Stonejag

Eek, nasty! :( Bit late, but if you're only going to carry one extinguisher you'd be better off with a decent powder one. The reason is, foam is good for liquid fires (petrol...) as it floats on top, but you need a lot of it to smother any fire where it's not just in a burning pool (engine bay). Powder gives you much better smothering for the weight, which is why all the vehicle extinguishers round my work are powder ones... They aren't expensive, worth it for peace of mind though. I would see if you can get some extinguisher training booked in too - not reassuring if only your boss knows how to work them! Stone

Looks like I'll be staying standard for a bit then. Thanks!

Hi all, Samco's hose kit is listed on their website as 'Corrado VR6 UK RHD MANUAL TRANSMISSION'. Anybody know if it'll fit an auto as well? Fingers crossed it's the same deal as my insurance company, they wouldn't believe it ever came in an auto - it wasn't on their system so they put it down as a manual :bonk: Ta :) Stone

They're up in the Classifieds section now. linky

Turned out Tim's one was the wrong type! Never realised there was more than one breed of MAF, but now I know... So I'm still after one - 4-pin, please. Stone

Ahahahaha. Well said that man! In my case ('95 VR6): Bought with no driver's door handle, 'a slight leak from the oil cooler but I've fixed it', only one side of the spoiler lifting, electric mirrors on the blink ('L' moves both, 'R' moves just right - ashamed to say I adjusted them once and then left it!), boot lock seized, sunroof tilts but inches along while sliding. Had to spend £80 on petrol within ten minutes of owning it - test drive was on fumes, apparently. Coolant gauge failed on the way home. Went in for an oil change, new spoiler mech and blingy rear lights swapped for standard ones. New boot lock, sunroof motor and yellow sender acquired - motor and sender both turned out to be faulty. Two new tyres, £175. The day before it went in again for the fixed suspension to be swapped for coilovers and a few bits, one of the bonnet catches jammed, and the cable snapped when I tried to release it. Got cable replaced, suspension and oil cooler done (because previous owner told me a big fat lie) and boot lock swapped over - but it couldn't be tumbled due to a seized wafer. Got it realigned after the suspension job and also had my perished rear beam seals pointing out - but that can wait until I swap the rear calipers. Also one of the bolts was missing from the subframe (!). My replacement steering wheel wouldn't fit the existing boss so I bought a new one - which didn't quite make contact with the horn's slip ring. Once it was fitted I found the horn button didn't fit anyway...ended up swapping in a stock one. Then one of the wires on the MAF snapped off which made it run terribly - I managed to solder it back together but got a new connector to make good at a later date - and it's for a different type of MAF! Yesterday I took it to the local stealers to get some of the fabled magic sunroof grease - not only did the grease not fix the sunroof, but all the coolant fell out when I got home. Now I'm waiting for a new thermostat housing, billet crack pipe, thermostat, three senders and aux water pump so they can all be done at once. Notice I haven't mentioned the interior yet! :eek: Oh, and my torque converter needs rebuilding - which will be £300, or £1250 if the gearbox needs doing too. So no, it's not just you! :bonk: Still love the old girl though, and that's the main thing. At least, that's what I'm telling my gf... Stone

Sticky pads for me too. If you want show plates as well, you could stick a couple of neodymium magnets in (I use five strips oriented top-bottom per plate as they come in sheets of five, so stick a magnet in the centre of sticky pads 2 and 4 - the foam will compress more where the magnet is so it won't stick out) and then epoxy a couple of matching magnets to your show plates. Get the alignment right and they'd look just fine. They do stick like the proverbial though so you'd have to want them to stay put :D Stone

I spotted Gruvenparts do a billet upper radiator neck to replace the plastic part when I was looking at crack pipes. Take a deep breath before reading the price :D

Cheers chaps, PM sent :) Stone

Hi all, Lots of fretting on the way to work this morning - surging and generally crap running, then hunting at idle. A quick peek under the bonnet revealed the brown MAF wire had snapped off, but on the harness side of the connector :bonk: Looks like metal fatigue - it was sheared off right at the rubbery blue encapsulation. I cut the plug back to get access to the remaining wire and soldered it back together to get me home, but it looks a bit crap and it isn't very watertight. I'm very glad it was so easy to fix, though! :D Has anybody got a scrap harness I could cut the MAF connector off (or failing that parts to reterminate the one I have)? I only need the female connector and the couple of inches of wire after it - just enough to get a decent solder joint and some heatshrink on, really. Looks like it happened because the previous owner didn't restrain the induction kit in any way - it's just bobbing around in the engine bay under its own weight. Nipped into B&Q for some overpriced aluminium sheet on the way home so that should be sorted soon as well Stone

Garage work was cheaper than I expected :) Put me down for a RHD carbon trim panel. Stone

Today I fished the (seized rock solid, couldn't get the key in) cylinder from my boot lock out of the jar of WD40 it's been sat in for the last week. Lots of messing about with tweezers removing, cleaning, lubing and replacing the wafers and their teeny tiny springs and now I have a working boot lock again :D Took bloody ages to work out how it all went back together, there's a tiny ball-bearing on a spring which provides the detent in the three key positions which had pinged off across the room and took a lot of head-scratching...

I saw loads in the month before I bought mine - since that, only one! (and a mate was driving in his boring ford so it didn't really count ;)). Once saw three in a single trip across Cambridge city centre, there must be a little cluster or something - also a Storm parked up at the local shops. Give it time :) Stone

Top tip, thanks for that! Will these hoses do me for a front and back conversion? Sorted for a sender now, thanks Tim :) Stone

Good stuff, pm sent :)

Mine doesn't have pins in the small plug either. It puzzled me too! Give it a quick test - start the car with your foot on the brake; the light should go on, you'll hear a spring/relay go clunk and the light'll go off. It'll come back on again once the ECU realises there's something amiss (varies: 5 seconds to a few minutes of driving when one of my wheel sensors had gone kaput) but if it goes off at all you know it's working ok :) Stone

Hi all, I need a yellow 4-pin temperature sender for a '95 VR6; the one that goes in the thermostat housing. Must be tested working! (3 of the clips that hold the sensors in would be good too). Also has someone got a big pile of all the bits to do big front brakes and mk4 rears? Don't really know what I'm doing so really I'd like to buy enough bits that I can hand them all to the garage and tell them to get on with it :D Cheers Stone

I now have two of Dave's strikers (driver's side) spare - every door handle I've bought already seems to have one fitted! :D £10 each if anyone wants to save a fiver... Stone

Sorry, they did come off a VR6. I thought they were all the same, though? Stone

I've just removed these from my car: I wasn't too fond of the stiffness, and they were set up way too low for my alloys, so I swapped them over. Imagine my surprise when I spotted the Koni label! The fronts are 87 2508 Sports; couldn't spot a part number on the rears though. Under the road dirt, other than the chipped paint they all look in pretty good nick - no leaks or anything. The springs are pretty rusty - still sound underneath so they could probably be blasted and powdercoated for not too much dosh. Any ideas on value so I can get them shifted? Cheers :) Stone

Hi Trev, Do you mean 8.2k ohm? I have one of these blue Hong Kong specials and my pullup is marked '562' - multimeter confirms it as 5k6. It couldn't talk to my VR6 (just lots of clicking from the fusebox relays and a comms timeout) so this might be the answer for me... Stone

Mine did this last Friday - got a new cable in the end as mine was losing the battle anyway. Gruvenparts make a replacement clip out of billet aluminium but it costs a fortune! A bit of L-bracket with a couple of holes drilled in it would work fine... Stone

Really the 280s are fine if you can plan ahead, they're just pants at emergency manouevres which is arguably the only time you really want them! A particular bugbear is motorway drivers who pull into your stopping distance at speed and then brake hard, had a couple of near-misses like that. You don't need the horribly twitchy things that are in fashion at the moment but it would be nice for them not to struggle so much. On the bright side my disks aren't rusty any more :bonk: Stone

Thread resurrection time...anybody tried putting a DSG in one? I do like the standard auto box but it'd obviously be nicer with another gear or two to save me revving the nuts off it. In sport mode it gets to 120mph in third before changing up Stone

Thanks, that was what I was wondering. I'd better get saving! Stone