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I picked up one of the ebay, 25 quid ones and they are genuine vw and are top quality. Rather buy this than give vw even more of my money. Someone told me that changing gear is the cars version of a handshake. Feels so much better with textured leather than the old nackered example.

If your going to try the black badge thing maybe to be different you could leave the outer edge chrome to match the polished rims of the wheels. Not seen that done before.

Read on here that the vr shafts wont work with 02m gearboxes. Also you have to figure out a gearbox mount as 02m has none at the back.

Good looking car there. Got the knight rider thing going on. Im really coming around to the colour coded wheel thing at the moment. As long as the wheel rims are polished.

The dash has a thin plastic coating on top of a thin foam layer to git it a soft feel. I know this because I chopped one up to fit a mk2 golf. As for the handbrake cover, my original one was just plastic by my brand new vw one has a soft feel skin on it that makes it look more leathery. The rest is just plastic.

I have done 3 without a hoist. Remove the whole front of the car. Support the engine under the gearbox, rear engine mount and power steering pump and roll the car off the engine. We found it easier to lower the front of the engine a bit and remove the aux belt with a smidge of left hand down. Very cowboy but really simple. just move the car gently.

I agree its a complicated car but on the plus side when he did the 24v conversion, He did it in a way that made all the mechanical and electrical stuff straight mk4 complete. Even down to the abs. So fixing that should be fairly straight forward. Not a half half like I and most others would do/have done. Also its a well documented car. You have 90+ pages on here alone as a manual for you. Then there are other sites. Thats the silver lining to this.

I second that Jim. Not an awful lot id change. Wheels maybe. Would be strange owning a car thats know as renshaws. It would never seem to be yours.

oh yes. See the front looks a bit droopy but it is such a sex car. Especially from the back. maybe the r8 order should be canceled me thinks. :D

On saturday I saw one of these maseratis howling through hungerford. My god it was gorgeous. It is the new version which I didnt think was for sale yet. And the noise. Also it looked so much better in the flesh. Much better structure as in the pictures it looks all swoopy and saggy. Someone please find me a picture.

On snow and large iced surfaces abs makes very little difference. On snow the abs allows the wheel to turn and in doing so crushes fresh snow continuously which means it constantly has no grip where as no abs cars locked wheel grinds the surface and builds up snow infront of it. On large ice it makes no difference at all. Laws of physics say no friction is no friction. This applys to extreme situations of course. My 2000 polo gti hated snow. Abs went crazy and it had an electronic locking diff which ground away like abs whilst accelerating.

Thanks very much. I like to think they suit the car. Worth all the effort to make them feel right. lots of trial and error. Must have been 5 atempts to get the hight right and 3 to get enough forward and back to suit me and the misses. Then theres the tilt. some times it cradles your ass too much and sometimes it feels like your falling out the front of them. Just got to stump up the cash for a retrim of the rest.

If you weld the roof it will buckle with the heat. Bad enough welding holes in doors that have creases in them. Hole roof swap is the way to go.

Im thinking your going to be the first. Not sure the roof skin is going to save that much weight but the sunroof mechanism carries some. Id loose all the sunroof stuff and get a carbon sunroof panel for the whole. Thats loose sunroof, rails and the interior metalwork that holds it all in place. Would be much simpler. The whole roof done in Carbon would be good though.

Had to make the fittings to make all the tt stuff fit to the existing rails. Took the idea from an aftermarket subframe in that I slid a large flat iron bar into the origional rail and made L shaped Iron fitting which bolted to that. Then the TT rails bolted to the L pieces. I need pictures

It does sound high . When the 268s were in I raise the idle slightly it try to cure the lumpy cam tickover by adjusting the stop to open the throttle a tiny amount and I believe I have reversed what I had done. Is the Pcv the head breather thing. If so that been replaced with new. Still have the charcoal filter and I have had a leak the before in a former car and it made the thing rough as hell. Thought the throttle should be 12 degrees? Also if this is out of angle would the idle valve compensate for this?

Have a look at the rubber gromet where the bonnet release cable goes through the bulkhead also. Its drivers side

In September I changed my cams from 268s to standard and since then my car has idled when up to temperature at 1250rpm. I have had the idle valve out to clean and swapped for a working spare I had but I have no reason to suspect this as the idle is rock sold 1250. When warming up its roughly 1000. I have tinkered with the throttle cable adjustment with no effect and am going to find a vag comer to tell me what the throttle angle is at rest. Have been through the system for leaks. Any ideas would be useful. Does the ecu need to be reset or something. I am back to a standard ecu also.

TTs all the way. Spend good money on a new seat. Not electric but personally my seats never need to move. Heated with new elements so work better. No sagging of a 13 year old seat. Just a pain in the bum to fit, and the head restraints match the rears.

Get yourself one of those stainless steel or alloy crack pipes. Its where the smart money goes and is a week point on the engine.

If you curbed them would you feel Sad. Lol.

I picked these seats up from a breakers in poole. Advertised on ebay but not met the reserve so I mailed them and done a deal. They were new when I got the as some kind person smashed up a 3.2 tt only 3000 miles into its life. Cost 600 quid for a whole interior. Since then they are regularly moisturised with all manner of potions. As for the fitting I will have to sort some pics out to show you but the challenge for me and especially you will be getting them low enough. I wanted to keep the height adjustment which makes it a challenge getting the seat low enough. The standard TT fitting rails are just about on the floor and im still contemplating mounting them to the floor itself. I borrowed Ideas from an aftermarket seat subframe which uses the origional seat rails. I will sort pictures.

Not so long for me. In 94 V reg gold fiesta ghia 1.3 In 95 D reg silver seat ibiza 1.2 ( writen off because some lady was focused more on her ice cream) In 97 B reg black Golf gti In 2000 Brand spanking new silver Polo GTI from amsterdam. 2004 Back to golf previously now vr'd and purple 2006 M aqua blue corrado vr6 and still going strong.

He was only trying to move around the car park. Suprisingly difficult in a tiptron RS6!

Alot of people are going to like what they have already. I love them so I got them. Im no different :). Do like wheels with a bit of deep dish to them. Also from a design point the corrado has curves and a simplistic shape to it which I think makes a simple rounded 5 spoke work well. Its not a fussy car. That said I worship bbs too. Think they all work.