Hofmiester

Great stuff, thanks a lot folks!

Welcome! I'm on my 3rd, had 2......then a 10 year break....bought No3 a few months ago ;)

Can anyone confirm that the later slam panels are model specific or not? I've found one in Blackberry but it is from a 16V however the breaker says there is no difference in the late spec slam panel, just that you can't use an early slam panel (16V, G60) on a VR6. Thanks Ron

Hi, Do you still have the slam panel and if so, is it straight and rust free? How much? Cheers Ron

Hi, Do you still have the slam panel and if so, is it straight and rust free? How much? Cheers Ron

Hi Dave, Do you still have the slam panel and if so, is it straight and rust free? How much? Cheers Ron ---------- Post added at 1:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 1:23 PM ---------- Hi Dave, Do you still have the slam panel and if so, is it straight and rust free? How much? Cheers Ron

Hi Mate, I've PM'ed over hoses. So the car has the 5 cylinder 4Motion engine? that's an unsual one! Sounds good though, I saw it advertised and nearly went to see it but as it was up for a £1000 more than the one I bought I thought I'd hold off........false economy though as I've probably spent £500 on this one now! Went to Vee Dubs this morning and managed to source the throttle stop so I now have all the parts I need :D just need to assemble it all now

Hi, That's mad, I was in Penrith too today as I picked the bonnet up from that neck of the woods. The paint on it is immaculate but just a slight colour difference at certain angles. Goos enough for now! My car is a 2.9 but if those hoses will fit then I'd like to know how much you are after for them and what colour are they? We should meet up for sure! Did you by any chance buy the dust mauve r32 powered one that was for sale in Sunderland?

I did try vdubs and they have some parts I need but the Corrado they have right now is Blue. Ideally I dont want to have to buy one that needs painting both sides as that is pricey on the prep, plus getting one in the right colour straight off is ideal. I picked up the Blackberry one today and it is mint as was painted on 14 months back, only down side is colour is ever so slightly out but only being a perfectionist. It is very straight with zero stone chips! Drive was excellent over to the lakes to pick it up though, worth the petrol alone and car runs sweet :) Would be good to meet up, I was trying to get an NE meet going but lots of people have taken their cars off the road for winter :(

My wife bought me one for Christmas from B&Q on offer. It is Tactix in black, it's a two part stackable unit with 8 drawers in total and a large cupboard at the bottom suitable for power tools in boxes etc It has a flip open top for hammers and other bulky stuff. Quality is good, drawers slide well and cabinet is sturdy, it was reduced from £120 to 70

Cheers guys, sounds easy enough. Also will give me a chance to give the rad support and crossmember a coat of paint. I found this write up that seems to cover the slam panel too. http://wiki.the-corrado.net/vr6_clutch_and_timing_chains_replacement_part_2.html

Me too, first my wife knew of it was when she found it in the garage... "Who's purple car is that in the garage?"......"ah well you see, you know how I was saying I needed a hobby...." She was ****ed with me for 2 months and then hit me with the random purchase of a £450 coat. We're square now ;)

A ton of goodies arrived yesterday, all new thermostat housings, thermostat and crack pipe etc, thermostat on mine in intermittent but as recommended by Stonejag, I'm changing all the plastics too while changing the thermostat. Ordered all new clips and screw for the interior from ARZ and they should be here next week. Should be picking up a replacement bonnet tomorrow with no dents (I really hope it is as described as its a 240mile round trip!)

Hi guys, Looking at options for getting my slam panel re-sprayed as the edge under the headlamps has some big chips and it has some rust around the radiator mounting point. Not bad, and could easily be repaired but I've seen slam panels dirt cheap and so it might be cheaper for me to buy one, clean it and prep it, have it painted and then fit it myself. If it a case of just removing the bumper, then the headlights and grille etc before slam panel or is it also attached tot he radiator etc? Cheers Ron

I found that ARZ in germany sell most of the parts needed for the heated seats 69 euros for the dash switch http://www.arz-tuning.de/shop/product_info.php/info/p2229_Heated-Seat-Switch--Driver-Pass--Side----New-Style-Int----Corrad.html loom is 125 euros http://www.arz-tuning.de/shop/product_info.php/info/p7690_Heated-Seats-Wiring-Harness---VW-Corrado.html Relays are 72 euros each http://www.arz-tuning.de/shop/product_info.php/info/p7905_Control-Unit-Relay-for-Heated-Seats---fits-a-wide-variety-of-VW-and-Audi-models.html So James's loom is a saving but surely there must be another type of relay that can be used. What is so special about the VW ones?

And so the quest for perfection begins...... Welcome and have fun, nothing is quite as unreliable as a Corrado (apart from an Alpha) but then they are soooo much fun when they work ;)

Is that airbox the wrong way around? if you look at the place where the MAF mounts in, it is on the wrong side?

