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Hey guys, So, can someone clear this up for me, I keep seeing cars with the yellow high beams and I've found out looking around they're French ecode lights with yellow cap bulbs, but it's always on American sites and asking if they work on NA (which I assume means Northern America). What's the deal with these? They look great, but by the sounds of it you need french headlights, does this apply to English headlights? Cheers

He guys Quick one, I was reading that if your RPM needle doesn't move when cranking over the engine that it can be the sign of a failed crank sensor, anyone got any more info on this? I've tested resistance on it and it came back with the right resistance but there is deffo no movement of the RPM needle when cranking Cheers in Le advance

Hey fella, how much of the front indicators? both sides if you still have them

So, could someone just verify something for me as I've not driven the car in over a year, when you turn the ignition on you should be able to hear the fuel pump prime shouldn't you? and the 109 relay should click?

It has since I first got the car, been a mess in terms of the alarm and immobilizer, to the point where it came with a fob, that could arm the alarm which was a Gemini unit, but didn't do anything with the central locking and wouldn't go off when you opened the doors, had a leaflet with the car for a Thactcham 2 alarm, which doesn't exist, I hate 90's alarms. Kicker of it all is, I'm going to be removing it and then when she's back on the road, more than likely, be getting another one fitted but I need to get it removed first so I can sort out a running issue. One circuit was isolated as well, one located behind the dash and they had cut the wires back pretty far, so a full length of wire had to be replaced, so I'm expecting the same. So much joy, would be nice if I could just be happy with my Golf instead and just sell the Corrado on but I can't bring myself to do it.

I have seen the rats nest of wires pushed back behind that fuse box already, not something I care to go disturbing but I guess if I have to I have to, I'll see how it goes finding this cut wire and if no joy then I will prepare for the battle ahead

I'd planned to take the dash out anyways to try and locate where they've cut the loom so if it's still not having it then I might try and source a new loom, which will be fun in itself

Can anyone tell me, if worst comes to worst and I'm sure it won't get to that, but is it possible/fairly easy to swap out the loom that will no doubt be done for? Thinking worst case scenario

Cheers for the info, This is partly the problem, some work had been completed before this happened tbh so it was having starting issues, but you can tell there's nothing getting power so it's probably going to be best to get this sorted first and then when I know everything is working again can look at other issues. Thanks for the info though, I've been told it will more than likely be behind the dash somewhere but also told it could be down the side, again I didn't remove it so I had no idea where the wires went, tempted to get an auto spark to have a look but I know it will cost me if I go that route.

Hey everyone, Is there any one here who knows about after market fitted alarms from back in the day, my Corrado was fitted with an after market alarm, I can't tell you what make it is, I have a picture of the box that was fitted if it helps, but I lost the key for it a while back, the car hasn't been on the road for a while so I had a friend who's "thactham approved" try to remove it. It's seriously a mess now, managed to get the normal electrics sorted so the sun roof/dash/usual stuff now comes on, partly caused by a dicky ignition switch which I've replaced, but now when you turn the key on it doesn't appear to prime the fuel pump and no voltage to the ECU by the looks of it, 109 relay is working but I've ordered a new one just to be on the safe side. Anyone know where they would have cut in to the loom to stop this, the ignition live at the fuse box had been cut, pretty sure it's thatcham so there must be another cut somewhere.

Steve, what are you doing!!

Cheers for the info fella, I was debating it myself but I hate wiring. Did you do the 24v conversion then? Did it all go smooth or was there problems? Cheers

Hey guys, Sorry, I know this has been covered but I couldn't find the information in the 24v thread, but can anyone tell me the company who will do the loom conversion, I believe you can send the VR6 loom and the 24v loom off to them and they will do all the wiring for you. Cheers

Has anyone seen this before, Intermittent wipe and first fast wipe not working, but then top setting does work fine? Fuuuu electrical gremlins :bonk:

So by the responses there are a few who use their C's as daily's, but for most they have some kind of practical daily and just have the C as a weekend fun car. I have to admit it has been nice being able to get over speed bumps without having to slow to a grinding stop and up setting other drives behind me, but the thought of selling my Corrado just doesn't seem possible, I've done too much to it now, moon roof, climate control... fixed the damn spoiler so it works correctly, would be a massive shame to sell it. Never been such a true statement, I miss getting thumbs up off people who appreciate the car, a lot of people in my work want to see it once it's back on road as well

