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Haha Kev you git!

Yep, a piece of sodding ice dislodged from the wheel arch of a lorry in front of me one day and hit the bonnet :( No idea what caused the dents on the wing, they were recent and I've not been using the car so has to have been a neighbour, but no one confessed to it. People just don't have respect for other people's cars these days :(

Yep, I had a lump in my throat leaving her behind at yours today :( but even though it's a sad day I couldn't be happier knowing she's in good hands and is still in the CF family :D I reeeeeally didn't want to sell her to a randomer lol. I'm looking forward to seeing how she progresses now :D ---------- Post added at 10:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:22 PM ---------- P.S I'm sure I'll be back in a couple of years too haha :D

Haha that is true!

Car is provisionally sold, all will be revealed at the weekend if the deal goes ahead!

Now for sale, open to sensible offers for a quick sale :( Email me [email protected] if interested. I forgot to attach photos to the listing as well so will try and get some asap, for the mean time, just go back a few pages to see how it looked before! ​Cheers x http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?80966-Blackberry-R32-for-%A33500-ono-in-Rushden-Northamptonshire

R32 | Blackberry | Rushden, Northamptonshire Price: £3500 ono Description: Well the time has finally come to advertise my Corrado :( it's a sad day but it's just sat looking sorry for itself and I just can't justify keeping it any longer so it needs to go as I need to spend a bit of money on my Audi plus I'm after a motorbike lol. The car is in relatively good condition for it's age but is by no means a perfect car and will ideally need a bit of time and money spent on her to get back up to standard, hence the low asking price! I will list good and bad points including things that need doing below. DESCRIPTION Corrado R32 (formerly VR6) 1995/M Reg (M58 FGN) Mileage: 160k Tax: SORN MOT: June 2013 I purchased the car in August 2006 as a mint Blackberry VR6 with about 125k miles on the clock and over the years has had pretty much everything done to it! I won't go in to too many details on here so if you want to trawl through many many many pages of the car's history you can do so here: http://goo.gl/H5ZRT Details below :) ENGINE - MK5 Golf R32 3.2 24v (278bhp at Stealth Racing). The donor engine came out of a MK5 Golf that had only covered ~12000 miles and had an interior fire which wrote the car off. Engine was mint, wiring loom was a bit of a mess but this was professionally rebuilt and adapted for the installation by Vince at Stealth Racing and he did a great job! The engine is running stock management but with some tweaking to the ECU by Vince to adapt for all the missing Golf things like immobilizer and all 4 lambdas (runs 2). The car itself had about 155k on the clock when the engine was fitted. The engine had a fresh map by Vince last year (June) when I also had the clutch done which ironed out the flat spots and greatly improved the delivery of the engine, it's sublime now and returns an average of 27 MPG, not bad! ENGINE BAY - SPAL slimline fan (needed for R32 conv) - Fuel pressure regulator (needed for R32 conv) - Jetex cone filter (ideally needs replacing as a bit manky) - Renewed mounts GEARBOX - Standard and original with new clutch fitted in June '12 (barely covered any miles at all since then!). Oil renewed with Redline MT-90 when engine was fitted. EXHAUST - Miltek cat-back exhaust system in to Dubpower de-cat in to Dubpower 6-branch stainless manifold. SUSPENSION / STEERING / HANDLING - GAZ GHA adjustable Coilovers (couple of years old although only covered about 5k miles!) - Bushes and ball joints all round have been renewed at some point including uprated R32 wishbone bushes (less flex but not as harsh as poly bushes). - Fixed steering column, BIG improvement on steering feel imo, sits at a perfect height (between highest and lowest settings on the original adjustable column) includes the correct cowling. - Neuspeed 25mm rear ARB. - Trimsport rear brace (the BIG one) BRAKES - Upgraded to 288mm with calipers and pads. - Rears are standard EXTERIOR - 90mm chin spoiler (cracked) - All red rear lights (stick on with cut out slits to allow some amber through!) - Both badged and badgeless grills (also with R32 badge) - De-wipered rear - Aero front wipers - Smooth badgeless rear - Detailed headlights - Handles don't break thanks to Dave16v's wonderful upgraded strikers. WHEELS / TYRES - Standard Speedlines with Pirelli P6000 tyres, not got a lot of life in them though. INTERIOR - Beige leather interior, could be heated but I never wired them in! The leather is not in the best condition really, the rear seats are fine tho. - Black dash - DDI Dials (not illuminating!) - Kenwood head unit (relatively new) - JBL front crossover speakers and tweeters - 2 parcel shelves. 1 uncut beige one with original straps (worth a fortune on eBay ;) lol) and a cut black one with some JBL 6x9's. - Audi VDO gauges (not wired in) BAD POINTS / NEEDS DOING - No tax (SORN'd) - Will probably need a new battery as the current one has been flat and recharged numerous times so can't see it holding charge for long. - Cracked windscreen (easily sorted through insurance) - DDI dials no longer illuminate making it very difficult to see speedo/clocks in the dark! (new DDI dials are ~£100 last time I looked or you could source original parts) - Sunroof is getting a bit sticky, greased it up last year but ideally needs a strip down and proper greasing, only on slide though, it still tilts fine. - Needs a good wheel alignment, pulls a bit as I would have just done it by eye last time I did bushes/suspension work and not had the alignment done properly. - Worn leather drivers seat (down to age really) - Cracked splitter - No alarm / immobilizer. Used to have a Toad Cat1 but it died! - Generally tiring bodywork due to age and mostly being original. Has scratches and scuffs mainly at the front, stone chips a plenty, the odd parking ding, the odd rust bubble, annoying small dent on the front of the bonnet caused by ice chucked up by a car in front one winter! The majority is good and it still polishes up well for it's age but ideally it could do with a bit of paint up the front really (the rear is pretty mint as a woman ran in to the back of the car a few years back not causing much damage but was enough to get an insurance job done so was fixed and painted by the great Steve Denton at Stylehaus in Northampton and whilst at it he smoothed it all off for me!). GOOD POINTS - It's a Corrado - It's Blackberry - It's got Beige leather ... mmmm beige! - R32 engine runs sweeeet and returns very good MPG considering! - It's solid underneath and drives solid too so nothing to worry about underneath for a while! - New clutch barely covered any miles - Plenty of must-have goodies included I have probably missed some out but it'll all be in my thread in the link at the top! I have tried to be honest with this listing, it's not perfect but it's also not a pile of junk either. It was running and driving perfectly fine the last time I was using it (briefly before christmas) and it now just needs a loving owner with a few spare weekends and with a spare few quid to make it a great car again, and with a bit more time and money could really be an amazing car. I have just lost the enthusiasm and don't have the time or money these days to spend on a car, even a Corrado :( £3500 or a sensible offer (a lot less than the conversion alone would cost you!) If interested PM me on here or preferably email me [email protected] because my phone's playing up a bit at the min and in the middle of upgrading, but I'm always checking my emails (web developer so always on a computer!) so email will be the quickest way to get hold of me really. Much love, Rob xx

I like ham :)

Yep, I'm selling mine! £4k takes it away, the engine is sweet now, no issues at all, but the car itself is just showing it's age a little, still scrubs up well though and it is the best colour AND with beige leather ;) I need to sort a few minor things out before selling though really, like a new windscreen mainly, but will sell as it is for the right offer. ---------- Post added at 4:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 4:24 PM ---------- I don't come on here that much now, so if interested PM me or email me [email protected].