I think there are 2 types of Corrado owners. 1) Understand that these cars may be cheap to buy but at the end of the day, they are not cheap to maintain properly and you need to be prepared to cough up to keep them mint. 2) Have owned MK2 Golfs or other VWs and presume you can run a Corrado in the same way by cutting corners to avoid paying for genuine parts. Lucky for me, this car was babied by the owner that had it from 2004 up until 2010 and spent litterally thousands at dealerships and Stealth Racing.....after that though, it seems to have been maintained by it's owners who have made do with whatever second had parts they could get and their own mechanical skill. Wiring is not bad at all now that I've spent a few hours on it and having been an elecrician (although domestic) I feel I've done a good job with it. The only issues have been with Alarms, the rest is spot on although someone cut the ends off the rear speaker cables and rather than splice a new bit on the end. I've added better cables and soldered them to the speakers etc Other bodges were with cheap gear knob replacements, non original carpet mats, painted orange front indicators to cover the cracks, flickering DDI dials, lots of nasty chrome bit added. But aside from that, it is a sound base to build on over the next 6 months...... I've just dropped £50 with ARZ in Germany for all new clips for the carpet, door pins, door card clips, door striker pins etc that are all obsololete here in the UK. I will be doing this properly!

Cheers guys, I got another 3 hour stint at it today and I've almost completely removed all the bizarre wiring now, anoying but satisfying ;) Tracker is not a big issue now that I know what it is, baffled me to start as it has marking text as you would expect to see on a mobile phone device. Will get a pic of everything nice and tidy before I'm done. I properly sorted out the JBL crossovers today and mounted them behind the dash, all wiring neat and tidy. Also added new wiring for the rear speakers as the original wiring has been chopped. I spent a year as an electricians apprentice when I was 17 and my old gaffer would have never stood for untidy wiring like this! I striped down the blower motor as it was starting to whine on start up, cleaned with electrical contact cleaner and re-greased. Absolutely silent now! I also found out why my rear windscreen heater wasn't working, the fuse had blown and I've replaced it.....working fine now! Just need to work out why the heater direction control is jammed before I out it all back together. ---------- Post added at 6:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 6:49 PM ---------- Wheel and gear knob have hit the spot, the wheel looks even better after a good clean and a spruce up with some new dye. While the leather surface was spot on, the colour had started to fade a bit at the top where it gets direct sunlight. Will get some pics of that up soon.

Pm sent mate

Where abouts are you mate? I'm also interested

Cheers mate, I've sorted a lot of it now and the sensible side of me says just leave the box and wires there as they are not harming anything but it bugs me and I like things tidy ;) Interior on mine has a few bodies too on the door cards, lots of clips missing and some fool has glued the door handle trims to the leather after they had broken the clips. I have new trims and will need to soak the leather in something to ease off the glue. Also, pretty much half of the dash screws are missing for some reason, I'll be replacing those too. Starting to think I paid too much for this car :( although I was very happy to see there is no rust what so ever in the rear quarters :) ---------- Post added at 10:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:15 PM ---------- Just did a search on the numbers stamped on the box and it is indeed an old tracker unit, so that wiring can all come out.

Decided to get up early this morning to fit my new stereo that my wife bought me for Christmas.....I told her I would be an hour tops......7 hours later the dash of the car is still in pieces and all the trim is out :( Basically I stared my removing the dash under trays as the stereo loom had been spliced and diced so many times that I just wanted to clear that all out and start again. But when I removed the fuse box cover, I found this bundle of joy hanging down. Notice the are cut wires here, fuse holder and all sorts. Having traced the wiring, it seems to be the remains of an old alarm system that is no longer functional. The downside is that the current alarm system has been grafted onto this old one, making it very hard to trace what is live. Took me 3 hours of tracing wires to work out what is what :( I also found a huge bundle of wires under the sill carpet, some of it is for the amp in the boot but the rest is just crazy.....I had to find out where it goes At the end of the cables, I found this heavy steel box stashed in the rear drivers side quarter? It isn't live as the is no fuse in the holder connected to it, but there are a shed load of cables coming from it. My thoughts are that this is either the original alam system control module or a tracker device? I'm going to remove it at some point but for now, I tidied up the loom under the dash, fuse box and removed all the sliced dead wires. I knew I spent a year as an electricians apprentice for a reason :)

She'll looks to be in good nick, interested to see how you get on with this one!

If you want to fit an engine with 20bhp less then go ahead ;) Seriously though, I would wait for a 2.9 to become available. Also the later golf 2.8 engines had obd2 where as the corrado is obd1, this means you'll have to change the Ecu and loom. Easier to buy a 2.9