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My offer still stands.. Not at tenner though. It'll cost me £7-ish to post with the robbing royal mail. Dig in your pockets you tight git! :awesome:

Sorry.. It's long gone :( Never heard anything on E38, when was this? It's still available. PM'd I wish I did as mines just gone all funny.. It was scrapped with the car!! Nooooooo!

It's just a joke. I've decided to go down the Classic route and buy a cheap daily driver. Looking at a MK2 GTD. Thing is people are asking around £1000 for that?! Baffling thing is i went on a comparisin site which still had a quote from back in July last year for a brand new TT 3.2 Quattro - £1200. What the actual **** is going on here?

You guuuyyyyss are baadddd! I've just tried a quick quote on a 1997 1.1 Pug 106 as a daily hack about.. Yep you've guessed it, £1,200.. What the **** is going on? :bonk:

I can't do that.. I want my insurance to be legit. Naughty boy! Even if it was the postcode, it still wouldn't explain or justify the jump of over £3,000 in 12 months. Already tried... The car has to be 20 years old.. mines only a baby at 18!

well, so far tried: HIC - £4,000+ Performance Direct £4,000+ Adrian Flux £4,000+ Brentacre £4,000+ Compare the Market - Cheapest was £2,900 Sky - car needs to be parked off the road Greenlight - Don't cover S11 Chris Knott, car has to be off the road Aviva £3,575 I'm actually shocked.. Thing is, last October when I got the VR6 I rang around getting quotes out of curiosity and I was seeing around the £600-£800. I don't know why it's jumped so much. is it possible that because I've kicked up a fuss and disputed my claims valuation I've been blacklisted or something? £2,900 for a 28 year old is obscene. I actually have no idea why it's gone so high. I think I could have insured the same car for less when I was 17. :confused4: I have tried a few classic insurers and with a limited mileage of 5,000 and I've got quotes circa £400; all things considering it's not bad. Still a shambles when I was paying that this time last year for a 12,000 mile policy. So options are: Sell the Corrado or have it as a second car and get a limited mileage classic policy... Problem with this is I have nowhere to park it other than the road.. Bad times. :sad: Classic insurers are a price stand off between Footman James and Peter Best.. Just trying to get both to haggle lower! Unless anyone can recommend me some other insurance companies? Pleeeeeease!!?

Couldn't agree more.. For me insurance is their in case of a time of need and you should be in the same position after as you were before I.e you loose £4,000 you get £4,000 back. so far my claim for the amount of £4,500 has cost: *Excess - £250 *Bumped insurance premium for replacement car - £300 *This years cheapest insurance quote difference to last year - £1000 *Original premuim £450 In less than 12 months I'm over half down compared to what I should see back. Then I will pay higher premiums for the next 4 years. Whats the point of making a claim? it actually will end up costing me more money than what the car was worth. Not to mention I'm still awaiting the settlement. I have to pay insurance by law but the companies who supply it pretty much make it pointless to claim under normal situations. The only reason I see insurance as useful nowadays is in case you crash your/into a expensive car or cause injury. Honestly if it wasn't mandatory I wouldn't have it.

I agree with you and insurance companies are a joke; made compulsory by law but not regulated in the prices they quote. A business model aimed to insure as high as possible and pay out as little/cheap as they can. It's a shambles. But I'm currently with Brentacre (insured with Highways, part if LV). Brentacre have a new policy where they won't insure anyone who's claimed within 12 months. Pretty much the 4k they quoted me is simply because they don't want my custom. Brentacre have been top trumps for about 5 years with me, I have been overly happy with them and I couldn't have recommended them enough. Not this time though and I'm so disappointed with the way my claim has been dealt with by Highways and the fact of this obscene valuation as a result of the theft they've lost my business and recommendations for years to come.

I think the OE one has a one way valve in or something or other where as pattern parts don't. Go to VW for it. It's not expensive.

I'll give them a try.. The cars modified (exhaust system, 6-branch, Coilovers and BBS RC's) Do Aviva do modified?

Last May my Golf GTi was stolen and not recovered. I stayed on the same policy and transferred it to the Corrado (first a G60 then the current VR6), it jumped from £450 a year to £750 a year (mainly down to the claim according to the insurers). My insurance is due for re-newal on the 18th this month.. The re-newal quote I've had is £4000.. Laughable. I'm 28, 5 years NCB (protected), no points or convictions, one claim (as above) and had modified, fast cars since I was about 20. Adrian Flux and HIC are more expensive than that and Sky won't touch me as the car is parked on the road. I can get a classic insurance with a 5,000 miles a year policy for around £350-400.. But my circumstances my differ within the next few months and I may require more mileage which means classic policies could be out of the window.. What's peoples advice on who to try?

Location: Sheffield Price: 50.00 GBP Date added to Classifieds: 31st Jan 2012 Description: I have my spare MAF sensor for sale due to a pending OBD2 conversion. This is a 6-pin MAF, so suitable for the early VR's. Part number: 021 906 461 Fully working condition. £50 + postage please.

Location: Sheffield Price: 250.00 GBP Date added to Classifieds: 19th Jan 2012 Description: 1991 Corrado G60 fully rebuilt rear axle - Will suit all 4-stud Corrado's. Powdercoated black, hand brake cables, VAG flexi's, VAG bearings, VAG discs and pads, VAG brake shields, VAG rubber axel bushes and MK4 Alloy Callipers with stainless goodridge conversion hoses. All the little white plastic clips, copper brake pipes etc etc Covered no more than 6,000 miles and is in a very very good condition- Pictures taken after a 10 minute clean. A good scrub and de-greaser should get it like new again. There isn't any caked on dirt, it's like a fine dust. £250

Sold

Location: Sheffield Price: 50.00 GBP Date added to Classifieds: 17th Jan 2012 Description: I have a pair of ABF cams complete with a brand new cam chain. Good condition and out of a 80k car. These are a upgrade for your 9A engine and should see a healthy rise in power. Most people quote around 150bhp. These are a better/smoother lift than the common KR cam upgrade. £50 + postage. Apologies for the pap photo, I can get a better one upon request.

So I had my first experience in the snow with the VR. I found it pretty pants to be honest. I know the 205 tyres wont help but I found one wheel spinning when trying to set off all the time. Maybe the traction control kicking in? Who knows? So, how's everyone else's Corrado handle the snow?

What would you consider average bodywork for age? Covered in scratches and dents? But as Abdul says, what recent work other than the engine has it had?

I'm after a late style driver side windows switches - with working illumination. Thanks.

£25?

Quick reply! Thanks. Well, that's one less thing I need. Slightly disappointed though, I was hoping they'd light. Oh well.

As the title really. On my VR6 (later style interior) the L/R buttons on the electric mirror switch don't light up. The 4-way adjuster does though. Is this normal or should the L/R buttons light up too? Thanks.

I was under the impression the ads are similar to what you have been browsing.. For example I was just looking at alignmycar.com... Low and behold what advert can I see now? A car tracking one! What you been looking at then? Haha!

I have a late spec (3-slat grill) if that's any good?

Give me till tomorrow as I have the reciept for the one I bought not too long back and I'll check the part number and price.

£20 from VW..