Wullie

Just a Corrado's way of looking for attention.

And what exactly is this part of his fine **********, of ******* Avenue, Grimsby, was also ordered to pay a £15 victim surcharge at the hearing at Grimsby Magistrates' Court. What victim??

It's nothing to do with the public interest. It's big brother flexing his muscles and extracting even more money from the public. What about the man fined a while ago for putting rubbish in a rubbish bin. As it was a public litter bin and he put some junk mail in it he was deemed to have commited an offence and fined. This country is madder than me.

I don't think its the forum and I don't think you are going mad cos that would imply you were once sane :lol: Umm, there's a thought. I once had a certificate of sanity given to me by a local mental institution as a present as I had too inspect it three times a year but I lost it.

Back home all shiny and clean. Party on the drive with a Polo, 2 Passats and a Bora, all just young things so will have to keep an eye on them. No jelly on the dash though, it's just been cleaned. They've all been warned about doing doughnuts on the lawn. Is it just this forum or am I going mad?? :nuts:

Anybody that drops in really. I don't care. Back to work tomorrow so last fling really.

I'm just taking the Corrado down for a wash and mini valet as it's 20th birthday present. Tonight I'm having a little party for it.

If you can borrow a known good battery and stick it in the Corrado it would confirm if your current battery is RIP

Watch the panel displays when you crank it. If they fade then there ain't going to be enough power there to start it. Get it running and put a voltmeter on the battery, immediately after starting it should show about 14 volts dropping down after a few minutes. If after about 10 minutes it's still showing 14 volts or so it's a good signn the battery's goosed and not accepting a charge.

Happy Birthday to you etc

Have a look through this thread. This has been covered quite a bit in the past and a bit of use of the search should yield other threads on it http://direct.the-corrado.net/.archive/forum/vie ... r6#p952676 Best of luck with it

1. Favourite thread has to be Worst week of my life ever. How a group of people, most of whom haven't probably even met each other rallied round with support and how it all finally worked out well. 2. Don't really attend shows as they are a bit thin on the ground up here. 3. I couldn't pick a favourite car. They are all pretty magnificent in their own way ffrom the OEM restorations to the let's see if we can get the first 1000 bhp Corrado. 4. Jim at JR Volkwagen in Paisley, apart from him it would have to be this forum which is a mine of information. Merry Christmas Y'all

I have a similar problem but only need to rev it to1200 rpm now. Initially I needed to rev it to about 1500 so I fitted a new regulator, drive belt, cleaned up any connections I could find and then finally a new battery. It's still the same. I'm waiting till the weather improves to see if it may be temperature related. I did think it may be the commutator?? (Copper bit the brushes contact) that might just be worn after 190,000 miles but haven't looked as yet though as you have changed the alternator it suggests something else. Will watch with interest any suggestions. I'm sure some of the genius's on here will provide a blatant and simple solution.

OOps, they are in trouble, again http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/24122010/36/co ... ing-0.html

Ran an extension lead in through the tailgate, once I got it open, and jammed a hairdryer in the rear seat join. Switched on and left it for a couple of hours. Car now frost free. Retired to duvet igloo to continue the dying from flu process.

Lucky expletive, expletive. Force yourself to go, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Spot the one with snow tyres. http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/22122010/36/fo ... ill-0.html

Took a couple of looks before I twigged.

Wullie doesn't have a bee in his bonnet about not being able to afford them. I was commenting on the rising tide of comments suggesting that not having them turned you into some kind of idiot driver who should not be allowed on the road and was a danger to all and sundry. Why am I even in here? Well, it was to learn about winter tyres strangely enough, and I did not say at any point normal tyres work well in snow. Grant me a little common sense at least. It's the same reason I look at all the other topics about turbo's, superchargers, larger brakes etc. oh and the detailing section. Not necessarily because I'm going to do it all, but because it is interesting and informative. I drive my car daily, now having taken it over 190,000 miles and maintain it in a roadworthy condition. In the last four or five years it has passed it's MOT first time, never with more than a couple of advisories. If winter tyres were a requirement for that then in normal circumstances they would be fitted. My current financial climate is pretty dire which is not really your business so I'm afraid that if winter tyres were legally required the Corrado would be SORN'd for the required period this year. So I will "deal with it" by driving when it is safe to do so with skill and consideration for other road users. My apologies for having one more reply to this as I was letting it go, but felt this response required my response. I'm going away now.

