jr
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Originally posted by jr
nice cars, there very smmoth to drive, be carefull of window regs falling out though 
and make sure you use proper screenwash in it (and anyone else thats got a VAG car) as the water in the pipes freezes, and breaks the rear washer pipe connection, which shorts out the rear boot latch, which fucks it
 Didnt know that! Luckily I do use normal proper screenwash.
some of the brands arent really good enough either as ive seen through work
best bet is to use VAG Screenwash
part Num G052164A2 (wow thats sad  )
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bluecorsasteve
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I think im gonna get RC's yeh they look mint. Probs get some coilovers to.
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jr
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Another thing with the MK4
put the front windows all the way down, if part of the glass is still visable towards the b piller it means thats it has the modded window reg clips on it, This is good
if there is no glass visable, this means your window is likly to fall into the door at any time, this is not to scare you, just somethign to be warey off with the mk4
New window regs fitted are £220, or reapir kist are avlible for much cheaper
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bluecorsasteve
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Cheers for the advice will have a look in the morning.
That happened to my corsa, window fell into the door!!
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jr
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also watch the sump on them, we have had so so many MK4S in with the sump smashed off them
also it has a strange undertrya arragment, which fixes to the sounddeadners for the engine, which fixes to the inner arches,
it is very very easy to catch this, and breake most of it all in one go, which is expensive
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Nath
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quote:
Originally posted by jr
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Originally posted by Nath
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Originally posted by jr
nice cars, there very smmoth to drive, be carefull of window regs falling out though
and make sure you use proper screenwash in it (and anyone else thats got a VAG car) as the water in the pipes freezes, and breaks the rear washer pipe connection, which shorts out the rear boot latch, which fucks it
Didnt know that! Luckily I do use normal proper screenwash.
some of the brands arent really good enough either as ive seen through work
best bet is to use VAG Screenwash
part Num G052164A2 (wow thats sad )
That is very sad
but also helpful 
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bluecorsasteve
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And may save lots of money
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Nath
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 Indeed
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jr
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3.64 a litre
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CorsaSRi16v
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Yes the cast sumps are a nightmare.
That's what's stopping me fitting coil overs at the minute.
Although I am trying to get a sump guard made up
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CorsaSRi16v
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I think im gonna get RC's yeh they look mint.
They do indeed
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jr
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whats make it worse, espically with some of the 1.8t,v5 and v6, is that the oil level sensor software changes, which means if you do the sump, you need to buy the oil level sensor and dash cluster, otherwise its very possible your get false warnings etc
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CorsaSRi16v
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whats make it worse, espically with some of the 1.8t,v5 and v6, is that the oil level sensor software changes, which means if you do the sump, you need to buy the oil level sensor and dash cluster, otherwise its very possible your get false warnings etc
Never knew that.
So even more expense.
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jr
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its the price you pay for having such a clever technology filled car (well compared to corsa etc)
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CorsaSRi16v
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Well yeah LOL
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SVM 286
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quote:
Originally posted by jr
nice cars, there very smmoth to drive, be carefull of window regs falling out though
and make sure you use proper screenwash in it (and anyone else thats got a VAG car) as the water in the pipes freezes, and breaks the rear washer pipe connection, which shorts out the rear boot latch, which fucks it
They fall in Jimbo, not out mate. 
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SVM 286
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quote:
Originally posted by jr
Another thing with the MK4
put the front windows all the way down, if part of the glass is still visable towards the b piller it means thats it has the modded window reg clips on it, This is good
if there is no glass visable, this means your window is likly to fall into the door at any time, this is not to scare you, just somethign to be warey off with the mk4
New window regs fitted are £220, or reapir kist are avlible for much cheaper
Stop that! - Repair kit is evil and only fitted by fool.
Nice shiny new reg is best.
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SVM 286
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Originally posted by CorsaSRi16v
Yes the cast sumps are a nightmare.
That's what's stopping me fitting coil overs at the minute.
Although I am trying to get a sump guard made up
Firmer suspension would be better.
The problem is, the cars are so softly damped and sprung, and have so much suspension travel that when you hit a hard or violent bump, the very low mounted engine is immediately placed in danger.
If the suspension travel could be reduced, the risk of damage to the engine would be lessened.
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whitter45
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Originally posted by Nath
S3 is 225bhp iirc.
Pre 2001 are 210 then they were 225
My mate has an s3
His has a bit more low end grunt than mine when we raced from 30mph
Mines seems to do better higher in the rev range as mine has VVT
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