Lol why do you want my engine when yours is the same? :scratch:

Cheers mate! Yep it's gunna be sad to see it go but needs must and all that. I'm sure I'll get another in the near future, I'll leave that one standard though I reckon ... ish anyway ;)

Thought I'd give a quick update on this as I haven't for so long! Still have the car ...just! It will be for sale very soon :( or now even if someone offers the right money! Flat spots are more or less gone now, Vince found the issues with the Mk5 ECU cutting the torque and so he mapped it a different way and the car is now miles better! He's taken all the initial torque away which may sound bad but it was so responsive it was borderline undrivable as it was, so by taking the initial torque away and giving it a smoother torque curve the ECU seems happier and lets it have the torque. I don't know the technical details of what he's done but it's now a lot better and smoother to drive and I get much better fuel economy as I'm no longer spinning the wheels and kangarooing every time I pull off! Vince also fitted a new clutch and sorted out some other wiring-in jobs the car needed since the install that I never got round to doing so engine wise now the car is running sweet! As for the GAZ's they still ride fine, I've found that the car actually drives a lot happier with them turned down most the way, and if I stiffen them up too much it becomes a bit awkward and bouncy to drive! The rear adjusters are pretty crusted up now though and need turning with a pair of pliers or something, I can no longer turn one of them just with my fingers, bit of a design flaw maybe and should have been top adjustable, probs wouldn't be a problem for a fair weather car but mine's been in it all! Sadly it's just starting to show it's age now and looking a little tatty in places :( people just don't respect cars these days so I can't be bothered with trying to keep an old car in mint condition if people are just going to open doors on to it and scuff it when trying to park :( I've got my Audi for daily use so I'm just gunna stick with the 1 car that I can run in to the ground and maybe get a nice car again in the future.

My passenger door has got a nasty ding and a bit of rust so rather than trying to get it looking pretty I think it'd be easier to just try and source another door that's in good nick! Ideally I'd like one as complete as possible so it's just a simple un-bolt old one and bolt on new one and just swap over the door cards etc but am still interested in the main shell of the door if that's all you've got as long as it's BLACKBERRY (LK4Z) and late (mine's a 95' VR6). Cheers :)

How much are you looking for mate?

I need a center console from a late VR in black if anyone has one pleeeease :) Thanks!

Haha yeah that's ALL I do at the min is play guitar! And that's where all my money goes too :lol: ---------- Post added at 12:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:46 PM ---------- Well I've had mine 5 years now, and I drive it nearly every day apart from times it's been off the road when I was fitting the Rotrex and fitting the R32, and both them times I couldn't wait to get back in it again, so I think you just take it for granted when using it every day! I'm sure once I've sorted a few bits out (mainly the clutch which is horrendous and doesn't make for a pleasant driving experience atm!) I will fall back in love with it again, I hope so anyway otherwise I'll just sell it on, no point spending money and keeping it if I don't enjoy it anymore. Yep still got the flat spots, have no idea what's causing it, Kev's got a theory that it's inlet related but I tried another inlet and me and Vince played around with it on the rollers so think it might be the ECU throwing a fuss about something and it going limp/flat when it should be giving the most beans. The strange thing about it though is it's not always the same, sometimes it can be quick and not flat and other times no matter what I try it won't give me any torque and I have to rev the boll0cks off of it to get it anywhere fast. It's just not taken priority for a long time so I've not bothered trying to figure it out, once the Audi's back on the road and I'm saving money in fuel etc (and the fact I'll have another car I could use!) I'll give the C to Vince to have a play around with.

No updates really, kinda got fed up with the car which has built up over quite a while tbh, so just been using it as a car every day, barely clean it, not spent any money on it for aaaaages although it really needs a few things sorting out! Just losing the love :( But I'm hoping to re-kindle that love for it by taking it off the road and using a normal boring diesel for a daily (well it's not that boring as still a 2.5 v6 tdi Audi A4 Quattro :D) and then fixing/tidying it up a bit! As for the Gaz's, I've been getting on fine with them, they're a lot more comfortable than my old Weitec's, it doesn't handle as well though but I'm not overly fussed about that, I could turn them up to stiffen it but they become very bouncy for UK roads, but up to about half way they're fine and still firm but not crashy! I haven't inspected them for a while to comment on how well they're lasting, certainly no leaks or anything but they're pretty crusty and the adjustment knobs on the rear are getting a bit difficult to turn where as the fronts are top adjustable so are still fine.

