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  1. After 4 years of Corrado Ownership I have bought 4 sets of Foglights due to stone chips and cracks. That is almost 1000 euros of foglights! I have made up these foglight protectors and want to get some opinions please.

     

     

    Using clear suction cups with brass thumbs screws as below.

     

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    I have fixed them to 8mm polycarbonate cut in the shape of the foglight and indicator using a broken foglight housing as below. The polycorbonate is crystal clear and will not chip or dull like perspex.

     

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    The idea is you can afix these on long journeys and remove easily on arrival. The suction cups are very very strong and are difficult to just pull off so they will not fall off when travelling.

     

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    What do you guys think?


  2. Hey Chris, the VDO sender you have from Merlin should have 1 contact which is the 10 bar sender and the second one should be a lower pressure warning sender. Can you take a picture and post it up for us to see? I reckon there shoul dbe something stamped on the sender to tell them apart, anyways, if you try it out it should only work one way, ie the pressure gauge won't read right if you connect it to the low pressure warning terminal.


  3. @ Young Dub

     

    Trigger is right, do not mix and match. I have one rally made up and 5 spares.

     

    One of my fogs has developed a crack just last Sunday but I won't replace until it becomes very noticeable. right now only a trained Corrado owner would notice but mixing a rally lense with the genuine will look like a bodge job i reckon.


  4. Corrado drivers here in Ireland are very friendly, I think I actually know most of them on first name basis now since buying my first Corrado 5 years ago..............

     

    And of course we always flash the lights at each other in traffic. :)

     

     

    girlfriend has told me many times never to sell my Rado cos she couldn't put up with me moaning about it forever like the time I sold my MK1 GTI.


  5. Remote is there permanent but hey, i don't park my Rado anywhere there might be trouble. I like to be able to view it from the window when in restaurants too! he he he

     

    HD unit is in the boot of course.very easy to run the cables to it. take about 20mins is all!


  6. I have an M-Station/Neo jukebox in my C. Had it in my MKIV Golf, G60 Corrado and now my VR6.

     

    remove ash tray on any corrado and the control unit fits perfectly into the space left behind!

     

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    I ran the cables under the passenger sill to the boot and of course removed the under side of the glove box to get at the back of the head unit. I am running the RCA cables directly to the AUX input of my Sony Head Unit. sound quality is perfect!


  7. @ boraboy

     

    Ha I removed one tonight for cleaning! have had to clean one before last year. now the passenger side tilts forward but not back. strip the switch and you will see the copper contacts just need rubbing with fine sand paper and it'll be fine. 5 min job! :)


  8. I was out last night with my VW mechanic friend and we attached the 5052 diagnosis unit to my 95 VR6.

     

    At exactly 95 degrees on the diagnosis unit my fans kick in. About 20 seconds later the temp drop to 93 degrees and they turn off again. It will do this while ideling all the time, up and down from 95 to 93 degrees but never goes below that or above it either.

     

    Now I know that the engine temp is retreived from the Blue temp sensor but the gauge in the car also stated 95 degrees too.

     

    Why should the fans run any earlier if the thermostat only opens at 80c anyway? 8)

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