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Continue to make plans for tackling a rebuild one day...........mine's just a Corrado shape lump under a car cover in the spare garage at the mo, been that way since August last year.........not even checked it's still under there since Christmas! One day I'll get started! At least the yearly average mileage is improving.

Two of them: 90 (G) Pearl Blue 16V Dec 1995 to Sept 2000 95 (N) Classic Green VR Sept 2000 to Forever Almost 14 years of problem free motoring :norty:

The part you're looking for is a 021 145 933H Cost me £39.00 +VAT in Nov 2006 if that's any help!

Singapore should be Tiger beer.......tricky as it's already listed for Malaysia, Singha is Thai beer so no good for either! How about Bitburger for Germany? I plan to be at the Bahrain race and will be happy to be drinking anything as I'll be on a visa run from Saudi so free to drink real beer for a couple of days rather than the homebrew stuff we have normally :gag:

+1 My wife however would not let me sell the C so I'd still have to fix it.

I remember writing that.......but it just confused the hell out of me reading it again :shrug:

Sounds like you've disturbed one of those zillion wires that's crammed behind and above the fuse box, you were supposed to be connecting wires, not pulling them out! Thanks for the offer, at least you've got time to practice a bit before we tackle the OBD2 job :lol: :lol: :lol:

If you don't have a spare connector (black box) then just join the black/white to the black, solder it if possible cos then it's not going to fall to pieces when you cram all the wires around the fuse box back in! Spade connectors or something will do the job too if you can't get near a soldering iron. I've not touched the C since you saw it last in October, it's still sat in the garage under the cover. I was home over Christmas but didn't even go in the garage, I'm coming home on Monday for a couple of weeks but have some stuff to get done on the house so I'll not get near the Corrado again. I might get some chance in June or July but maybe not, depends when I ever get away from this job in Saudi, even then it sounds like I have to go to Singapore later in the year and that's going to be another 12 to 18 month job so maybe it'll be 2011 before I pull the cover off and see how much Corrado I have left! Let me know how you get on, I might be able to come over to yours next week if you're still having trouble, it'll be a flying visit though :gag:

Is the black/white not the one comes from D9? That has to connect to the black from your loom, if there is a spare black box on top of the fuse box, use that to connect the two. Don't however connect it to one that already has some other wires in or it'll really confuse things! Just knocking off mate, I'll be on line again a bit later, I'll check how you got on.

Hi Neil, Just got your PM, you did well to catch me, it's 22:15 and I should have knocked off work hours ago but we're stuck here trying to start a compressor, at least I'm not missing any time in the pub am I? From what I can figure out, yes you're right. 1) The wiring diag shows the black white from D9 connecting to the black wire that goes to the driver's side control unit. It connects in TV5 which is one of those black boxes (I like that name!) on top of the fuse box. 2) All grey/blue wires are switch and gauge illumination positives. Connect the one you have from the seats switch as you suggest in the black box and it will light up with all the others. Again wiring diagram shows it in TV8 black box but if it's with grey/blue it should be OK. The little black boxes by the way are simply multi connectors, saves having to wire loads of single wires into the fuse box. Hope all goes OK, any chance you can help us with a refrigeration compressor???? Tony

This photo shows how they don't quite line up with the grill, can't get any more right now cos I'm a few thousand miles away from my C in Saudi. I bought the chrome ones from somebody on here, and I don't think the black ones were available then anyway. I just need the fogs now and then find a way to tone those down a bit too

It seems to me that not all Schrick manifolds are the same size, maybe they've changed the casting at some time? I had to cut loads out of the bonnet to make it fit, plus one of the headers comes really close to the slam panel and that's with VT mounts fitted. I was looking at it with Goldie one day and his is nowhere near as close, maybe my car's shorter but everything lines up!

I've never actually been to see the guy although I live in North Derbyshire so am not a million miles away, but feel that the criticism he often gets here is is sometimes misplaced. He's in business and that means selling cars for more money that he paid for them, if he doesn't then he's quickly out of business. When I bought my VR, I went to Autotek in Surrey because the guy used to specialise in Corrados and at the time had maybe a dozen on his forecourt giving me lots to choose from an at the same time and saving me driving all over the country to look at private sales with maybe inaccurate descriptions. When buying any used car it's worth verifying the mileage from old MOTs and service records, if the history is not there it's up to yourself to walk away or take the chance is it not? And just maybe, a dealer selling cars that some believe are over priced helps keep the value of our own cars higher than they might possibly be. After all none of us owns a Corrado younger than 14 years any more, they're not old enough to be classics but they're certainly old by modern car terms

There's also a very comprehensive write up in the wiki featuring more photos than you can wave a stick at. If Haynes went into the same amount of detail you'd need a truck to carry your manual about in :D

The fit and quality are as good as oem, although you have to be prepared to accept that they're based on the earlier lamp and do sit slightly further back (if you have a later car) . Light output and beam pattern are better than oem, they can be upgraded to HID with more success than standard lamps although the legality is questionable. I did however have a bit of a snag with mine in that I couldn't get the aim low enough and ended up extending the adjuster screw by around 10mm, no idea why that was as nobody else seems to have had similar problems :shrug: Oh, and I pulled mine to pieces and got some black paint in there, they were just too bling imo!

Here's some dimensions for you, admitted from the 1994 spec. Width not counting mirrors is 1690mm or 66 1/2 inches for those not yet in 20th century. If you're looking at newer houses, check to length of the garage too as they seem to be built these days for the small cars that are no longer manufactured!

