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Mine didn't look like any of those! The last bulb listed as "panel" looks like a number plate light to me. The ones you're looking for come in a small plastic holder which clips into the back of the instrument panel. There are two colours for the different ones, pink and blue IIRC.

I replaced all of them on mine recently as they'd started blowing one by one and I didn't want to keep pulling the instruments out each time another went. Bought them from the dealer for not a lot of money. Sorry but 250 miles from my Corrado and the receipts until the weekend so can't be more specific. ETKA lists bulbs 3 nos 357 919 243 B for instrument lighting and 4A0 919 040 C for MFI only but I'd check with VAG before ordering!

Another vote for the VT front mount here too, I fitted that and followed the instructions on the Deisel Geek website for setting up their short shift kit (even though I use the standard shift) and cured the baulky selection of 1st and 2nd. Gearchange is still a long throw when I've been driving the S3 all week but it's way slicker 8)

That all depends on how much you're prepared to do yourself, I paid £150 for a complete climatronic kit taken out of a Passat VR6, I had to buy a couple of extra sensors (one original was damaged whilst being removed, another was missing) for another £50 or so and then £50 for the re-gas. I should have fitted a new receiver/dryer but risked the old one and it seems OK, that was £40ish. But then there's the time taken, I reckon if I'd started and just done the CC install without the engine rebuild I was on with at the time etc, 3 good days would have seen it done. But if you have to pay someone for that, the labour cost would increase your price close to the original £1500.

I tried some of Halfrauds own stuff a few years ago with some success, never seemed to get it polished up well enough for some reason. Of course since I went to great lengths to install climatronic in the Corrado I'd be admitting defeat applying something else for demisting now!

I try to remember to do mine each week when I've given the screen a really good clean. It doesn't help much around town but once on the motorway it's stunning!

Anybody that regularly drives motorways and A roads should be using this stuff, forget your Lupo wipers and get some Rain X on the screen. 80/90 all the way down the A1, A14, M11 etc to Kent from Chesterfield this morning, hardly used the wipers even when passing trucks, brilliant :lol:

The only time I ever saw more than 30s from the VR was following my mate down the motorway in his wife's Micra so we had to drive slow! Normally the best is 26/27 and daily use returns 23/24. It's just one of those things I guess. The S3 is pretty much the same too, 27 seems to be a good number, I reckon to use between 30 and 40 gallons of VPower a week!

Everyone has the choice of which car they drive don't they? I don't give a flying f**k how many miles I get to a gallon of VPower, I buy it, I burn it, I buy some more. You want economy, buy a TDi. You want a Corrado, live with it!

No Audi tax applied, somebody has just been feeding you BS! Main key: £51.58 Tansmitter: £36.34 Recode: £53.97 All prices plus the 17.5% we gladly give to Gordon every time we buy somthing. Audi parts are VW parts, they're all the same pricing, as cheesewire says it's the same as a Mk 4

Well I did get £28.78 change from my £1800! The variable service (remember intervals are approx 2 years) was £198, the Haldex service £81, both +VAT, while the car was in I also had cambelt, water pump, some parts for the driver's seat, a new key and coding, 2 track rod ends and a re-track. Had I been at home I'd have done a lot of it myself but I was in Singapore for a year and my wife ain't so clever with the spanners. Problem is that people buying cars are such hypocrites, everyone wants a straight, unmodified car with full dealer history but then complains on a forum about the price of dealer service and fits a load of bolt on non original parts. I plan to sell the S3 next year and it'll have FASH, the Corrado has no real value any more and we'll be keeping it forever so I'll service it myself.

My wife drives the VR6 to work every day, she was after all the one who wanted to keep it when we bought the S3. She also drives the S3 which is rather more powerful than the VR6. I'm not quite sure why a woman wouldn't be able to drive a Corrado, they're only a car with a wheel, three pedals and a stick in the same place as all cars. Or am I missing something?

These might help, they're from the Passat manual I borrowed from my local dealer when I was doing my climate control install. Everything I looked at to do with the CC was the same as in the Corrado so they ma well be something like close!

