swiftkid

I'd hazard a guess and say your sliders are seizing. Just need taking out, cleaning and greasing up. Either that or take caliper off and wind piston right in to make sure it's nice and free

Sorry I could have helped a few years back when I shared a unit with 2 mk2 golf's in many bits but those are long gone. If you are struggling I know a guy that probably has one

The problem you have with any seat you find is the height, there's plenty of seats around that would look good but none seem to sit as low as the corrado does. There's a recaro option for the mk3 you can pick up for around £300 but having sat in the mk3 seats they would just feel too high, especially with me being over 6ft tall. You can pick up seats from old rovers for cheap but they don't seem to have tilt Plenty of london taxi recaro's for sale but you'd need to spend the next 20 years cleaning them before you'd be sure you got the sick etc. out of it. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RECARO-SEAT-LONDON-TAXi/254459357110?hash=item3b3ef5a7b6%3Ag%3ABngAAOSwzZFd%7ET4W&LH_ItemCondition=4

Could have sworn my old 89 valver had a cable clutch but that was over 10 years ago and I've worked on tonnes of mk2's since so chances are my memory is playing tricks on me. If that's the case we all have lah-dee-dah clutches unlike our poor relation the mk2

Valvers have a cable clutch, us VR6'ers live a life of luxury with our la-dee-dah hydro clutch :thumbleft:

I put my spares (plural) next to my collection of hens teeth

You learn something new every day. For my wedding I had a traditional wedding cake... as you do, but also a 'cheese cake', a magnificient 5 tier beauty with 2 layers of pork pie and 3 cheese layers, one of which being the magnificent Snowdonia black bomber, of all the amazing food on that day the most talked about was the cheese.

Get yourself a crimping tool and some terminals and fix them yourself. I bought mine from link below. Got a ratchet crimping tool which is fantastic and some durite multi pin tool and made my entire loom with those. Junior Timer terminals

I wonder if parts 1 & 2 explain the situation. So are you furstyferret or have you bought his car? :scratch:

Yes, he pm'd me the other day. I'll let him introduce himself, seems to have been a member for a while

OP hasn't logged in since 2016, best bet is lil fuzzer as he's having a big clearout at the moment

What just happened? Is this thread about 2 different cars? Or is there a DR Jekyll and Mr Hyde thing going on Mr Hyde: "Time to sell the car" Dr Jekyll: "Fix it, Fix it, Fix it, Fix it, Fix it, Fix it, Fix it, Fix it"

Without upsetting anyone, I'm on the other side of the coin. I've been a regular member on here for years, I try and help where I can & post information when I get it but I am not a member of CCGB for do I ever plan to be. In my early days of corrado ownership I found some members quite rude when meeting them at shows and didn't really get a warm welcome, to this day I still get snubs about my car despite it being IMO tastefully modified. As a long running owner it doesn't bother me but this would be frustrating to new owners and definitely drive them away. I've spoke to quite a few corrado owners on my travels that share the opinion of us & them. The forum is the place for modifying, CCGB is for the purists and for a merge to work CCGB needs to change. I've met a few people recently that have been very pleasant and things like the road trip are good ideas but this needs to continue and IMO, CCGB needs to become more like this forum, a place to discuss ham & cheese related daft things, share modifying ideas and also help people out.

Will definitely be calling next year, will never EVER go anywhere near the scumbags at Hastings Insurance ever again. If you can get anywhere close you can have both my cars. I did ring up this year with the intention of cancelling my policy mid term, taking the hit with cancellation fees just to get away from Hastings but the price was just too much

From memory this could be a symptom of a faulty door handle switch. Going back about 8 or 9 years ago mine did something similar, I took the door handle off and the wires fell off in my hand. Worth taking it out, making sure terminals haven't corroded, if that doesn't work you'll need to take door card off and give the plug a clean and make sure it's dry. If the door scrapers are not doing their job you might find the plug is getting water in which would cause the issue

