John
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Didn't know you had a Corrado 3CM, is it any good?
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whitter45
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Registered: 15th Nov 02
Location: Norton
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Originally posted by John
Didn't know you had a Corrado 3CM, is it any good?
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Toby
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Registered: 29th Nov 05
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Lovely apart you seem to have too many doors
You offering to find him a three door estate?
No just a three door hatch
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3CorsaMeal
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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Originally posted by John
Didn't know you had a Corrado 3CM, is it any good?
thanks for asking.
yes its good 
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Fad
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Registered: 1st Feb 01
Location: Dartford Kent Drives: 330cd
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I've got a mapped 140 and thats lovely to drive, you could so some serious miles in these.
Only thing that scares me about the 170's is the DPF issues they get. Big bucks....
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whitter45
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Registered: 15th Nov 02
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i believe all 2.0 TDi VAgs pre CR have issues with heads after about 80k
My mate has had many golfs and audi's in with cracked heads at around this milage
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Fad
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Registered: 1st Feb 01
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Not really, the head problems are quite rare tbh. Mines on 84k and my brother just sold his 2.0 tdi sport with 105k miles on it.
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
Location: South Lakes
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Originally posted by Fad
I've got a mapped 140 and thats lovely to drive, you could so some serious miles in these.
Only thing that scares me about the 170's is the DPF issues they get. Big bucks....
I did about 40k in mine a little over 3 years and it was remapped for the last year and the DPF caused me no problems.
There are quite a few people that have problems with them though, I think its mainly people that do short journeys with the problems as the DPF doesn't get hot enough to do its business. Still its surely a design flaw rather than user error, you should be able to do short journeys if you want to without it breaking your car.
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Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
Location: West Sussex Drives: E46 M3
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Very nice Chazzy boi.
Is the 7 series a dead & buried dream these days?
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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Originally posted by whitter45
i believe all 2.0 TDi VAgs pre CR have issues with heads after about 80k
My mate has had many golfs and audi's in with cracked heads at around this milage
Dad's 140TDi on an 05 plate did 149k in 3 years wanting only a front wheel bearing and a new fuel pump relay and standard servicing.
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richc
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Registered: 24th Mar 07
Location: Ilkeston
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Its irrelevant, but more relevant than 3CM, but ive been driving a 2006 passat 2.0 tdi today (company car), and it has done 262k miles. It had a new engine at 252k though about 6 months ago, only due to oil pump failure! Before that, it was fine!
The car still drives very tight though. No rattles, no pulls to left or right, bangs, nothing.
But my mate had same engine in his A3 with 125k on the clock and it had loads of problems. Loosing boost, water disappearing, when running, then all of a sudden appear again, limb mode and cut out etc.
Hit and miss.
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ChazSXi
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Waterlooville, Hampshire
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I am 100% sold on the car, glad I pushed the boat out a little. They did have a 3 door but personal opinion is I kind of perer the back end of the 5 door...and like the estate style of it also. 5 doors is handy for when I have a colleague or two tagging along!
Car pulls v well and is a pleasure to drive. drove a 140 A4 and I prefer the harshness of the power on the 170!
Imperial have some very nice cars, and a good service too. TBH for a dealer the car IMO was well priced...and yeh it was in Cascades! I got told it was sold and was gutted, but it wasnt so I snaped it up!
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djgritt
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Registered: 1st Nov 07
Location: Dorset Drives: Focus ST / Hyundai i20N
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Originally posted by whitter45
they dont map to 310lbs/ft
Normally 290 to 300 max
IMO the 140 is a better drive as its smoother delivery and less noisey
Never driven a remap one though
Lovely car
I did use IIRC for a reason.
I got the car when the PD170 engines hadn't been released for very long atall, the first few months in which they were available in the Octy vRS anyway, and I got shot of it in Nov. 09, so not really been looking at getting it done for a fair while now...
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