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Knew I'd seen it before........issue 14!

Not heard if it's been done before so you might be the guinea pig but how about getting an R32 oil pump then doing a cut n shut job on the sump to shorten it? You're lucky your sump is holding up, I've only got a 'sensible' drop on coilies and managed to grind the bottom off the sump and dump all the oil one time!

Just added mine.

I'll take this if it's still for sale? Need another wiring challenge!

Storms were LC5L, Mystic Blue or LC6U, Classic Green only.....certainly not LC9Z, sorry!

More than compensated for by fitting a climatronic blower!!!

You might be able to get it rebuilt, depending on type of course. We used to build and tune dampers when I worked in motorsports but that was with couple of grand a corner Reiger dampers. Are there any motorsports teams close to you, they might not do it themselves but will know somebody who does.

It's a more modern system............better fuelling, improved economy, smoother running, no more frustrating engine stalls, more tuneable.............

It's surprising how much cleaner the inside of the screen stays with a pollen filter fitted.........less cleaning is always a plus point in my eyes!!!

Jetex certainly used to make pollen filters as I have one on mine......not sure if they still do though, seem to remember trying to buy a replacement a couple of years ago and not being able to find anyone that sold them.

It's not a bad fit, I've managed to get it inside a slam panel without chopping any lumps out........my old slam panel had various pieces missing! I had to bend one of the pipes a bit to get it around the rad but not too much so happier with that, I just need to get the hoses modified now as the fittings are different, hoping that Pirtek can solve that one!

Mine's from a 96 Passat, controls, heat exchanger, compressor, pipework and everything.....been fitted five or six years now. Part way through fitting a Mk4 Golf condenser at the moment as it's about half the size of the one that came out of the Passat!

Liking the look of that, fits the console better than mine! How do you find having a fan that actually blows rather than wafting a little bit of air in the general direction you ask for??? [ATTACH=CONFIG]69064[/ATTACH]

Welcome back Michael, looking forward to seeing what you can achieve with a new one!

In my very early days of VR6 ownership and before I found how easy it was to remove the bumper and slam panel I did do a rad swap.....took me close to six hours, probably four hours longer than it would doing it the easy way.........if you're short of time it's not the way to go!

I'm 48 and had a Corrado for close to 17 years now.

Am I right in remembering that you have to pull the wishbone front bush out first and then slide the whole thing forwards to remove the rear bush? Are you trying to pull the rear bush straight out? I'd crawl under mine and have a look for you but I'm the other end of the country from it at the moment!

I'd say go for it, all the various models are built around a similar platform so most things can be made to fit with a bit of ingenuity/trial and error! And the end result makes it all worthwhile.

Sorry I didn't get any photos up yesterday, hope that some of these might help? The pipe from the condenser on the left side of the radiator had to be bent (carefully) upwards to clear the crossmember and bottom hose and I've had to make brackets for each side to fit the condenser to the rad.....not happy with the box section on the left side now so making another, slimmer, one to allow the pipe to come further past the rad. I've not got any flexible pipes yet but once I do I'll be getting the local Pirtek guy to splice them into my existing Passat hoses......a/c compressor to bottom left of condenser, top right of condenser via drier/receiver to the in car evaporator.

I'm just going through the process of fitting one of these myself as the Passat condenser I had before was too big and I had to chop lumps out of my old slam panel to fit it. The Golf one goes in a treat and has the added bonus of a drier/receiver hard piped into the right hand side which tucks in neatly around the side of the radiator. I haven't got any pipes for it yet but will probably end up buying a set of pipes from a scrap Golf/Bora and then having Pirtek join them up to my existing Passat pipework. Flow goes in from the compressor at the bottom left just by the radiator bottom hose and comes out of the top right into the drier/receiver and then on to the evaporator in the car. I'm in London until the weekend but can take some photos of the jobso far and post them on Saturday if that helps?

That sounds like mine was when I had the immobiliser fault, sometimes it seemed to fire up and run OK, other times it would fire and cut out dozens of times and maybe take twenty minutes to start up. Deteriorated over time until it finally gave up the ghost! As Jim says, there's loads of information on here about immobiliser faults, have a go at cleaning up the contacts where the reader coil plugs into the immobiliser box, might just do the trick.

Another Corrado in Chesterfield, I'll have to keep an eye out for you......you never know you might see me in mine one day in the distant future too! Including mine I know of three within five minutes of my house and I don't think any of them has turned a wheel in the last year, hope you're the odd one out in the best possible way!!!

Another vote for Hendrick's Gin.......with Fever Tree tonic and cucumber, the price is irrelevant when it tastes that good! Rather partial to a Jameson's 1780 (known these days as 12 Year Old Special Reserve) too.

That's odd Jim, you said just the same thing last time!!!! Knew I'd remembered reading it before: http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?29996-sunroof-gone!!!&highlight=sunroof+flew No idea why it happens though, in fact never had mine out so don't even know how they're fixed.

Not the first time we've heard of this happening on here.......can imagine that was something of a shock???