Benjevw

Haha so if I balance two glasses of red wine on them when I do my Corrado it'll go down without a problem !! Lol They were a pretty tight fit to begin with because of the anti slip felt on the bottom ! I can just about get them in but have to slightly bend the wood! I used a drill with sandpaper attachment thing on it and just ground away the corrosion. Turns over lovely now! With the tensioner, would leaving it in oil overnight give it more tension or does that happen after it's been started and oils pumped around the engine? Ben

Haha ill chuck them in at additional cost

Hi guys Had these a while now but not wanting 17s anymore! 17" 5x120 7 1/2 and 8 1/2 They've been split down for refurb but I've sort of lost intrest in them. They're a lovely set of wheels when returned and look awesome on mk4 golfs and newer vws. All barrels apart from 1 are ok with a few curb marks iirc will need to be re polished tho. 1 of them has a tiny crack on the back but I'm sure it wouldn't cost much to be welded up! Centres need rubbed/blasted down and re sprayed as do centre caps bolts have been wire brushed of all the crap so will need to be painted/polished. Ill get some pics up tomorrow. There's some in my members thread but ill get some better/ more recent ones up asap Only one on my phone Nearest person to 100 quid takes them Collection only Flitwick Bedfordshire

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Hey man Interested In the powder coated mani Where bouts are ya in London? Would ya do 25 collected if ya not too far? Ben

Went for an interview at autoglass last Monday and got chatting to one of the interviewers about my car! was saying he loves them! :D Apparently there was a guy at the Birmingham branch with a lovely g60 he was telling me about! Anyone on here maybe? Also popped into my local GSF yesterday to get some parts. After giving me the total I said " oh yeah, I've got one of these aswell", handing him my ccgb card.. "Well!... That's bloody lovely" Gave it a good inspection and passed it back with a smile ! It is a proper classy card though! I love it! Ben

Had a go at timing yesterday. Followed the timing chain wiki guide from here but have a few questions. I'm thinking because I'm re-using the chains they may have stretched a little? When fitting the crank/intermediate chain I found the mark to be out a couple of mm I got the chain as tight as possible on the front side and left all the slack on the tensioner side, tried this a few times on both intermediate sprocket marks (12 and 6 o'clock) but couldn't get it any closer. I set the cam timing with some funky coasters and re-fitted the head. Fitted top chain with no slack on the front side and as little slack as possible between the two cam sprockets. Fitted top timing cover and top tensioner hand tight just to check the timing was ok. Turned the engine over 2 full revolutions and tried to re-fit the cam lock but don't seem to line up that well! I can just about get the coasters in when forced in but seem to have gone a bit too far clockwise? So is this just because the chains may be stretched a little? Don't see how I can get the marks any closer! Cheers Ben

Ill have a set for a vr6 aswell please! Also no emblem. Nice 1 Cheers Ben

Hey man, have you got any standard amber good condition side repeaters? If so how much posted? Ben

Added my name earlier 👍 When it said number of people I put 1 but my mates probably coming with me now. Hope that's ok . Ben

Things went to plan :D

Should be signed up later if all goes to plan :)

I bought some cheapo set off ebay Item no. 230817998096 They don't look the best but the fit was good . Havent actually torqued any up with it yet so it could still turn out to be sh!te!! 😅 Ben

Hey guys Would it be possible to pay on the day? Or maybe could you put my name down just to secure a place and ill sort out a payment asap? I would pay now but still having money difficulties! Was meant to give one of you £10 last Sunday at the AGM but didn't see anyone! Never been to Stanford hall before but definitely want to go to this!! Cheers Ben

This will be the first one ill miss for years :( have a good day guys Ben

The only Sunday I have to work this year !!! Laaaaame

****BNH spotted on the cranfield road near Milton Keynes . Dark coloured, parked at a building site just off the road!

I got to my car last night after work, pressed the blipper and as usual it blipped, but didnt unlock!! Stood there for a few minutes locking and unlocking it but nothing happened! Got into it with the key and went home. Got home and noticed the windows wernt working either. Had a quick browse on here and straight away got given the answer :D There's a fuse and relay placed above the main fuse board that's pretty hard to get to/see at first but after removing the lower dash bit it was easier to see! [ATTACH]73467[/ATTACH] Situated above the relay at the top of pic. Next to my finger. Swapped it over and everything's working again :) easy as that! Cheers forum Ben

Hi guys Had a good day at gaydon on Sunday apart from turning up an hour late and not getting to meet anybody :( And then my mate who came with me decided that he wanted to be home by 4......d!ck! I guess everyone was inside the museum? Probably saw some of you walking about tbh but didnt really wanna go around asking random people inside If they drove a Corrado!! Lol Think I counted 16 Corrados in total! Anyway here's a few pics I took! [ATTACH]73451[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]73452[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]73453[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]73454[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]73455[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]73456[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]73457[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]73458[/ATTACH] Ps. Ill renew my membership asap Cheers Ben

That looks awesome :D May have to be done!!

Booo :( ! Lol yea Good idea! My girlfriends dad has a boat so might dump it on his drive!! Lol I think I'm going to grind out all of the rust to free the piston and use it as a practise block ! Ill practise doing chains on it so when I come to do mine ill have the knowledge :) Thanks for all your help roger! And anyone else who's given advice/tips. Ben

Hi mate cheers. I'm going to leave them for now as plans have changed! Cheers anyway Appreciate it Ben

So I had the engine out again today as the weather was nice! Realised that the reason the engine isn't turning is because of the corrosion/build up of sh!t on the cylinder wall is stopping it rising. Tryed wire brushing some of it off but didnt budge it. I'm not planning on getting any serious work done on it so am I right in thinking its had it? Here's a pic of it [ATTACH]73448[/ATTACH] Compared to the rest [ATTACH]73449[/ATTACH] Ben

Yeah sounds good mate. I forgot to mention that it's the earlier spec with no hump. You can probs see from the pics but just thought I'd make that clear. Cash on collection would be best mate cheers. Pmd you my address :) Ben ---------- Post added at 12:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:12 PM ---------- No sorry mate the doorcards went a few months ago. ---------- Post added at 12:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:13 PM ---------- Sold....

Based in Flitwick, Bedfordshire buddy.