4eyes2wheels

Changed the grill badge for a much shinier one, washed it and polished in with Colour Magic polish - not convinced that stuff is any good!

bearing in mind a Clifford Arrow 5.1 can be installed by a local company for £200 . . .

When I bought my VR6 there was only one key and one alarm fob. I have finally got around to having a key cut and am about to get a new alarm fob. This will cost £65 minimum with a possible £30 extra to get the code sorted (apparently). So nearly a hundred quid . . . The alarm is a Clifford Concept 300 that was fitted in 2001. It has gone off for no apparent reason a few times in the last month. So do you think I'd be better getting a new alarm fitted now? BTW Halfords are doing Sparkrite alarms for £20 instead of £100 but I wouldn't be looking at one of those. So thought please and prices fitted if possible. Anyone on the forum a mobile alarm fitter by any chance?

73k on mine but it does get used (a little bit)

I remember looking at fuses when one of my mirrors stopped moving and found that the mirrors and the reversing lights were on the same fuse.

In an attempt to keep my seats in good nick I'm thinking about some seat covers, for the fronts at least. But I don't want anything baggy, saggy and sad looking. I also want to be able to have the seat handle / seat belt holder accessible. Anyone know where to look please? Thanks

During the recent cold spell both my doors were very hard to open. Even now we are enjoying warmer weather, the drivers door still needs to be opened quite deliberately. I'm assuming these are the symptoms that go before the breakages mentioned in this thread. If this is correct please can you PM me all the details for purchasing a pair of repair kits. Thanks.

That is impressive. I was looking a few years ago and there was a one owner VR6 in Shetland with some ludicrusly low mileage, but I didn't have the guts, time or money to buy it. It would probably have been rubbish having done thousands of 2 mile journeys and been ravaged by very salty rain. (5 months for me)

Got mine yesterday - thanks very much.

Like some other forum members I have a Corrado and a motorbike. Neither gets driven / ridden very often and I feel like I am paying over the top for insurance. I have heard of 6 wheel insurance that is designed to address this situation. I have heard that Carole Nash offer this dual policy. Anyone use it or know of other companies offering similar?

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HT leads - not sure what the garage got in - VW, Beru or some cheap cr4p. Anyway his professional opinion was it wasn't worth the £61 plus labour to change them. Which was very honest of him. I believe mine has a coil pack rather than a distributor . . . It is really damp and nasty foggy weather around here at the moment and on the admittedly short drive home things were fine. An early suggestion was to disconnect / reconnect the MAF sensor lead. I didn't disconnect it but made sure it was nice and tight. Anyway seems to be running smooth. It's nice to have ABS working and the ride / handling are better with the suspension arm replaced.

Update from the garage (Volkspeed in Ashtead, Surrey) They said the new HT leads they got delivered were pretty average and the ones I had on there were not that bad to be repalced by these new ones (a bit odd but very honest!). Of more interest was that there is an air leak which they failed to track down in the time available but is not SO bad to be a problem but may well be the cause of the stutter (which hasn't been apparent for a while anyway). Exhaust is blowing at the from so a new gasket there and will get them to sort the air leak at the same time. ABS sensor changed and light out and ABS working again plus from suspension arm replaced. Another 200 quid for the privelege of driving the finest handling front wheel drive car of the 1990s . . . . .

I often see the question "early or late" or things like "early exhaust needed" and I wonder is my 1993 VR6 considered early or late?

A couple of things are marring the appearance of my car. A small "ding" from the point of a door or something on the front of the fornt wing and a dent on the wheel arch of the same panel. Neither are a massive problem nor massively obvious but the seem to leap out of the pictures I take or when I look down the car having cleaned and waxed it. Question is what can I expect to pay to have these knocked out / rolled out / repaired? Any recommendations for where to go or who to call around the Epsom area? Thanks

Prised the keys back out of Mrs 4eyes hand - she's been using the C in the bad weather recently in preference to her 3 series soft top.

Two please. Thank you.

Ahhhhh! Right that sounds like a low cost fix and something to defintely investigate. Thanks.

I've been doing this with motorbikes for years. Buy one, love it, ride it, tinker with it, leave it in the garage for a while, think I'm losing money on it, sell it, 3 months later I've bought another and back to square one. Done this literally 5 times and now have something a little older (so depreciation is long gone like with the Corrado) and it does the job - great fun when I want it to be, occassionally needs a few hundred quid spent etc. As someone else said, if you are not doing loads of miles is it such a problem? Costs more and never quite the same selling and buying again etc unless that is the joy in C ownership for you? Findong one, doing it up, making it yours etc . . . Like my very handsome friend who loves going on the pull but hates being in a long term relationship . . . .

Best car for the snow - my mums old 1968 VW Variant Estate - rear wheel drive, rear engined. She used to stick a sack of spuds in the front bonnet luggage space and could tackle anything in it.

Crikey, even I am more in control of the car when in it rather than jumping out of it. Panic in slow motion!

Mate of mine had one of these. He brought it round to mine the day he bought it, swung onto the drive and stopped an inch from my bumper. I compliment him on knowing the length of his new car so accurately and he went white saying he thought he had two feet to spare! It was a missile and sounded fantastic. And from what I remember you never had to turn the heaters on as so much heat came out of the engine!

Blue Corrado (No idea what type) M***HPE coming out of Volkspeed in Ashtead (Surrey). Was in my Red VR6. My daughter said "Blimey Dad, another Corrado, I've never seen another one!" :clap:

It was fine before they serviced it (plugs, oil, filters etc) so I think maybe the old leads are not working so well, maybe . . . anyway I will ask them to review it after they have changed the leads