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Massive thank you to ICEVIOLET for sending the obd2 parts out before full payment was made very trusting well package and as far as I was concerned a decent price for all the parts included Only grumble is he's not comin down to fit it!

What the hell do you clean it with??

I don't have Internet at all just on my phone I either use direct off phone or I use the iPhone as a modem.... But the mobile version is a nightmare to navigate... Sorry for the rubbish feedback guys

Same for me I'm on I phone and I got to say this sucks a little bit.... What the hell is tapatalk anyway?

try taking the led out and put it in the other way round i bet it works

not sure what they are worth but are extremly good condition no marks etc

also heres a pic of the SWG scuttle panel i bought off of here somewhere.... seen some action has this bad boy, all repaired up and ready for show! had it body coloured then the bit that sits up against the windscreen ive had texture painted so it looks like and original piece when the bonnet is closed it looks standard ish.... which is what i wanted to achieve! cleaned up the old headlining and sunroof panel ready to sell on...

heres a couple of i phone pics just to catch the bumper painted for here....

excelent thank you , i understood that it had to be approved etc but the messae stayed there on screen then dissapeared making me think this has now gone....

i do not like the buldgey line that goes around the out side of the screen i think it looks ASSSSS so i gave it back and see what they could do... unfortunatly here is where we got our wires crossed and the next version of it i do not have any pics as it didnt leave the shop... the slanted edges that tilt intowards the screen they filled flat!!!!! :shock: i have to say i was gutted due to all the work that had gone into it so i have left it with them to sort... i did go in and file the edges back down and i have left it to them to sort out the corners as i really want the edges to slant into the screen as it looks so much better than just being a rectangle hole being cut out.... while all this is going on i turned my attention the something else as i had the dash already stripped out i thought i just as well try and sort the switches out a quick trawl around various forums etc and Maplins in Exeter i got hold of some LED's... out came the **** green led's and in went the super bright red led's a pic of the inside of the switch this is a comparison between the red and green led's... as you can see the green is really ****. i do have a small probel with the heated seat switch as i cant get it to illuminate very brightly at all no matter what i try... standard led's are 20 micro candles... super bright led's are 100 micro candles... the red led's cost .39 pence each.... so a very cheap but effective mod... i thought id continue it thoughout the car...

with the screen and heater controls in position so after getting this back and taking all these pics i decided i wasnt very happy with the way it has turned out......

after lots of wet and dry in the bath it now looks like this... this is the last time i prepped the console i got it as smooth as i possibly could and as im no body work specialist i thought it was ok butr needed perfecting... i then took it to PPI in milber and got them to textur paint it and colour it so it looked original here is how it turned out.

pretty excited at this stage just want to get it in and up and running, now starts the headache of trying to work out how this is actually going to fit together and have some sort of permant fixture in the car..... after all of about 5 min of thinking about this out came the filler............ as you can see in this pic i have tried to mask out the illumination controls so i dont loose them with all the filler etc etc as you can see i have come across a problem already...in order to get it all to sit right and be original looking as possible i am going to loose the heater control illuminations............AAAARRRRGGGHHHHH REALLY DIDNT WANT TO DO THIS BUT THINKING ABOUT IT THE HEATER CONTROL ILLUMINATION IS REALLY CRAP on the corrado as is all the interior illumination so i guess il just roll with it and see how it goes il loose the illumination and sort something out later...

the interior is pretty grubby and needs desperatly a deep clean...carpets door cards everything etc etc etc i set out straight away cleaning this is how far i got lol you can just see a clean/dirty line just above the interior door pull... got bored real quick of doing this and thought as everything is going to get dirty anyway due to all the work ive got planned i couldnt wait and started stripping the dash etc so i could see how im going to fit this centre console... dash stripped of switches with the centre console removed i started to cut and file it so i could get the screen in as you can see in this i have stripped a lot of the plastic out i have removed the original radio slot and most of the ashtray plastics the heater controls have been removed and need to be re-located further down. this is the look i was trying to go for the screen and heater controls are just rested into position with this knocked up i opted for a dummy run

so along with the coilovers i had just purchased and the wheels... i have this car p.c to fit... this car p.c has a 8" touch screen an 80G Hdd cd/dvd re-writer gps camera engine diagnostics etc etc it is full windows xp operating system and runs street deck software... i had this installed in my previous car and it really is awesome.... this is the screen.. here are a couple of pics of the day i drove it back...

