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I can’t remember exactly where I picked the feed up for mine, I’ll try take a look over the weekend.

As crazy as it sounds, a good set with all the door cards and electrics in working order has to be 2K as a starter. A lot of people prefer cloth anyway, particularly in a hot summer in a car with no a/c. A good interior has always commanded strong money, and nothing is getting cheaper.

That was ten years ago though, I wouldn’t expect to get a pair for that now!

They do have Recaro embossed, it does lose some definition over the years but it’s certainly still there on these if you look close. As for what’s the difference, other than the rarity factor of course. They’re slimmer on the shoulders which makes the car ‘feel’ a bit roomier. They’re more supportive, I always felt uncomfortable on long run before having them due to lack of lumber support, and that’s from 100+ thousand Corrado miles, not a couple of thousand! They’re electrically adjustable, although that’s mainly a feature to add weight to the car (and they’re certainly heavy), between myself an my wife we move the seat forwards and backwards but all the way down is a default position in a Corrado so is never changed and the recline button is rarely pressed other than to check it still works. The say Recaro on them! It took me a couple of years to find mine in grey, I think I then paid around £600 to buy them but they were worth all of that in my opinion. I’ll be interested to see what these go for as it’s been a while since I’ve seen a pair with such a low starting price.

I’ve hidden the vacuum tank for the climatronic down by the horns inside the bumper, there’d be no reason you couldn’t put the VSR solenoid there with the tank too?

Had mine since 2000, I bought the one I traded for it in 1995, can’t see me without one now!

No problem, thanks for looking. It should be really easy, our son in law works as a service adviser at one of the local dealers but their parts dept is totally u/s, I’ve been waiting for two viton o rings for the climate control for weeks now. I’ll have to go to the other dealers one day with a shopping list! Cheers

Yes, it’s the white one I’m after. Let me know if you have one, and what you want for it......it’s got to be worth the price of a pint even if Heritage list them at 96p! Cheers

Thanks, I'd checked Heritage but it's showing out of stock. I used to use TPS loads until a couple of years ago but I thought they'd gone strictly trade only these days? Cheers

I'm after the locking lever for the passenger door, part number 357 837 083 circled in red on the photo. Mine is missing the lower finger and the rod from the actuator keeps falling off! Cheers [ATTACH=CONFIG]94951[/ATTACH]

I've always got on with it well, although hear what you say about making the wipers judder when you need them at low speed. Try using a clay bar to clean it off the screen, that's always worked for me.

Close shave! Get some rain-x on the screen, that way at 60 you’d not need the wipers!

There's one over in Cars for Breaking http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?108244-1995-Corrado-VR6-Breaking-VW-MS-VSR-LSD-H-amp-R-coilovers-Big-Valve-Hd-Shrick-cam

I don't think Corrados are inherently unreliable any more than similar cars of a similar age are. There are the obvious regular breakages, sunroofs, spoilers, door handles etc but none of those are likely to stop you getting home. A heater matrix can fail on anything, it's not only Corrados that pour coolant into the passenger footwell! We used the two we've owned as daily drivers for 13 years and around 150K miles until an R32 followed by a 3.2TT made it a project/summer toy. That's not to say things won't fail though is it, although they're reasonably simple engines to maintain and there are most parts out there to be had either through VW Heritage, Classic Parts or a host of companies that refurbish existing parts or manufacture pattern parts. As for looking after one, there are still mechanics at dealers who will respect it for what it is, but finding one of those and knowing that they're allowed to repair rather than bolt on bits for a quick turn around might be more difficult, a specialist independent or traditional garage of which some still remain might be more reliable if you're not handy yourself? That said, we were out in ours last night and it's a bumpy old thing! Even compared with the TT which rides on 19" rims with 35 profile tyres and is lowered on Eibachs, the Corrado on the original Speedlines feels every bump aided I'm sure by the Koni coilovers. It's around 18 years since we used ours on the original suspension so it's hard to remember but I'm sure that would have been more compliant for every day use on modern quality British road surfaces!

Croc clips??? :shrug:

Replaced the fag lighter with a USB charger.......then rewired it to a switched feed so it doesn't flatten the battery while it's parked up! [ATTACH=CONFIG]94900[/ATTACH]

I always thought there should be more threads like this, “had no problems with the Corrado today”, people only post when it breaks!!!

Just drove it, again, getting all rather predictable and dull now after ten years spent mainly on axle stands in various states of rebuild! According to the MAF I managed 35.2 mpg over the 80 miles too, seems strange that after the motorbike it's the most economical vehicle we own, who'd have thought that???

Like this one........this is a scrapper I have which I removed from the car years ago because it was leaking. Now it's in a box under my bench for no explicable reason. It does say USA XTR on it though! [ATTACH=CONFIG]94885[/ATTACH]

I had my Konis serviced by Shaun Pickering of SP Suspension. I found his contact details through the Koni website a few years ago, might be worth a try to get a new rod fitted? [email protected]

I go away from this thread for a while and come back to find it’s turned into the Gary Numan/Tubeway Army archive! Only went to see him once, October 79 at Sheffield City Hall, my first gig ever, loved it, remember Billie Currie from Ultravox walking around the stage playing violin......how can nobody have mentioned Down in the Park yet, my personal favourite? My daughter now has all my albums and singles too as I handed over the job lot when she started listening to Bowie. I’m not sure she’s discovered Numan yet!

I've got to have one of those!

Fingers crossed eh, mine's still feeling good after a month a five hundred miles. :thumbleft:

Welcome to the forum, I want to read more already!!!

Another thumbs up for OBD2, great upgrade. I sold my Schrick manifold when I did it as I couldn’t find the inlet elbow for less than new money which was around £450 at the time! Still running Schrick 268s with it though so the top end feels pretty good too.