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See if you can find a place that uses Time-Sert inserts rather than Helicoils, they might cost a bit more but are more robust and make a more permanent job.

Isn't that just another name for a light that's always on???

..........................Or maybe the interior had been fitted after to a car that already had A/C???

I had a broken spring on a Koni coilover earlier in the year and tried Koni for replacements, they are about as helpful as............... ........OK they're not helpful in the slightest. Ended up buying a pair from Larkspeed who couldn't have been more helpful, they did have to order them and it was a couple of weeks delivery IIRC, but well inside your budget. :)

That's the way I look at it, no point crying over the drop in prices once you've bought one :lol:

I don't need reminding of this thread on R32oc, saw it last week and that was enough, how do you think it makes you feel as an R32 owner :brickwall: Had the attched file from a mate of mine, more details including spec on deals if anyone's brave enough to invest???

It's probably because you had the feed coming from the cig lighter rather than the correct feed that they were on all the time, the cig lighter is powered up all the time, take it from the correct feed and it'll be switched with the ignition. Regarding the car stalling that's a whole other thing, might be that the alternator is not up to the job, maybe under-rated for the extra power required for the seat heating??? At least they're working, you can cure the other stuff as you go along :D

They certainly worked when we took them out of the car, first thing we missed with the unheated recaros :( Do you own or have access to a multimeter? Maybe worth checking the outputs from the relays, check at the seat plugs. Also, do they have a good earth? No point having power if the loom isn't grounded, the wiring diagram shows loads of earth connections (all along the bottom of the drawing).

My VIN's 3701, build date on sticker in boot 18th May 95, registered some time November 95 on an N plate.

Hi Neil, Just replied to your PM, sorry I didn't get back to you night but I was out for dinner. You seem to have most of the information already including pics of the back of the fuse box/relay plate etc, on the drawing of it you can see socket D, terminal 9 (D/9) where the heated seats feed comes from. Hopefully you already have a black/white wire coming from there to plug the thick black in to. It all in the PM anyway. If you don't get it sorted I can help you out but I am in Saudi until almost Christmas and I'm pretty sure you'll have it done by then!

Now that's what you call a race :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

That's exactly why I decided to buy an R32 as a daily driver and just bring the Corrado up to OBD2 which along with Schrick mani and 268s plus a few comfort mods will make a great car for sunny weekend use. I had planned a transplant but think I'll stick with 12V for the Corrado. The R32 is a fantasic total package, what's more it cost me £3,500 less to buy than the Corrado did and both were approx 5 years old when I purchased them. Leave it another year and they'll be cheap as chips, so what if it costs a couple of hundred quid a year more in road tax, compared with normal Corrado running costs that's nothing, if only I could do something about the 21mpg average we're seeing!

If yer'd asked this question while you were here the other day it would have saved me digging out the scanner! I've only got the 1994 brochure though, sure others have more details. And yes Storms all had leather seats, beige in the green ones and black in the mystic ones, I'm pretty sure that they were all heated too.

cheers mate, appreciate it, what u thinking i could try? Well there's a MAF and ISV in there you could try, mine was running fine when it came off the road so you can have a go with them. Are you working a funny shift this week? I'll be around most days cos I've got lots of paperwork to get done this week. :gag:

Hi Neil, The offer still stands mate, you wanna try any bits from mine from the inlet etc you're welcome. I'll be going OBD2 before I get the Rado back on the road so it's all available. I'm around the next week or so then I'll be back to Saudi for a couple of months, give us a shout if you wanna have a try with some stuff next week. Tony

Hi Neil, If you're stuck for it there's one on mine you can have as the Rado's off the road for the timebeing and this time I am going to get the OBD2 kit fitted. Only problem is that I'm not getting home from Saudi until Tuesday afternoon and my kid's in the children's hospital for an operation on Wednesday so I'm a bit tied up for a few days. Let me know if you can't get hold of one and I can try to help you out mate.

Possibly :grin: I've always been under the impression it was end of May, early June 95. In fact I bought my first one (Pearl Blue 16V just like yours and I wish I could buy it back from whoever has it now!) in November 95 and I knew at the time that they had already ended production. Of course none of this answers the original question about the cam chain does it? That one's easy, somebody at some time slipped in a Golf motor!

I believe from various stickers I found in it, she was built in Novermber 95 (registered Jan 96) But that would mean it was built five months after they stopped building Corrados?

Not sure I can answer too many of your questions, maybe even pose some more, but you say your's was one of the last VR6s, when was it built? Mine has 18/5/95 on the label in the boot so pretty close to the end and has a duplex chain for sure, see pic of head on very scruffy bench!

I'm with cheesewire, if I bought a second more economical "sensible" car for daily use and kept the Corrado for the weekends it would feel like I was getting one step closer to being me dad. I just bought a new daily driver so the Corrado can have a rebuild, it's an R32 :nuts:

I was trying the ignore that fact and it may never happen manouver :lol:

And although it may sound stupid, check you have trailers on your driving license. Surprising how few people realise that the law changed a good few years ago requiring you to take a trailer test.

The Corrado needs a bit of time spending on it, suspension rebush, OBD2 kit installing, probably a full paint job too after the arches are pulled a bit and coilovers wound back down. So it was time for a new motor. Think maybe I got a little carried away though, might have to buy a winter car before too long.

I spent a year working in Singapore and never saw one, nobody that saw the picture on my computer desktop knew what it was either. Guess it deosn't mean there were none sold there but they would of course have been seriously expensive in the nineties as a COE cost a fortune back then.

Then honestly you're better buying a scooby or an evo because unless you spend lots of extra cash on an S3 it's never going to compare. I'm a big fan of the evo having done engineering work on the Grp N ones for Ralliart, I've also driven a lot of road going ones too. A standard evo starts at over 280 bhp (even the evo 260) in a car built like a rattly tin can, the S3 is a solid well built motor with a turbo capable of deliering 265 at most, they simply cannot breathe any more than that. Buy an S3 for what it is and you'll be more than happy, buy one to keep up with your mate's evo and you'll have to spend the same again in my opinion.