Lady C 10 Posted April 28, 2011 (edited) Howdy!! My other half and I have been fans of Dubs for a long time now and now the time has come for us to make a new purchase in the form of a Blackberry VR6 in need of a little TLC! We have a rather long list of things we want/need to do to return her to her former glory so here goes (in no particular order): 1 ) Touch up stone chips on front end 2 ) Paint rear end 3 ) Coil-overs 4 ) Wheels 5 ) De-swirl full car 6 ) MOT advisories 7 ) CAI 8 ) Remove original dealer sticker & badge 9 ) Lupo aero wipers 11 ) New front seats 10 ) Retrim interior 11 ) Replace front fog lights 12 ) Paint wheels hubs & brake calipers 13 ) Paint front grill 14 ) Clean engine bay 15 ) Under bonnet bits 16 ) Remove rub strips 17 ) New steering wheel 18 ) New dash (possibly MKIV Golf) 19 ) Replace stereo with double din 20 ) Sort speakers My intention is to update this thread as we go and hopefully you should already begin to see some progress!! Caroline & Steve (MacDaddy) Edited May 18, 2011 by Lady C Updated our progress!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
too hot 0 Posted April 29, 2011 Howdy!! My other half and I have been fans of Dubs for a long time now and now the time has come for us to make a new purchase in the form of a Blackberry VR6 in need of a little TLC! We have a rather long list of things we want/need to do to return her to her former glory so here goes (in no particular order): 1 ) Touch up stone chips on front end 2 ) Paint rear end 3 ) Coil-overs 4 ) Wheels 5 ) De-swirl full car 6 ) MOT advisories 7 ) CAI 8 ) Remove orignal dealer sticker & badge 9 ) Lupo aero wipers 11 ) New front seats 10 ) Retrim interior 11 ) Replace front fog lights 12 ) Paint wheels hubs & brake callipers 13 ) Paint front grill 14 ) Clean engine bay 15 ) Under bonnet bits My intention is to update this thread as we go and hopefully you should already begin to see some progress!! Caroline & Steve (MacDaddy) Excellent thats a long weekend sorted for you two now??? Welcome to the world of Corrado ownership hope it all goes smoothly!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fla 9 Posted April 29, 2011 sounds good - get some pics up! And welcome, btw Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
emu 0 Posted April 29, 2011 nice one, another corrado in best color :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pat_McCrotch 0 Posted April 30, 2011 Ahh I've just realised who it is now! Obviously married to Macdaddy from the R32OC? :D Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lady C 10 Posted April 30, 2011 Thanks guys! Indeed we do have a challenge or few ahead of us but it should be worth it!! Pat - yes that's us!! Are you on there too? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lady C 10 Posted April 30, 2011 Update on the progress so far... We have been in possession of the Rado for 6 days now and so far have managed to cross quite a bit off the things to do list: 1 ) Touch up stone chips on front end 5 ) De-swirl full car 8 ) Remove original dealer sticker & badge 12 ) Paint wheels hubs & brake calipers 14 ) Clean engine bay 16 ) Remove rub strips Here are some pics before: And some after: Looks like we have sold some wheels we had in the shed too so should be able to get some new wheels for this very soon!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C488ADO 0 Posted May 2, 2011 best colour agreed ...........not biased or anything! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
beastie4126 0 Posted May 2, 2011 best colour agreed ...........not biased or anything! Me neither :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
too hot 0 Posted May 2, 2011 (edited) Was this for sale on E-Bay a couple of weeks ago?? Same owner for about ten years or so ?? If it was it looked a bargain:cool: Edited May 2, 2011 by too hot spelling !!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikkijayne 0 Posted May 2, 2011 best colour agreed ...........not biased or anything! Definitely :D Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lady C 10 Posted May 2, 2011 Was this for sale on E-Bay a couple of weeks ago?? Same owner for about ten years or so ?? If it was it looked a bargain:cool: I didn't see it on eBay, we found it on Pistonheads and it had only been up for a day when we went to view it! But sounds like the same one. The lady we bought it off bought it in 99 with about 12k on the clock! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lady C 10 Posted May 5, 2011 Whoop whoop!! Went to Nottingham last night to pick up the new wheels. We have got some Porsche D90's that should be on by the weekend!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lady C 10 Posted May 12, 2011 Wow...!! I can't believe how much we have done to the car in the 2 weeks or so since we got her!! Last weekend we decided to 'swiss cheese' the air box whilst deciding which induction kit to go for. The paperwork that came with the car said it had been serviced in October and March with the air filter being changed in October. Since then the car had done less than 3k miles so imagine our surprise when we found the filter in this condition: I doubt that it has been changed in the last 10k miles never mind 3k!! I have learned something too this week! I have discovered that my better half DOES listen to me! I mentioned (maybe once or twice!!) that I would like the grill painted. I went to the gym on Tuesday night and when I got home found that Steve had painted my grill: The Porsche D90s we in need of some TLC when we got them so decided to have them diamond cut. They should be ready to go on tomorrow: Before: After: Also the coilovers were fitted this morning! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
krishen 2 Posted May 12, 2011 Wow. Looking good. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Butterfly 0 Posted May 13, 2011 Was that 'dealer service'? If so the state of the air filter doesn't surprise me at all. I had exactly the same experiance when switching from years of dealer 'service' due to owning a VR from 22 months old to going to a respected independant. They showed me the air filter after years of dealer service and it looked like the one you found. Nice car btw Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pat_McCrotch 0 Posted May 13, 2011 Thanks guys! Indeed we do have a challenge or few ahead of us but it should be worth it!! Pat - yes that's us!! Are you on there too? Nelson_R32 :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lady C 10 Posted May 15, 2011 Thanks Judith! No she was using a 'specialist'!! From reading the paperwork it seems she had been getting ripped off each time she took the car in!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
onestep 0 Posted May 15, 2011 Your car is looking really good in a short amount of time well done. (golf clap) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kev_VR6 0 Posted May 15, 2011 This looked great today at All Types. Really nice paintwork and the wheels are spot on. Fantastic progress so far. Shame the weather didn't improve much as would have liked some better pics of this one Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Macdaddy 10 Posted May 16, 2011 Thanks for the positive comments, Bit of work left to where we want to be with the car but i'd like to have it tidy at least for now while we collect bits etc. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lady C 10 Posted May 18, 2011 Thanks everyone!! Here is a picture from All Types at the weekend - Roxy's first show!!: The latest purchase for her are some Porsche front seats!! We weren't particularly looking for them but saw a bargain on fleabay and couldn't resist!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BLCSO 0 Posted May 18, 2011 Hats off to you. Had a look round your car on Sunday and it's looking very good. Massive improvement to what it was when on sale. Just goes to show what a bit/lot of TLC can do. Hopefully get the chance to say hello in the summer shows. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lady C 10 Posted June 28, 2011 Saw a few nice Corrados at Inters at the weekend... given us some more ideas for ours! The car is is need a a respray but after seeing the matt grey vinyl wrapped one on Inters we are thinking that would be a better option. Vinyl wrapped in matt blackberry!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Portent 0 Posted June 28, 2011 Saw a few nice Corrados at Inters at the weekend... given us some more ideas for ours! The car is is need a a respray but after seeing the matt grey vinyl wrapped one on Inters we are thinking that would be a better option. Vinyl wrapped in matt blackberry!! If it's the one I'm thinking of, it was actually painted... BMW Frozen Grey. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
