Due to pressure from a couple of people i have decided to write this record of my Corrado VR6 purchase and ownership.
In April i discovered the listing for a 1994 L Corrado Vr6 in turquoise ! ( actually Ice Grey Violet Pearl ) having covered 104,000 miles with fsh , all working electrics and was described as being in immaculate condition as well as having 7 months tax and MOT.
I emailed the seller to ask some pertinent questions about things like timing chains, service history and if he had any reciepts for major work like the chains, clutch , gearbox etc.
This was his reply :
No resprays or damage, all original
No rust
No driving issues, new clutch 28/02/04, gears & steering ok
No chain rattle, far left windscreen control a little stiff but works ok, new matrix 12/02/10, sunroof & spoiler ok
Services:-
24/03/94 26 miles
06/07/95 7317 miles
24/07/96 14270 miles
18/01/97 17416 miles
21/01/98 23047 miles
03/12/98 27238 miles
11/03/00 32595 miles
04/08/01 41527 miles
20/07/02 49264 miles
01/02/03 53166 miles
19/07/03 56886 miles
14/02/04 61447 miles
07/08/04 64769 miles
05/02/05 68132 miles
09/07/05 71144 miles
11/03/06 75931 miles
08/07/06 78370 miles
10/02/07 82382 miles
11/08/07 85545 miles
02/02/08 88347 miles
20/07/08 91737 miles
31/01/09 95008 miles
08/08/09 98398 miles
06/03/10 101173 miles
14/08/10 102593 miles
If you were to come and view, you won’t be disappointedIn fact in a further email he informed me that the only fault on the car was :
The far left swivel control on the heater control, where you can change the air flow from windscreen to feet, to main dash blower etc.As it was in the midlands and i was in France due to relocate back to the uk in the following fortnight, i couldn't go view the car and when i did move back i would be an hour n half away .
Anyway following the above information given by the seller on the car i felt as comfortable as you can be to bid on it, it started at £1750 and didn't move until very late on but i won it at £2008 which i thought to be a bit of a bargain!
I then arranged with a mate to go down with him ( a mechanic ) in his recovery truck to collect the Rado ( this would mean one lot of fuel and no risk of uncovering any faults that may have left me stranded by the side of the road on way back home with it ).
We got there and proceded to inspect her, it was obvious to me that the front end had been blown over by a bodyshop, the colour match was great and the depth of finish was good but there were dirt inclusions in the paint and the stone chips typical of a car of this mileage were painted over ( the chips were still there but recovered in paint )- so much for the original paint - no resprays !!
Also when i opened the fuel flap i was greeted by the beginnings of the dreaded rust round the filler neck as well as a un-treated stone chip on the rear arch that had blebbed up - so much for the No Rust !
So we went for a test drive, she squeaked and rattled along and had a very hard ride even though it was running on standard suspension, despite this the Magnex made a nice subtle noise and she went well and there were no coolant temp concerns or stalling / misfiring issues and the oil covering the engine appeared to be old oil rather than from a major leak or anything.
I estimated that the front brakes discs were thin, it was due a service and the shockers probably needed replacing plus the paintwork clearly needed a bit of work .
So i asked the seller to help me out on the price as i felt it was not as described, ' oh no ' he said ' i wanted £2500 for it so i won't budge on price ' he clearly had no real conscience as regards his decription of the car and the true condition and the fact that we had travelled a distance on the back of his description. Lets face it Rado vr6's are not too hard to buy at the moment !
So i had to make a decision on the spot which wasn't helped by my mate telling me to buy it ,buy it , buy it ,he had not thought to tell his missus what we were doing on his day off so she had booked an appointment with a wedding planner so he was in a seriously mad rush to get back ( this wasn't helped by the fact that he turned up late to pick me up either ! )
I decided to go for it and asked my mate mate to take the front spoiler off before he loaded it onto the truck to avoid damaging the spoiler, he promply ignored me and split it at the corner, when we later unloaded it he produced some blocks of wood that prevented the spoiler catching the truck , these can't have been available when loading obviously !
Here she is
By
toledo7175 at 2011-06-26
By
toledo7175 at 2011-06-26