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best thing i can advise mate is log onto vagcat, like etka but online, look up the part number of your heather control unit and then look up the passats... numbers match and bingo 8)

buyer's a nob and so is the seller tbh, by the sounds of it he didnt know the year of manufacture and didnt have any balls to tell the guy to fcuk off, if someone turned round and told me, the car you've been running and had serviced regulary and looked after properly needs a new head gasket, possible steering rack etc etc i'd tell him where to go!

Beatrice! :wave: steve, good idea! made me think of the skoda advert, so kinda... "My other car is a Corrado..........Its a VW... Honest!"

quality! made me giggle :lol: if you can ge tthem made up, i'd like 2 please, deffo

breakers up near me quoted £50 for a pair of callipers (german recycled on the a5 near leighton buzzard) if that helps?

not the most helpful bit of advise! lol, if it helps, martin was good for me this year with the car modified, with a standard vr bell were the best so maybe try them? i was 22 at the start of this insurance year so i am relitively young! (bell came in at £670 considdering i had 2 years ncb and an accident 3 years ago i didnt that it was to bad :-) )

Jon, jsut tell us mate, theres no desire here to slag the guy off if he gives you back the money... so name him so we can all pm the cnut! lol!

i got mine from septic tank amazon http://www.amazon.com/Volkswagen-Corrado-Official-Factory-Repair/dp/B000N6ZVW8/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215691889&sr=8-7 but it seems they dont have any atm there is one on the uk site butits a fortune... £85!!! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Volkswagen-Corrado-Official-Factory-1990-94/dp/0837603870/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215691971&sr=8-1 o and VW labour is £95 p/h!!! :censored: i took mine to a backstreet vw specialists and foudn they didnt tighten the nuts on my rear suspension top mounts when they removed and refitted a while ago... never again! £40 p/h but unsafe work!! (use a more reputable vw specailists now that specialise in making vag cars faster and look better!)

depends what your looking for! if your looking for about 280bhp then a 225 bhp (bam) 1.8t with the standard k04 will get about thsi with a remap on the custom management you woudl need to run and you woudl get similar figures witha remapped R32. I've been down this thinking road and decided i want 450bhp, the cost of building a 1.8t a vr or r32 to this sort of spec (my chosen route is turbo) is very similar in terms of parts etc (if you take away the initial cost of the engine) so i decided i wanted to keep the spirt of the original car with a 12v vr and have bought a 2.8 aaa code engine and will be stripping it down and buildign with forged internals over the winter :D o also its worth speaking to a few places, like storm developments, mv developments, stealth etc who have experiances of lots of corrado/golf conversions and will eb able to advise the best thing for your needs!

fcuk that! he has £50 of your money! he needs to return it!

ha ha! cheeky fool!... when your finished officially handing over half of your millions :wink: get down to edition38 and hopefully you'll see it's new look (this week i shall mostly be eating cabbages... lol, i think i'll go to bed now!) still love that photo of the LCR and the C bumper to bumper in front of the hanger... deffo looking their best that day! o and jon, if i have an mot i will be in the C... if not i'll be in the labradoodle wagon, seriously if anything fails on the mot i'll be severly fooked off!!

what?? hes refusing to send them now?... for the principle of it dude i'd be happy to drive up there and knock on his door!

yep the TT shop have done a great job with it and Big Dave is determined to finish the bloody thing :) i can only hope i can bring it down sunday... will probably be in the pisrat though :(

couldnt have put it better myself, to be in a 14 year old coupe and still dik on alot of modern machinery is a great feeling, especially when the new golfs etc cost so much and have the same power and are heavier! (given the choice were it not my money i'd probably take the gti though :camp: ) i kind of like the fact we're a strange community even within the car nut world who are determined not only to let their C live on but improve and iron out any difficulties despite the heartache (and i've only had mine 18months! lol)

Well its been a while since i updated this thread, since then the C's had a major service and brake fluid change, new powerflex rear bushes, kw front and rear arb's and poly bushes, new drop links, eurospec 312 front and 280 rear brakes, carbon fibre and leather front seats and i'm finishing off a set of 17 x 9.5" splits to go on 8) i'll get pics on here soon but for now heres a pic of what 120000 miles does to a set of rear subframe bushes :pale: lol!

what car you got bud? if you have a vr (the only corrado i know) and if taking on a track a cheap upgrade to the brakes are the 312mm brakes from an audi TT, if so then you need minimum 16" wheels as said above, i had 16x7's on before i upgraded to 17x7.5's both bbs but different styles and the 17's are actually lighter which helps turn in feel quicker. If you look at the team dynamics and rota range of light wheel however you will find even lighter wheels which i think, accomodate big braks as well. if you can fit the brakes inside 16's i'd go for them

benley maual is a dam good bit of kit... worth the money straight away if your doign a few jobs :-)

Hi guys can anyone help with a problem with the rear discs? got an email from the garage fitting these and a load of other stuff to the C atm and although i feel now like i should have jsut booked some time off work and done it myself i didnt and am now paying the price...

true, and i have done the majority of bits and bobs to my car myself but if your workign a 50hr week and the weekends are busy, theres not the time needed to pull a car to bits and change everything! :( but i like the idea of the boost monkey garage for unwell corrado's :wink: Have to say they are spot on for calling me and emailing with questions rather than going in gung ho, its an audi tuning specialist and the service manager (justin) was a mk2 golf nut so he's very good at looking after the corrado as he always liked them... thing is theres not alot you can do, if nuts snap and parts foul things have to be replaced and made to fit, luckily they have the ability and skills to do it!

good man :D lol well i got another email from the garage today, took the car in last week and found the rear carriers were past it (thanks boostmonkey for the new ones!) and i was sent the wrong arb's (the company i bought these from were v v helpful considdering they'd been sitting in my garage for 4 months, got the manufacturer to send new ones out right away!) we thought it'd be a case of finishing the job off and me settling up the bill tonight....

your not alone mate! my C's off at a local vw specialist getting a few things done which i cant do on my drive... i'm dreading the call with the final costs today! :sad: Corrado's as dailys are expensive, but fun, if you have any luck with that money tree can i have a seedling? :lol: cheers!

sounds good to me! could we maybe get My other car's a Corrado ... www.corrado-forum.net all in the standard forum font? it'd look pretty cool and direct curious people to the site?

well done that man! oops, well it was early and i am at work! :sleeping: lol

what he said ^^^^ they can also acid dip the wheels but blasting sems more common, the quality of the blasting reflects in the finish though, heavy blasting means a 'rippled' surface, whereas blasting using softer materials, like recycled sand, or walnut shells i think doesnt damage the alloy so much! ... i'm getting a set of 20yr old wheels acid difpped atm because i didnt want to mark the surface at all, but for 40 euros a corner all in, you cant argue :-)

voted... that corsa... what a pile of tat, alot of the other max power'd frankinstein's look like they're trying really hard, alot of time effort and money has been spent but that heaposhit is a perfect example of those kev'd up cars that drive to halfords and buy that stick on tat that you often wonder why it was ever for sale... see it all makes sense, to produce cars of that callibre!! lol good luck mate, i personally prefer the wr1... but it hardly seems fair comparing a new unmodded car with older, customised ones!