Jim

Not entirely that clear cut John - my G60 was a J reg and had the facelift exterior, but pre-facelift interior... so as John mentions had the raised bonnet, slightly more flared arches, etc but interior was all early switchgear - so slider heater controls, electric window switches higher up the door car and not on the door pod, etc..

Spotted a slightly different Corrado on the way back from my folks this evening - on the A47 near Wisbech, heading in the direction of Kings Lynn - black with a fair bit of modification including a rather large rear spoiler! Anyone on here?

Now surplus to requirement, and bought in error.. genuine VR6 hub (the bit you press into the wheel bearing) complete with ABS ring. Brand new and unfitted. RRP from VW for these is over £100, I paid £76, and I don't want to mess my local dealer around by trying to return it after they discounted it. £60+postage (will cost a few quid as it's fricking heavy!) Cheers.

Not necessarily saying its better looking than a Corrado, Wendy.. Its a different beast altogether. As Baz says if you need practicality but still want some fun then hard to beat something like this. And now I have to say having had the Octavia for the better part of a year its nice having something modern, rattle free, reliable, comfortable whilst retaining the performance. It doesn't have to be black and white.. I like this and the Corrado. As well as many other cars. I can appreciate it on its own merits!

Stunning. Absolutely awesome machine :)

Welcome to the forum :)

Graph now attached for the comfort kit, as mentioned by Vince a few posts up :)

LOL - brilliant :)

Always admire those users who take the time to do things like this, and then write up their experiences for others. Good work mate :)

Well it would seem that the mystery is over.. I think the new old stock CV joint is indeed the wrong part in the right box and must be for something else. I picked up the CV joint from Euro Car Parts earlier and have just got home and tried it in the new hub - and what do you know, it slots right in. It does appear to have the flared splines however as gets about half way then requires some force to tighten up.. that's no big deal though. I also suspect it'll fit into my existing hub too meaning purchase of a brand new hub was probably an un-necessary expense after all. What a complete pain in the backside but at least getting somewhere now.

The gauge cluster seems to be for LHD unfortunately.. but I know we had a run on the gauge clusters and Neil ordered a whole load - so hopefully that woke up some computer in Wolfsburg and got an order put in for some more in RHD :)

How about getting some of you guys along to the meet that Wendy has been trying to get off the ground? :) It's on weeknights, trying to do it once a month and putting it in various locations - so we've been to Southam, Oxford, near Solihull and this month we're just outside of Northampton..

Cheers for the pics - but no - the splines in my hub are dead straight and not raised at the end like yours are... you simply can't even start to push the hub onto the CV joint as it immediately stops making me think the number of splines are mismatched or they're a different width or something. I've double checked the part number of the hub with ETKA and they definitely ordered me the right one - the CV joint has to be wrong :(

Must be a TPS thing - my dealer neglected to mention that. And no chance to get over to the lockup.. the CV is already fitted to the car I've just got no time to get over there and look at the thing now until next week some time probably. I'll be interested to see if the CV from Euro Car Parts fits into the hub I already have though.

Have ordered the GKN/Lobro one from Euro Car Parts... will go pick it up at lunch time! Not going to be able to afford to get the car back on the road this month now though as it needs tax and a full wheel alignment too.. sodding thing :| Worth mentioning that the new hub doesn't appear to have tapered splines - they look dead straight the whole way through the hub...

I just rang VW to find out how much a CV joint was - £167 :( I'm a stickler for using genuine parts but that's at least 3 times the price of every other CV joint out there - 4x as much as one from VWSpares. I'm a stickler for using genuine parts but that's just a step too far so I think a pattern part is going to have to be the compromise. Fed up. edit.. Ordered the EuroCarParts one - not on the shelf but could get it for me by 11am. They did two versions - the cheap and expensive. I went for the expensive at £69 which is a GKN/Lobro which seems to be German made and gets the thumbs up on a couple of forums as being pretty decent.. a fair compromise.

Can confirm that the hub does indeed have 36 splines and that it doesnt seem to have any weird compressed spline or anything - they're straight. Will have to try and get back to the garage to count the splines on the CV joint fitted to the car but it's sounding like a new CV joint is indeed going to be the order of the day.. and will also potentially mean that my existing hub is actually fine so this one was a waste of money.

Reading that document, I'm wondering if the CV joint I have is old enough to be made BEFORE the compressed splines were made, and the new hub has the compressed splines... I'll have to nip out to the car and check (I bought it back from the lock-up with me!) - will do so after eating my dinner :)

Not seen Stoney around these parts for a long time and Kev reckons they never had to touch or do anything with the CV joints, hub nuts, etc so not guilty of interfering. I knew it wouldn't have been Neil / Kev anyway given their penchent for actually doing stuff properly / using genuine parts. ---------- Post added at 7:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 7:19 PM ---------- The CV joint will not slide into the hub at all - it stops as soon as the splines begin to interface..

Good idea mate but I'm just in one of these busy periods where I literally do not have a day spare (including weekends) for weeks... so only leaving evenings and lunchtimes at work to do anything. It's driving me f@cking nuts. I think your suggestion of buying a new hub flange and a CV joint from ECP and seeing what fits where so I can isolate the fault is the only option. Wishing I hadn't bought a genuine VW hub now (a staggering £76 even with a hefty discount). That'll teach me for only wanting to fit genuine parts!

Haven't looked actually... might get a little time tomorrow evening so could go try and have a look. I think it's going to end up coming to that. Just a pain in the backside - I'm out virtually every lunch time at the minute driving to VW or some other place to pick up or get jobs done for this piece of work. Ugh.

OK - this may be a bit rambling but I'm pretty desperate for some help / advice so... I'll try and keep it to the point! Did some work a few months ago on my VR and found upon taking the drivers side wheel off it was fitted with a 6 sided hub nut bolt and washer rather than the 'correct' 12 sided hub nut. We went to replace it with the correct item, only to find it wouldn't go on leading us to believe the CV joint was wrong for the car. I sourced a New / Old Stock CV joint from a friend on the forum and we set about swapping the CV joint. The part number on the box for the CV joint seemed to confirm it was correct for a VR6. Prior to fitting it to the car, we test a 12 sided nut on it and it would go on - so we fitted it to the car. Subsequently I found then that we could not put the hub back onto the car as the splines in the CV joint and in the hub didn't seem to match up. I've just ordered (at significant expense from VW) a replacement genuine hub and been over to my garage this evening and found that it will not go onto the CV joint either! To say I'm ****ed off would be an understatement. Most amusingly the old CV joint will slide into the new hub just fine. So now the situation I have is: Old CV joint - won't take correct hub nut, but does fit new VR6 hub. New CV joint - will take correct hub nut, does not fit into new VR6 hub. So either VW have supplied me with the wrong hub or the CV joint is wrong. Can anyone advise please. I was hoping to get the car back on the road in the next few weeks to take it to the PistonHeads Sunday Service.. :( Thanks.

Knowing how many people on this forum have had bad experiences of rebuilt engines, I'd never buy something that hadn't even been run in first.. just too much of a gamble :(

It won't always be in Northampton - we're moving it round the Midlands / Warwickshire to try and get different people to come to it.. just so you know. So far we've had it in Southam, Oxford, near Kenilworth and now Northampton!

Would like to know what they cost. So was a 'tick' option on the options list then? Any idea what years they were available, etc?