Dranoel4a

If you still have any of these left i could really use a set, the car's been ressurected after many years off the road and i'd forgotten how annoying the window was. cheers

did this last week, the pads and carriers are cross compatible. although iirc the mk4 discs are thinner and the pads are slightly thicker.

Got back to leeds yesterday and there was an empty envelope waiting for me :( if there are any spares going I could do with a set as I only NEED to do one window, just wanted to do both.

cool, it'll probably be around the 23rd/24th i'll give you a shout closer to the time if that's ok?

Hey everyone, i'm at a bit of a loss as to what might be causing this problem, so any tips/help would be greatly appreciated i was driving home from uni a couple of weeks ago and suddenly there was a strong smell of burning plastic :S the car was still working fine though and i got home without a problem. later in the evening, i went to pick up the girlfriend from work and there was a whineing noise coming from the alternator. i figured... well that's a bugger i guess i need a new one. i took it in to a local company who have "repaired" it and then bench tested it, so it was supposedly working fine. they said that the rectifiers were blown from excessive load. I charged the battery, re-fitted the alternator, and the car was running fine but then a couple of days ago (after driving it round for 2 days) it gave out on me at the supermarket and i ended up having to get recovered back home :(. ive taken the alternator back in to the same company today and they think it's the same thing again. so i guess my question is, does anyone know of anything that could break on the 'rado that would cause this to keep happening, I haven't noticed anything electrical that's recently stopped working, and aside for its ne taste for alternators, i can't see/hear/smell/etc anything that's different. my initial thought was that it could have been a dodgy earth or something shorting out the battery but if that were the case then surely the battery would go flat if the car was left to it's own devices, and it seems to be holding its charge.. all very confusing any help anyone can provide would be massively appreciated.

I'd happily relieve you of these but I'm Not likely to be coming past derby until close to Christmas and I guess you're keen to get rid before then

Something.... Don't know what's broken. But it appears that my car's taken to eating alternator rectifiers, i'm on my second in a fortnight :'(

Not sure what it's technically called. But I'm after a front crossmember thing (the bit the radiator sits on with an engine mounting about 1/3 of the way along it) any chance you can help? :) Leo

this is looking awesome, it'll be good to see some pics of it back together, wish i could justify even a partial respray at the moment.

cheers for the tips, good to know i'm not the only one who's pulled their handbrake off, it wouldn't really matter that much except I live on a ridiculous hill so i've got bricks in the road outside my house to park on :) I've actually ordered some of the rollers so hopefully that'll be done soon, and I was thinking i'd fit a remote start kit while I was doing the heater matrix (since you have to pull everything out anyway) and while i was doing that i could have a poke about at the ignition wiring to see if it actually needs a new barrel The Sunroof has already been "upgraded" to a moonroof which is great, someone took out what was probably a functioning and water tight sunroof to fit a broken and leaking moonroof. ho-hum, most of the interior trim is currently on the back seat so i can get at the sunroof, it looks like you have to take out the headlining to get at it, it'll get done, even if i just stick in some bathroom sealant until I can do a proper job of it, at least that way the car will be water tight. cheers, i really wasn't keen when i bought it but when it's clean, it looks awesome, especially at night, sort of like a really tasty boiled sweet. must confess though eventually i want to have it resprayed as a sort of red black pearlescent colour, the sort that looks black most of the time but if you get it in bright light there's a hint of reddish purple. we'll see, i'm also a big fan of the nugget yellow, and the thought that driving past a group of school kids and making them all punch each other is quite pleasing. is it a big effort? i've seen that people have done this but i'm a bit concerned that it'll end up costing a small fortune. Solidarity!! i'm sure you only really need to worry when you start to do more miles on a recovery vehicle that under your own steam :D Hi Andy, i'm actually living in Leeds at the moment. My family home (as in Mum and dad) is in Cheshire but i'm at uni in Bradford so only really in Cheshire for enough time to earn some money and then head back to Yorkshire, where abouts are you? maybe next time i'm back around we could get a pint or something.

Has the headlight loom been uprated?? Mine was done before I bought the car and the standard of wiring is pretty poor, It sounds like a dodgy connection somewhere. If you boot it and the loom moves a little it could cause this to happen.

so..... the 'rado was out of action again last week, the alternator that I changed over the summer went pop :( i've had it repaired by a company in Bradford and re-fitted it along with a new Bosch battery (thank you warranty). all in all a week from breaking to having it back on the road again is pretty good in my book. unfortunately, since time has been at a bit of a premium recently and i've had sod all money, things have been going wrong faster than i can fix them. so in order that everyone else feels really good about how little is broken on their car, i thought i'd go through what doesn't work any more :S - windscreen wipers: at anything over 50 mph the move but don't appear to touch the windscreen, at least they do nothing to help with visibility (slightly worrying on the motorway) also they only work on "crazy wipe" speed, i'm thinking that might be the stalk. - handbrake: the other day i was pulling my car forward and i neglected to take off the steering lock, without thinking i grabbed the steering wheel and turned it vigorously. the arm thingy span round and smashed the windscreen (Which I had replaced today) on seeing the smashed glass, I became enraged and yanked on my handbrake, and it came off in my hand :( - Heater Matrix: been bypassed since I got the car - Driver side Window: doesn't go up and down properly. One of the rollers in the door has been snapped in half (I presume from when it lived in Liverpool and was nicked) - Rear Suspension: There's a wierd knocking noise from the rear suspension when i go over bumps, also the MOT said there was excessive play in the rear near side wheel hub so i guess that means new discs pads, bearings and bushes :S - Sunroof leaks whenever it rains or I wash the car and also doesn't open or close at all. - Ignition you have to woggle the ignition wires to get it to start which is, lets be honest, less than ideal. - Bodywork 3 of the 4 arches are dented, when it lived in Liverpool it was keyed down one side and on one occasion i fell over into it while drunk and scatched the C pillar Front Crossmember: there's a fist sized rust hole in the front cross memeber (the thin bit where the oil cooler pipe screws on) Update: between writing this post and putting it up, she's stopped working again, leading to this: Arrghh it never ends.......

is it too late to request 2 sets of these??

