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    Lol fair enough dono if you can courier them?

     

    I've looked into it before. Think the cheapest quote I got was £30. You're then trusting a courier company to not **** it up and bend it in some way!

    Do me a favour and check the paint code for me and I'll have a think. If it's the wrong paint code,it doesn't really matter anyway.

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    The passenger side is the duller one, I'll need to have a look at mine and see if yours is any brighter. The reason I need one is because mine is quite dull and I have a feeling it'll fail it's MOT because of no beam pattern.

     

    How do you remove the reflectors? Can it be done through the front of the headlight after removing the glass. Or do you need to remove the whole headlight and take it out from the back?

    Reason I ask is because I can't get the full headlight out because the middle, low down screw is completely rusted through.

     

    Cheers

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    The passenger side is the duller one, I'll need to have a look at mine and see if yours is any brighter. The reason I need one is because mine is quite dull and I have a feeling it'll fail it's MOT because of no beam pattern.

     

    How do you remove the reflectors? Can it be done through the front of the headlight after removing the glass. Or do you need to remove the whole headlight and take it out from the back?

    Reason I ask is because I can't get the full headlight out because the middle, low down screw is completely rusted through.

     

    Cheers

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    I'm with HIC on a classic limited mileage policy, paying approx £250 for the year. Towards the end of the year I'm planning on buying a BMW 330ci, which I'll be applying my no claims discount to. After talking to HIC it turns out that on a classic car policy, how many years no claims you have doesn't really make much difference to the cost of the policy. So any company offering a classic car policy for a Corrado should be relatively cheap.

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    Value Line doesn't extend to things like Air Flow meters, interior plastics / trims or other large, not often changed components. Those items cost huge sums. Try £450+VAT for a retractable load cover for my old 5 series Tourer (why you see so many tourers without load covers). Try £550+VAT for a wiper Mechanism. Try £100 each for ignition coils, etc etc. And don't even ask about replacing recirculating ball steering boxes or A/C parts. This is what I mean about German cars costing you regardless and it just so happens that the 6 cyl ones are more expensive because everything is over-engineered on those and there's 6 of everything. BMW also totally over wheel and tyre their cars, which prematurely wears out control arms. Using like for like parts quality, BMWs *ARE* more money to run than a comparable VAG, no question. And shall we mention the cracking boot floor E46s suffer from?

     

    Sure there are cheaper aftermarket parts but you'd be a plum to fit them to a BMW, Ms especially. Ms rely on their chassis being tip top otherwise the handling goes to c0ck. Cheap febi or Meyle arms with the pre-fitted bushes are a false economy as you'll be replacing them again after 2 years.

     

    E46s handle OK but in common with virtually all BMWs, there's bugger all feedback and a horrible vagueness on the straight ahead, and the engine is suprisingly flat below 4000rpm for a 3.0. My old 325i E30 felt gutsier low down than the 330s I've driven.

     

    I'm sorry but I just don't like E46s at all, except the M3. I'd take an E34 5 series over those any day. They are the last of the properly built BMWs imo.

     

    The only BMWs I'd ever own would be an S54 engined Z3M Coupe, an E39 M5, once the big end shells have been done and the rust cured, or a mint E34 M5 Nurburgring edition.

     

    This post has scared me a little bit!

    Seen as Kev does appear to know his stuff, I'm considering going back to my original plan of going for an 8L version of an Audi S3.

    Or is there the possibility of gigantic repair bills with this too?

     

    Kev, any input greatly appreciated.

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    Winter tyres are a lot cheaper in 16" for the Corrado, plus it's a lot cheaper to repair if I do end up sliding in to a kerb! I know it might be a bit blasphemous to some on here, using a Corrado as the winter car, but the way I see it is that it keeps it on the road, and I can't bring myself to break it. It's a little tatty, so not really worth that much if I try to sell it.

     

    I've looked at the insurance situation and it looks like it's going to cost me approx £200 for the Corrado on a classic policy with limited mileage of approx 3k. BMW should be about £500/£600 with the 5 years NCB applied.

  20. Posted

    I'm going for an E46 330Ci in November, when my 5 year NCB kicks in, it was a toss up between that and an S3. I'm still keeping my Corrado though, but as it's only an 8v daily it will be mainly used as the winter car. Rear wheel drive and low profile tyres are absolutely useless in the snow and ice etc.

     

    I've been looking at the Club Sport editions too, but I can't get past that ugly rear spoiler, really let's it down. It looks like something your buy from Halfords.

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    To be honest you're not really going to gain any bass with 13cm components, they only produce mids & highs. You will need some type of sub or at worst some 6x9's for any discernible bass. I've got some JBL components up front, that we're cheap as chips from eBay running off a 4x50w Kenwood head unit, the head unit does have a decent onboard amp though. In the back is an active 8" Alpine sub that was around £100 from eBay, even though it's only 8" it gives a really decent amount of bass

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    Classic green Corrado on cream coloured D90s. Spotted early afternoon (i think) yesterday going down Kirkstall Road in Leeds, just heading passed the cinema complex... i was in a blue Passat estate - prob why you looked a tad confused and didnt expect a thumbs up!

     

    Looked v nice 8)

     

     

    Ooh, I need to see this car. I'm in Bradford with a Classic Green Corrado with cream Borbet C's!

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