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Thanks for the link. Unsure what is on mine but since it is held on by gaffa tape I should buy a replacement.

Indeed I was and I felt pleased i could report it back to the wife as disaster avoided. I would equally like a mk2 golf and a 964 too! I've also got a thing for classic saab 900 turbo's at the moment too..

Cheers Keyo. Shame I didn't get to see yours - fantastic attention to getting it tip too. I've got a couple more weeks left to go. I have some pictures to update my thread shortly. Did Vince show you the state of my tensioner - it was a mess and sure to fail anytime. Mine needs bodywork too. Looks alright from a few paces away and in photos sort of thing. Oh and a new drivers seat (Ben on here has sorted me out)

I've done this job earlier this year. Fabric came from AS Trims and I chose light grey which was a perfect match to the oem sunroof material. Once removed from the car I manually scraped the glue residue off. Then cut the new fabric to shape, glued it starting from the back end of the liner to the front. Once all glued I then cut out the sunroof and around the sun visor mounts. I used a glue gun the glue back the sides. Once all of that was done I turned it over and left it rest overnight and installed in the car the next day. Originally I thought it would be a difficult job but actually it was really easy, including the removal and refitting.

Imagine - that would be the deal of century!

Damn that's a shame, the interior doesn't even fit properly. How is that worth 3300 - a corrado in similar shape would be 1500 and only bought for the interior. It's only about 15 miles from me.

Ahhh now the other has gone I'd stick to plan A...

Hmm both options are a lot of work, intially I thought as your VR6 loom has seen better days perhaps going down the tfsi route is problem solved. However either way you're going to be doing a lot of wiring work. TFSI will see more power for better value and probably will be more reliable. It's also pretty rare in the Corrado but very common out on the road. Only other downside is that the engine sounds like any other 2.0 4pot turbo. I see from your sig you do have another VR6 though so maybe this will be different enough and would a VR6 Supercharged+ dilute your standard storm VR6 too much?

I had a 325i with the same wheels and bumpers around 15 years ago. Nice car but sadly met its maker in my 21 year old hands.

Not me but if you were at Stealth you should have seen mine! White Corrado.

I've got dinitrol everywhere undermine but it also chips off over time. Plan to touch it up with with same again or POR15 or whatever else I have lying about!

Thanks for letting us know Paul, always good to hear another tyre available in our size. I too run the 15s and can't see me changing wheels as like their design. I have the RE002s on the back and some Uniroyals on the front. They are fine but a bit soft on the sides.

As VW Rule said - AA/RAC are also great at solving non start situations. It sounds electrical putting 2 and 2 together. Probably crank sensor.

Looking good. Defo improvement over previous colour on a darker car.

I've followed your readers rides Geeba. Sounds a great build. What's MLS? I sometimes bulk at the cost of everything but a quick drive confirms the decisions - shame you can't do that so kudos to you. For some reason I feel I need to be looking for one of those manifolds now. Well in the future. My poor kids are going to be subjected to camping summer holidays.... in the back garden at this rate.

Probs wise move.. although not sure what the price was of the golf vr6 but assume bodywork was sound... you could convert it back to stock if you think it could be a valuable car in stock form.

Some of the posters on that pistonhead thread make my chuckle. I like the mk2, if you get it, it would be great to hear how it compares to the Corrado. Are you not tempted by a 16v (or 8v) instead with a VR6 already on the drive? I'm interested in the 8v (for it's simplicity) or the 16v for it's great 4-pot noise. Although I'd happily have a VR6 in every car I own as well so can see the appeal :)

Cheers Ben, I'll send you a Pm

Yeah I like the idea of the red badges. You going down there today? The car looks nice from a distance, no dents etc. But check out around the window rubbers and you'll see the rubbishy blow over on the sides that annoys me. I can live with it for a few years yet and at least I don't have to worry about damaging the paint for now whilst learning detailing techniques. Interior wise I'm probably going for leather outers and the porsche pepita trim on the centres. You gave me the ideas in the first place :). I was eyeing up those cloth recaro's on ebay at the moment but thought better of it on reflection. Also - as the weather was so bad and the M1 mostly 50mph restrictions I managed to get 39.7 mpg out of it!

Subscribed. Clean as! Interested in detailing

Haha don't tempt me! Good spot though.

Cheers tonedef, yep that is the way to do it. I wanted the exhaust but that will have to be de-prioitised if need be. Assume I can run 263s on the standard map and I think I need to wait for mapping until exhaust is fitted or doesn't it not matter? Would rather not have to get it mapped twice!

Hi, My drivers seat has seen better days and lost any support in the padding. I'm after decent condition (no tears in the bolster), lower mileage late drivers black seat. I will take the whole interior if you want to get rid of it that way. I'm based in Hertfordshire and happy to collect within a 50-75 miles radius :) Else can collect at a later date in West Wales or Norfolk areas. Cheers Matt

I was up and Stealth yesterday. Jared is yours still on the Jersey plates or is it a K reg? Saw a very tidy K reg in the shop. There was a purple one up on the ramps having some work done waiting on powder coating taking up my spot in the queue (but I'm not fussed with waiting). Looked nice too, sometimes wish mine was something other that white when I see these differernt colours. Anyway found a nice sunlight picture of the black code: [ATTACH=CONFIG]97131[/ATTACH]

Whilst mulling this over in my head and I'll chat with Vince next week anyway to see what's possible, but guessing I could get the cams fitted and wait on having the remap until the exhaust is fitted later. I'm guessing the remap needs to happen with the car in its "final" state with all engine mods done (at this stage anyway) so not worth remapping till exhaust is fitted. There isn't anyhting wrong with the standard system mechanically.