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Clicked "Buy it Now" for one on ebay for three pound something and then noticed the seller was in Latvia with an extra three quid delivery! Took around ten days to arrive but it's a genuine part so no complaints. Pig to fit though so I hope this one lasts another 23 years or 130K miles.

Congratulations on the Recaros, did you get the eBay pair?

Welcome to the forum. By that reckoning you got your car about the time mine came off the road after eight years ownership! Been back on the road since late June this year and loving it. Mk4 Golf, Leon etc callipers are a decent upgrade, they do need different hoses as they use banjo bolts at the calliper but it’s well worth it, the handbrake even functions afterwards.

I only used the wiper wire as it was threaded through the tailgate, one end to the brake light in the tailgate, the other end to the spare terminal in the rear light cluster.

There’s an earth point in the tailgate already that the lights and wiper go back to, I simply put a spade connector onto that too, couldn’t have been easier.

It's the original UK tailgate. When the car was at my mate's for respray I had the rear wiper hole smoothed, at the same time I had him cut out for the brake light and "frenched" it in if you remember the term from back in the seventies when we were all into custom cars! [ATTACH=CONFIG]95169[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]95170[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]95171[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]95172[/ATTACH] Took two days to get it something like right. I had always thought about fitting a light at high level as it had been discussed years before that the original one fitted to US cars was too low. But I never really liked the look with it at the top of the tailgate and how often is anyone so close to the rear that their view is obscured? We have a Mk2 TT and that one's fitted just below the spoiler too, I believe it's more the additional light coming on getting the attention of the driver behind rather than it being high up and in their line of sight.

Just been out to the garage to look, I was trying to remember where I'd broken into the wiring but I'd forgotten how easy it was to connect. There are unused spade connectors on the rear of the clusters, I just plugged into the one on the right marked Br! [ATTACH=CONFIG]95168[/ATTACH]

Mine’s the OEM fitting but installed the way it should have been done in the factory [ATTACH=CONFIG]95167[/ATTACH]

I don’t believe there’s an existing supply in the tailgate unless it’s a US spec car, I used one of the rear wiper wires to feed it as I’ve smoothed the tailgate.

Very impressed and a great write up for anyone else that fancies doing similar!

I can’t remember exactly where I picked the feed up for mine, I’ll try take a look over the weekend.

As crazy as it sounds, a good set with all the door cards and electrics in working order has to be 2K as a starter. A lot of people prefer cloth anyway, particularly in a hot summer in a car with no a/c. A good interior has always commanded strong money, and nothing is getting cheaper.

That was ten years ago though, I wouldn’t expect to get a pair for that now!

They do have Recaro embossed, it does lose some definition over the years but it’s certainly still there on these if you look close. As for what’s the difference, other than the rarity factor of course. They’re slimmer on the shoulders which makes the car ‘feel’ a bit roomier. They’re more supportive, I always felt uncomfortable on long run before having them due to lack of lumber support, and that’s from 100+ thousand Corrado miles, not a couple of thousand! They’re electrically adjustable, although that’s mainly a feature to add weight to the car (and they’re certainly heavy), between myself an my wife we move the seat forwards and backwards but all the way down is a default position in a Corrado so is never changed and the recline button is rarely pressed other than to check it still works. The say Recaro on them! It took me a couple of years to find mine in grey, I think I then paid around £600 to buy them but they were worth all of that in my opinion. I’ll be interested to see what these go for as it’s been a while since I’ve seen a pair with such a low starting price.

I’ve hidden the vacuum tank for the climatronic down by the horns inside the bumper, there’d be no reason you couldn’t put the VSR solenoid there with the tank too?

Had mine since 2000, I bought the one I traded for it in 1995, can’t see me without one now!

No problem, thanks for looking. It should be really easy, our son in law works as a service adviser at one of the local dealers but their parts dept is totally u/s, I’ve been waiting for two viton o rings for the climate control for weeks now. I’ll have to go to the other dealers one day with a shopping list! Cheers

Yes, it’s the white one I’m after. Let me know if you have one, and what you want for it......it’s got to be worth the price of a pint even if Heritage list them at 96p! Cheers

Thanks, I'd checked Heritage but it's showing out of stock. I used to use TPS loads until a couple of years ago but I thought they'd gone strictly trade only these days? Cheers

I'm after the locking lever for the passenger door, part number 357 837 083 circled in red on the photo. Mine is missing the lower finger and the rod from the actuator keeps falling off! Cheers [ATTACH=CONFIG]94951[/ATTACH]

I've always got on with it well, although hear what you say about making the wipers judder when you need them at low speed. Try using a clay bar to clean it off the screen, that's always worked for me.

Close shave! Get some rain-x on the screen, that way at 60 you’d not need the wipers!

There's one over in Cars for Breaking http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?108244-1995-Corrado-VR6-Breaking-VW-MS-VSR-LSD-H-amp-R-coilovers-Big-Valve-Hd-Shrick-cam

I don't think Corrados are inherently unreliable any more than similar cars of a similar age are. There are the obvious regular breakages, sunroofs, spoilers, door handles etc but none of those are likely to stop you getting home. A heater matrix can fail on anything, it's not only Corrados that pour coolant into the passenger footwell! We used the two we've owned as daily drivers for 13 years and around 150K miles until an R32 followed by a 3.2TT made it a project/summer toy. That's not to say things won't fail though is it, although they're reasonably simple engines to maintain and there are most parts out there to be had either through VW Heritage, Classic Parts or a host of companies that refurbish existing parts or manufacture pattern parts. As for looking after one, there are still mechanics at dealers who will respect it for what it is, but finding one of those and knowing that they're allowed to repair rather than bolt on bits for a quick turn around might be more difficult, a specialist independent or traditional garage of which some still remain might be more reliable if you're not handy yourself? That said, we were out in ours last night and it's a bumpy old thing! Even compared with the TT which rides on 19" rims with 35 profile tyres and is lowered on Eibachs, the Corrado on the original Speedlines feels every bump aided I'm sure by the Koni coilovers. It's around 18 years since we used ours on the original suspension so it's hard to remember but I'm sure that would have been more compliant for every day use on modern quality British road surfaces!

Croc clips??? :shrug: