Kevin Bacon

I don't envy you doing that job on your narrow street! Good opportunity to replace any missing clips and felt line some bits of plastic that rub and rattle over bumps!

PMSL :D Reminds me of when I used to spray wheels in the bath :lol:

Drop-in Cree LED bulbs are not legal. If OEMs can't even produce an adequate LED headlamp yet, do you think 50 quid ebay LEDs are going to work properly in Corrado lamps?

:) What we need is someone like Hella to remanufacture the Corrado headlights properly, with the levelling system and correct lenses etc. MK4 HID levelling is easy to retrofit and the 'ECU' for the xenon levelling is built into the headlight. Piece O cake. But Hella will just say, get lost ya pikeys, we've seen how many Corrados were on the scrappage list, we're not wasting our time on this. Or you could of course just buy a car that his Xenons already fitted as standard :D

Yeah it was definitely built in Sweden, I remember the same article in PPC. From a standing start, my money would be on the 458 to 100mph. If it went up against something of it's equal, bhp wise, like an F12 or LaFerrari, the Vulva would lose big time. We've all been there, making slow cars much faster with turbos or conversions, but a fast car is fast for other reasons, not just the engine.

Factory fitted systems need levelling sensors / motors and washers, but aftermarket ones don't seem to, judging by how many people seem to get away with it. Aftermarket ones really are a bit pikey though. Have a search for Mystic Rado's (iirc) posts on the subject. He went to great lengths and concluded they're schit. Stick to uprated looms and bulbs.

Speak to Jon at Stealth Racing. He'll probably have one.

£23!

Congrats on your daughter mate :D Blimey, it must be 2011ish you bought my turbo bits?! Time flies! I remember back then you having to be wary of the missus RE your purchases :lol: You see boys, I will never let a woman come between me and my hobbies :lol: I may live to regret that when I'm in a hospice on my own, with no wife, kids or grandkids to visit me, but for now, I'm happy with my spanners and short term girlfriends. Lol, that paints a picture in my mind of guys reluctantly driving around in a VRTs, a grimace on their face pretending to enjoy it and sporting a "I was Baconed" sticker on the back :lol:

That's probably a wise investment, given the time and money we all spend getting our cars the way we want them. But if your car is stolen to order by East Europeans, well, you'll never see it again!

I am Kevin Meldrew :D

Hell no! I'm too selfish and stuck in my ways to ever get married and have kids :D Not that I want either of those things anyway!

PMSL :lol:

And 5 door, and 10K miles PA. The nose heaviness feeling I suspect is the rear axle pushing the car on, if you give it some gas on the apex.

Way more than Clumpy, but I don't care. It's a hobby and money doesn't / shouldn't come into it. If it does, get a cheaper hobby and take public transport.

Worth buying it for breaking. Money would be made back on the wheels and interior easily. I bet the misfire is oil fouling cyl 1 or 6's spark plug. New engine time.

Seems strange that someone would kick a mirror off and then steal it. Maybe someone with a "white coupe" has been shagging his missus :D

I thought it was too cheap! As you say, people want everything for nothing these days. It was the way you typed *FSH RARE* as if to highlight the fact FSH is rare, but doesn't matter, glad you kept it. I would rather set fire to it than let tight *******s drive off in it for way less than it's worth.

As do all VWs. They are definitely a case of: Same schit, different day. I wonder if washing machine enthusiasts complain about motors and timing modules going on certain brands?

Don't need it. Just use regular quantum silver for the first 100 miles, drain it. Refill with the same stuff and use that for the next 3000. Then just put what you normally use in. The reason for the first drain interval is because the first 100 miles or so produces a lot of swarf from piston rings, edges taken off honing and bearings etc.

Is he saying FSH is rare, or the Corrado Storm is rare? :scratch: Anyway, seems way too cheap at £3750 if the pics are to be believed?

I dunno, I get the impression it's a rich boy's play channel. They're always doing Veyrons vs something else exotic on their channel. Lots of boys with lots of money. Meh. As you say, a standing start would have been more telling because let's face it, no matter how much power the Vulva's got, it's gonna get pasted off the line by the 458's launch and traction controls.

GTBoard mate. They always do rolling starts.

Cars are advancing at such a rapid rate, even something 5 years old feels like a fossilised stegosaurus to drive. I like old though. There's a certain sluggishness and weight to all the controls that I like and is masked (too much, imo) in modern cars. The last time I drove an E36 M3, I wondered how anyone ever lived with the offset pedals, the recalcitrant and agricultural ZF gearbox, the lack of torque below 4000rpm, the twitchy steering and complete absence of steering feel....but.....when you open the taps, you forget all it's weaknesses. And the build quality of the 90s doesn't exist anymore. E90 and E92 M3s look and feel very cheap compared to an E36, and that was never the best M3!!

Not really what I would call a trouncing :D Considering the Volvo is 220hp more powerful, the Ferrari wasn't far behind it at all. It's a lovely looking Volvo though and even with 100hp it'd still be ice cool. It just looks daft going up against a 458, let alone something like an F12.