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Sounds familiar! Must be a security measure!! :roll:

And the glovebox too, though it's an inexplicably tight fit in mine and removal may involve copious swearing.

27 (only been driving 18 months though) citroen zx 1.4i, 1st car, owned for 3 yrs prior to test so have decent ncb! VW Corrado G60 1st dub (but then only my 2nd car...)

Looking good!! 8) Well impressed with the transformation to her since I picked up the G60 back in June! Hope mine looks as good when I get her into a bodyshop. On tour atm so won't be driving her for a couple of weeks... :cry:

Sounds like the dim-dip resistor (coil thing on inside of wing by battery) has been plugged back in. Unplug the yellow plug and it should be ok.

I wouldn't mind knowing either, as my insurance caps me at 210bhp...

ow! get well soon!

Fitted my new oil catch tank and peered into the engine bay thinking "hmm, how do I make a FMIC fit in there?"

Colour's a bit ott, but otherwise quite nice. Now if it was black...

Gorgeous! Bra suits the red too. Where are you going to put the front numberplate?

Have a look in the Group Buy forum for more info - there was a recent group-buy from Vagingit (he's the geezer who makes 'em! Also sells on ebay). I got one and they're well made and have the proper VAG connectors so they're an easy fit. Make sure you waterproof the relays and fuse holder though - I used balloons, after one of my relays filled up with rust and stopped working.

Another vote for Nakamichi, great sounding, very oem looking units.

Sounds like the dim-dip resistor thing*. Unplug the yellow plug and you should have normal operation, the loom does mean that the sidelight position on the headlight switch only puts on the sidelights, not the dimmed dip-beams as well. *it's on the inside of the wing just in front of the battery.

Cheers folks, she was hit by a 4x4 apparently, (when owned by swfblade on here, then sold to mtcR32, then to me after he got his black VR). Hence the rear panel took the impact, not the bumper! :mad: I love the BBS's but some of them do need a re-furb; the spare was well grotty, but I got a spacesaver off ebay for £10 so I'm ok for the MOT and have bootspace too! It is a beautiful colour too - that was one of the things that sold me on her in the first place! :mrgreen: The early grill has kind of grown on me, along with the grey interior, but (still) need a new badge tho! Wouldn't mind getting a couple of broken early grilles and trying to make an early badgeless grill as an experiment...Something else I reckon could work is a set of Audi TT grey half-leathers if I keep the interior grey. The JBL badges are pretty discreet (that was the intention) as I was trying to keep it looking factory, so I don't think they're any more of a thief advert than a sporty-looking shiny blue coupe already is! (She's got a proper alarm now anyway :D )

Finally took some decent pics (only taken me 2 months!) Hopefully these will soon be the "before" photos now I've found a bodyshop. Since I bought her, I've moved the extra gauges from the stereo slot to the cubbyhole and put my nak in, put this in the boot and JBL components in the factory positions (audioscape door pods sometime in the future I reckon!) My folks brought me this back from holidaying in Bavaria :) TT wiper conversion - can now see in the rain! To come - FMIC, Mocal oil cooler, SWG Twinlet kit, alloy refurb, leathers? who knows!

With my JBL's I got the plastic stock tweeter housings (the ones that fit into the dash under the grilles), pulled the stock tweeter out then drilled a suitable size hole in the plastic with a holesaw, to take the flush mount kit that came with the JBL tweeters. These allow the tweets to be angled towards the middle of the car, and doing it this way means you can keep it looking factory. I did have to re-shape the driver's side grille though, had to make it dome shaped to accomodate the angled tweeter.

JBL do some great value speakers, I had a pair of £20 5.25" coaxials in my last car that were a huge improvement over the stock ones. I think you can usually find similar JBL component speakers for about £50 which'll suit the factory positions in the rado nicely.

Depends what for I think, if it's for ICE there's a gromit that appears in the passenger footwell, behind the carpet. Otherwise there are more that pop out behind the dash.

Aren't they Borbet A's? I think they're available in all sorts of PCD's and also in less eye-watering girths (oo-err) Don't think they're available with black centres as std. (I could be wrong...) Would look tasty on your VR tho'!

Edited: beaten to it!

oooh! Low milage (well compared to mine anyway!) rims not to my taste, but looks tidy nonetheless! Get it lowered though :mrgreen:

as above, they'll be in a similar range. I'd be very suprised to find a hi-fi speaker that wasn't between 4 and 8 ohms imp. Neither of which would present a problem to a HU or ICE amp. The only way you could damage anything due to impedance would be if you ran an amp into too small an impedance, I wouldn't want to run 2 ohm speakers off a HU for instance. You don't tend to find anything as low as that in hi-fi, because most hi-fi amps aren't designed to be stable into loads that low in impedance.

Pardon? The impedance of most car speakers (2-8 ohms) is in the same region as most hi-fi speakers (4-8 ohms) so that's unlikely to make much difference to quality. It could affect the volume relative to the original speakers though. Right, and car speakers are? I'm guessing, but I'd imagine ICE manufacturers base their designs on an "average" door volume, and can't/don't take into account the construction of any particular vehicle's doors. At the level of speakers anyone would consider butchering to use in-car, there's not going to be much to consider enclosure-wise apart from volume. I'm not reccomending this idea, but if you don't or can't spend the money on proper car speakers, there's no reason not to try it.

Job's a good'un! Hope fully I can now finish my install, spent weekend driving to work with no stereo and the dash in bits!