As would I, one of mine has broken in half and now the window doesn't run up straight

worked a treat :D thanks guys

nice looking motor mate, looks like you've got yourself a good one :)

hey all, does anyone know whether there's a second meaning to the handbrake warning light, when i spank the corrado the light flickers on, if i then stop and start driving sensibly again it turns off. I've contemplated the possibility of it being a light to indicate when you're about to lose you're license :D however i think that's fairly unlikely. if anyone's got any gen on this it'd be greatly appreciated. leo

It works! :D I got a replacement from gsf in Leeds in the end and it fits like a dream, it was £150 all told so cheaper than ecp (£180) took a cheeky pic of it all back together in the hangar before taking it for a test drive. So now I've only got the other 3 million things to get sorted, like the heater matrix and the fact that sunroof not only leaks but it collects water to considerately pour it into your lap when going round corners after it's rained and then the rest. I have a feeling I'll never get to the end of the list though the more you do, the longer the list gets. :S

did you ever work this out. i've got the same sort of problem would appreciate any light you can shine on it. leo

Cheers guys. I'd completely forgotten about ecp. I'm taking this one back in tomorrow to swap it and hopefully they'll sort it, if not then I'll get my money back and try and source one elsewhere. :)

Ugh. Sooo I've discovered what the winter did to the car...... It turns out that the radiator is knackered. I looks like the pipes have been sort of stretched, I guess it's only to be expected since it was -15 in Cheshire last winter. All in all if the only thing I've knackered is the radiator then I recon i've gotten off pretty lightly. Nevertheless it resulted in the c being taken Back to Cheshire on a tow truck :( So the story with the radiator so far: VW apparently Nolonger have ANY parts for corrados (slight exaggeration but the last four or five parts I've tried to get hold of have been discontinued and are out of stock) so the recommendation of the nice RAC man from leeds was to contact a company called northern radiators who were apparently "The Shiz". £120 later and 1/2 a day poking and prodding and I've realized that the bolts that hold the top hose elbow joint to the rad are in the wrong place (about 1 maybe 2 mm too far apart) JOY!!! So now I have a radiator with a big hole, a radiator that doesn't fit, a car that doesn't work and no obvious way of rectifying the situation without spending an arm and a leg on taxis. Right, rant over. I was wondering if anyone else has bought a radiator from these guys? They've got places in Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield. Really just wanted to know if They're just rubbish or if I've just been really unlucky. Also if anyone else has had the same problem and found a solution??? Leo

Cheers, i've been driving around Cheshire and Yorkshire for the last couple of weeks now and aside from having to pump my tyres up every time i want to go anywhere it seems to be settling down and running happily. I still want to do an engine swap at some point later this summer but i've not really got time or funds to do that at the moment. was up on base last week and we get some amazing sunsets across the airfield so took a couple of quick snaps :D also found a cool car park at leeds uni that I took a snap of. Incidentally i was cycling through Leeds a couple of months back and saw a Green(i think) Corrado coming past the leeds met building with the reg H15 VR6 (i think) it was a while back so details are a bit sketchy but i thought it'd be interesting to know if the owner was on the forum.

i'd agree, mine's a bit tatty round the edges but it's sound where it counts and mine was considerably less than 2k, albeit that was 3 years ago. when i was looking though i reached the conclusion that you can take one of two approaches, you can get one that's in brill condition and lay out the money but take the risk that some of the work may not have been done to a very high standard (or at all in some cases), or you can get a cheap one and spend difference on sorting it out, i realise it's not a cut and dry as that but that's my 2 cents for what it's worth. Patience is definitely the key though.

hey everyone. whilst looking at this thread it appears that i got the car running and then dropped off the face of the earth, life did go on. My career plans changed directions and i decided to go to university, i am now (results depending) the proud owner of a BEng in Electrical Engineering, alas being a lowly student i couldn't afford to keep the car on the road while i was studying so it's been at my grandparents' getting gradually sadder and sadder as the years passed. Fortunately I appear to now have enough money again to get it on the road. So i've spent the last week and a half working on it poking, cleaning and fettling. on first inspection it wouldn't start, a problem that was (relatively) quickly identified as being caused by the fuel pump being 'tatered. After replacing that along with the filter for good measure it seems to be running as sweet as anything. I really feel like i dodged a bullet as i accidentally left it with just water in as coolant rather than antifreeze and it's been -15 in cheshire these past two winters. Today was a big day, i managed to get it insured, MOT'd and taxed all in a day. there were 3 advisories on the MOT but nothing horrendous. So i have a happy working VR for just over £2k including MOT tax AND insurance. i did take a load of progress shots with the intention of writing a how to on fuel pump replacement but my iphone broke so i was using an old on and for some reason it didn't save any of the pics it too :S ANYHOO, i hope to be able to do little tweaks here and there and gradually continue sorting out it's many foibles. and i'll try and keep you all up to date with what's going on.

What did you end up doing about this? The fuel pump on my VR's packed up. I spoke to the VW and from what i understood it was going to cost about £260 to replace because of not being able to get the original pump. Any clever solutions or is it just going to be a case of bite the bullet and pay out?