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Arrived. Thanks :)

Nice. Got amy pics of the interior?

And for comedy value I got an email saying 'my' for sale thread had been put to the holding area. It wasn't even my thread, I was actually asking if the seller had a price. It wasn't me guv! :lol:

She looks like a right dirty girl.

Mine arrived yesterday. Loved it. I thought it was great. Thanks everyone who helped produce it. It was a lovely surprise and I thought the picture itself evoked the right spirit of the car. :salute:

Two stickers for me please. Thanks.

I'm not a fan of gold... but on green cars it can, and does, work. But I'm not convinced by gold speedlines. I think for it to work there needs to be less surface area, or to go for a much darker bronze colour. But what the hell... go for it. I'm probably wrong and it might look fantastic!

Thanks again to Chris for the heater control... arrived quickly and well packaged. Good condition as described :)

I was getting tyres fitted at VW last weekend and had a sit in the Scirocco for the first time. I tried to be objective and work out if i would prefer it to the Corrado. I found it dark and bland, and as you say, borderline claustrophobic. When i got back in the Rado my mind was made up. The Corrado is a far more pleasant environment to live in! I’ve sat in a couple of new Scirocco’s and noticed that the trim level is very different. Cars with the base level of trim really do feel cheap and plasticky, to the point that the inside door handle flexed as I opened it to get out. Cars with the higher level of trim seem better but I can’t recall why (leather on the handles???). I also looked at a newish mk6 GTI and while it was a nice place to sit I found the interior quality very poor in comparison to my mk4. The switches were flimsy and the roof moved as you pressed the switches in it. They had a 1 year old mk6 GTI on the forecourt. Admittedly it had every possible gadget ever invented on it. But it was £31k for a used Golf. That’s just madness (this was about a year ago).

If they manage to last that long, the MK4, 5, 6 7, 8 et al Golfs that is. In 15 years time, no-one will be able to fix any electronic probs any more, as it´ll all be totally outdated, no new software available to fix, etc. New Roc blows piston #3 ? :nuts: The oldest ones are barely 3 years old :shock: . Ah, good chances at Stanford Hall then with a certain Mk2 Storm Roc :lol: Tempest[/quote:dd5q8se9] I was having this discussion with my brother recently. Although parts are gradually being obsoleted for the Corrado, it’s not impossible in the future that you could get some of them fabricated if absolutely necessary. But modern cars will also have electronic issues as they grow into old age and there’s not much you can do to fix those. Unfortunately I think that also means that the small specialist garages will also die out as they are less able to fix modern cars without expensive equipment. Maybe that’s because you expect a Scirocco to feel old and the experience is exactly what you expect. But with a Corrado it’s still modern enough to expect it to compare to recent cars... which it doesn’t. It’s probably just all about expectation rather than the car itself. My brother had a mk2 Scirocco Storm and I loved it.

I bought a lighting loom from v-dubstar. Good comms, arrives well packaged. Thanks :)

Thanks. lol. It's for my Golf. I used a place local to me recently and wasn't impressed.

Any recommendations? Near Kingston/Esher would be great but I'm obviously happy to travel. Thanks.

Great news. I saw you buy that :clap:

Actually enjoyed this- made me scared of the dark for a few nights! :lol: :oops: Is that the one where the girl gets dragged out of the bed by her leg in the middle of the night? Quite enjoyed that film. The end was a bit predictable though.

They sold for £730 in the end. That's a lot cheaper than the first time around.

Nugget parked near Surbiton today around 1:45 I think. Looked lovely.

I'll start... It started with this one which I came across last year after seeing a Corrado on the motorway and a "hell yeah I remember those, I've got to have one" moment hit me (yeah, yeah, I still haven't... quite... got one): I'm loving this Storm R32 vid: And I'm loving this (from about 00:25 onwards so give it a chance):

Back some time in the early 90's I had a beautiful atlas grey mk2 16v... but not the driving skills to go with it. Coming up to a roundabout I misjudged it, braked late, slid on the ice and managed to spin 360 degrees between two lines of traffic... without hitting anything. I wasn't even going particularly fast but just had no experience of driving in those conditions. I sat there gobsmacked for about a minute while cars shuffled past me.

It's gradually creeping up and still has several days to go... £310. How high will it go this time?

Is a storm really that much higher value than a non-storm? I'd put it a few hundred pounds higher but is that enough to stop you doing what you want to the car? And a more modern evolution of the same engine would be fine in my opinion. It would certainly make it more enjoyable to live with and definitely better than a fubar engine. Although I have to say that if I bought a storm then I'd keep it close to standard; certainly standard wheels, maybe lowered, maybe red rears, but that's all. However. I think supercharging or turbocharging the VR6 would be ok and I also think a 2.8 24v or R32 would be ok because it's an evolution of the same engine. I'd suggest something like a 1.8t would devalue it though. Storm R32. You know you want to...

I think he's going for the completely OEM look so I'm guessing he'd prefer to keep the original engine.

If the mileage was a bit lower then I'd probably say not to bother, but at 170k it will need them doing at some point. There's no point in having a beautiful car like that if you can't enjoy it and if you get them done then you have peace of mind for the lifetime of your ownership. Just my opinion of course. That's assuming you have the funds too.

Might be worth disconnecting the battery until you find it. Or if you prefer to keep the battery connected (to keep the alarm going and maybe if you don't know the stereo key code) then take the bulbs out temporarily to stop the battery draining.

2 or 4 door mk4 R32 depending on how frequently you need the extra doors.