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fish-tail, whatever you want to call it - overcorrecting from one side to the other. I use it in car circles because the fuel in the tank will be slapping against the insides :oD Will keep y'all posted on that hire car! ttfn, -- Olly

I have pictures of his car, both the bit that hit mine (small scuff on back wing / bumper) and also the left of his car where he went into the hedge after hitting me (large dent in rear quarter, bumper ripped off on that side) as he had a real tank-slapper on. Also have pictures of the road, bit of hedge and verge that he hit, area of verge where I pulled off to try and avoid him, and my tyre tracks (showing tread pattern!) in the mud at the edge of the road in the bit leading up to the collision point so hopefully that'll prove that I was in a sensible road position! Courtesy car coming tomorrow morning, they said "Since yours is a prestige sports car sir, we'll try to find you a similar prestige car" - wonder what it'll be! Fiat uno anyone? Ho hum, hope it all gets sorted and doesn't cost me lots of money :o/ Cheers all, -- Olly

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Thanks, I hope so too! Took some pictures etc. showing the damage and where I'd put two wheels on the verge so hopefully it'll be clear to the insurers that I was well out of the way! And, of course, no-one was hurt. Didn't really fancy a head-on even if it was against a crisp-packet 206. Cheers, -- Olly

None. Obviously when they got home they'd decided to try it on, as he said "my son said you were in the middle of the road". I was in fact about 2 feet onto the verge in an effort to let him past as I had clocked him losing it from some distance! Sadly even with one wing mirror in the hedge (and my car well to the left of the middle of the road as a result) he was fish-tailing all over the place and there was a very saddening bang ( ttfn, -- Olly

Insurance companies certainly are useless, friend at work had his car almost cut in half by a builders' merchants truck with one prop leg that had been left loose, and they took aaages to pay out anything even remotely close to what it cost him. Of course because he's an honest person he didn't claim for compensation like some scroungers. I know it'll be a hassle but I don't trust them to pay up if we did it for cash - they'd get a nasty shock when they found out what it costs! Cheers, -- Olly

He knew it was his fault, however I've just had his Dad visit me (we're local to each other) trying to pin the blame on me. Livid is not a strong enough word! Why can't people just be honest when they've made a mistake? AAAAAAARRRGH! Will go through insurance, don't trust it any other way. Cheers, -- Olly

Hello Corrado friends! I am a bit glum right now, as my beloved dub has just been clouted by a young lad going too fast on a wet road ( I got out of the way as much as possible but unfortunately couldn't avoid him... there was contact between the rear quarters of both cars. The main visible damage is to the driver's side wheel arch which has been knocked almost flat, the rest of the panel doesn't look *too* bad but it's dark outside and it's very hard to tell. I don't know if the wheel was hit, it looks clean but it felt funny during the last half mile home afterwards (I was almost there dammit!) Will add a picture as soon as I can find a card reader or cable. If anyone who has suffered similar damage could please advise on how you got it repaired, I'd be very grateful as I'm sure the insurers won't help at all! Cheers for now, -- Olly

Hi Jonny, There an access panel in the boot floor, remove that and you'll see the big round screw-cap on the top of the fuel tank. Undo this (it was a b*stard on mine, had to partly split it with a chisel to get it to release), and the bit with the hoses on lifts out to reveal two more hoses going to the bottom of the tank. The fuel pump is bayonetted to the bottom of the tank, so undo it just like a light bulb (I used an oil filter strap to do this as it's fairly tight). The whole pump / sender assembly then comes out as a piece. Mind you don't bend the sender when trying to turn it - you can remove the sender from the pump body first if you're worried but it's pretty easy to make sure there's no force on the sender's float arm. hth! -- Olly

Sure, it's poor form... but then it's also poor form to to ignore PMs (after reading them, mind...) from someone to whom you owe a reply. Nobody wins on the internet. -- Olly

Sorry to raise this again, Could someone with his contact details poke John again for me please? Once again he's stopped replying to PMs... Thanks, -- Olly

Wotcha, I think the idea was that the new pumps were different to those ever fitted to cars in the factory, however this didn't appear to be the case with mine. Still got the spare sender sitting in its box if you find you need a new one! ttfn, -- Olly

That'd be very kind of you! I could rebuild it off the car then and swap it over, no hassle ) It's the left one that I'm after. Excellent! -- Olly

Bummer ( Looks like it'll be leaking for a little while longer then! Cheers for the info, -- Olly

Hi all, I've sprung a brake fluid leak from the handbrake lever on one of my rear brakes (C VR6). Is it possible to remove the lever and hook the old seal out without removing the caliper from the car? I can't find a diagram on t'internet showing which side it's fitted from ) Many thanks for any hints, -- Olly

Cheers John. ttfn, -- Olly

I have PMed him on here several times, he is logging in to read them (they're disappearing from my outbox) but not replying. Any idea how long he was due to be away for? Many thanks for the info, -- Olly

Hi all, Sorry to clutter up the forum with one of these, but where needs must... Does anyone have contact details for the user "dukest" on here? Can you pass them on or contact him on my behalf? Thanks in advance, -- Olly

Ahh gotcha. I think I'd just end up getting confused though, it takes me long enough to figure out which is front and which is back when I want to turn them on in a hurry! :oD I'll pull the switches out soon and see if the link is electrical or mechanical. Cheers, -- Olly

Two reasons... Firstly the front fogs don't necessarily help visibility, so I might want the rear on so I can be better seen, but the fronts off so I have best control over what's lit in front of me. Secondly, when some eejut is behind me with his/her front fogs on in clear weather, it'd be nice to be able to flash my rear fog at them without flashing the fronts at someone else ) Yeti, there are actually two switches on the 'rado, but one of them does both. ttfn, -- Olly

Hi all, Had a search but couldn't find anything relating to this... Is there a simple way to allow independent control of front / rear fogs on the Corrado? The fronts can be on on their own, but if you turn the rears on it turns the fronts on also. I don't like it! Is there one convenient wire to cut / de-pin / connector to remove to make them completely separate? Cheers in advance! -- Olly

Nathan, get a very small drill and chain-drill the broken piece in two places where it goes around the pin, about 120

Another echo of dr_mat's post, I rebuilt mine (just +20thou) as it was using a bit of oil (500 miles between min and max) and was rattling a bit, but to be honest it didn't need half of what I ended up doing to it. New timing chains and head re-con would have been best I think. I didn't even manage to get rid of the rattle despite replacing pretty much every wearing part! Does now do ~2500 miles between min and max oil though. ttfn, -- Olly

Received my kit on Monday, fitted one door's worth last night. Top quality parts, very well made. I too struggled with removing the pivot pin using a screw, it's a roll of spring steel so it's very hard to get anything to bite into it - I tried a tap but broke it off! I ended up drilling the remaining bit of the broken latch piece in two places and then splitting it so it would come off the pin, and then I could move the pin by gripping it in the middle with a small pair of pliers. After giving the pin a quick clean up and coating everything liberally in copper grease, it went back together very easily and the door handle now feels better than ever! Hozzah ) -- Olly

Hallo! I am in urgent need of a repair kit for RHS, but I'll have an LHS as well if available 'cos you never know. Have to get in through the boot at the moment :oD Cheers, -- Olly