Unfortunately full resprays are massively time consuming and the materials aren't cheap either which makes them expensive for a good quality job. Prepping it yourself will lower the cost but they will still have to redo a lot of it just be sure, if your car starts bubbling up with rust a few months after they are done it will reflect badly on their work. I prepped a lot of mine myself, welded up anything that needed doing, pulled arches etc. they finished it off, welded audi door handles in, smoothed off the bonnet washer jets and rear wiper. Was a full windows out job and cost me around £2 - 2.5k from memory but I live up norf where everything isn't stupidly priced. After buying brand new window scraper seals, roof & sunroof seals etc I reckon I was around the 3k mark but it still looks mint now, putting aside all the stupid dings I've done myself.

When you say, you fit the old sensor and the fan doesn't come on what do you mean? Stage 3 is really a last hope speed and hopefully shouldn't ever be needed so unless you've got some really high water temp issues it shouldn't come on. I'd say your new sensor is a duff, I think it's actually more common than you'd like to think. Take it back and try another.

Yes, that would cause those issues. I think I said the same on facebook to you. Yes you can remove bolts out of cam sprockets but make sure you torque them back up fully as it's pretty disastrous if you don't. I've read threads with people saying it will be fine but none seem to talk from experience, Vince from stealth says it needs to be right and that's good enough for me.

If it's a raceland or similar 6 branch you can take it off without taking half the car apart, I swapped mine in a carpark rather stupidly. The 6 branch tend to have an adapter flange but bolt up to the 3 bolt flange of the cat so unless it's been cut off and welded it should be a straight swap for the standard. I do echo the statements about them being pointless unless you are running a supercharger, my old 1 just droned and increased the engine bay temps

Look for M38RAJ on instagram, he's just put his R32 up for sale. It looks mint and has all the right goodies, looks to be dirt cheap as well. I wouldn't be selling mine for anywhere near that

Oh dear god what have I done, I woken a ham and cheese giant! Welcome back kev earwig-bacon-piano-wire though, not fancy another rado?

Sounds like the Haynes way of doing it but before you do all that, spray a load of WD40 on the sensor, leave it for a few days then jack the car up up take the allen key bolt out and using a pair of mole grips try spin it round and loosen it. It can be done by just taking the wheel off, if it doesn't work no harm done and continue as per above.

I'll put this nice and simple. FACT -An MOT man can and will fail MOT if ALL traces of the ABS have not been removed, this includes sensors, wiring, dash lights, ECU. That is not opinion, that is fact. -My mate removed the MOT but left traces of it, his car failed Contradiction you say? OPINION -It's a stupid idea to remove the ABS system, it's not a great system but Rome wasn't built in a day and everyone had to start somewhere. -In my opinion, rather than going backwards and removing things because they aren't very good, move forward and upgrade. Headlight looms, brakes, suspension. I can go on. Apologies from a grumpy man, I didn't intend to start an argument but I've seen soo many people recently on failbook asking how to remove everything from anything that makes things function correctly, things as stupid as lambda sensors, MAF's, water pumps, power steering, all in the name of "smoothing" and it's got my back up.

You can not be serious? You're calling my factual information bad advice? Based on the FACT my friend removed his abs system and ended up having to scrap the car because he failed MOT and couldn't be arsed to mess around any more, that's pretty sound advice. I agree that if you remove it in it's entirety and make everything it should pass but it's only recently this regulation has come, not sure if you got an MOT man who knows the car should have the system he could fail it. Having driven with stock ABS teves02 system, teves20 and no ABS I know what I prefer. Anchoring on with both front wheels locked & absolutely no ABS assistance isn't my idea of fun.

Stealth aren't a million miles from you and know the conversion back to front, inside out. Speaking from someone who has done it, consider doing it yourself. You are looking at about 8k drive in drive out, I havent paid anywhere near that. Personally I'd advise vrt over r32 though, I'm considering taking mine out to go back to vr6 and strap a turbo on it