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Welcome back again fella, you were never staying away were you!!! Looks like a tidy motor you’ve picked up there, you do seem to have a knack for finding them!

Dragon green 16V at Dukeries garden centre. M448 I think, looking good in the sun. First spot (outside of my garage at least) in some while!

Had this week off work so got it out the garage, cleaned and waxed it ready. Planning to take it off SORN Monday so it’ll piss it down the next month!

Why ruin a good Corrado 😉

Well done, here’s to the next 300K!

Good to see the progress you’re making, the trim makes a change from the standard fabric too. Have you had those rear seats re-trimmed, they look brand new? Keep up the great work, still on course for a springtime road test?

Merry Christmas everybody. Couldn’t agree more, it’s quiet around here compared with a few years ago (been here 18!) but it’s too much of a resource to lose, too many other forums have fallen by the wayside.

Still looking in really good shape too, I think that in my almost 30 years as a Corrado owner I’ve only seen one in the flesh, once, enjoy!

Long shot indeed. I’ve bought various springs and platforms for my Koni coilovers over the years from Larkspeed in Leeds. The last time I had springs, which I think was fronts, I had to wait for Koni to run the next batch which was months…. You could drop lucky though.

Great to see another one back from a “sabbatical” off the road, been using mine every day recently and loving it. Can’t remember the last time I saw another one on the road though and nowhere near Edinburgh!

Yeah, been legal for the road since May, although most of that has entailed parking in the garage out of the rain! Used it for commuting to Eckington most of this week, except today when I gave the TT a run out, and I’ll be in it again tomorrow because I’m planning going for an MoT in the afternoon. I was originally hoping to go to Chatsworth with CCGB last weekend but we were away so had to miss it. I always thought the clunks and creaks were standard with the Corrado?

I’ve long suspected the abs pump to be the root cause of all the problems, there can be no other part of the system that could essentially store dirty fluid to be released at a later stage, put fluid in at one end of a pipe and it’s got to come out the other. I wouldn’t recommend Teves 20 just as an answer to a soft pedal, it’s way too much trouble for that, getting the loom through the bulkhead behind the Climatronic system took days! I had abs problems at the time too so decided to take the plunge. Maybe using it for a few days will be the answer, just a pain having to get it all jacked up and wheels off again to bleed it.

I have got, and also had various levels of success with the pressure bleeder, the easibleed, and a vacuum pump. But still seem to end up with the wife sat in the driving seat pumping the pedal (and generally complaining about the cold!) while I go around the callipers etc with a spanner doing the down-up-down-etc. It still ends up with decent brakes but crap pedal no matter what, but I’ve always found that after leaving it two or three days another round will cure the pedal. Got to say though, since fitting the Teves 20 system it’s been much easier. It has an auto bleed sequence with it although I’m not convinced that does much other than waste loads of fluid!

Good to hear you’re out and about now, planning to get mine on the road at the start of May 🤞 Mine tells me it’s done 38mpg or so, but do the maths and it’s about 32mpg!

Welcome to the forum, an R36 engined Corrado is a very rare thing indeed, I remember the days when everyone said it would be impossible! Can’t wait to see some photos.