OllieVR6

Wow, no updates for over a year and then this!! Must be nice to have enthusiastic mates with some know-how, all my friends are ricers lol. Fantastic work for a single weekend mate, ****ing LOVE those wheels...where did you get them from? I'd be interested to see if you get the 288's under them! Have you just been quietly collecting parts for a year? My engine looks like yours before you started (rusty and 'orrible).

So it's taken a few hours, but just read through this thread....wow! What a great read....I'm thinking I want a sleeper now!!

I have an Alpine ipod thing, it doesn't even have a CD player, it's much lighter than a unit with a CD mech built in.

I pondered this as well when I installed mine. I know the tab that you speak of inside the dash and yes, I would imagine it was used to secure the factory unit. This tab in my car has been bent back where someone has fitted a unit with a bump stopper on the back probably. Mine came with a stopper as well (a screw with a rubber hat thing) but it would not go deep enough when I had this on, so I went without it. I have yet to drive the car since the unit went in (without the stopper) but it sits nice and flush and doesn't seem to put a strain on anything, but I don't know about rattles yet.

Is it just me, or do other people find that 'simple tasks' or jobs that you have been told take '30 minutes' take a LOT longer? For example, yesterday I fitted a new foliage cover seal....took me 25 minutes just to get the clip off so I could get the bugger out, then another half an hour (probably more) cleaning and removing leaves and so on, then realised the cover had a crack in it, so had to glue that up, then putting it back with a new seal, lining it all up and so on. All in it probably took me 1.5 hours to do what should have been a 20 minute job! A lot of the time it comes down to not having the right tools, I often find I'm hunting around badly (non existent) organised tool boxes looking for a tool I haven't used or seen for months but 'remember' seeing it recently, or rotten screws that need drilling out and so on. Yesterday I had the whole day to work on the C, the first time for a very long time, but after the seal and some other set backs with a couple of other bits I threw in the towel and played the xbox instead. Getting stressed out only makes things worse, so it's better that I just stop and go back to it another day!

Hey mate, how did you drill out the middle ones? They seem quite hard to get to but mine need to be drilled out :confused4:

Another suggestion - don't bother with the VR engine. For a track car I wouldn't use a corrado anyway (just my opinion), but if you really want to, get a 1.8t from somewhere.

That might polish out mate. Know anyone with a machine polisher?

I had this problem (mine had VW standard locking wheel nuts on the two front wheels) I got one off with a reverse gripping tool as mentioned above, but it got stuck in it, so for the 2nd one I just hammered an old 17mm socket on and that did the trick.

Jeeeeeze, that looks amazin! :luvlove: I still want your old wheels, I still can't afford them :( Nice job with the polisher mate, I'll get my photos up when I finally get round to finishing mine. Did you do the bumpers? How did you find them, haven't done mine yet, that's the last bit for me.

Up for sale mate? Sorry to hear that!

Bhhaaahahaaa :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Not for me! :mad2: :mad2: :censored: :censored:

I went with the RAC in the end, through Quidco. Paid £35 for a year roadside but for me rather than a specific car so I can use it for any car I'm in, and I get £23 minus £5 Quidco fees back once the RAC pay Quidco the referral fee which I think takes a couple of months.

Robin Hood - 9/10 Loved it. Great story and some awesome scenery. I'd love to have a time machine and be able to go back and experience England way back then. We had a beautiful country, shame it's gone to sh*ts!

Where is the aerial from mate? I want one!

Cool thread, I hope we find them all!

Just move over here and shaddup... :lol:

What happened to him?

It's not about men vs women, it's about women being considered 'better' drivers. It's BS and everyone knows it.

Me. A woman pulled out in front of me when I was coming around a round about. She could only have not seen me if she wasn't looking and just assumed it would be clear to come straight on to it. I believe she was on the phone at the time as well. EDIT - This is the only accident I have ever been in nearly 10 years of driving.

As I am hoping to start using the Corrado as my daily soon, I'm looking at getting some breakdown cover. I've never had it before, and on the one or two occasions when I have needed it for other cars I have seriously regretted not having it! I've done some searching and can see a lot of you use the RAC. I'm looking to cover both of my cars, but they are both considered 'old' now (7 and 16 years) obviously I want a good service but I don't want to pay the earth either. What do you all recommend? There is only one requirement really (unless you think it's not worth it) which is as I am fussy about which garage the car goes to, I'd like a service where they will take your car home if you breakdown (not to the 'closest' garage)....not sure if that would be more trouble than it's worth? I just wouldn't want my car going to some cowboy garage!

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?3539286 But this is the best TDI conversion thread I have read: http://www.customobsessions.com/modules ... sc&start=0

If you would that would be excellent as I'm doing this soon too.

This is true, but the people most affected by any laws or changes to combat all the usless w*nkers will be those of us that still enjoy driving and don't just do it to get from A to B. :(

I am 101% certain you SHOULDN'T do this.