tonedef

The steering rack separates from the column to allow removal. I didn't fit my last one as I was out of the country at the time but I believe that maybe the sub frame has to be lowered. Sure someone else will be able to confirm this.

Loving then way you're using your words! Welcome to the forum an keep up the good work, it will all be worth it in the end. 8)

Looks more like a steering rack gaiter to me. You might be lucky but if it's taken grit in there with it then most likely the racks going to be goosed. Had the same on mine a few years ago and put a new rack in, it's leaking again now so guess I'm ready for another, joy of joys!

Oooo errrr :lol:

Mitsi Evos have something that looks almost exactly the same at that for venting the oil cooler, sits on the other side of the car though. IF you could get hold of an arch liner you might be able to rig something up but IIRC the Evo one is made of a lot thinner material so plastic welding might be tricky.

If he's got no interest in cars why would he want to be buying himself a C? You never know you might just be starting off a new enthusiast there. What you planning to buy if you sell it?

18 months ago I bought a stunning looking S3 to replace my Corrado with. The Corrado was parked up for about 6 months looking all sad for itself until I got the urge to do a few jobs on it, probably around the time I found the forum I guess. Since then I've spent a small fortune on it and got myself the bug again pretty much like I did in 1995 when I bought my first Corrado 16V. And now the S3's gone as did the Golf GTI before it, the Corrado however is here to stay. I think you forget quite how special they are until you spot one driving towards you (not that it happens all that often :lol: ) then you come over all warm and think "I've got one of those!", you forgive it everything again and start planning your next mod.

There's a couple of bleed nipples on the ABS pump and then the one I normally find makes the difference is the one on the end of the master cylinder.

Classic Green

When I worked for a rally team we often used to use up any left over Shell Turbo Rally (it's really serious gear and cost £4.10 per litre at the time) in our cars. I had a 16v MkIII Golf and it used to run great on it so 97ron out of the pump would be no reason for your valver to run badly.

Loving it, just wondering who looks on You Tube for instructions on setting up their timing??? :lol:

Ha bl@@dy ha!

Same here, Classic Car is not widely available in Saudi :(

^^^^^^^ Then I got thinking about it a bit more and remembered I had the Diavia wiring diags on my computer. (I'm sat in a hotel room in Saudi without much to do!). If you don't have the wiring diagram it's attached here, the compressor clutch and fan start signals are both wired through relay 017019 so if there's something messed up in the wiring there it might be causing the problem?

When I fitted the climatronic to mine I had to splice an extra four or so wires into the fan controller as the relay for the compressor clutch is in there on the Passat VR6 it was originally fitted to. I thought that the Diavia had a seperate set or relays for the clutch but maybe somebody wired yours differently at some time and it could explain why the fan switching on is affecting the aircon?

When it come to transponder coils you're my hero though :lol:

Hi Gareth and welcome to the forum. Good place to start looking for info and certainly some of the friendliest, most helpful people around hand out here! There's still lots of nice examples out there and prices are rather more accessible than six years ago :lol:

Did the buyer drive a hard bargain, was he a trader? Just I noticed it up for sale and they are asking 8.5k Well he drove a bit of a bargain but not all that hard, and if he's put new disks and pads all round (they were getting ready) then with a bit of talking down he's gonna take a bath on it for sure! He didn't say he was a trader but he had just sold an M3 so maybe missing some of the power? If anyone's interested in it I'll vouch for the fact it's a pretty nice motor, could do with some paint probably as I did a lot of fairly high speed motorway miles in it and the front bumper, bonnet and front wings wear the stone chips to prove it. Bit cheeky using my pictures of it parked on my drive I think, guess I'd given it a real good clean that day :lol:

I did go over and have a look at that, but although the right kit would be nice, it's well out my price range. Got out sniped on a usb cable last night, but was wondering if people prefer USB or serial connections? Tonedef said he uses serial, and I've heard that some USB cables don't connect to the ABS correctly (my ABS is shot so I would like to diagnose it). Can anyone confirm this. I do need to check the laptop to see if it has a serial port, so this could all be academic at the moment. Cheers Tom I'm sure USB is fine, I'm just stuck in a time warp I guess with serial ports! A lot of the software I use for work still uses serial cables so I had to make sure my laptop had one when I bought it as they seem to be getting a bit old hat these days.

No reason why not I'm sure. Mine is a serial port one, call me old fashioned but I like my serial ports! It says it's for 409.1 which is what you'd be getting to download for free.

My turn to help you a little Tom. The software is free to download from Ross Tech, I have release 409.1. All you need to do then is buy a cable, I got mine from a German seller on ebay for approx £20 inc P&P, there are loads cheaper although normally from the States and I thought I'd avoid any chance of having to pay some duty when it arrived. With that you can read and clear faults although it can be a little long winded as unregistered you can only apparently read one controller at a time. Next step is to register with Ross Tech for $99 lets you do more stuff, auto scanning, multi sensor logging etc. Good time right now with the exchange rate! Mine was registered but then I had a hard drive problem and have since not got around to redoing it, handy tool though.

No Cheaply and Corrado rarely occur in the same sentance.. :lol: Guess I was being a bit too specific there wasn't I :shock:

Update: Transponder coil seems like a good bet, unplugged it, plugged it back in again and she's fired up. Ticking over nicely right now :lol: Just don't know if it's a loose connection or a dodgy transponder?

PM on it's way in a minute, thanks for that, vagcom coming in a minute!