oil pump feed to protect from stuff like this. I was up there on Friday and Vince was working on a head on the bench so could be yours. That said he's got a lot of engines in the shop so difficult to tell!

Oh good this forum is back up and running. I haven't been back since the recent issues (although did try during the time!). Shame about edition38. Tapatalk would get this forum a wider audience... It's the only one I look at that I can't see via tapatalk. I find tapatalk brings everything together and it's easier to post and see traffic across all forums. Oh one other thing I haven't been able to find out - what happened to all of the photos on the old threads? Makes how to's and historial browsing of old readers rides disappointing :(

Haha cheers Keyo, i was trying to reply to you saying my grill does have the blanked up sections on the top two. Good excuse for a new open grill. Mine is damaged on the tabs anyway :)

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