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Halfords will have sales on over the xmas period, there's usually an extra 10% off if you use their "reserve and collect" system on xmas day itself.

Paid via paypal, address per PM. Thanks

Offer £25 posted for the bearing?

By write off do you mean cat c or d, or are you talking of cat b break only? Cat c would need a vic check after being repaired, cat d could just be repaired and driven.

If the sale of the gearbox falls through I'll take it and collect at the weekend?

Check the condition of the battery to earth connection at the gearbox, check for frayed cables at the ends. Starters consume heavy current when cranking, you may have 12V+ at the cable ends but is the cable capable of carrying this heavy current? Check the cable from the battery to the starter too.

Arrived today, thanks again

Put your locacion in the side bar via your profile, then people can advise you where to take the car for any work needed, word of mouth beats yellow pages anyday

Check the condition of the aux drivebelt, tensioner and the pulleys, if the belt is slipping you'll get erratic steering. Slip the belt off and check all the bearings and security of the pulleys etc It sounds serious now

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Bled the corrado brakes to try and rid the car of the dreaded light on the dash caused by the inlet valve fault - many have reported heavy use of the brakes after a fluid change helps clear these codes. First flush on the right, second on the left :-/ The plan now is to wedge the pedal down to try and clear the sticky inlet valve - the car is sorn ATM

I'll take the brake pads at £10 posted please. Paypal?

Haven't you got an auto electrician near you that can test / rebuild yours?

Hmm, if you accidentally start a car with it in gear there's a fair old jolt compared to pulling off carefully in first gear (good clutch control), I can't see how bump starting the car with carefull use of the clutch could hurt let alone stretch chains?

If you use the starter, the starter turns the flywheel, flywheel turns the crank, crank the chains and cams etc If you bump start it the gearbox turns the flywheel instead of the starter and all the rest follows as above, many of these cars stall when being driven and bump up nicely when you engage a gear. Anyone care to divulge why these cars can't be bump started?

Have you tried bumping / tow starting the car? If the car starts then its starter / switch related

Ring ring, ring ring..... Must be the phone.................

I've found the same for abs sensors, plug a new sensor in and clear codes to confirm the sensor to be at fault - open circuit. If the fault only appears when driving then this wont work obviously. The problem is finding a known good pump, ebay breakers will sell any old tat untested despite what they tell you.

I'm currently refitting the rebuilt cylinderhead to her golf tdi, once that's finished I can move the corrado where I can work on it.

I contacted BBAreman yesterday to see how much a pump repair would be if needed, their reply (I sent the chassis number with my enquiry). "This maybe something we could repair for you, but we would initially need a part number to say for definite and to quote on prices. Our initial test fee is £35 plus carriage, plus vat, with a repair price of £100-195.00 plus carriage, plus vat. Turn round time is normally 2-3 working days in our workshop and once repaired the unit is covered by our lifetime warranty"

Have this conversation with your family, I'm sure they'd rather have you happy, in good health and see more of you than the current situation?

Did you fit a used unit or a recon unit?

I understand what you're saying. Did you swap the pump assy? Did that cure the fault?

I think the vagcom code was 00255, I'll check again and repost, the fault remained the same with the other ecu fitted, its an ebay ecu so anything is possible. I fetched the car from the IOM 2 years ago with the abs light on, replaced an OSR sensor and passed the mot - the cars first ever! The abs light bulb blew and the car has been sorn for 12 months, I've replaced the bulb on the circuit board but the light remains on even when the fault is cleared with vagcom, ignition off and restart and the code is back. I'll attempt to move the car for better access later this week and remove the relays for examination. Thanks for everyones comments ---------- Post added at 12:24 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:14 AM ---------- I've replaced a few sensors on various cars I've owned, I agree with you, crush them and get them out in bits.