Jim

Amazing, Chris. I can't wait to see more progress on this.

Yeah I rang my insurers claim line and it said "Press 2 for a glass claim" - pressed 2, and it put me straight through to Autoglass!

How come you went with hi-spec calipers rather than the 288's? Are you planning to turbo in the future?

Sent an email back to the complaints advisor I was originally dealing with:

Problem is it's impossible to prove it :( I just hate these companies taking a big **** on people, cause they know full well the average joe doesn't have the means to do anything about it.

Hi folks.. This doesn't relate to my Corrado, but my other car and wanted to solicit general opinion. Couple of weeks ago, someone decided to put through both front windows on my Fiesta. As no other damage was done and no attempt seemed to have been made to steal the car, I simply put in a glass claim through my insurer to have the windows replaced. Technician showed up, went to do the job, but in the process the mechanism on the drivers door got wrecked. He operated the window mechanism with the doors all still full of glass. I've subsequently had to go to Ford and have a new regulator AND motor as both were ruined. The cost of this was £410 to me as of course I'd only claimed for the glass. I put in a complaint to Autoglass and after a few days of dragging their heels, they very bravely got some random call center guy to ring me (on behalf of the operations manager AND complaints manager) to tell me they are not liable and they followed all the processes correctly. Anything I queried, he said he didn't know, but that all he was told to say is they were not paying or contributing in any way. If that's the case, how did I end up having to replace the entire electric window mechanism in the door. I'm on the verge of phoning my insurers to complain about this and just wanted to get opinions on this. Autoglass say that the damage to the mechanism and motor were done during the window being put through... I think anyone with half a brain cell would know this to be bull**** considering the window was simply smashed. How would a motor be damaged by that? Am I reasonable in pursuing this with Autoglass? Or is it entirely possible / conceivable that both the regulator and motor could be wrecked by the window simply being smashed? I fail to understand how, but would defer to someone more knowledgable than me to explain how! Thanks.

Personally I've never seen the point of them. You get far more engine vibration into the cabin, and you're just transmitting the vibrations that the softer front mount would normally absorb, elsewhere along the front end.. so you'll wear out bushings elsewhere quicker. An uprated mount such as a vibratechnics is often regarded as a good upgrade, but would avoid a solid mount. But ultimately it's your car / your preference :)

I've always liked the Rainsports but have to say in recent years have really began to notice what other people were saying for years, which is they have an extremely soft sidewall which results in very spongy handling indeed. But they last well, they're not expensive, and the wet weather performance with them is superb so well worth considering.

Drop easypops a PM. His work great.

Will PM you :)

PM'd you :)

A lot of the very best examples are generally off the road at this time of year because of the grit salt, etc unfortunately. But hopefully someone with a nice example can help out!

Bump. Any more for these? Might have to stick the remainder of this batch on eBay. Cheers. Both outstanding orders ( STORM 2 and kevwil1968 ) were posted out yesterday :)

Wunderbar :) Fancy taking over the Sprinter magazine again? ;)

You coming back, Jeremy?! :)

Great scott!! Nice! :)

Hate to say it but if you're in the market for a Corrado, you need to be prepared to travel! There's just too few of them around to hope one will land on your doorstep. I took a train to, and drove back from Newcastle (nearly 4 hours!) to pick up a £600 barge a few years ago... it all adds to the adventure.

Good to hear of some updates, Michael. Hope you're well mate.

The only places I really buy parts from these days are VW, VW Classic Parts, Euro Car Parts and AVS. It's always a bit of a lottery though unfortunately. Alternatively there's lots of places that'll rebuild alternators for the £100 mark so worth looking into.

If you can get a higher ampage one, I'd go for it.

I'll say :) What engine is it?

Yeah which means your alternator isn't doing jack unfortunately. I'm not too familiar on the ins and outs of alternators as it's possible to replace certain bits without a full rebuild / replacement.. but either way I'd say your problem is in that neighbourhood!

Most likely the mechanism needs removing and cleaning. It could be gummed up with muck which is putting additional strain on the motor, causing the fuse to pop.

Yeah - I'd drop the fluids and also turn the motor over by hand off the crank a few times to ensure it's all free. Would also consider draining whatever fuel is in the tank and sticking something fresh in as 3 year old fuel won't be too good :)

Well, step one is testing whether the alternator is actually charging the battery...