Well, it's funny because I have been toying with the idea now of keeping the Golf, in an ideal world I would have both, but I was dropping off my girlfriend and I happen to come across a Corrado, and I'd been telling myself how good the Golf looks but seeing a C sat there look lowered, I instantly wanted to drive mine. Plus, I'd been using the Golf for a bout 4 months and was storing the Corrado, then I decided to move it and I thought here we go, it will feel terrible now... but once I started it and heard that exhaust tone... just didn't feel like it would bother me all that much reverting back. God help me if I do and my girlfriend finds out you can only use one window at a time, that's going to bring up a discussion :D I don't think the Golf has that much more than the C as well, bar a few little things that I doubt I'd miss, auto wipers (rarely work right and find myself manually turning them on), auto dimming mirror and a few other bits and bats Guess I'll have to drive the C again and see how it feels, maybe I'll sell the Golf and get a practical car like Jamie to make the C feel even more fun

Hey guys, Wouldn't mind seeing what peoples opinions are on this, hopefully someone may have had to do similar and give some advice So, I had a Corrado VR6 for about 3 years, utterly loved it to bits but had to take it off the road as the headgasket went, I went out and replaced it with a MK5 Golf GTI, with aspirations of going back to the Corrado, and when I first got the Golf I was disappointed due to the fact that it felt slower than the Corrado, now my Rado is very close to being back on the road and I'm debating if to keep the Golf and spend some money on it, or going back to the old girl Anyone had to do this, go from a modern car with some nice features back to an older car?

Is this still up for sale or has it been sold?

Right, guess I'm ringing my insurance in the morning to find out the deal with this

Hmmmm, I might see if I have windscreen cover in my policy, I was always under the impression not to do this because it counts as a claim

Car is getting close to being back on the road but my windscreen has cracked, Anyone breaking any Corrado's or have one around Pics would be nice and a price cheers

Anyone got any info on what software to use for scanning OBD1 VR6's, I've got a converter from OBD2 - OBD1 however VAGCOM won't read any codes as it won't detect the ECU Also does anyone know if VAGCOM on an OBD1 VR would help find out a no start issue, I always thought the on board diagnostics were very limited on OBD1 but I'm being told to scan it Any help would be great thanks

Hopefully someone might have some insight on this, I've had an auto spark remove the after market immobiliser that was fitted as it has never worked right and due to a none starting issue I wanted to at least rule it out as being a possible problem. So the spark has removed it and found the ignition wire that had been cut, it seemed a bit sketchy of an install given the wire they'd cut was a thick gauge piece of wire and spliced in a very small wire which I would have thought what have caused issues but it's all back connect as normal now and turns over without using the fob, so happy days. One thing is the guy wasn't sure about the single black wire that was left on the ignition connector block and I noticed the sunroof and spoiler wouldn't work until you used the immobiliser fob then it would all come on and the dash lights would come on, now although it turns over the sunroof doesn't work. Anyone know where the black wire goes to as I'd imagine it's that which is causing the issue.

I'm wondering if I've managed to drag some fuel through when I moved it and that's what burnt off when I got it to fire but now it's just all the off fuel that has been in the tank that is coming through, so am I right in thinking that if I take off the top hose and put it into a container I can turn it over to get some fresh fuel through?

So I've been out today after work and put some fresh fuel in, I was going to take it off the axle stand but I didn't get chance, but I have taken the top fuel line off and there is fuel in there but I have to say it smells... funky. It sort of smells more like turps than petrol and you can't really see any fumes coming off it either, I'm guessing it has gone off (if fuel can go off) and the new fuel I have put in hasn't run through yet so I think I'm going to take the fuel lines off and run the new fuel through. I checked the spark plugs as they were new when I put them in and they're sparking fine but thinking back when I moved to where it is now it was a pig to get started but at the time I was jumping off a small battery and it had been stored for a year at that point and its had another 5 months on top of that now.