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im actually amazed theyve not been ripped out the guys hands for 160 notes :shock: theyre 17" 3 piece splits in easily workable offsets :confused4:

you can get 4x100-5x114 adaptors but theyre fairly expensive,the same companies that do 4x100-5x112 offer the larger pcd as well so places like concept.be or adaptec in the us could sort you out without the jump to widetrack

its my daily so matrix tomorrow hopefully so I can get back to work properly then brakes as soon as I get the hoses as I can get by without a handbrake just now

my ltp is the wrong kind of coupe for a project thread here lol ;) plus ive not touched it in two years plus really just due to needing a little break that ended up pushed behind a sucession of 'daily drivers'. The mk1 golf is currently waiting on new rear drums and shoes fitted to an axle I seam welded,a new master cyl;inder and a new fuel pump. Intending to get it running right then decide to go further with the KR or break the Audi and throw the 20vT into the mk1.The audi is waiting on me fabbing a down pipe to properly decat it but more to lift the front of the system and then some front coilover modifications to regain more travel and allow me to get it a bit further down. Doing as much off the work myself means stuff takes ages fitting it in between my usual two jobs :sad:

little stash... 312s for front,new rears,pads all round,handbrake cables,rear wheel bearings,heater matrix still waiting on the C&R hoses coming but thatll give me time to clean up my callipers and repaint them,hopefully get the matrix fitted tomorrow :gag: and the brakes by the end of next week

if its anything like Scotland you can only claim from a previously reported hole,you must also provide photo evidence Your wheels look easy fixable though but its still really annoying when it happens

activity filled day,done a ghetto heater bypass until I can get the matrix fitted hopefully tomorrow but I had to get the bypass sorted so I can drive any distance. Ordered some bits im just waiting on arriving at my local Ding depot which should be ready to be picked up shortly :grin:

mines just had a similar idle problem which I traced to a vacuum hose that comes out of the throttle body area and over to the air box,it had dropped down onto the exhaust heat shield. Easy enough to check and rule out but I read that idle problems could be one of a few air leaks in the vac. system. If its not that hose I mentioned listen for anything thats obviously sucking air

I ordered hoses from C+R corrado specific conversion hoses. If your looking for a supplier for them as well that is,think all in the hoses worked in at @60 quid although that was a combined front set to go to 312's as well. They have options for just the rear listed on their site

is that the guy that had it before the inverness guy? edit,found him :D cool guy :clap: was a nice day trip up to the deen and across to ness and home. Planning a similar trip in summer for the banter although will be staying clear of the A9 :mad:

I think it had abs problems and various other stuff but hoping to fix it as I go. Rear brake issue solved itself finding these in my spare room going to take them into work along with the octavia vrs calipers I bought off a mate on monday and ill give them all a rub down and paint them all the same colour and then ill pair to 312s on the front and new rear standard discs the boxster S rims ive already sold as I decided to go with some speedlines I had kicking about in my spare room... and yeah bobby ill be lowering it slightly ;) as for the project four title ive a couple other cars going and really didnt need another project project 1.slow(very slow build,hopefully not when built,to be vr'd at some point) project 2..go(tuned kr,stripped,solid mounted,poly bushed,track bound) project3...low(low)

always better than afghan spec bobby :salute:

Just put pics up in members motor,Its a kinda wine effort :D thanks for the welcomes,hoping the car holds together for a while so I can hang around :grin:

Thanks,loved my mk2 and luckily its went to a good homeI think its bordeaux,code reads lc3y :confused4: kinda fouled up progress a lot in various ways,id done a deal to swap the Koni adjustables for a set of stainless bodied fk highlines but the guy I was swapping them with couldnt get his mk3 near a garage to get his off let alone let me get mine off either then the weather started taking its toll. The roads were horrendous with the snow freezing overnight then getting more and then refreezing which led to a vac hose falling onto the exhaust header and picking up a high idle but chopped it out and replaced and rerouted it so it wouldnt happen again. Attempting to rescue my sisters car with a jump start proved my undoing though,her drive is like everest and had to really pull on the h/brake then sit for ages as her dead diesel battery(mk3 tdi)received enough of a charge to crank over.... probably something to do with the almost constant -10 degree i reckon my coolant system was verging on almost ice,looking back it was obvious I needed more antifreeze than I added when the top hose had been leaking but lesson learned but my car randomly over heated just after leaving my sisters. This turned into a nightmare as pulling over to investigate my handbrake refused to work and the inside of my car suddenly started misting up :( turns out my rear brakes are shot probably from the cables icing and the heater matrix is away which led me here for hopefully a picture filled how to to replace it :grin:

I bought the corrado from Inverness :D there were a few issues up with the car,abs disconnected,quite a few little parking dinks and a couple larger dings,ds c piller and quarter panel has seen something fall down and off it and the passenger side has fell off a jack at some point damaging the sill and wing and the rear ps quarter has had something squeeze past it,the exhaust was blowing from a few places and the brakes felt pretty bad.When I checked it over when buying it the rears looked fairly shot and the front discs were heavily lipped although had some life left on it. None of this concerned me as I was getting the car at a good price and at the time was still set on using the engine in my mk1 and it came with some decent stuff like the mint OG interior,koni adjustables and all the usual sell on when breaking bits were sound.... ran it for a few weeks sorting little bits and bobs,the exhaust got real loud real quick and looking under it on a two poster the car was solid but the exhaust had had the first silencer chopped out and was blowing from either end of the bridging pipe section as was the suitcase silencer which had seen a few repairs previously...cut it all out and replaced it with some 2 1/2" tube up to the rear scorpion silencer it sprung a leak from the top matrix hose at the factory join so chopped out the perished section and replaced with copper and rejoined it which cured it picked up a set of phase II boxster S rims and refurbed them in gloss black trialled them on and round about thinking about how to go about rolling the arches I decided I loved the damn thing as it ran sweet as a nut and was rediculously fun so Id get the arches done right and get a little paint thrown over it to straighten up the bad bits... then the weather hit

expanding a bit on my pictureless intro this is how I've came to my corrado ownership..... my old mk2 which I picked up as a solid but stock typ 19 in pretty good condition which ended up like this but I was getting worried about running it through winter so decided to sell mainly spurred on by finding a cheap mk3 dusty mauve vr with decent tax and mot although a complete bin but ideal to pull to bits for the engine.Sold the mk2,phoned the guy to sort out when to get the car to be told he'd just sold it :mad2: Needing a daily for my 70 mile commute spurred on a VR based car hunt which surprisingly turned up my present corrado...... from the previous owners for sale

falkirk,my cars originally from inverness although my old mk2 ended up in Laurencekirk along with my sisters old polo...weve kinda got a north/south car exchange thing going on lol :D

It is indeed :luvlove: ill go into some more details when I put a post up once ive passed the screening stage but its been a bit of a struggle since I decided to fix it :cuckoo:

thanks for the welcome,pics to follow shortly in appropriate section :) Im also on the vr owners forum and bein honest when I was for parting it out and keeping the engine I couldnt see any reason for joining here.......buuuut got hooked on the drive pretty quickly but since deciding to keep it the corrados been trying to get me to change my mind :lol: Couple random breakdowns and currently suffering the turkish bath optional extra

when you get the bearings from the dealers gimme a shout how much they were bobster,hitting mine up with basically the same spec soon as ive sorted the heater matrix

...but a bit of a wheel and vw whore. Sold my old mk2 at the end of last year to fund a vr donor for my mk1 but the car in question got sold and I turned up a slightly beaten up round the edges corrado VR6 which I enjoyed so much ive decided to keep and straighten up a bit. In my mid 30's with a couple or so previous vws behind me but this being my(and my familys first)rado its all new to me,just spent all afternoon on searches for little bits needing fixed mainly the heater matrix and a how to guide(chris's write up 8) :drinking: )so already had a little wander and very impressed so far :clap: