tonedef

When I fitted the climatronic to mine I had to splice an extra four or so wires into the fan controller as the relay for the compressor clutch is in there on the Passat VR6 it was originally fitted to. I thought that the Diavia had a seperate set or relays for the clutch but maybe somebody wired yours differently at some time and it could explain why the fan switching on is affecting the aircon?

When it come to transponder coils you're my hero though :lol:

Hi Gareth and welcome to the forum. Good place to start looking for info and certainly some of the friendliest, most helpful people around hand out here! There's still lots of nice examples out there and prices are rather more accessible than six years ago :lol:

Did the buyer drive a hard bargain, was he a trader? Just I noticed it up for sale and they are asking 8.5k Well he drove a bit of a bargain but not all that hard, and if he's put new disks and pads all round (they were getting ready) then with a bit of talking down he's gonna take a bath on it for sure! He didn't say he was a trader but he had just sold an M3 so maybe missing some of the power? If anyone's interested in it I'll vouch for the fact it's a pretty nice motor, could do with some paint probably as I did a lot of fairly high speed motorway miles in it and the front bumper, bonnet and front wings wear the stone chips to prove it. Bit cheeky using my pictures of it parked on my drive I think, guess I'd given it a real good clean that day :lol:

I did go over and have a look at that, but although the right kit would be nice, it's well out my price range. Got out sniped on a usb cable last night, but was wondering if people prefer USB or serial connections? Tonedef said he uses serial, and I've heard that some USB cables don't connect to the ABS correctly (my ABS is shot so I would like to diagnose it). Can anyone confirm this. I do need to check the laptop to see if it has a serial port, so this could all be academic at the moment. Cheers Tom I'm sure USB is fine, I'm just stuck in a time warp I guess with serial ports! A lot of the software I use for work still uses serial cables so I had to make sure my laptop had one when I bought it as they seem to be getting a bit old hat these days.

No reason why not I'm sure. Mine is a serial port one, call me old fashioned but I like my serial ports! It says it's for 409.1 which is what you'd be getting to download for free.

My turn to help you a little Tom. The software is free to download from Ross Tech, I have release 409.1. All you need to do then is buy a cable, I got mine from a German seller on ebay for approx £20 inc P&P, there are loads cheaper although normally from the States and I thought I'd avoid any chance of having to pay some duty when it arrived. With that you can read and clear faults although it can be a little long winded as unregistered you can only apparently read one controller at a time. Next step is to register with Ross Tech for $99 lets you do more stuff, auto scanning, multi sensor logging etc. Good time right now with the exchange rate! Mine was registered but then I had a hard drive problem and have since not got around to redoing it, handy tool though.

No Cheaply and Corrado rarely occur in the same sentance.. :lol: Guess I was being a bit too specific there wasn't I :shock:

Update: Transponder coil seems like a good bet, unplugged it, plugged it back in again and she's fired up. Ticking over nicely right now :lol: Just don't know if it's a loose connection or a dodgy transponder?

PM on it's way in a minute, thanks for that, vagcom coming in a minute!

It's a real clean stop, definitely electrical, if you've managed to get any revs before the cut you see the tacho needle drop straight to zero, not run down with the revs. No coughing etc. It used to do it before very occasionally but would normally go if left a couple of minutes on a real bad day or second third try usually. Tonight it's just refusing point blank, shame really, we had a table booked for Tapas and now I've got the lower dash out. My wife and kids are going out in the Ka to fetch take away!

Thanks for the quick reply Toad, checked fuse 16, yes it's 15amp but unfortunately it's fine. It is a late VR, the inspection date on the sticker says 18th May 95 so it's one of the last ones built, I'd love to try the transponder coil but with the best will in the world I doubt it'd get here until Friday earliest and I leave the coutry for five/six months on Saturday morning, I'll have to try to buy one from VW first thing tomorrow.

Typical, I bought an S3 to replace the VR, but then had a change of heart, sold the S3 and kept the Corrado. Just over a week later it's up to it's old tricks again: Starts up no problem, runs for 2 seconds and cuts out, been trying the last 30 minutes to start it but no joy. Anyone got any ideas as I really need to fix this cos I'm off to Saudi at the weekend leaving me wife with a car that refuses to play :(

If the pedal pumps up then there's air in it, simple as that. Did you do the rears with the balance valve compressed to ensure a good flow to them, did you bleed the nipples on the ABS pump and the master cylinder? Brake bleeding is hardly rocket science although it can sometimes take a little perseverance.

You could try a set of plugs and always make sure you fill up with super unleaded, apart from that cheaply and VR6 tuning rarely occur in the same sentence I'm afraid :(

It doesn't take too much punishment, I picked up a Schrick VGI from German ebay for under £750 inc postage, fitted it myself and did an ECU reset jobbie. There was a bit of pinking on the first full throttle run and nothing after that, seems a reasonable price to pay to me. There's been a few for sale on here recently, get one bought and make yourself happy! Hmm, maybe after the honeymoon period, for now I use as much if not more :lol: I'll be sticking a set of cams in next and then maybe it really should be remap time.

I'm not convinced by these as I seem to have two types of puncture neither of which would have used a can of foam: 1) Nail in tyre, normally OK until you pull out the nail, I spotted one a few Fridays ago in my back tyre and still drove 250 miles home from work with no problem, therefore no need of foam. 2) 95mph motorway outside lane blowout, no tyre left to squirt foam into!

All this team mate thing is bull, your team mate is always the most important person to beat as it proves who's the best driver when you're both in the same car. I used to work on the Grp N Mitsubishi Evos in the British Championship for Ralliart and saw first hand what beating the team mate meant to drivers :lol:

Welcome to the forum. Best place to get some adjusters I'd have thought would be the dealers although I just looked at ETKA and can't seem to be able to find a part number for them, I have the instructions that came with mine and there's a part number listed there, I can check tomorrow when I get home if you still need it. Hope you have a bit more success than me with them though, I had to make some extension pieces for the adjusting screws as I couldn't get the beam anywhere near low enough to start with. They're OK now but did have to extended by over 10mm so I wasn't just lighting trees.

Don't know as I've not bought any yet! Hoping that because my dip beam is on all the time it'll make no difference, imagine it would be a problem if you were using the standard Inpro setup though?

I haven't fitted HIDs to my Inpros yet but I did mod the wiring a bit when I installed them to have both lamps on with main beam. I simply spliced a wire into the main beam wires (white on RHS, white/black on LHS) to switch a pair of relays, the output from the relays then splices back into the low beam lights (yellow on RHS, yellow black on LHS). On low beam the projector lights using the standard wiring, on high beam it switches through the relay, if the relay fails I will still have the high beam. Must try it with HIDs next :lol:

Very nice, would like to upgrade to the new one at some stage. Mine had to go for two reasons: 1) Off to Saudi for a while so too many cars on the drive! 2) Done over 20K miles in it in the last year so thought I'd better part before the mileage gets ridiculous.

I sold mine today, gutted, I almost felt like crying as I watched it drive away. Time to plan for what to have next, I feel a diesel dog coming on.

That's a proper result you had there, free aircon! Just take a look in Yellow Pages under "Car Air Conditioning" for the one nearest you, there'll be zillions around you.

Hello and welcome, hmmm, blackberry 8)