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Bled the brakes and put the wheels back on........it’s coming off the winter axle stands tomorrow!

Had my spare steering wheel re-trimmed over the winter by Jack at Royal Steering Wheels http://royalsteeringwheels.com Had it done in original black with black stitching but a whole world of choices were available on the website! Not pennies cheap but I didn't think £130+VAT plus a tenner postage was much to pay for a specialist job, looks like a new wheel in the car and so much better than the old tired one, highly recommended if you're looking for similar.

Yes I sent the whole thing as they asked, just kept the track rod ends as they were brand new OEM. They replaced the rods as one had been cut down at some time, some clown must have been struggling to set the tracking......always wondered why it seemed to have more lock one way than the other!

First click on the switch is sidelights, not low beam. Second click is headlights with main beam on the stem. Strangely however, the circle does only light on the first click, never understood that myself either! You could have some bulbs out on the heater dials, I deleted mine for climate control many years ago so don’t remember exactly what’s in there.

Thread Revival! For those of us who rely on Freeview for TV and don't get wall to wall Discovery reruns, a heads up that the Corrado episode of Wheeler Dealers (S12 E17) shows this Thursday at 21:00.

It depends where it is in the slot before you start. -2.25 could be the least possible camber you can get if something else is bent, alternatively it could currently be all the way in with 2 or more degrees of adjustment available. It’s pretty agricultural to set up but generally does the job!

That’s some impulse buy, welcome to the mad house! There’s plenty of info and help around here, not much that somebody hasn’t encountered before.

OK Hasan, as I guessed it was at the back of the head unit, there’s a brown/red that I spliced in to for the switched live. I’ve left my Fluke at work so can’t check it now but the current draw was pretty low when I checked it before using that wire and I’ve not had any fuse issues since.

Good question Hasan, and one I cannot immediately answer! I’ll have to get the cover off the car at the weekend (it’s probably about time I gave it a warm up anyway) and take a look. It was definitely something local to the area, possibly the switched live to the head unit.

You could try Michael at MJ Interiors to get your seats done, either repairing the bolster on your existing one or going the whole hog on the interior as I did. I’d suggest you called and had a look at mine but I have an inkling that you live a fair distance away from North Notts? You could give me a shout if you’re heading up the M1 any time.

SORNed it. Now to get on with the winter jobs: 1. All the callipers off and sent away for reconditioning. 2. Try and cure the ABS once and for all, without fail the lamp comes on at 78mph and only resets by switching ignition off and back on! 3. Fuel leaking around filler neck when refuelling. 4. Re-seal a/c pipework ready for regassing. 5. Starter motor off and taken in for a looking at, warm starting doesn't seem convincing. Plus whatever else comes along. Target date 01/04/2019 allowing a short visit to the paint shop to repair ding in bonnet where I knocked garden rake off hook on garage wall and we'll be ready for Stanford Hall.

Bosch pump from ECP, fitted a couple of years ago and seems to be working fine. I must have upset the sender for the gauge when I fitted it though as it takes days for it to work it’s way up after filling. Job on the list for this winter!

Mine wasn’t parked up for anything like that length of time but it resulted in fuel issues. The petrol had gone off allowing the pump to rust up in the tank, fuel filter was shot and one out of six injectors was working. I drained everything out of the tank and replaced the pump and filter, had the injectors cleaned and serviced along with oils etc as mentioned above. Aside from that it started reasonably easily. Expect it to clatter a lot on starting while the followers pressure up with oil, mine took a few minutes until they were all quiet.......that was awful, kept expecting something to break! Hope the tin worm hasn’t got to it too much.

Now that I've taken a better look i.e. not on my phone, they look more like the secondary front crossmember bolts, item number 6 on the VR6 Photo posted by GrahamV above. That has two M8 bolts and four M10 bolts, the M8s hold the crossmember in place when the bumper is removed but the M10s secure it and also fix the front bumper brackets in place.

M8 x 50, I’m guessing as I’m away from home and my paperwork but I’d say they’re the steering rack bolts. I’ve had the rack out loads of times recently and hate those bolts!!!

Clicked "Buy it Now" for one on ebay for three pound something and then noticed the seller was in Latvia with an extra three quid delivery! Took around ten days to arrive but it's a genuine part so no complaints. Pig to fit though so I hope this one lasts another 23 years or 130K miles.

Congratulations on the Recaros, did you get the eBay pair?

Welcome to the forum. By that reckoning you got your car about the time mine came off the road after eight years ownership! Been back on the road since late June this year and loving it. Mk4 Golf, Leon etc callipers are a decent upgrade, they do need different hoses as they use banjo bolts at the calliper but it’s well worth it, the handbrake even functions afterwards.

I only used the wiper wire as it was threaded through the tailgate, one end to the brake light in the tailgate, the other end to the spare terminal in the rear light cluster.

There’s an earth point in the tailgate already that the lights and wiper go back to, I simply put a spade connector onto that too, couldn’t have been easier.

It's the original UK tailgate. When the car was at my mate's for respray I had the rear wiper hole smoothed, at the same time I had him cut out for the brake light and "frenched" it in if you remember the term from back in the seventies when we were all into custom cars! [ATTACH=CONFIG]95169[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]95170[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]95171[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]95172[/ATTACH] Took two days to get it something like right. I had always thought about fitting a light at high level as it had been discussed years before that the original one fitted to US cars was too low. But I never really liked the look with it at the top of the tailgate and how often is anyone so close to the rear that their view is obscured? We have a Mk2 TT and that one's fitted just below the spoiler too, I believe it's more the additional light coming on getting the attention of the driver behind rather than it being high up and in their line of sight.

Just been out to the garage to look, I was trying to remember where I'd broken into the wiring but I'd forgotten how easy it was to connect. There are unused spade connectors on the rear of the clusters, I just plugged into the one on the right marked Br! [ATTACH=CONFIG]95168[/ATTACH]

Mine’s the OEM fitting but installed the way it should have been done in the factory [ATTACH=CONFIG]95167[/ATTACH]

I don’t believe there’s an existing supply in the tailgate unless it’s a US spec car, I used one of the rear wiper wires to feed it as I’ve smoothed the tailgate.

Very impressed and a great write up for anyone else that fancies doing similar!