The_Dude

Mine's a Sony XR 3759 cassete player with faceoff and "For Volkswagen Group' written on it...

You must be :cuckoo: M&S food is like whe you were a kid and you went round to a mate's house with a foreign mum...all the food doesn't quite taste right and there's no coke in the fridge! :D

Nice looking motor, sure this used to be on here, i'm sure I recognise the plate.

iirc the police guns have to be calibrated every day, so i doubt these old biddies are doing that! surely that negates any readings they get? how can they prove they are not just making it up? and could you not do them for invasion of privacy or something?

Ahem, yes well..... :D Keep it standardish and you'll be ok, no more than any other car of this age. Strap big things on to it and then you get trouble. :lol: dukest has run it down pretty well, if u take into account the first service is usually the worst to fix all the niggles the PO ignored, then after that its just little things that don't cost a lot.

Hello mate, looks like a nice buy! The first gear problem should be sorted by changing the gearbox oil. My first gear was hard to engage before I had it changed and now it slips in like a dream!

Cheers Kel, unfortunately I can't see it as its at DG but I know what you mean! You decided what you're going to do about a replacement yet?

Cheers for the link Walesy, but unfortunately I'm not in a position to do a cash buy of a car. Pity really as it would work out more economical in the long run, but atm I just don't have the readies, so its gonna be a credit card special! :grin:

Awesome! The rear speakers for my car have been cut right at the plug and I had not been able to work out how to get them out for repair. I knew there must be a tool somewhere, nice one! :clap:

Yeah baby, Turn Left At Albequerque cruises into 2nd place!

:lol: what a muppet. my car also has a rare reg i can't find anywhere else.

:lol: No, they are w@nk, or certainly were in the old days. Well I guess the moral of the story is don't trust anyone who calls their company Storm! :) Plans are afoot for a new engine...

I find it hard to stay angry for too long, its just not in my nature, I'm too laid back for rage! 8) Once I'd got home and calmed down and actually thought about it, I wanted to keep the car. Yeah, she's not perfect in many areas but it brings me fun, friends and outings and a new engine isn't that big a deal in the scale of things. Could do, but they'd probably just say, "well its 4 years down the line and you strapped a supercharger to the side so what do you expect?" But I do agree that the job they did was frikkin awful. I'd be surprised if they renewed half the things on the bill if the chains were down to the rivets. Oh and I think they were Scooby specialists which explains a lot, those engines go boom all the time anyway so they're probably used to doing and seeing shonky work.

Well I was looking thru the history last night and there is a nice fat receipt from 2006 for a bottom end rebuild...nearly £3ks worth which did include chains. :( The rebuild was done by a company called enginetuner.co.uk who are based in Plymouth. So beware these cowboys! It had an ad for a company called Storm on the other side, I take it this is not Storm Developments, who seem to be a bit more reputable and based in Reading. Pretty disappointing really, it was a contributing factor to me buying the car as I knew I'd be strapping extra power on the side... It also had a brand new head! Hopefully I'll be able to keep that if its not too beggared, maybe get it ported too while I'm there.

Well it sat on my drive for about 2 weeks, but got started once or twice. Its odd, cos me and Dave had it running so I would have expected it to be washed away. I only think it sat at DG over the weekend before they started pulling it apart. :scratch:

The fuel rail is rusted, which I find very odd indeed. Water in the fuel maybe? But then it would have had to be running rough for a while surely? (like Jim's valver?) Anyway, pic....

As above really, had time to think last night and I will get her back on the road. Somehow, someway.

839 euro for a bracket! sod that. what's it made out of, platinum? :shock: Thanks Judith, I'm trying my best to stay calm and not chuck my keyboard accross the office. Time is a great healer and all, but this has been dragging on for so long I feel a tad frazzled. I just want it sorted and a car back on my drive that I can drool over out my window.

Thruxton is an awesome high speed circuit with lots of pedal to the metal action with long flowing corners too. I drove a Ferrari round there a few years ago and sure I got over 150 going down the straight! Its in Wiltshire on the A303, nearish Salisbury. (I know cos I pass it every time I go to see the old dears)

Cos I don't want to be in the same boat 1 year down the line with another blown engine. I'm gonna get it all done properly or not at all. I still don't know what to do, I have to wait to find out the final prognosis of what is f*cked and what is not.

don't wanna take a step back in power :) if i'm gonna do that, its going to be the power of 2 legs that propel me along.

and the rest....i stopped counting at 10k and that was quite a while ago. which is why i'm so reluctant to keep chucking money at it. if it had been me, at least i would have got a respray out of it and not have to worry about bodywork either, which seems to get shabbier by the week. i wanna be getting that looking good, not spending inside the engine bay. don't have the readies to buy a new C, i can stick the rebuild on the credit card and pay for it that way, but as for cold hard cash, i have none :( unfortunately its never that simple. i can afford it if I card it as said above, but having just cleared my card and moved into a flat i have other priorities to spend my wonga on and am reluctant to whack another huge car bill on the card. having said that, i really love corrados and driving a 300 bhp monster and hate being without wheels...i live to drive basically and love everything that comes with it. i need to see what i can sell....anybody want some TH monos? or a kidney? :lol: Yeah with my experiences of ABV engines, that's what I would do too. Find a decent AAA lump, throw it in and move on :D but i won't have as much powerrrrrrr then and i'm maxxed out on what the V9 can do. :shrug:

I knew something wasn't right. I thought it was the old maf wiring but I was wrong. Very wrong. It was running fine while at D&G, but a few weeks after I got it home and had thrashed it a few times that I knew something was awry. Maybe it was the poor running and huge clouds of white smoke coming out the exhaust. Head gasket I thought. Not too bad if I don't drive it anymore and get it recovered to a garage. Dave was a legend and came down to stick it on the back of an AA truck. I was naffed off at the thought of having to spend more money to get it fixed again, but I received a rather shocking call this morning once they had got the head off. Damage done to engine: 3 headbolts stretched leading to head gasket failure. They were standard bolts. Cylinders 1 & 6 are heavily glazed and ovalised. It would seem injector 2 has failed and caused damage to a piston. There a deep gouging hone marks down all the cylinders. The chains are worn down virtually to the rivets. These last four points really feck me off (apart from the injector I guessas that's no-ones fault) as the main reason I bought the car was that although the bodywork wasn't amazing, it was supposed to have had an engine rebuild about 5k before I got my mitts on it. It would seem it has, but a very bad one. I'm pretty sure there is a charge for chains in among the rebuild receipt. I'm really really f*cked off and considering breaking it and starting all over again. Or even throwing in the towel completely and not bothering to replace it. I hardly ever use the car now and its costing me huge amounts of cash to not even keep on the road, which I just don't have anymore. D&G already have a potential replacement engine lined up, but would obviously need a rebuild.....they have been awesome thu all this, some details I won't go into but I have never had such support from a garage before and it has lessened the blow. However I'm still sat at my desk utterly fuming. I really don't know what to do atm, I have had no love for my car for a long time now, I can't remember the last time I had a period of more than a few days of me enjoying it. The car owes me so much money and I know seling or breaking it I wouldn't even get a fifth of it back, but I hate it and am reluctant to spend any more f*cking money. :censored:

they are talking shite. parts cost about 80 quid for the gasket set, getting the head skimmed is about 30, compression test about 50, so you're talking about 550 quids worth of labour!

off topic - did you enjoy it or did you find it too hot? i went a few years ago and roasted, if we hadn't had booked an air-con chalet with pool i think i may have ended with severe dehydration! can only echo what others have said, get it serviced, take a few spares and enjoy yourself!