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Alright it was yesterday, but: got the Corrado through the MoT and gave it a major service. Bet no-one else checks their gearbox oil level regularly either, but turns out it had only one litre in there, when it takes nearly two. I suspect it's been like this for years.. Still, the VR has been polished, new plugs, leads, oils and fluids, and it sounds great again. Another year, another bill...

Btw both GSF and ECP doing heavy discounts over the bank holiday weekend. Check the sites for discount codes.

Exactly, it'll run for ages like this. Just burns a bit of oil.

A puff of oil smoke on burn after engine braking does point to bore wear pulling oil past the rings, from what I understand.

Terrible website on mobile, but are they really only fifty quid a side for a complete drive shaft and CV joint kit?

I would come to more shows, I quite enjoyed that. But the C is not in top cosmetic shape. I am just not the kind of person for polishing. (Or washing, quite frankly.. :) )..

"For what it's worth"... :)

Yes, could be brake fluid welled in the small pocket just the other side. I suspect the tester had his head under the engine from below, spotted it and gave it a bloody good shove. Still, needs to be sorted. I sincerely hope it's not a huge job.....

In what way are they "upgraded"? FWIW I have a feeling that worn CV joints is one possible reason for the late-life vague steering and iffy high speed stability that a lot of Corrados have.

Yeah the battery tray is a well known one, but that's on the other side of the car.. :) This is actually quite close to the bulkhead, the suspension turret sits a long way back in the engine bay.

So, anyone seen rust here before .. ? Driver's side front inner wheel arch. Looks like it's just to the rear of the point where the brake hose and ABS sensor cables go through. Going to be well tricky to get to for welding though ..

I believe one of GSF or ECP sell them.

Good effort for sticking with it Jim. Lots of "sticking with" required with Corrados I think.. a job only for the dedicated.

Actually yes that's a surprisingly good price..

I like the Solitudes too. I picked up a set finished in black a couple of years ago. Trouble with these old wheels is it's cheaper to buy a set in decent nick than to get a single wheel refurbed ..

It's a shame that CCGB and the forum have never happily coexisted, and in my view that's the sole reason why CCGB struggles. The forum seems to continue to have inertia and be the place to be wrt Corrados. But it's not the CCGB, which is the one that offers discounts with specialists and so on.. Have enough of the original people now moved on that CCGB could become an adjunct to the Forum? CCGB contributes to forum running costs, gets a members-only forum off the main one and a unified calendar in return, all based around the forum itself, or would that still be seen as "loss of sovereignty" by the CCGB.. and "heresy" by the CF? :)

So that's what it is. I assumed it was the spring contacts scraping on the metal tracks. Only happened since putting a new steering wheel on.

I have yet to try an OBD2 VR6 but I have to say my OBD1 car does not have a rough idle, it doesn't stall at junctions, and it starts every time. I also have a late MAF and unequal length runners on the Schrick manifold that means the ECU does not need to compensate for them.. :) If it's all working properly there's no reason an OBD1 VR6 can't be a completely civilised companion. I can believe however that the later ECU contributes to a little finer control on fuelling and timing and will likely return better mpg and potentially better power output, along with smoother idle/power transitions when stuck in traffic and so on.

Aha, gotcha. Not so bad then, you get some leeway. Tbh for what they were the emissions weren't that bad on these VRs..

Are they testing the emissions as if it were a standard car or testing as of it were a standard r32? Which reading do you mean -9…?

Is the mud and grass thrown in for free?

Yeah I am very aware that it won't feel like the mk7 golf the other side of the driveway, no matter what I do. That's ok, I'm used to the way the Corrado brakes - it's adequate for everything but the most extreme stops from high speed. I have been toying with the idea of picking up some 16" wheels tbh (there are a lot of Skoda Fabia VRs wheels around and I think they might suit the Corrado) but not sure I want the car unable to be reverted to speedlines when I feel like it so I'm reluctant to go beyond the 288s.

Yes it's due a bleed. Have braided brake lines too and the fixed lines have pretty much all been replaced in the last five years too. Rear callipers are nearly new and not seized. About the only things never touched are the brake load balancer and the master cylinder...

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070104185323AAmS1nL ABS was banned from F1 in 1993 because it was deemed a driver aid. And yes, it was, cars run a few seconds per lap faster with abs than without, particularly in the wet. If anyone on this forum claims they're better than an f1 driver at braking I shout "porkies" loudly in their general direction! ;) The system in the Corrado was not bad (at least the Vr6). It offered a token effort at traction control but really that was a bit of an afterthought; the abs function is quite effective though. I had one of the very old single channel ABS setups on an old Vauxhall and that was genuinely pretty useless (just as good as a skilled driver then - only one pedal). Except in snow, where you're better off without, but that's always going to be true. In ice it doesn't matter what you do you're screwed either way...

Improved brake lines is about improving the braking feel, it's not going to improve efficiency. You can only do that with bigger disks/pads/callipers.