I'm sorry to the extremely small minority that this might involve... but every single car I have witnessed first hand as severely struggling in these conditions has failed to clear their front/rear windscreen or side windows and headlights of snow, obviously has summer tyres fitted, and drives far too fast and aggressively for the conditions. For those people, I actually HOPE they write their cars off, but I really do fear that they may cause damage to mine/others cars, or even worse, injury to innocent drivers and pedestrians. If they did not have "adequate" brakes fitted to their cars, considering the road conditions, would they still continue to drive?? I hope not... but why then do they drive in conditions that their tyres (the ONLY 4 points of contact between car and road) obviously cannot handle Oh dear, where to begin. I'm sorry to the extremely small minority that this might involve... Errm, It's quite a bit larger than you seem to imagine, and set to become a lot larger. but every single car I have witnessed first hand as severely struggling in these conditions has failed to clear their front/rear windscreen or side windows and headlights of snow, obviously has summer tyres fitted, and drives far too fast and aggressively for the conditions. This is a pretty good description of bad driving in adverse conditions. I was unaware however that it was caused by the type of tyre fitted or that you could, indeed, identify tyre type from it. Were you a bad driver last winter, when you didn't have winter tyres? If memory serves you only fitted them earlier this year The major problem is that it is not a requirement of holding a driving licence to have had any training in winter driving therefore the only opportununity the majority have is when Mother Nature dumps winter with it's snow onour doorsteps. I drive on my sh!te non winter tyres on a daily basis and have only not driven on one day during the current winter weather when my street was blocked by a bin lorry that had become stuck and the blown his transmisssion trying to get out. I was trained to "DRIVE" by the Fire Brigade many years ago, and despite not having winter tyres I have never been at fault in an accident. Come to think of it I have only been involved in three accidents in 40-odd years of driving, the last taking place in the last hour of the last millenium when a woman rear ended me. I failed to take note of her tyres. The remaining two paragraphs I will just ignore as they are not worthy of comment. Winter tyres make it safer and easier to drive in winter conditions. Winter tyres will not make a bad driver any better, it may just take them longer to lose control. Recognising your own limitations and driving within them or indeed choosing not to drive is just as, if not more important than the type of tyre used. Rant over

Not particularly aimed at Colin but the above phrase is becoming frequent in this topic. Not everyone can just pop out at the beginning of winter and chuck on a set of winter tyres. It is just not a financial viability for a lot of people. And I'm sure someone will correct me but it only seems a couple of years ago that winter tyres were a novelty subject on the forum. By all means buy winter tyres if it is within your budget but don't demean other drivers just for not having them, unless of course you have irrufutable proof that the can, but refuse to buy them and deliberately go out of their way to get in front of you. Pleaqse also note I have been stuck in bed with flu and a chest infection all bleedin week and I'm grumpy and felt like sticking up for the little man in his shite tyred car.

And a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year to all from me.

I used nmahi's guide here http://direct.the-corrado.net/.archive/forum/vie ... 45&t=84726 to replace my main beam light. Took about half an hour. The diode has one bent leg, make sure the replacement is fitted the same way.

Have you tried driving on the wrong side of he road or a totally flat surface to see what happens? The normal camber of the roads tends to cause any car to drift toward the gutter. Sometimes when you have done something to the car what has previously been unnoticed becomes a major problem.

In work today one of the girls announced that my car was great in the snow cos it was old and was used to it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She added that she always walks round the back of it in the car park because it looks angry from the front. Chuftie? Don't know. Make your own mind up.