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Yup, there's a fair few pictures on here plus a big write up somewhere IIRC. It was a big job and I'll have to do it all again when I convert to OBD2, the wiring part anyway!

I can say with a fair amount of confidence that it will fit, I know this because I've done it myself, my 95 Corrado has climate control from a 96 Passat. It is however much bigger than the standard heater box, you'll loose probably around 100 to 150mm from the back of the glove box and almost all the space from the passenger lower shelf, my shelf is maybe 20mm deep at the deepest point, handy for storing a pen and that's about it! The ducts all line up, the bulkhead needs one extra mounting bolt hole drilling as the Passat box has 4 bolts over the Corrado's 3, those 3 are in the right place though! You also need a big square hole cutting through the bulkhead for the coolant pipes to come through. Then you'll need all the controls (Passat one cut down and slotted straight into the hole left in the dash by the Corrado one), wiring mods, piping, compressor, drier and condenser. The benefits are immediate though, not only does it blow nice cool air in the summer but the blower is up to the job of clearing the windows on wet winter days.

That's a rather brave statement :cuckoo: Congratulations on a nice looking purchase anyway :grin:

Yep, Thule do them. Also used to be a genuine VW one I almost bought for my first Corrado in 96 until I saw the price, it was astronomical...........probably long time discontinued now too although you could try a wanted ad. Can't see the problem fitting a roofrack to a Corrado myself, it's a car, you use your car to transport stuff, there's not a lot of space inside, nuf said!

Tell me about it :epicfail:

Yes but you know what I'm getting at! And Jeremy Clarkson hardly inhabits the world the rest of us have to live in, he can probably negotiate a discount on a single car sufficient to keep us in new cars for years by virtue of the kind of exposure he can give, repeatedly stating on Top Gear that he considers something so good he even bought one. I don't expect to see him rushing to the showrooms any time soon to take Alastair Darling up on his £2,000 bribe! Good luck with the car shopping anyway, keep us up to speed on how it goes. The way my weekend's gone I'm staying away from cars, Saturday afternoon my wife managed to close the garage door on the R32 as she was still reversing in, sounds like it might need a new roof skin. Then just a few hours later my daughter turned her Ka over doing the fox evasion manoeuvre. Seems like I'm flying home next week to total carnage, at least the Corrado is behind my bike in the garage, a bike which is fortunately chained and locked to a ground anchor, the key being with me in Saudi!

The cars will be dismantled for recycleable materials but is this the same as dismantling and making serviceable parts available for re-use? Separating the different types of metals for scrap etc is not in the same league as selling a fully functioning ABS pump say to someone who can then keep their otherwise healthy car on the road. This is the same government supposedly trying to give the now totally foreign owned car industry a kickstart after spending the last 12 years trying to force us out of using our cars with ever increasing tax burdens, the hypocrisy of the situation never ceases to amaze me! I agree that people employed in the industry may feel hard done to if they lose their job over it but a vast number of those jobs were already sold down the line, the huge stockpiles of cars sat near the docks are testament to how many are shipped into the country all the time rather than being built in house, successive administrations have totally failed to stop the rot in our own industries, car manufacture being just one of those. I wouldn't suggest that the opportunity to get a £2,000 discount off a new car is a bad thing, assuming my income tax doesn't go up next year to fund it. I would however be shopping around car supermarkets etc to see if I could not get a better discounted price on a cash sale first, coupled with a few hundred quid for the sale of the 205 and you might well end up in pocket while at the same time somebody ends up with a bargain car? I could have been interested myself if I didn't live so far away from you, my 18 year old daughter rolled her Ka last night swerving to miss a fox! Rant over, must get back to work ensuring the plant keeps churning out 1,000 tonnes of polypropylene per day, all those new cars will be needing plastic!

It's just another demonstration of government's short sightedness when it comes to green issues. The costs involved in raw materials and energy consumption vastly outweigh the savings achieved by replacing a still serviceable car. To add insult to injury the poor old tax payer (you and me) have to then foot the bill for a £1,000 discount while the dealer laughs all the way to the bank as he only has to discount the full list price by another £1,000, he'd most likely have needed to offer a much more substantial discount had it been a simple cash sale. And finally, the car rather than having good parts recycled to keep other cars on the road has to be crushed. Whoever came up with such a scheme must have been spending his/her expense allowance on class A drugs. Remember they are the same people who subsidise the price of a Prius and consider it green even though any normal small car without resorting to the use of exotic materials can better the wonder Toyota's fuel consumption figures. :cuckoo:

Not sure you're supposed to remember them, I've had a 30D almost 3 years and it's still half guesswork!

It does make it a little shall we say interesting if you throw it into a corner enthusiastically, could maybe be dialled out with more compression damping :shrug: We do by the way have the complete Thule kit with the spreader bars, I've carried windsurfers lots of times and some big piles of wood when I was extending the house, you just have to plan ahead a bit!

