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Just seems to be tempting fate that's all. Need Spring to come as early as possible, this weather is doing my head.

I went with the £55.99 bundle. It has a DAB lead and FM/AM lead as I wanted to keep FM available. My new head unit has an ISO socket which suits the FM lead in the bundle. Big deep breath and out came the glovebox and off came the left hand screen trim. You just need to drop the rooflining on the left hand side to run the new cables along the path of the existing aerial cable. The DAB aerial needs a 12v supply so run that along the same path. I just tapped it off the switched lead going into the back of the head unit. Use an inline fuse. As always check the perm live and switched live of the pins of the connectors. The new leads are too long for the Corrado so coil them up out of the way of the sunroof mech, unless you can find someone to shorten them. The Pure head unit has Bluetooth for phone and streaming music from smartphone.

Not being Humbug an all but is it going to snow on this site all year?!!

Just fitted a Pure DAB and one of these roof beesting jobbies....http://www.dabonwheels.co.uk/Kinetic_DRA-6001_FM-AM_DAB_car_aerial.html Direct fit replacement for the Corrado ariel. Just need to run three cables from rear roof to head unit. Simples!

The cover you removed with the 3 studs doesn't form any part of the VT assembly. It's just for the OE mount if you wern't sure

Change both ecu and fuel pump relay. Makes no sense but they show as fully serviceable when you wiggle/play with them. On third ones now!

The ISV on my VR looks partially open when looked at removed. It has in fact gone over closed and the gap you see is the 'wrong side' of the shutter. If you try and open it with a screwdriver it needs opening the opposite way. I assume when energised it moves to its proper closed state as required. The screw is set at factory so I would leave alone.

A relay may have opened or been dislodged in the whack?

Have you checked the condition of the connector on it? The electrical connectors have no rubber boot like the pressure sensors and corrode.

Try cleaning the connector on the filter housing. The sent signal is very prone to disturbance from corrosion. In English that means it doesn't like being covered in crud! On a pedantic note, the mocal thermostats are open when cold and close off when they get heated with oil.

And your English is better than most from this English speaking country!

The 00532 ABS code (Power supply B+) if not the battery disconnect was caused by the ABS Power relay failing on mine. One of two up in front of the passenger glovebox. No idea which one it was though!

Hi Si, from the stealers. £40 for both. My car is just after a part No change and I was lucky to get the correct ones. Talk on here about having to heat up the metal sleeve to get them out. Mine just pulled out easily, only 3/4 inch of the outer goes into the guide. The clips on the swing arm can be reused if you are careful in getting them off the two screw studs.

Simple answer to self shortening handbrake cable is 'self lengthening cable conduit' Outer sleeve had perished allowing the coils to corrode thus expanding down it's length. Oh, and I would like to nominate Handbrake cables as the easiest change job on the C. Must be a design flaw ;)

Yup, Balancer plate in my words is the adjuster thingy up front. With the caliper levers on the stop one cable end is a good 3/4 inch longer inside the car. I did notice a slight variation a few years ago when adjusting but was able to get away with it then. Not now though. It's odd that it's too short. Any wear in cable linings would explain an increase in length to some extent. They seem to move in and out freely. Poss time for replacements. Thanks

Doing rear discs today and when it came to reattaching the ends of the cables to the calipers the offside one wouldn't pull out enough to get on. Looking at the adjusters the nearside cable was normal length but the offside one was dissapearing into the guide tube. It's now so too short I've had to use the locknut first,then use the coned nut as the locker! I've heard of cables stretching but not this!! Are the left and right cables the same length? It's not that the other one has stretched as the balancer plate sits correctly. Ideas?!

For the cost of the 109 relay......................on my forth one now. That is after 19 years I admit! Fuel pump one as well

Waiting for a Blackvue DR500. Forward only. wifi to a smart phone. Fitting to another car as have had two very obvious attempts to 'be the guilty party ' in a rear ender. Avoided both luckily so far.

Have you changed the relays up in front of the glovebox? Or just checked them with an AVO? I have had various relays which 'checked out' but were proved faulty by new ones. It is an expense but takes one thing out of the failure loop. The UK VRs had Teaves 4 systems I think which are nothing like the picture you have up. Good luck in sorting this!!

I would be looking at the ABS Relays and associated fuses found up just in front of the glove box. A swine to get to without removing the box but can be done. Real shame vag-com won't talk to the ecu. You mention that the ABS wasn't working anyway so I assume the light was already on while you were playing in the snow?

If you take your car onto a rolling road then it will put the abs light on. I don't know at what speed the abs ecu will detect an unacceptable difference in front to back wheel speed. A temporary spinup on snow shouldn't be enough though.

If you spin the front wheels for long and fast enough it will put the ABS light on. VCDS (Vag Com) will tell you what triggered it and reset it. What car? If a VR it might have annoyed the Traction Control by hammering the front brakes.

That's bad luck and I regret to say the Council will indeed try and wriggle out of compensation on the grounds that they cannot know about every pothole. If it had been reported already then they are liable. Thats the line they used on me.

x1 for Slave

Get someone to look at the engine while you slip the clutch in first with handbrake on. And check security of battery!