Had my VR for nine years now, ABS was unreliable for around the first three years and non-existent ever since...................not failed and MOT yet :norty:

Can't see what the problem is myself :shrug:

Disappointing

:shock: :shock: :shock: That's a year newer that mine and almost half the money I paid only a few months ago :cuckoo:

Sorry guys, been a bit busy flying back from Saudi and drinking a large amount of Guinness and eating vast quantities of pork, however.............................. I tried to find the definitive "don't try this at home thread", but the closest I could find was a PM describing an install, hope this makes sense, if not, I should be sober by around 5th January and I can try again! Cheers, Tony I never planned to do a climatronic install, it was all a big accident really. The Corrado was off the road as I had bought an S3 but was working in Singapore so my wife was using that. When I returned to UK I did't have a new contract to start straight away so decided to have the wheels refurbed and bumpers painted before possibly selling the Corrado as we'd owned this one since 2000 and bought our original 16V in 1996 so it was time for a change. One day while the car was on axle stands waiting for wheels to return I started the engine and realised the cam chain rattle was not going to get better so figured I should fix those at the same time. Around this time I found the Corrado forum and saw that bigpants was selling a Climatronic install, there was no plan, I bought it without a second thought as I loved the system in the S3. Also unless you're pretty confident with stuff like this it's not for the faint hearted, I'm an engineer working in control systems but a couple of years ago my contract on a job finished and I went to help a friend in a rally team for a few weeks but stayed for a couple of years. We built and ran Group N Evos for Ralliart, effectiveley the works team and the team that won the 2007 British championship, I have no fear of taking cars to pieces and modifying them! The end result was well worth it mind. Climatronic replaces both the fan and air conditioning controls giving you automatic temperature control. Basically you set the system to the temperature you want, say 21 degress and it heats/cools as required to maintain this setting, it is not simply a replacement of the heater control. All the parts for mine came from a 96 Passat VR6 and therefore the design is very simiar to that of the Corrado, it is however quite a large complex install needing the following parts and modifications to fit: The condensor has to be fitted in front of the radiator, the one from the Passat was very large and required a lot of modifications in the slam panel plus the radiator had to be moved back towards the engine for space. I have a Schrick inlet which is larger than the standard one and now have approx 2mm between radiator and inlet manifold at the closest point so I fitted a VT front mount to stop the engine moving so much and causing contact there. Modern condensors are much smaller and would be a much easier item to fit however pipe connections may not be the same so new pipes would have to be fabricated as required. The canister that goes with the condensor (I believe it's called the receiver drier) had to be fitted where the standard carbon canister lives below the airbox, I junked the carbon canister! The compressor fitted directly to the existing bracket, a longer serpentine belt has to be used though. Piping layout was very close to the original and fitted with only maybe a half day's work. The evaporator/heater box has to be fitted in place of the original heater box behind the dash. This is much larger than the original and takes up most of the spare space behind the dash. My glovebox is now approx 2/3 it's original depth and the lower shelf on the passenger side is only maybe 20mm deep. All heating ducts did however line up correctly and the holes for bolting the box to the bulkhead were in the correct positions, one extra bolt hole had to be drilled plus a large hole cut for the piping to go through. The duct for the dash centre vent (above the radio) has an extra automatic control flap which had to be grafted into the existing ducting as the Passat one was different. The control panel was slightly larger than the orignal heater panel but was easy to cut down to match the dash and the box it fits to slotted into the dash in place of the original heater control even picking up the exisiting fixing points. All automatic flaps in the system are controlled by vacuum and a tank has to be fitted some place. I fitted it behind the arch liner on the passenger side where the horns live, the horns had to be moved slightly to squeeze everything in. This tank then is connected to a vacuum port on the brake servo piping. Electrics. Best 'til last! The electrics were initially a nightmare as I could only figure out some of the wiring, I eventually borrowed a copy of the Passat wiring manual from a friend at the local dealer, without it I would possibly still be there. There are a number of extra sensors in the engine bay, extra water temp, extra outside temp and air con system pressure. There are four or five extra wires go into the fan controller (you must have the later fan controller which was not fitted to all Corrados) as this also controls the compressor clutch. Inside the car there is a fair amount of extra wiring goes into the relay plate, ECU loom, lighting circuit, diagnostic port etc. Also there's a couple of extra sensors to go in the cabin, a sunlight sensor on the dash top (I cut mine into the small grill in the centre looks like a speaker but is not) and a cabin temp sensor sticks through a small hole in the front of the dash. Vagcom is required as there will be lots of errors to trace and clear once it's all fitted.

Obviously, you're not gonna do all that work and the say it was wasted time!

wow, that's quite an accolade for the lowly corrado! Tell me about it, the last car I bought her that she turned her nose up at was an S3 :shrug: I ended up selling that one! I keep telling her that she'll appreciate it when she gets to drive the Corrado on sunny days with it's new paintjob/retrimmed leather etc. One day I'll find the right daily driver, that said, she does prefer the R32 to the S3 so we're moving the right direction, here's hoping that the recession makes a 911 a viable option :lol:

5 years the first Corrado from 1995 to 2000, 8 years the second one since then, both daily drivers until I bought the R32 a few months ago. One let down due to an alternator......................................it's all about preventative maintenance. The only reason it's off the road now is that I see some of the pampered ones on here and figured I should be looking after the old thing! My wife has the choice of the Corrado or R32, if I didn't lock the Rado up and hide the key, the R32 would never turn a wheel.

Wasn't there an article in a really early copy of Sprinter about somebody sourcing original parts and installing it? I'd have a look through mine if I wasn't in Saudi.