Neil VR6

My pump relay died a few months ago and was only a tenner or so to replace. I'd bung a new one in and see how it goes. It draws a lot of current though and your one is probably the original one.

Celebrate bother-in-laws 21st, treat leather in car, BBQ, mountain bike ride round Leith, sitting, more sitting

Having spent about £200 with local garages who really didn't know what they were doing (one even replaced the inlet mani gasket :scratch: and put a nice dent in the bonnet for me) I got the car trailered to JMR. It pulls like a train now. A new MAF was £200 for parts alone although the difference it's made to drivability is incredible - it picks up so much quicker and from much lower revs. There's still the obvious VR6 'hole' in the torque below 4K but the engine pulls from less than 2K now and it a lot more tractable. I also had new VAG ingnition leads and eventually got a the dizzy installed once the monkey's at ignitioncarparts.cowboy finally rebuilt it a second time :cheers:

I found I always have to do about 2 or 3 passes with the Poorboys stuff on the C so as you say you'd have to be going hell for leather to burn the paint. However, I used it on my mates' gfs' Suzuki biscuit tin and one pass was all it took to get rid of some pretty nasty hedgerow scuffs. Apaprently VAG paint is pretty hard :shrug:

Lovely pics :clap: The paint looks miles deep

Might be worth listing out some products and prices on this thread so we can see what kind of deals you're offering 8)

Mine required a new distributor, a new MAF and new leads and plugs - no shortcuts sadly! The temp sender might help with the hot start probs

Me too. I've had 2! :clap:

Cheers, most of my problems I think are caused by the t055ers at ignition car parts. Should be back on the road soon

My Pug was the most reliable car I ever owned and I bought it with well over 100K on the clock!

They're going to rebuild it again but the reason someone put the wrong rotor arm on was "someone put the wrong rotor arm in the incorrect parts box". They didn't think to check? The Corrado dizzy locates its rotor arm using a woodruff key and the one fitted has a grub screw!

£350+vat :confused4:

Just stick a fan heater in the footwell for a couple of hours and crank the windows open slightly Much of the GSF stuff is of very dubious origin and quality - with a part which is susceptible to failure even in OE form I wouldn't risk some piece of patent crud

Absolute cowboys. They 'rebuilt' my distributor with the incorrect rotor arm and left some slice of magnetic metal floating about inside the distributor. The car is now at JMR, some 60 miles away and they are refusing to pick the distributor up using a courier because it would cost them £20. :bad-words:

I personally wouldn't use a GSF matrix even if it was free. They're not that expensive from VW I also let me carpet dry out in the car with no adverse effects (as yet!)

My passenger one did this (I used OE VW Lupo wipers) and I bent the arm very sligthly and it did the trick.

JMR keeps a pre-made up u-shaped section for exactly this job which is loaned to victims of this affliction to keep their cars on the road!

I’ve had the Continental Premium Contact 2s on the car for about 6 months now and they are leagues ahead of the old P6000s I had previously. Road noise is identical although wet grip has improved immeasurably. I had a particularly filthy drive down from the Lakes in November and went through some alarmingly deep areas of standing water and although the car visibly slowed the tyres never aquaplaned.

Definitely a heater matrix. Keep the heater switched off (and when they properly ‘go’ when you’re driving, the car tends to fill up immediately with steam and obscure forward vision). Given it’s a dash out job I’d get a quote or perhaps take it somewhere who knows Corrado’s as they’re likely to do it better and quicker as it’s a common fault. Expect a few more dash rattles too once the job’s been completed

Apols for being the harbinger of doom! For me it was a problem that was diagnosed late after it felt like I'd ended up replacing half the car. Another example of me trying to solve problems with local grease monkeys when I should have taken it to JMR in the first place! :grin:

I had a horrid vibration which turned out to be a collapsed diff support bearing in the gearbox. It also lunched a new inner CV joint which was originally suspected to be the culprit.

My mates selling his big port (and forged rods I think) 20V lump. pm me if you'd like his contact details :)

Having sat in and driven a few cars now I think the standard Corrado leather seats are about the most comfortable seats to be in of any car!

I popped an intercooler hose on my old G60 and it would have been quicker to get out and walk!

I feel for you I really do. Mine's getting trailered off this week to JMR - where I should have taken it all along.