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I’ll have to dig through my spares and find a clicky relay then, car has been SORNed as I’m working away through the weeks now but it’s added to the list of winter jobs 👍

While on the subject of indicator relays, I wondered if I was getting forgetful as mine has been silent this year and I’m convinced it used to click when indicating before. Is it just my age or do everyone else’s click? I’ll find a replacement if so!

Certainly never going to give mine E10, but filled up the TT Friday for £1.53 per litre of V Power…for those of us that remember buying fuel in gallons, that’s £6.95 a gallon 😮

Welcome to the forum, some coincidence that I spoke to a guy earlier this week has owned a G60 since new in 93! How's the Storm been to you over the years, many challenges along the way? Looks like mine with the bump strips removed, same thing as me, couldn't face putting them back on after a paint job?

Just wow! The ultimate Corrado rebuild thread!

Our two kids grew up in the back of a Corrado, they’re 31 & 27 and we’ve had Corrados for 26 years now. Back then it was no problem as there was no isofix. It’s these bloody great big seats that rotate on the fixed base, don’t think they go in with seatbelts, and not sure I want them on my new leather either!!!

The eldest daughters’ wedding three years ago was the big push to get the car back on the road after eight years…she drove it to the wedding, the younger daughter sat with her. Nervous time for me waving the car off after all that work! Not quite so easy this time as there’s a two year old grand-daughter travelling with her mum and of course no isofix in the Corrado!

Red wine is useful too 😉

All done today, old sensor back in and ready for another 26 years! The leak was one of the switches anyway. Car’s washed, waxed and been out for a spin, now under a cover in the garage ready for the daughter’s wedding in two weeks 👍

After spotting an oil leak the through one of the pressure switches when the car was getting its MOT I’d ordered both switches plus the temperature sender. Got around to swapping them today and decided to do it without pulling the front end off, just removed the inlet manifold to get a bit of access as I wanted to be back on the road inside a couple of hours. Swapped both switches OK, overdid tightening the new temp sender and sheared the bloody thing off! Got to get the broken bit out now, pushed it back in the garage and shut the door, drinking red wine…job for tomorrow!!!

Welcome to the forum Wilko, you’ve joined a select bunch of Corrado owners here! Congratulations on the new car, don’t see too many G60s these days 👍

Another year, another MoT! No problems, no advisories just showed me a bit of an oil leak around the filter 👍

That looks good, think I might have a go at my old one and see how it goes. The early cars had them colour matched and I preferred that to the chrome.

A/C was never standard fitment in UK Corrados, the Diavia was retrofitted, some better than others even when originally done! I like a few others have fitted the full Climatronic climate control from various VW variants, mine for example came from a Passat, although they’re all old cars now so finding a breaker with all the bits can be quite difficult. It is however well worth the pain if you’re successful. Good luck with it though, look forward to the updates!

If mine are anything to go by you’ll not be disappointed, look forward to seeing them behind those VWMS rims 👍

There should be a locking bar slides across the back of the fuse box to latch all the plugs in and stop anything like this happening. Is it missing?

I think they ask you to remove all loose parts before you send them anyway. So yes 👍

Big Redd send them back looking like new, seals, pistons, guides, sliders, the lot! The only piece they didn’t replace apart from the obvious calliper body was the spring.

I got mine out while leaving the screen in...I cracked the screen and probably wouldn’t try it again!

I’d never considered dropping the cross member although it’s probably something I would have tried. I wouldn’t expect it to make the exhaust any lower, the height of that is more likely governed by the two rear mounts. However, as somebody who once rubbed a hole in his sump driving too fast through a dip (and still have a plate welded over the hole), I’d probably not be rushing to lower my motor!

Until I got to the part where you said ignition switch, that was what I was thinking. Have you investigated the imobiliser reader coil? Fifteen or so years ago I had intermittent cutting out issues with mine that seemed to be cured when I messed with the coil contacts.

I cut mine with the die grinder...I’ve got the grinder but the compressor croaked and I haven’t replaced it yet or I’d offer that. I’m promising to tax mine 1st June so I’ll be commuting in it if there are any good days, could probably shoot over to yours from the office if you’re around.

I love the look of the Schrick in there, wish I’d held out for an OBD2 elbow at the time instead of flogging mine! Mine also sat quite high on the left, I always thought it was the length of the Jay Renshaw rear mount but maybe it’s normal. My cutout looks like this:

That gap looks huge, I had to tap the sensor ring slightly to straighten it as a small kink was making it rub on the sensor. Maybe a 1mm gap on mine.

No idea what I’ll be doing august bank holiday but I’ll try and make one 👍