Don't see what the problem is myself, how else you gonna get the bikes to where you're going.........we went from Derbyshire to Suffolk like this!

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I don't know if it's the answer as I've heard of nobody else having similar problems but when I fitted my In-Pros there was no way of adjusting the aim low enough, I screwed the adjusters all the way in but still only lit up trees. In the end I extended the adjusting screws by taking a piece of 10 mm diameter steel bar 20mm long and drilling and tapping it through the centre. I then cut the original adjusting screws and fitted my new extension pieces in with lock nuts on each end. Overall extension of the screws was around 10mm which gave me enough adjustment to get the beam set right. I can't help with a photo as I'm 4,000 miles away from my C in Saudi until the middle of June but if none of this makes any sense I can do a sketch of what I mean.

If you think you know what's wrong with it, surely it's better to invest that money before you try to sell? If I came to look at buying your car and you tell me there's a problem and it's going to take X amount of money to fix, I'd be looking at knocking you down by at least double that amount just for the hassle I'm going to have fixing it and the chance that what you say needs doing is not really the problem, that's after you've already discounted your asking price to take the problem into account. If however I come along and it's purring away nicely, you might have already won me over. BTW, I'm not interested in buying your car!

If you can take the sprockets off.....mine refused totally even out of the car with the cam shaft in the vice......broke a Snap-On socket in the process even! When I bought the 268s I ended up buying new sprockets, bolts and timing sender as they are so damn tight. It is possible to get the cams out with the sprockets still on although it's a bit tricky getting the first one past the chain, just persevere! The gearbox is not too bad, I removed and refitted it on my own, left hand on the top of the block to prop myself up and lift the box out with the right hand grabbing the gear selector mechanism.......hurts a bit at the time but you feel like a star after!!!

Continue to make plans for tackling a rebuild one day...........mine's just a Corrado shape lump under a car cover in the spare garage at the mo, been that way since August last year.........not even checked it's still under there since Christmas! One day I'll get started! At least the yearly average mileage is improving.

Two of them: 90 (G) Pearl Blue 16V Dec 1995 to Sept 2000 95 (N) Classic Green VR Sept 2000 to Forever Almost 14 years of problem free motoring :norty:

The part you're looking for is a 021 145 933H Cost me £39.00 +VAT in Nov 2006 if that's any help!

Singapore should be Tiger beer.......tricky as it's already listed for Malaysia, Singha is Thai beer so no good for either! How about Bitburger for Germany? I plan to be at the Bahrain race and will be happy to be drinking anything as I'll be on a visa run from Saudi so free to drink real beer for a couple of days rather than the homebrew stuff we have normally :gag:

+1 My wife however would not let me sell the C so I'd still have to fix it.

I remember writing that.......but it just confused the hell out of me reading it again :shrug:

Sounds like you've disturbed one of those zillion wires that's crammed behind and above the fuse box, you were supposed to be connecting wires, not pulling them out! Thanks for the offer, at least you've got time to practice a bit before we tackle the OBD2 job :lol: :lol: :lol:

If you don't have a spare connector (black box) then just join the black/white to the black, solder it if possible cos then it's not going to fall to pieces when you cram all the wires around the fuse box back in! Spade connectors or something will do the job too if you can't get near a soldering iron. I've not touched the C since you saw it last in October, it's still sat in the garage under the cover. I was home over Christmas but didn't even go in the garage, I'm coming home on Monday for a couple of weeks but have some stuff to get done on the house so I'll not get near the Corrado again. I might get some chance in June or July but maybe not, depends when I ever get away from this job in Saudi, even then it sounds like I have to go to Singapore later in the year and that's going to be another 12 to 18 month job so maybe it'll be 2011 before I pull the cover off and see how much Corrado I have left! Let me know how you get on, I might be able to come over to yours next week if you're still having trouble, it'll be a flying visit though :gag:

Is the black/white not the one comes from D9? That has to connect to the black from your loom, if there is a spare black box on top of the fuse box, use that to connect the two. Don't however connect it to one that already has some other wires in or it'll really confuse things! Just knocking off mate, I'll be on line again a bit later, I'll check how you got on.

Hi Neil, Just got your PM, you did well to catch me, it's 22:15 and I should have knocked off work hours ago but we're stuck here trying to start a compressor, at least I'm not missing any time in the pub am I? From what I can figure out, yes you're right. 1) The wiring diag shows the black white from D9 connecting to the black wire that goes to the driver's side control unit. It connects in TV5 which is one of those black boxes (I like that name!) on top of the fuse box. 2) All grey/blue wires are switch and gauge illumination positives. Connect the one you have from the seats switch as you suggest in the black box and it will light up with all the others. Again wiring diagram shows it in TV8 black box but if it's with grey/blue it should be OK. The little black boxes by the way are simply multi connectors, saves having to wire loads of single wires into the fuse box. Hope all goes OK, any chance you can help us with a refrigeration compressor???? Tony