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Sorry Imran but I didn't get the part number, just went along with his anything off a MkIII GTI, 16V or 2.0 statement and bought one! Think the one I got was from a 96 car but that's a guess....it's already fitted so difficult to see any markings. Look at item 330683549030 or 260752189703 on ebay, they're just like the one I bought if that helps.

I just bought one last week from ebay. After looking around for a while I asked the parts guy in my local dealers and he checked the parts numbers to find that the rack on a VR is the same part as fitted to a MkIII Golf GTI. There's loads more of those on the road so more to chose from.......£34 delivered from a breakers.

I'm not sure there is a build thread as such, I seem to have written loads about it over the years since I did mine (2006) but it was probably all in various PMs. I'll try to get some photos and put something together in a thread, maybe others can contribute too. In answer to your question about the controller, mine looks just like the dash in your photo, except of course that it's RHD, the original heater controls are replaced by an automatic controller. It is a VR we're looking at isn't it? Cheers

Use the search first, Tony and myself have both posted a fair bit about what we've done so there should be a fair bit of info already on the forum. And we're not the only ones to have installed climate control. It's not as scary as it first seems though!

I'm sure that once you swap the brown sensor for a yellow one you should see a difference. Pins 1 & 4 are currently a normally closed switch which opens when the temp is high whereas I seem to remember that pins 1 & 4 in a yellow sensor are normally open but closed when temp is high. When you switch off the engine the fan controller is currently seeing the wrong signal from the sensor i.e. that the temp is high and therefore needs aux pump and fan run on engaging.

Why do threads still show unread content even after I've read them? Is it something I'm doing?

I've got Passat climate control in mine, it's not that difficult an install although there are a lot of new pieces to squeeze in there. I'm sure that Mk3 Golf kit would go in just the same, they're all built around the same platform, no reason for VW to redesign the wheel every time just because the body's a different shape? I'm currently looking at options for a new condenser in mine as I had to carve lumps out of my slam panel to fit the Passat one and I've never been happy with it......when I find the ideal one I'll maybe do a build thread but it'll probably be a lot later this year before I get to that stage!

Sorry to have confused the issue, I think the point I'm trying to make is that you shouldn't have a brown sensor unless you've retrofitted climate control! I have the following: Blue sensor, 2 pin, same function as yours. Yellow sensor, 4 pin, again the same function as yours. Brown sensor, 4 pin which replaced the original black 2 pin sensor. Pins 2 & 3 are the original pins for the aux pump/fan run on and pins 1 & 4 are an additional signal to climatronic. It is a p/n 357 919 369 E which I bought in November 2006 for £8.06 +VAT. I hope some of this might help, if I had a spare yellow I'd send it you to see if it fixed the problem.

I have a brown sensor in the thermostat housing but it's for the climate control and has two contacts in it. Pins 1 & 4 are a normally closed contact which cut off climate control if temp is too high, pins 2 & 3 are a normally open contact to start fan speed 3 on high temp (must have replaced the black sensor when I originally installed cc, hard to remember!). From Kev's description in post #3 the configuration doesn't sound anything like right for aux pump run on and dash gauge though. As Kev suggests, put a meter across pins 2 & 3 in your brown sensor, it should be an open contact unless you can get the water hot enough at which point it will go directly closed whereas Kev should measure a changing resistance as the temp changes. I also run the standard yellow and blue sensors in the other two fittings for normal Corrado functions.

Paypal payment sent to yourself Jay and a PM with postage address sent to aide. No big rush as I need a steering rack before I can get the front end put back in.......and I'm having trouble finding one at the moment. Cheers Tony

If it turns out that this doesn't belong to anybody I could use a rear only......front is a pretty new VT already. Cheers

Plastic garage floor tiles, way better than working on concrete!

I used to work in rallying, it was a couple of years break from the engineering that I normally do in industry. We ran the work's Group N Evos for Ralliart which was good fun. One of the guys on the team went to F1 and is now front jack at Red Bull, stands in front of the car as it comes into the pit box at 60mph, waiting with a sack barrow to lift it up.........nutter! He's a damn good spanner though, best I ever worked with and fully deserving of his place on the world champion's car.

The main exchanger box from a 96 Passat fitted straight into my car and connected to the various Corrado ducts. I did have to cut and drill more holes in the bulkhead to fit the heat exchanger in but it was straightforward. I also had to fit an automatic flap into the dash centre ducting that the Corrado doesn't have. I've done the wiring two times now, first time was with the original wiring loom and more recently with the OBD2 install.

If you're fitting climatronic into an LHD car with existing factory fitted a/c then it would be worth dropping a line to krnau in Barcelona as he did exactly the same install.

Sensors on front and rear axles continuously measuring pitch of car and adjusting headlamps up and down to maintain dip.....possibly a little tricky to install??? To stick to the letter of the law a car with HID headlamps has always needed self levelling and headlamp washers, apparently it will soon be part of the MOT. Of course you can buy HID lamps for mountain bikes nowadays and set the beam anywhere you like!

You will also of course need self levelling and that's a whole different ballgame to retrofit!

The suspense is killing me!

Very clever!

There's only one brand that any self respecting Corrado owner should consider!

PM replied to, tax disk holder posted!

I guessed this would be the way I ended up doing it! I left the brackets on the car anyway so had to use a pry bar to get the beam back in, I just wondered if there was a consensus over what angle to fix the beam into the brackets at, torqued up with the beam at horizontal leaves them around 7 or 8° away from the number in the manual so what's it written for? Cheers for the reply anyway, think I'll just tighten them up and get on with something else!!!

Congratulations to all of you Jay!

If you'd like it I have an original Merlin tax disk holder. They're my local dealer, still there but part of Gilders now, and supplied my old valver.....I must have replaced it with a CCGB one at some time before I swapped it for the VR in 2000. PM me your address and I'll stick it in the post.

I think I'd be stripping all the unused wires out all the way back and then just looking for a multi pin plug with just enough pins to do the job. It's the small jobs like that which make it look finished! I expect it's easy to forgive the car anything when you get on the gas with that motor though, I have the same engine in my TT and love it!!!