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I'm 48 and had a Corrado for close to 17 years now.

Am I right in remembering that you have to pull the wishbone front bush out first and then slide the whole thing forwards to remove the rear bush? Are you trying to pull the rear bush straight out? I'd crawl under mine and have a look for you but I'm the other end of the country from it at the moment!

I'd say go for it, all the various models are built around a similar platform so most things can be made to fit with a bit of ingenuity/trial and error! And the end result makes it all worthwhile.

Sorry I didn't get any photos up yesterday, hope that some of these might help? The pipe from the condenser on the left side of the radiator had to be bent (carefully) upwards to clear the crossmember and bottom hose and I've had to make brackets for each side to fit the condenser to the rad.....not happy with the box section on the left side now so making another, slimmer, one to allow the pipe to come further past the rad. I've not got any flexible pipes yet but once I do I'll be getting the local Pirtek guy to splice them into my existing Passat hoses......a/c compressor to bottom left of condenser, top right of condenser via drier/receiver to the in car evaporator.

I'm just going through the process of fitting one of these myself as the Passat condenser I had before was too big and I had to chop lumps out of my old slam panel to fit it. The Golf one goes in a treat and has the added bonus of a drier/receiver hard piped into the right hand side which tucks in neatly around the side of the radiator. I haven't got any pipes for it yet but will probably end up buying a set of pipes from a scrap Golf/Bora and then having Pirtek join them up to my existing Passat pipework. Flow goes in from the compressor at the bottom left just by the radiator bottom hose and comes out of the top right into the drier/receiver and then on to the evaporator in the car. I'm in London until the weekend but can take some photos of the jobso far and post them on Saturday if that helps?

That sounds like mine was when I had the immobiliser fault, sometimes it seemed to fire up and run OK, other times it would fire and cut out dozens of times and maybe take twenty minutes to start up. Deteriorated over time until it finally gave up the ghost! As Jim says, there's loads of information on here about immobiliser faults, have a go at cleaning up the contacts where the reader coil plugs into the immobiliser box, might just do the trick.

Another Corrado in Chesterfield, I'll have to keep an eye out for you......you never know you might see me in mine one day in the distant future too! Including mine I know of three within five minutes of my house and I don't think any of them has turned a wheel in the last year, hope you're the odd one out in the best possible way!!!

Another vote for Hendrick's Gin.......with Fever Tree tonic and cucumber, the price is irrelevant when it tastes that good! Rather partial to a Jameson's 1780 (known these days as 12 Year Old Special Reserve) too.

That's odd Jim, you said just the same thing last time!!!! Knew I'd remembered reading it before: http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?29996-sunroof-gone!!!&highlight=sunroof+flew No idea why it happens though, in fact never had mine out so don't even know how they're fixed.

Not the first time we've heard of this happening on here.......can imagine that was something of a shock???

Disconnecting the battery does upset the ecu but only the optimisation settings, will still fire and run OK so probably not related to the cutting out issue. It's so frustrating when you give up and ask for a tow just to find that it fires into life and runs fine the next six months! Of course that's standard Corrado lulling you into a false sense of security territory!!!

But the original VW immobiliser does allow it to start for a second or so before cutting the ignition. Just because you've an aftermarket one fitted doesn't mean the original was removed, mine's certainly still got both.

My Mk2 TT spoiler comes up at 80mph and drops at 50mph, sure sign you've been speeding! A guy my wife works with has one and is so paranoid a passing copper might know this that on the motorway every time the spoiler pops up he pushes the switch to lower it, even knows that it will work 16 times before you have to turn off the ignition to reset the counter!!!

Mine used to start and cut out instantly on odd occasions, normally when it was hot but also when cold so no obvious pattern. I suspected the immobiliser as the cause and swapping the key reader coil made it go away, either the coil was the fault or maybe just the contact wasn't too good and swapping in fixed it. It's an easy try just to mess with the connector a bit, unplug and plug back in a few times to clean and reseat the pins?

I whacked mine with a hammer..........they did come out!

How can there be cars that are free to tax but I have to pay seventy quid to tax my bike? None of it makes any sense. £450 for my TT......that hurts!!!

My VR6 tax disk ran out in june 2008 so the car's been off the road since before that. There's not a deal of fuel left in the tank but it'll fire up and run with no problems even now!!!

We lost a very close family friend last year on the M5 when a truck travelling northbound came through the barriers onto the southbound lane. She was the passenger in the Merc: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2007848/Traffic-jams-Ever-wondered-youre-stuck-theres-jam.html The clip of the Navara makes you realise how quick these things happen.

Are there any plans afoot for a 25th anniversary trip? That might be the deadline I need to force me to get a move on with my rebuild!!!! I was working in Saudi in 2008 and couldn't schedule the time off site :(

I think the paranoia set in the first time around....."That's tight enough"....."Maybe it's not, just one side more on the nut".........kind of paranoia! When I worked for a rally team I had a set of Goodridge aluminium pipe spanners that were perfect as they were only about 4" long so you didn't swing on them quite so much........shame I wasn't using one of those yesterday! I didn't start from a full car so it's difficult to say how long it would take, certainly within a day but then lots depends on splitting ball joints and track rods etc, it's easy to lose an hour on one nut sometimes isn't it! That's before even considering the steering column pinch bolt.......when we used to do a gearbox swap on an Evo in a 20 minute service one guy was tasked to just do the rack pinch bolt, his job had more pressure than anyone else on the team!

Fortunately it wasn't too much money......didn't stop me feeling pretty dumb at the time though!

100% my fault........lifted the refurbished front crossmember in, all powder coated, new bushes throughout, replacement (eBay) steering rack. Tightening power steering pipes, went for that one last make sure it doesn't leak move of the spanner and cracked the casting of the rack around the pipe fitting! Snap On flank drive: 1 Steering rack: 0 Checking out eBay for another rack!

Thanks for the p/n Kev, might see if I can order one of those the next time I'm in the dealers. Rebuild my leaking one for a spare!

The Golf one I bought is webbed alloy rather than steel.

I've no idea how it is......not driven it yet, not really planning to drive it this year if truth be told!!! However, it feels smooth enough left to right, and unlike my old one the gaiters aren't full of fluid and dribbling on the garage floor, so I guess it's a start. I had a price from VW, that was never going to happen!