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Ok so TAG is coming up for MOT time so i'm preparing it to be ready have a few questions whilst im checking over all my lighting 1 - The inner chambers on the headlights don't seem to come on under any function? whats should these do? 2 -The Normal Beam and full beam are in one chamber via a H4 bulb, is this right or should it be one beam for one chamber? which would explain point 1.... 3 - The fogs aren't working at all, the switch is lit up via the interior lighting and all plugged in as normal, bulbs in the rear clusters ok, haven't had a chance to check the fronts yet, could this be a simple case of a fuse? 4 - The Rear Lights have the tops tinted red, and i have red side repeaters, im assuming the red flash for indicators would mean an MOT failure as they should flash amber, is this correct? If so all red rears will have to be stripped down and then tint film bought post MOT :( Any help mega appreciated, Thanks!

Ideal thanks Scott :) Yeh got the spare paint. Taken all the pics of your old progress thread to keep with the service history for the car, got a nice build up for the car then.

Yes yes triple yes :) Love it

well Tag is home, collected from the impound in Liverpool today, being MOT'd this weekend, windscreen ordered and being fitted tomorrow or friday, headlight ordered, exhaust being wleded up before MOT :) Gave it a very quick clean, 2 bucket method, 3 mitts. It really needs a clay and polish so that will be done very very shortly, also started to slowly chuck my audio in, come pay day i can really start work but for the minute im just glad to have it on my drive sitting looking bang on :) Only took 2 random teaser pics until i get to a good photo location :) And one of my setup for working inside the car at night haha....

So all in all would it be worth reverting back to KR? Friend of mine has a KR head also so may be able to port and polish the inlet manifold for me :)

So in theory thats going to be more torquey and slightly less rev happy im guessing? not sure what id rather have

Being new to the corrado and new to the 16v engines as my previous car was a VR6 my car has a kr 1.8 16v engine and is apparantly fitted with ABF cams? What effect would this have and what are the advantages/disadvantages of this modification?

door speakers yes, dash speakers and rear speakers are still in? and working as used radio on way up. had no idea about the strut or exhaust tho! :( what part of the exhaust? the manifold and decat went on not long ago and rest of the system was apparantly ok according to the garage that fitted! sorry buddy, glad your at least happy apart from that though!

dougie if you weren't aware thats not a problem, its the insurance issue thats caused the car to be impounded. I did try and phone so don't know what happened there? Hope the golf's alright, will miss it badly

Cheers al for the responses, trust me i know its a schoolboy error and i feel a bit of a dick for whats happened but there we go. It will be back on my drive very very soon and work will begin. Scott thanks, may take you up on that once i start work, did mean to PM you to let you know ive got the car but completely forgot

I know my own cock up for not checking paperwork, 7 working days to collect the car, going to collect it in the next few days then set about preparing for MOT, just really want to get cracking on it and get it looking immaculate. :)

Ok so Saturday 19th March 2011, drove from Cornwall to Scotland to swap my White VR6 Golf for G811 TAG, the nugget 16v Corrado previously owned by a few on here. On arrival nearly all good, Car drove nicely, however cracked windscreen, kurbed wheels and cracked headlight, but then again to me these wer easily resovable issues once i could drive the car home, Happy days. Paperwork was signed and off we go, now i will admit at this point i made a critical error and did not check all of the paperwork, i found out the consequences of this on the M6 on the journey back to Cornwall... Blue lights... pulled over, turns out the MOT had expired on February the 11th 2011, now lukily the police were happy to let me drive the car home... that is they were until t turned out my insurance hadn't made the switchover i requested by phone that morning,... so thanks to their cock up i also was not insured... brilliant. Passenger of mine not insured to drive other vehicles, so TAG is now impounded in Liverpool until i travel with my step dad to collect it and then sort my insurance, replace bits and get the car MOT'd.... So that in brief is the story of my first day with my new Nugget Corrado, however i have big pans in mind, the guy who i bought the car from is dougievr6 who i tried to contact but will not answer calls. But im accepting my losses and moving on, using whats happened as a big kick to make the car what it deserves to be! scott-mk3 on here did a lot of very hard and detailed work to the car with the bodywork and interior, my plan is to continue this, the wheels will be treated to a full professional refurb, windscreen replaced and genuine mint condition headlight is in the post already. I want to keep a lot of the body OEM, whilst maintaining a very high standard and keeping the car low and stanced (already in the works) also plan to strip down and clean up the engine, thinking a lot of polished items will go down a storm with a possible engine change next year but have bigger plans first So there we go! will keep this thread updated as i go, with the first update coming when i can relese it from impound this week!!