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Nope, as the shoulder belt nicely slides towards the A-pillar when you open the door to let you get in/out (this is all with the ignition switched on, otherwise the belt sits at the A-pillar anyway). Yes, someone at the March Midlands meet made a little videoclip, but I can't seem to find that anymore :lol: Oh well, whatever next event I take the Rado to ... :) Tempest

Erm, yes, you're right, it's my Alzheimer kicking in again :lol: *goes off and has a look * Tempest

ELRA=Elektrischer Rückhalteautomat, German (VW speak) for automatic seatbelts. On closing the doors the shoulder belt moves from the A-pillar to the B-pillar and vice versa when opening the doors again. Very crafty :lol: Not all of them. I actually find them very useful, so much so, that really I now need them in any other car that I occasionaly drive, as I regularly catch myself driving other cars not being buckled up :roll: Tempest

Yeah you might be right there :oops: I usually take a whole bunch with me for any such job anyway, then just grab and apply till it fits :lol: Tempest

Bypassing the matrix is possible, as long as you just connect the 2 pipes/hoses going into the matrix to each other so that circulation of coolant is still possible. Otherwise would also like to know whether VW still do recalls, especially for US-spec Rados :roll: ? Tempest

Quick solution: Just disconnect the black plug that you've correctly identified, and drive around for a bit without the faulty sensor connected till you've got time to do the following: Open bonnet, feed cable from Lambdaprobe (still disconnected I hope) down to below the car, so that you can pull it away once you're undernath. Jack up car, get underneath near the Cat or bypass pipe, using a size 17 spanner, best use a ring spanner, get the spanner around the Lambaprobe (sits almost at the top of the Cat, what an awkward place :x ), and hope the thing will come out, need to apply a bit of force :lol: Mine then came out nicely 8) Screw in new probe, possibly use a bit of anti-seize paste (copperpaste) on the thread only, tighten up, feed cable back up the engine bay again to where the bracket for the connector is located. Reconnect the connector and done :D O2-Sensor is the term for a Lambdaprobe often used in the US, hence it's the same thing as a Lambdaprobe :) Tempest

Interesting that, as VW definitely afjusted the speed for the target market. So, in Germany (no speed limits on the Autobahns), a G60 raises its spoiler from 120 km/h onwards, lowers it again from below 30 km/h. My US-spec one raises its spoiler at approx. 80 km/h, as otherwise the US folk would never see the thing go up with their speed limits :lol: Tempest

Just had mine done on Wednesday, sailed through, especially after the MOT tester got all the other mechanics to stand around my Rado to demonstrate the ELRA (automatic seatbelts) :lol: They were well impressed with that gadget :D Tempest

Now where was that site again with all those horribly-tuned Rados, there was one somewhere on the net, honestly :lol: Tempest

Was that 1st piccie taken at last year's Essen Motorshow by any chance? Tempest

I thought all 10 that were officially imported were LHD, actually :wink: Best bet to get a LHD 16 V Rocco now is to look over in Germany, where there are still some examples available, but they are getting scarce there, too, as they're flavour of the month amongst Rocco-fans at the moment. Tempest

And here we have the undisputed proof that the Rado was originally meant to be a Scirocco :D ... Until the marketing boffins came in :cry:

Oh, just bothered now to look into this thread again :roll: :oops: Thanks for the extra piccies and posting the compression results, Jim. Well why not, had nothing better to do than meet up and go to a pub, so I thought to give our little spontaneous Cov meet-up (didn't go to VW Northwest at Tatton Park in the end due to the bad weather looming on the horizon today :cry: ) a different twist, packed the compression tester and got our hands dirty a little and did a health check on Jim's and my Rado :D Interesting stuff you know about my Rado, Paul and Rodders :shock: If you have any other stuff, let me know, as obviosuly I'd be VERY interested !! Did eiher of you know the previous owner at all? His name was Paul, too. Tempest

Amazing results with Meguiar's Trim Detailer, I use that on all my 3 cars, and it keeps treated parts black for quite long as well, certainly a lot longer than Autoglym's black bumper spray (that only lasted 2 rain showers). Tempest

Looks like the right ones from the piccies. You probably would have to order the o-rings separately, as they do not form part of the actual sensor. Check you existing ones, you might be able to re-use them. The wiring terminates in a nice connector that slots straight onto the sensor. Take off the connectors from your existing sensors and you'll see they'll fit the new ones :D Tempest

No, you're right about being paranoid about the oil feed lines, as a mate of mine's G-Lader literally exploded due to clogged oil feed lines :shock: Anyway, where do you get the Teflon lines from? Tempest

Just had a go at revving the engine on my G60 a bit with doors opened to listen to the Milltek in its full glory: Nice sound, especially at higher revs, and some popping on releasing the throttle :D Just don't get to hear any of that when sat inside, where it all sounds rather civilised :oops: Possibly I'm getting deaf :lol: Tempest

I'm up for it :lol: Just been to my local scrappie in my G60 Rado, and even though most of the staff there know me and my Type 53s by now the lot still came out to have a good look at my Rado :D More discussions on the virtues of the G-Lader followed suite. That's a good idea, what's their address, when are we going? G60 Rados only then? Tempest

Try 50 mm on the Rieger front bumper/skirt on my Mk1 Rocco, ... on seeing a speed-bump I PANIC !!!! I HATE those things, speedbumps that is. Tempest

Sometiimes you just have to adjust the cable-select bit at the gearbox end. When standing in front of your engine bay, look down the right hand side onto the gearbox, and you'll see 2 cables terminating onto a shift mechanism on top of the gearbox. The left one of these two usually needs a bit of adjusting (undo the screw, move the screw a bit forwardm tighten up again, and run through the gears, these steps may need re-doing to get it perfectly set up). HTH, Tempest

OK, folks, on changing my blue temp-sensor on my G60 (got this one from a stealer over in D for €9.00 couldn't resist :D ), I, of course, was over-enthousiastic with the holder spring clip, which promptly disappeared (like so many other items in the past due to my over-full engine bay, US-spec :wink: ) in the depths of my Rado, never to be seen again. Off I went to my local stealer, armed with a part-number, "obsolete, sir!". Huh? WTF? :mad: Anyone got a different part-number for me to try, or what's the matter with my stealer? Off to a scrappie tomorrow, who assure me they've still got bicket-loads. Tempest

Can only add myself to the Milltek brigade, happy with mine on my G60 Rado :D Needed to recently adjust a C-clamp on the rear box bit, (got the Rado with the Milltek already on, from the original ceramic cat onwards, replaced that with a metal cat recently), this was abit loose, such that the tail pipe seemed to be misaligned. But that has nothing to do with Milltek themselves, rather than the garage that had fitted the system for the previous owner. Tempest

Another potentially sad one, but I love my Mk1 Rocco, can't get enough of it :D Harsh suspension, tight cornering, handling like a go-kart, what more do you want in terms of driving fun? Tempest

Erm nope, as that probe is for KR, PL and JH engines only (having a JH engine myself, I happen to know that the Lambdaprobe only has 1 wire, the signal wire, as it's not heated). VW's part numberfor the probe used in the PG engine is: 030 906 265 HTH, Tempest

Same here, Jubilees all the way, the VW ones are fairly easy to get off with pliers (normally), depends on where they're located and how easy it is to get your pliers in there, though :roll: I suppose they are quicker to fit with the right tool (I'm not a fan, though, of specialist VW tools like in the Bentley "Use VW tool no. so-and-so" Noooooo, I haven't got b****rd VW-tool so-and-so :mad: ), and I suppose that extra ring around which the clip goes protects a bit. Tempest