Jop

I've been looking for a 'rado to spend my insurance money on for a few weeks but have yet to find anything I like. I'm after a late valver, have a budget of about £2000 and was hoping I'd get something pretty good for that but I'm struggling... I've seen a couple that look pretty good at 1st but on closer inspection have had a lot of paint, am I expecting too much to want it to be on original paint and be in excellent condition for my budget? Would you be overly put off by a car that's had a lot of paint done - or is it just me that think this massively devalues it? Ta - John

Cheers for the reply, I won't be rushing into buying just owt - I'm running my spare car at the mo (1990 Mini Cooper) so can look at my leisure, although windscreen wipers have just packed in on the Mini, so judging by today's weather, next week's gonna be fun :shock: I did consider buying another Golf, but I think going back to old cars is a lot like going back to an old girlfriend... never quite the same and you quickly remember out why you got rid last time round ;)

Firstly hello, I've been lurking here for a while without having much to say, I've been toying with getting a Corrado for a while but my mind's been made up for me after a tree fell on my car last month and I've got an insurance payout burning a hole in my wallet ;) I know there's a ton of these threads and I have trawled through a load of them but can't quite find the answer I'm looking for... I used to have a mk2 Golf 16v and loved how exciting it felt when I was loitering round the red line and was expecting the Corrado 16v's to be like this, however, I took a 2.0 for a test drive last week and felt a little under-whelmed at how it drove. I've been reading up on putting the inlet cam from the 1.8 into the 2.0 and was wondering if by doing this, along with a decat, I'm gonna get that power at the top end, or if that's what I'm after should I just get a 1.8? I kind of prefer the look of the later ones though. Just got to find that perfect car now :)