^^^^^ This has been my argument all along, the Corrado is a great car, I've owned one for approaching 12 year now and I certainly wouldn't have spent over £13K buying the VR6 had I not enjoyed driving the valver before it. Unfortunately as VW have dragged their heels for so long replacing it, I decided that I had to get something newer and in my view I was left with little choice. I like my VW cars, I've had my fair share of GTIs too and a new Corrado would have fitted the bill perfectly, but there was (and will be in my view) no new Corrado, the new Iroc is delayed again, maybe it'll be dumped on the pile of others that have been coming out to replace the Corrado since 1995, maybe not. I'm not sure the S3 looks like an A3 TDi with big wheels, I could tell mine apart from a fair distance, and anyway, what's wrong with a TDi? Chip it and you've got a real torque monster with decent fuel economy. And at the end of the day, yes, you might be able to get up and drive to work at 120mph if it's 4am, until you reach the next jam at least, I'm happy enough coming in at 6am every day. Real roads, real driving, the S3 is a great car to drive. The Corrado feels like an old car when you drive the two back to back, and mine was built in the last couple of weeks of manufacture so there are few newer. But.....................The S3 is going next year, I'm not going to get caught in the same trap of buying a car for a shed load of money and then keeping it too long until there's no value left as I have with the VR. Not quite sure what I'll replace it with, new S3, S4, RS4 or maybe I'll give in to my Evo urges and buy Japanese. I will not however be selling the VR, that's here to stay even when it becomes a fair weather driver, that's if my wife ever gets tired of using it every day?

Two can play that game, the Porsche makes them both look tiny!

If VW had built a new Corrado sooner I might not have needed to go to Audi for something I can do my 500 mile round trip from home to work in without worrying about it being reliable. I may get a new Iroc when they finally come out, but now I have the Audi bug it might have to be an S4 :lol:

I own and drive both a VR6 Corrado and an S3, I can say without any doubt that the S3 is the quicker. If you drive on real roads with plenty of corners thrown in the Audi will have it every time as it's faster round them and also gets out of them quicker. That's not to say the Corrado is any slouch, put the two together on a straight road an there's not the same margin, they're pretty evenly matched on a dual carriageway at 120 and the top speed is very similar (like we ever get the chance to drive at that in Britain any more :x ). As for the power, early S3s were 210bhp until end 2001ish and 225 after, a chip and nothing else frees 260/265 and makes them a lot more fun, they're still no Evo beater as the handling then needs a lot of work.

When I swapped from my old valver with slider controls to a VR, the salesman advised me to first stop the fan when changing the heater settings. That way less strain was put on all the mechanism. It seems to have paid off over the 6 years we used it as mine never broke or jumped any teeth.

No matter how severe the punishment we have to accept that until somebody introduces a hands free camera there will still be very few prosecutions. There are simply too few police actually on the street to enforce the laws. When I was first driving, if you had a light out you were pulled and got a ticket, now I see cars every day with lights out and nobody gets stopped. However on my 250 mile journey from home to work I pass over 20 "safety" cameras on dual carriageways and motorways that are simply collecting another tax for Tony and Gordon.

You sould see the price a well prepared Mk2 Escort rally car will fetch even nowadays, £70 - £80K is not unusual. Many people still consider it the classic rally car, everything since then is downhill!

I can't see that unplugging the CPS would cause any problem but then I did unplug the engine multiplug Saturday just to get a bit more access and aftewards the engine was running rough. I went through the ECU reset proceedure in the Knowledge Base and it's all OK again, in fact as soon as the battery had been disconnected at the start of the reset it was fine again.

You don't only have to look for Passats, they must be pretty common through the entire range as my S3 has one too. It fastens up with a single screw rather than clipping to the light but I'm sure it would go into the Corrado with bit of ingenuity. P/N 8D0 858 555

You think so, I thought some might look nice on the back of the S3???

Yesterday I followed this A8 into Hull. You have to admit that if anyone is looking for a minimalist number plate for their C, Lithuania might be the place to look for one :D

Another problem with RS4s, they'd have a 112 PCD. It's gonna have to be reps!