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Just found this in a post by corradovr6sc:

That's exactly how I wired in my Radar detector... :D I dropped the wire down from the top of the dash and connected it to the original wiring with an inline fuse using bullet connectors and 2 T piece bullets (1wire in 2 bullets out) easy, neat and safe... 8)

mmm, moon roof... 8) If there's any spare, PM me and I may pop down next weekend and come and get one... :wink: :D

You'd be suprised how easy it is to miss the runner guides on one side at the rear when putting the seats back in... I did it last time I took the seats out of my 'rado and couldn't believe that I'd done it... :?

Sounds like one of the bits that attach the cable to the mechanism has snapped... Quite a common one this... There's a repair guide by Kevhaywire HERE I'll lock this one up seeing as there's LOADS of other threads on this topic...

It's possible that you've not got the seats back in the runners properly... It's easier to do than you'd think! :? The other possibility is that the plastic covers on the "feet" of the chairs have come off so they don't fill the runners properly allowing the chairs to rock... Take 'em back out in the morning and have a good look at 'em... 8)

Mine don't... 8) The ride's a bit firmer than standard, but definately not harsh or crashy... :D ...and the handling improvement is unreal! 8) I've got a supersport coilover setup from Venom... set to 30mm lower and cornerweighted...

OK, that clears that up nicely... You can eliminate the mounting of the steering column under the dash, and the bearing on the column behind the steering wheel, as well as the joint on the end of the column not being tightly fastened to the column end! 8) With the front end jacked up, check the track rod ends for play, check the shock assemblies for movement (both top and bottom), check the wishbones for movement on the bushes, and get someone to turn the steering wheel side to side while you hold a wheel to see if you can see where the play is coming from. It sounds like it's more likely to be trackrod ends than the rack to me, as the rack normally needs quite a lot of force to move the trackrods in and out so you're more likely to get play in the trackrods than in the rack... :? Good luck!

*puts on flame proof suit* I put a JR cone filter on my corrado just after Inters this year... It stayed on for 8 weeks before I changed it for a modified stock air box... :? It made the car sound awesome, but I felt that is wasn't as torquey through the revs, especially later on in a longish drive when the engine had heated up... :? Admittedly, I didn't have a heat shield with it, but I really don't think that a piece of 1.5mm thick ally/steel is going to make much of a difference when the engine's really hot, compared with the stock airbox modified to take advantage of the hole where the carbon cannister was... :wink: 8) I now get (I say "get", I mean "had" before the engine expired! :roll: :lol: ) a lovely induction noise that's pretty much on a par with the JR filter and the knowledge that it looks pretty much standard and is a lot more heat resistive than the cone was... 8) I have no rolling road figures for any of this, no proof as to feeling of torquey-ness, it's just my opinion and reactions to how the filter was on my car compared to my modified air box... :D *runs off, still wearing flame proof suit!*

Hiya! Can you define "play" a bit better? 8) Is it: Left to right movement of the wheel? Free play when turning the wheel before it acts on the road wheels? Forwards and backwards movement of the wheel towards and away from yourself? Up and down movement of the wheel? There shouldn't be ANY of the above on a 'rado, so at least you know that there is something not quite right and it's not just the suspension differences... :? Let us know, and we'll see what people come up with... 8)

Yup, 6x9s are big enough for you to notice it, 6x4s are normally only any use as a fill in speaker... That's the way I've got my 6x4s wired up, I tired amping them, but there was almost no difference... 8)

Good plan, Turn on the low pass filter, (switch to LPF) and turn on the BASS EQ. Wire your sub onto the +ve of one speaker and the -ve of the other so that you'll get a mono output from the amp and that should do you perfectly... 8) TBH there's not an awful lot of point amping up your rear speakers, you'd do better to amp the front ones if you were going to amp any of 'em... 8)

Same as what? Stopping in random places, or stopping in the same place every time, just not where you think it should? Any info you can give will help find the cure... 8)

Guys?????????????????????????????????? :?[/quote:6615f] Yup, you need to have a nut welded into the downpipe which will take the probe and then just wire it in... (+, -, and signal IIRC...) 8)

Porsche flat engines have all been 6 cylinder since around the time the 911 first came out.. All 911 and boxters use a flat 6 engine which is why it's noticably smoother than a flat 4... The last flat 4 that they made was for the 356 (and 912) and had a roller-bearing crank which made it a serious bit of engineering and beautifully smooth, but an utter pain to fix if it wore out! 8)

:lol: I really should stop myself from typing messages when I get back from the pub! :roll: That did ramble on a bit, didn't it... :? :oops: :lol: HiAsAKite, the flat 4 IS a boxer engine.... Boxer was just a name coined because of the way the engine "punches" the pistons out side to side like a boxer would... Yeah, I think it's a naff explaination too, but it's the correct one! :? :lol: If they've got the same number of cylinders, then it'll have the same firing sequence else it'd shake itself to bits, or just not run properly... :?

