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Speaking as a person who is constantly berated for being overly negative (not unfairly I might add), it's good to know that people are using the information "we" provide in the right manner - I'm not trying to put anyone off, just trying to make sure they're aware of the pitfalls, and aware of the kind of financial commitment they might be looking at. The last thing we want to hear about is some poor sod buying a Corrado and having to sell it again in a hurry at a huge loss when they find out they simply can't afford to keep it on the road. Or even worse letting it rot for a year with things breaking and then flogging it to some unsuspecting punter without disclosing all the things they didn't bother to get fixed!! Note I'm not saying they're *that* expensive to run, but hey, they CAN be if you're unlucky!

Perhaps that why Vince charged me slightly less for the VT mount then! Presumably if the VT mount goes, it doesn't catapult the engine into the bonnet, at least.. Unlike the VW one! (Hmmm. Is it a requirement to have a company name starting with "V" to make engine mounts?)

You're sure it's the tensioner? Is the pulley still sitting square on the bearing?

Mike Edwards: one-man Corrado upgrade shop. He's been there, done it, got bored of queueing to buy the t-shirt and is now selling up! ;) Any other bits you're trying to get rid of, Mike? :)

Temp sensors?

As stated you have to peel it while the tint is still wet.. And yeah, from what Asim said it was just bits of masking tape.

I'd say you'll make it straight to page 1 of Max Power ....

Do you actually *know* what you combined tint comes to? I mean, in % terms, the way they measure it now? Do you KNOW if the tint is "legal" or not? Sadly if it's an illegal tint the car is not deemed roadworthy and you may well be in trouble mate.. :(

They look stripey close-up... But that's better than having to worry all the time about getting pulled for too heavy tints..

My local Halfords is sooo crap they don't actually HAVE foliatec tint. Mine are fading... Need to re-do it I think. But it's a long way down the list...

Asim = MoonlightVR. Yeah green through the brake lights will tell you nothing about how green through tinted orange lights looks, PLUS I don't believe green bulbs will work full stop. But I've not tried it, so go ahead.

Take a look at the pics of Asim's car - the untinted stripes thing doesn't look bad at all. Green bulb through red won't help.. As for the MOT, you've got a spanner right? Stick the normal lamps back on then!! :)

It's all about torque with these diesels, the power figures are (almost) irrelevant - what were the torque outputs for these engines?

Personal preference, but I think it looks stoopid with the reverse lamp tinted too... I'd leave it white. And I think it's just not going to shine orange unless you leave some parts untinted, you're just going to have to make sure you never indicate when in front of a police car... :) One idea I did have (pinched from Asim, among others) was to mask tiny thin strips across the indicator so you don't completely tint that part of the light. Maybe remove the masking strips before the final coat of tint, so they are very lightly tinted. That would help..

No brake shoes on Corrados... That's why the handbrakes are completely shite!! :) I don't think UK Corrados got the brake pad wear sensors either, so there's no electrical connections to the wheel area other than the ABS sensor, which is fitted to the back of the hub.

Send the old one back to VW - get them to test it for "weirdest failure mode ever"...

I'm not sure if the ECU can tell if an injector is stuck open, unless it's an electrical short-out that's causing the injector to stay on, so I doubt VAG-COM will help. You simply have to get someone to pull the injector out and run the engine with it firing into a fuel container and watch... Well that's the easy way, anyway. Alternatively get to a Bosch fuel injection specialist and they can ultrasonically clean and test all six for a couple of hundred quid, or so I'm told.

You can't tune a diesel. It'll still sound awful, no matter what you do to it.. ;)

Precisely, and walking to VW and having to order a new one ain't high on my list of "things to do on a saturday"!! :| My C constantly gets me down, when new things rattle, or there's a new expensive sounding noise, or the ABS light comes on (again), or I have to spend £53 on a tank of fuel, or.... ... !! But then I drop it a cog, give it a handful and there you have it.. the raison d'etre of the Corrado VR6. Now, just to get a new steering rack, ABS pump and all new front brakes fitted, and it might be mechanically finished!! :) Knowing my luck as soon as that's done, something else will fail or it'll get stolen... :(

The old pulley isn't very strong, he's working on getting new ones made up, so you don't have risk breaking the old one by cutting the bearing out and pressing the new one in. I'm hoping he gets somewhere, fast...

SAVE YOUR PENNIES!!! ;)

Ah the belt tensioner.. yeah.. working on that one myself! I'm waiting for Vince to come up with the goods with his suppliers who may be able to make up pulleys.. Meanwhile, anyone want any VAG pads/disks for a VR6? I'm off to get some with parts club discount tomorrow... :D

Ha, that's rich coming from a person who chooses to live in Coventry!! ;) :-P

I wouldn't even go that far.. Anyway, as usual this thread made it to 4 pages. I did my best, but I really don't have the enthusiasm to push it any further. Can someone else take over? ;)

We don't need it - you've been very quiet.. ;)