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Unless the car has very low miles thats far too high a price to pay for it imo - closer to a grand or £1100 would be more accurate. I'd suggest that for £1700 you should be able to find a very tidy valver around a '93 k / l plate. Have a look at a few more to decide for yourself tho.

To be fair one of the times it was up on here was me, i only got rid because i didn't have the time to sort it out with winter coming in and it being the only car i was running i couldn't really take it off the road to sort it out properly. I had bought it knowing most of the stuff which had to be sorted with it and spent a bit of time doing some of the bits and pieces, its a shame nobody else can do the same. With a bit of work it would be a good car again, i just annoyed when i see people trying to pass it off as something its not. Particularly the service history, it's done nearly 160k, who the hell cares if it's got a full history or not so why bother faking one?? Right enough the guy who's selling it now if he has indeed taken it as part exchange might not know everythign needing doing to it. The sunroof thing is very odd, i seen that ad too but the sunroof had never ever leaked, it was just getting slow to close - i suspect it's been bodged, totally broken then sealed to hide it.

As per the above This corrado http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VOLKSWAGEN-CORRADO-16V-fsh-not-g60-vr6-no-reserve_W0QQitemZ280292959990QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item280292959990&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A7%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318 used to be mine, i got rid of it about 3 / 4 months ago and there were a few problems with it. It seems to have since changed hands at least two maybe 3 times which is a shame as it needs a bit of money spent and some general tlc. One particular point, which to be fair it might have been fixed is that the water flange on the front of the head had been bodged at some point and the screw bore buggered up - this means the flange that's on it leaks now and it needs helicoiled or repaired with the head off. the springs and dampers are well past their best and are also rock hard, and there is an issue with the blowers. Also the history has been faked by somebody who has had it since me - from memory it was up to about 120k, had been serviced at home since then. now its magically got full history. I didn't pay alot of money for the car (£700 iirc) and just dont want anybody to get ripped off. It could be a good car again with some effort and a little bit of expense but i just dont think this guy is being honest about the car.

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Sorry but that's silly money for a corrado offer him about £4k for it, think about the cars you can buy for 6 grand these days - nothing is selling for examplke you can pick up a very nice early S3 or TT for that kind of money, remap and you're on 260bhp Could get a mint E36 M3 for less than that car too, could probably almost pick up an elise for just over 6.5k too

I'd maybe sell you mine for a grand lol....

Definately walk away, sounds like much more hassle than it's worth - if it's really hard to start from cold and is backfiring it doesn't sound right at all - my car was £800 and is almost identical to this one lol same miles etc - abs light is on (or would be if it wasnt pulled) and it turns for a few seconds when cold - but i mean literally a few seconds 3/4 at most, if it was really struggling to start and backfiring till it warmed up i'd bin it. Don't believe for a second that these faults have just developed either

Welll if everything turns out ok and you get ther car AND you have plans to chuck the engine...... i'll buy the exhaust off you lol

Not sure where you can get it have you tried the bay? On a side note, get that thing in the bin it's abotu as useful as those 'power resistors'

I know i've had a look for them online, i'll probably just get a GSF pump to be honest, used them before on different cars and been fine. Assuming water pump is knackered I'm thinking i'll do pump and seal plus stat and housing whilst i'm at it. Not sure whether to do the cambelt or not, it was changed late 2006 and should really be fine still

Yeah secretly im hoping it's just a hose down there or the stat but i'm fairly sure it's the pump thats knackered - ah well at least i'll not have to worry bout it from then on if i need to replace it lol

Replaced flange at the front of the head, took a while to get it sorted so it wasnt leaking, finally done tonight - and i think my water pump has possibly given up, water straming from the bottom of the car. :( Couldnt get underneath the car to have a proper check so will do this tomorrow, anything i can do to 'test' the pump?

What a bloody nightmare this has become Changed pipe and gasket (what an incredibly inaccessible space it's in) and put gasket seal on, tightened eveythign back up and low and behold after half an hour of driving water has started pishing out the top bolt of the Y pipe. Quite annoyed about this as it was seated and sealed fine - i'm wondering if i've maybe used the wrong kind of gasket seal? Just used a blue non hardening one, it's supposed to be fine with water tho so i'm a little confused

Oil filter tool might be worth a try i've got one somewhere, i can see there being problems after getting the first banjo bolt off. Better get a bigger bar lol