Happy Birthday dude!

Cleared now, forgot about sent PM's! ---------- Post added at 01:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:19 PM ---------- Hmm never heard of the flashfile before, could well be the case maybe?? I will suggest it to Vince and see what he says about it. Don't think it's the MAF, but could be worth trying! Yeah mine works with VAG-COM, I haven't checked it for a while but we were checking it when I first did the conversion and other than the usual error codes (for things missing that Vince cleared from the ECU) there was nothing else.

Yeah the extra tyre flex is a litte noticable but it doesn't feel soggy at all so I'm happy with how it drives on the speedies. It still didn't feel as great on the Rota's handling wise as with the Weitecs on, which would be down to softer spring rates and turning the damping down a bit, but the ride quality was unbearable on the Weitecs so I'd rather have a bearable ride and slightly soggier handling! Tbh I don't really drive fast anymore, I go quick don't get me wrong but I'm not testing the limits of handling like I used to lol! No never figured out the cause of the flat spot :( Vince is currently doing a couple of Mk5 R32 transplants so hopefully he comes across the same problem, figures it out on them and can then fix mine! At the min I don't have the money or another source of transport to just give him my car and say 'figure it out', I'm hoping to get the Audi back on the road over the next couple of months though so will be able to leave the car with him! ---------- Post added at 03:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:31 PM ---------- I'm running 288's mate, they fit under the speedies no probs, 312's definitely won't though! The 288's are good enough for my day to day driving.

Sorry guys, not checked this for ages! No big news really, I've gone back to speedlines so am selling my Rota's. Just got fed up with the car not driving as well as it used to, and looking a bit boy racer etc, just want to keep things more subtle now but still go like a *******! :lol: GAZ's are doing ok so far, they are great with the speedlines back on, the car is firm but nowhere near as crashy as it used to be. I still think I'm yet to find the best setting for them though, turned down it's comfortable but the car is slow to react obviously and steering doesn't feel great, turn them up a lot and it becomes a bit harsh and a bit too 'bouncy' for my liking so I have them in the middle, not too hard but not too soft and it drves well, turn in is responsive if a little bit slower than on the weitecs, just a tiny bit on the bouncy side though but it's not annoying like when you turn them up! I imagine on a flat track turning them up they will be great, there's a LOT of adjustment in them and a few clicks either way do make a noticable difference. As for reliability etc, no probs so far, I've ran them daily through the winter etc and they look a bit crusty now but not rusty and can still adjust the height fine after a quick rinse to get **** out the threads. Only issue is the rears are adjustable by knobs on the struts rather than top adjustable, which is nice as you just need to stick an arm underneath the car and turn a knob to adjust rather than remove the rear speakers etc, but the knobs are feeling rather stiff now so I think the weather's got to them a bit.

Clay bar first otherwise the pad will 'snag' on any embedded crap, you want the surface as smooth as possible ideally!

All this "don't start with a rotary polisher" is balls imo, it's not hard! Kev's a smart guy and knows his stuff so I'm pretty sure he won't pick up a rotary and put it on full whack whilst putting his whole bodyweight on it! Kev mate I use the Silverline, it's cheap and it's not let me down in the 4 years I've owned it and many cars I've polished. The foam pads aren't great for correction work though, nice for just quick appliance of basic polishes like super resin etc though. I just got a backing plate and some megs pads and use the Menzerna polishes and get great results. We can have a chat at the weekend about it ;)

I'm around :lol:

I've had some time off work but the calendar was sat on my desk when I got in yesterday morning. Looks sweet, thanks for sorting it out :salute: