Mr Sands

http://www.the-corrado.net/wiki/index.p ... _Checklist

Looks minty!

Not still thinking about the local garage then? I had a front bearing recently which was making a pig of a noise by the end, and I found a local garage could fit it in quickly and did a good job. Might be worth re-considering if Vince is all booked up.

Another superb job! It's just as well you don't live anywhere near me else my wallet might just take another beating...scant consolation for you, I know. Take it as a very backhanded compliment!

Gorgeous sound, and he wasn't half throwing it around the track! Superb.

I have developed a similar problem recently on the VR, exactly the same symptoms. Sometimes the window goes up all the way on the switch or when turning the key in the lock, but other times it stops halfway and requires the switch to be released and pressed again.

What a bloody pity.

Hear hear. For all that we want our cars to get through, and WE know they're ok really, that kind of rule applied universally leads to the prick coming the other way in the totally unroadworthy banger having no brakes...

Any Corrado will have its effect upon your wallet: remember, the last of them were made a decade ago, so they'll all need bits and bobs doing. But then, you could buy a car less than two years old and the engine could melt down. Sometimes it just comes down to luck of the draw as all machines can (and will!) go wrong. Bottom line is this: the Corrado has a lot of eccentricities which will go wrong and require time and money; however, it's still a sports car, and it's a dub, so you're getting the closest to having your cake and eating it that I think's possible. If you want trouble free motoring, buy a Volvo, but don't try and beat any of us down the slip road any time soon! Or try to pull. Ever. So what's your way out of this doom and gloom of probable expense and time? Do everything sensible that the peeps on here have already said! Try and find one that's sound, preferably that's got the documentation to prove it, or failing that, get it checked over by someone who knows their way around. The great thing about this forum is that it's full of very friendly, incredibly knowledgeable (far more than I) people who will bend over backwards to help out, partly out of generosity, partly out of love for this remarkable car. There are all sorts of threads devoted to people prepared to go look at a 'rado with/for you, if you ask nicely! :-P This forum is also an absolutely vital (used in its true sense) resource for the life of your 'rado. When those things which will go wrong do, a quick use of the search function (there you go moddies) will almost invariably turn up a previous thread where someone's investigated and solved the problem. It'll tell you what to do, if you're of a mechanical mind, or where's best to have someone else do it. This forum's also invaluable in helping you source the part that the stealers no longer bother with (Corra..what?) or would happily sell you....for seventeen times the price on here... Bottom line is that frequently your Corrado will test your patience and your finances 'til you swear that you've had enough and you'll never go near it again...but then, when it's fixed, you'll go out in it again and you'll be helplessly smitten. Best expression for it? "Big smile motoring" (not one of mine, I can't take credit). Every time I go out to work or play in the Corrado, I grin to myself. You can't beat it. Basically it's like the girlfriend or boyfriend we all know we should have junked, because s/he's fickle, attention seeking, often high-maintenance and selfish but somehow, you can never stop going back to them. Oh, and buy a VR! The noise...the noise...the noise...and the feeling of your head being slammed back into the headrest. Sorry to all valver and G owners! Hey, how about a thread comparing the merits of a VR and a G60? I don't think that's ever been done before. But then, I haven't used the search.

I'm presuming you're not actually getting 65 mpg? :wink:

I ran Mark IIs before upgrading to the VR. Another classic motor. Looking for a cheap one to have running side by side eventually.

I have a similar residue in the header tank of the VR. Don't think it's a concern.

I'm just glad for my mate! Between us we were really giving VWs a bad name in the staff car park, since we were having to take it in turns to get ours fixed and carpooling to work! Big thanks to Peakz, Jim and Supercharged for the help.

I know this is resurrecting a thread from the grave, but I do remember that I promised you all "closure on this anecdote" so here it is. It turned out to be the turbo, shutting down due to overboost. A small part replacement did the job in the end. But oh boy, the arguments my friend had with Much Birch garage on the A49. Run by two brothers who were determined to tell him there was nothing wrong until having to admit finally that there was, but then refusing to pay for it, despite the fact that he noticed the problem within hours of buying the car. I'd steer clear if you're ever tempted to buy from them!

LOL! Nice one. Perhaps we need a whole new thread!

LMAO!

Glad that pisses off someone else too. I tend to flash people who do that and then cut me up.

I'm not sure if this can really qualify as a chuftie, but yesterday I was accelerating away through the local estate, taking a short cut but held up in a queue of traffic just moving away from a pedestrian crossing on the green light. Couple of textbook chavesque young fellas on the opposite side of the road ( ambling along with that wide boy stance that suggest they've just had an accident of the pants kind) suddenly started looking animated and looking into the road. Making a snap judgment on their likely tastes, I thought they'd got excited over a terribly gazzed Vectra, silver with a bloody stupid great spoiler superglued on the back, heading in the opposite direction. However, when it had passed on (back into the lower circles of Hades whence it came, I hope) it became apparent they were into the VR. Chav no. 1 broke out into a big grin, nudged his mate and pointed. Hurried lip reading suggested he was explaining the qualities of the 'rado, and the quick double nod and point to the grille suggested he was fixing Chav no.2's attention on the VR badge. I stonewalled, attempting to look cool in wraparounds (always a failed task) but permitted myself a look in the rearview when I'd passed, and they'd both stopped ambling in a cackpantsed manner and had turned to do a full slack jawed gawk. I love my car.

That is quite remarkable work. Well done!

No! Don't do it! That way the bastards have won and you'll have denied yourself one of life's great pleasures.

In order to share the stress? A problem shared is a problem halved and all that?

Lmfao! You've done this before, haven't you?

Gentlemen, thanks for all the advice. It has been passed on to my mate, who has got it booked in to be VAG-COMed. Will let you know what the results are!

A good mate of mine has not long had his Mk IV and since he's had it, he experiences a periodic loss of power under acceleration. When it happens, he has to put his foot to the board to keep her going at a flat rate, then the power will come back. It doesn't happen with any particular regularity or apparent reason. I said I'd ask around on here as a place filled with VW knowledge (a number of peeps here have this motor methinks). It has been back to the garage from which it was purchased and had the air filter changed, which hasn't solved the problem. Any ideas? Fuel filter maybe? And what about the second hand dealer's liability to my mate? Any truth in the fact that for the first month after purchase (which we're still within), the dealer is obliged to fix any problems free of charge (as my mate payed £40 for the air filter to be changed under a form of warranty)?

Ouch. What a dreadful shame.