Crumbs

I know how you feel! Manchester was not a good place to be owning Ice grey Violet Corrados last week. Look what happened to mine in a battle with a Honda Civic driving on the wrong side of the road. I know how it feels. Cant be many of our colours left now. :cry:

Mines an Ice Grey Violet (LK4U). I think its pure skill

Dave Cogans in Urmston Manchester. Rip off merchant who takes clueless people for rides.

Cheers guys. Dismantled it last night, used a hair drier and a scaple to prise both films off, stuck the correct one back on using the hair drier to get rid of the bubbles, reassembled and BOOMTANG..... nice red digits on black dials, thats until you turn your head lights off then they are dull grey digits on black dials. Oh well you cant have everything. Really appreciated, you guys are 'Pure Skill' :D

This is great news............not. Ill have a go tonight to see whether I have any luck but ive got a feeling my clocks will go all bubbly too. Oh well, should have given up when I realised I was tampering with circuit boards, It took me back to GCSE physics with all those AND NOT and OR gates. Filthy. Cheers Lads

Just fitted some DDI dials with the rings and bought one of those flip reverser 'Blazing Squad' :oops: things that converts my trip computer to black background with red digits. Now my gauges light up nicely but my trip computer and clock just look black. (If you catch them in the right light you can still vaguely see the digits) Now I followed all the instructions and replaced the green filter with the supplied red ones (I put two red filters in to make it a deeper red as it suggests you can do) I then placed the sticky grey tinted transparant filter on the front of the glass. Now the only place that I can see where I have gone wrong is that I could not seem to peel off an existing film off the front of the glass panels and just stuck the grey tinted one on? Was this my mistake or have I cocked up somewhere else? Merci Beaucoup in advance

Cracking stuff. Ill swap the coil pack tomorrow and see what the crack is. Hopefully it isnt cracked.

Cheers lads, Definately not the fan its well more pronounced than that and happens every 6 seconds(ish). After 3 years of not running correctly its started to really frustrate my testies off. :brickwall: I have got the proper plastic thingy bob extraction tooly thing but found that the top of the handle restricted the massive lead width on the 8.5mm leads and ended up pulling it out once you put it in. Got a metal one from GSF that puts in and puts out well. The magnecor leads seem to work fine on the other corrado so would VW ones work better? I want to know why they dont work on my original corrado but work well on the other and why the misfiring (if thats what it is) is so much more prounonced. Would a VAGCOM read do anything?

Not being that technically minded I have a question for all of you who are. Bought my Corrado VR6 in 2003 (just found this Forum. Very s-l-o-w of me) and have had a number of intermittent problems concerning the noise my car makes whilst idling. It sounds like it misses (and there is a little vibration in the car that emanates from the engine and the engine note changes.) Changed the plugs to no avail and then bought and fitted 8.5mm (I know way too big for the guides) Magnecor HT leads. Now this is where it all started going tits up. On trying to make my car run smoother it actually did the opposite and started to make my car look like Id fitted it with some rude boy / hydraulic suspension kit and I started bucking down the road. On closer inspection there were a few rouge sparks flying around my lead/spark plug interface. (Checked they were fitted correctly) As I am lucky/stupid enough to have another Corrado VR6 (for sale if anyone wants it £3250 fvsh 105K) I swapped the leads over and both cars ran as well as they both did previously so it would seem that the leads are fine. Took it to awesome GTI, they diagnosed it that it was PROBABLY the coil pack (that they fitted in 2003). I am now on my old leads that miss intermittently but I want to sort the problem out 1. Would better leads massively magnify a coil pack problem? 2. Would a coil pack deteriorate that much in 4 years 3. What were all those sparks about? 4. How can I test to see whether it is my coil pack? (I’ve heard from other threads that you can use a plant water mister but where do I spray and will I blow up?) Any help would be really appreciated Cheers in advance