:lol: :lol: You didn't see the state of the inside of the block! :shock: :lol:

Load reduction relay is your ignition relay... Basically it stops your ignition switch from taking the full load of all the ignition circuits... 8) Still doesn't stop the switch being pants though... :roll: :lol:

Cheers Steve, I knew I'd seen it somewhere! :? 8) :lol:

The term "Boxer engine" was coined by BWM, IIRC, and was a 2 cylinder, horizontally opposed engine. The concept of the engine was originally designed as a 4 cylinder in 1912 by Max Friz for use as an aircraft engine due to it's lack of gyro effects, and adopted by Dr. Ferdinand Porsche in the 1930s for use in his designs.... "Horizontally Opposed" just means that you've got 2 banks of cylinders (however many cylinders you want!) running 180 degrees apart and they're running parallel with the floor. "Flat configuration" means that you've got 2 banks of cylinders running 180 degrees apart from each other, in any plane you care to mount them, so yes, they're essentially the same! 8) Original (ie, not a golf in drag!) Beetles used a FLAT4 configuration which was an horizontally opposed, flat, 4 cylinder engine. Dr. Ferdinand Porsche's son, Ferry, adapted this engine and made the Porsche 356 engine which used the same configuration, but with a roller bearing crank. (and was a beautiful piece of engineering!) This engine was then used in the Porsche 912, while a 6 cylinder version of the Beetle flat 4 was used in the original Porsche 911... The rest is history 'cos the 6 cylinder was cheaper to build, more powerful and easier to fix! The 356 engine was the superior piece of engineering, but just wasn't big enough, or cheap enough to compete.... :cry: For those who wonder how I know this lot, I've helped re-build all of the above mentioned engines, apart from the 356/912 engines which we had to scrap 'cos Porsche wanted a STUPID ammount of money to put new roller bearings in... The 912 ended up with a somewhat modified 2.1 Type 2 (VW VAN!) engine, the 356 ended up with an engine out of a car found in a field! :shock: :roll: :lol: I guess this is why I've always had a soft spot for the Subaru engines, 'cos effectively, they're just the N'th generation of the Beetle engines with water cooling and turbos... 8) :D Sorry if this dragged on a bit :oops: , this is my favourite engine design and is where I got my lust for automotive engineering, and VWs, from... :roll: :lol: 8) A good source of info on these engines can be found: HERE!

Are you sure they're not the green ones? Mine's got the standard Green's in and they're starting to look very blue after 225K miles! :?

bummer, I'm sure that the G60's includes a relay list, although it's been so long since I've been in mine, I could well be wrong... :? :roll: :lol:

ooh, davmatt, that sucks... :shock: My G60's head gasket went and I fixed it in under 3 weeks, including the time it took to get the head completely re-worked and gas-flowed/ported, and I could only work on it weekends! It was great until something else on the engine broke... :? :lol: I've done head gaskets on lots of other VWs, there's no reason that yours should have taken that long unless you were just really unlucky with pants staff at the stealers... :( I did the head gasket on my old 16V KR engine in under 5 hours, INCLUDING the time it took to drive to the local engineers to get the head skimmed, adn visit my local VAG dealer for the rest of the parts! :D :roll: 8) If I were you, I'd be thinking about never going near that dealer again and finding a decent specialist near you that won't take the micky out of you... :? Have a look in the servicing thread for recommended garages near to you... 8) Oh, and welcome to the forum! :D

**MOD EDIT - I've removed the duplicate thread on this topic, and moved my reply to this one instead!** NMPHHL, Do they always stop in the same place, or just where you turn them off? If they stop in the same place every time, I'd say that the arm that's attached to the motor has slipped so that the park position has moved. It's pretty easy to reset it if this is the case, you need to undo the arm from the motor when it's at the stop position, move the wipers to the proper parked position, then re-attach the arm. I've never done one on a 'rado before, but I've played with a few on Golfs and it's pretty easy. 8) If the wipers are just stopping as soon as you turn them off, then you've got a fault with the park sensor, I'm not sure where this is on a Corrado, but I've no doubts that someone here will know! :wink: 8)

Kev? Doesn't it say on the fuse box cover what the fuses do? :?