WELL..im back new motor and new project.... this one is a keeper i have always liked vw's and i really cant be arsed to buy / sell any more cars.... so this one is here to stay, i do have some long term projects in mind for it , it wont be totally mint like concours but it will be tidy daily driver standard, not sure if it will be good enough to show but il like it all the same.... as with any project i undertake time and money hold them up so i will update this as much as i can along the way.... i have gone for a volkswagen corrado vr6 colour is blackberry 2.9 12v v6 AUTO!!!!!! (ahem this will change in the future..) it is quite special really as it has electric heated leather recaro's from new...optional extra im lead to believe at the time i have also heard storys of insurance claims writing the cars off due to them being £4000 each to replace!! lol it has the same spec as the storm model but it is a nicer colour and has the nicer interior... so in my opinion a better and nicer buy than a storm... its just coverd 107,000 miles and has full anally retentive service history with a box binder abosolutly bursting with recipts etc etc the body is quite tidy for the year and mileage and the interior again is tidy , i would like to spend some time on this later in the project getting it how i like it... il post some pics up later on so you can see what its like cheers nate anyways here are a few pics of the sale adverts... so that was the sale pics not great but you get the idea..... i guess at this point i could tell you the difference between my car and the storm. as i believe it the storm was a limited edition run of 500 cars, 250 were blue and 250 were green... the blue storm had black leather while the green had beige leather both cars were heated leather seats and that is the main difference... the only other spec difference is the strom badge on the rear of the car and a storm badge on the centre console.....the vr6 badge on the fornt and rear were chrome. that is the complete difference between the corrados standard models and the storm...so it is possible to get a better specced corrado than a storm!! weird huh? anyway..... i like the way the standard car looks it has unusual lines and i think it is quite definitive in its age, there arnt too many around now and you really dont see them very often on the road, it is said that the corrado never really took off and was a vw flop but many many people disagree it handles superbly and the quality of the doors shutting and bonnet the interior really is very good, esp for a car of this age, the dissapointing factor of these cars is the performance... ok they are old they are fairly quick nothing like most cars of todays standards, they have a 2.9 12v v6 engine you would expect more horse power.... these only push out 190 bhp????? crap really, they should of had a (schrick) vsr inlet manifold from the factory but volkswagen moved to opt out of this due to manufacturing costs so they sold the rights to schrick hence the name... this is basically variable valve timing for the vw!! similar to hondas version... this improves horse power and torque across the rev range and makes a very nice difference on all models air con and headlight washers were optional.... i bought these wheels before i picked the car up and i still think they are old but kinda cool looking.... retro cool.... these are also supposed to be quite rare as they are 5 stud fitment for vw. Borbet A's fronts are 16 x 7.5 rears are 16 x 9

just updated my members gallery thread text 27 pictures text etc you get teh idea ....couldnt post it so copy pasted deleted etc until i could fit it in then it says your post can not be seen until a mod approves it and that message stayed in the thread so i carried on posting .....now the message has gone and the rest of the topic has continued so have i lost all the uber update i put in? as it doesnt seem to be there? cheers

it doesnt have to be pretty its not going to be on show.. and it fits! a quick trip to the garage to offer it up on the car to see how it looks... no bumper iron in this so its a bit flopy to support te section of the side marker with the screw in i unforunatly will hae to eave you to your own devices i used 15mm talon pipe clip cut down and mitre bonded in and then drilled a small hole so the self tapper could bite onto it to secure the unit in place im sure someone can do this beter what with the day running on and me not feeling any better it was the best i could do in a rush!

right another day!.................. quite literally today ive been off work ( my day off) ....(ill) needed to get this done been putting it off for ages and wasnt really sure how to go about it , so in a true me fashion just went with it and see how it went.... im sure someone out there will have better way ? easier way of doing this , but with limited brain power due to being ill and generally not very bright i kinda just done t this way. ok step 1! first and formost get yourself an slc bumper from the states and save yourself all this hassle!! screw in the side markers extend the loom job done! lol i wish it were that simple... get yourself some sidemarkers... i got mine from tps took like 3-4 days so not too bad also get the bulb holders and screws too asthey are only pence then what you need to do is to mark out where you actually want the lights... on mine i wanted them to look as factory as i could make them useing my limited skills and budget, i reaserched the images on google and forums etc and finaly decided where to put them and how to line them up.. after all who am i kidding its touch and go wheather or not this is gonna work... i made the stencil from cardboard i took some card made a rough hole in it stuck the light in it and then drawing a line round the outside of the light unit gave me a fairly decent stencil... ok so when ouve finished arseing about with where ou are going to put them you just need to get stuck in and go for it..............bring on the nibbler!! the nibbler this little beauty is brilliant variable speed and diffeent heads its awesome so i naturally just started hacking away thinking **** if i f this up i need a new bumper..... so its a trial and fit trial and fit process time consuming i guess so holding the side marker in position try and get a decent gap between that and the bumper remember you have got to get it out... i then needed to locate the unit in the hole and stop it from falling through so i thought about plastic welding in some tabs.. for the spring on the back of the marker using a bit of the off cut bumper i made the tabs

a model shop? maybe a scalextric bulb? a scrapper ive probably got one or two floating about somewhere if you give me your addy il send them to you if you like?

That sunroof was a kunt!!!!! 3 broken cassettes and lots of blue language A vw techy Then old faithful had to make an appearance! Lmfao

I've got a decent recon box you can have for £150 if it turns out to be nasty....