WHY I bought THE WORST VW CORRADO VR6 I could find?

okay so why did i buy such a scabby ratley corrado vr6 hello guys welcome to this vox wizard video now i don't know about you but i think there have been far too many new shiny cars on this channel recently but we're going to put that right today and how by having a closer look at this very old very unshiny corrado vr6 and it's not just any corodov6 it's my corrado vr6 i've just bought this car with a view to keeping it forever but it would have been too easy to go out and pay top money for a really good example i probably bought one of the worst ones i could have bought some people would probably fairly call this corrado v6 a pile of but there is a good reason why i bought fox corrado and in this video i want to explain to you what that is so let's get going and see how bad this corrado really is okay before we get ripping this car to shreds let me just say the owner alan was a true gent and pointed out all this car's shortcomings he originally advertised it on instagram and tried to put me off then he thought my account had been hacked because i continued to show an interest in the car but there is a good reason for that partly it is because i've known alan for a very long time and i knew that whilst it had a lot of major problems it would be an underlyingly decent car so it'd be pretty solid and all the important like mot stuff would have been taken care of allen went to stealth racing for maintenance on this car and they are the experts so uh yeah that was pretty good that doesn't mean there isn't five figures worth of work to do to the cars let's start off then by talking about the paint because paint works never cheap to sort out so superficially it's okay particularly on this side but when you look closely there's some really horrible stuff in this quarter panel here actually down here it's okay there's a horrible blowing line that's not good there is micro blistering on the roof it's actually raining there but it gives you the same sort of effect so that's all there when it's dry and it's actually cracking here so you can see all these lines that's the paint cracking that's pretty nasty this door is okay until you open it and you see the horrible bit of rust there so that this caused a lot of people in the body shop to suck their teeth because it's where the door skin meets the door frame and it's a very hard place to repair allen's put wax on it to slow it down but yeah needs to be done so that door's no good the wings not bad but it's got something here and a bit of rust there and a nice dent there that bumper's scuffed the bonnet actually considering this is the panel that gets the most abuse normally with chips it's actually really good the leading edge on these cars is pretty much flat there is some funny stuff going on there though um so yeah bumper all the lights are good as well that's important uh dent there oh nice gouge there rust there rusts here even the mirror and it's got eczema so it's got the lacquer peeling off the base coat here so that's pretty ugly so yeah that's not good what have you got left tailgate no that's not good either a bit of rust there spoiler you might get away with that rear panel it's not bad with a few little bits on it and this bumper's scuffed as well just there so i think the only panel that doesn't need any work is the petrol flap so yeah uh yeah that's going to get done then so um it's going to cost a fair bit of money it's going to take a lot of time to strip it down i'm going to take the windows out to do it properly because corrado's they've always have like overspray down here amazingly this one doesn't but uh yeah to do the job properly you need the windows out and there's stuff like this i mean where'd you buy corrado window seal from and this trim is a bit poor as well the window seal the sunrise seals no good um sunroof of course does not work on this car they are famous for the mechanisms breaking and also you get electrical problems with the switches and motors luckily a lot of stuff was interchangeable with mark iii so if you gave me a mark 3 sunroof frame i could probably get this working using bits off it there used to be a repair kit but these used to go wrong the sunroofs when the cars were like a few years old and then they'd scratch the sunroof panel as well so it was a nightmare i fixed one 20 years ago and uh yeah that's such a bad experience i've not done one since but i will do again the wheels you're asking me about those aren't you well allen likes bronze wheels but alan you don't mess around with a modern classic these should be silver and to make matters worse when he hadn't refurbished the original speedline caps wouldn't fit it's got a red corado dr six badge which i'm not sure is correct because this is an emerald really the only early cars maybe an l or a k had the red badge i don't think this one should so yeah the paint is pretty bad but i think structurally it's okay the boot floor does look pretty good uh quarter panels look good as well so every everything that's the kind of thing you get when the cars are sold the glue just failed on the trim panel down here looks like yeah it looks like new it's got the data sticker there and the paint inspection sticker the spare wheel sticker that's a good sign also shelf falling out maybe not such a good sign oh yeah nothing in there let's uh have a quick look under the bonnet so that's the next thing this car has never had a timing chain and 27 years old and it's done 147 000 miles it's due and once you start doing the timing chain what else you do the clutch do you do the valve stem oil seals do you do the head gasket because they're known for head gasket failures let's have a look at under the bonnet anyway it could be tricky with one hand it's a very heavy bonnet even though it's got no sound proofing on it alan's removed all that so that kind of gets pretty shabby so it's probably better that it's not there and just like a market golf i'm going to put this in here the market golf has got a corrado vr6 bonnets right down here yeah it's a it's not a 24 valve engine it's just a 12 valve engine so it's pretty basic um they do suffer misfires from the spark plug so it's probably at about five in its time it's pretty solid though again battery area you know it's all right scuttle which mark two golf can suffer from badly is he's good really good the wing bolts look original and yeah panel gaps are actually pretty good as well so superficially it's got a lot of stuff needing attention but i think the core car is good and that's really really important right let's start up this very funny narrow angle v6 now this is we haven't even got a proper key we've got this mickey mouse key you've got a life vw key fob though it's got um a cobra category two immobilizer if you're under the age of 30 you might be lucky to never experience these this is what you needed in the 90s because cars got stolen a lot so every time you got in the car you had to do that so if you've got keyless entry you are spoiled although you can't still get stolen anyway it actually sounds okay i'm pretty sure i listened to it a few weeks ago and it sounded like the timing chain was really bad but yeah i've i've been in touch with the guys at stealth who are the experts on these cars because if it was a four-cylinder eight valve engine pretty much any garage could sort that out but the vr6 is a very specialist engine and they charge good money for doing the work it's about five grand to have one of these rebuilt properly by stealth so yeah it's more than i paid for the car a lot more so it will get done but i'm not sure how quickly we'll drive it in a bit we'll find out if we need to do it really quickly because i haven't really driven it yet so yeah hold on for that before we do that let's have a look inside thankfully it's got a cloth interior and it's not actually hold so i guess it could be worse if it was leather it would probably be never right unless you re-trimmed it i can feel the metal frame of the seat there so with a bit more foam in there that feet would probably look a bit less fluffy steering wheel's all right it's got the leather rimmed one door card's okay carpets are all right rubber mats in it there's been a lot of rain and it stayed dry in here that's pretty good it doesn't smell damp or anything like that that's quite good it's got a bit of a nasty modern stereo they came with sony's originally and compact disc player in the glove box with no cartridge great we have the original book pack there it's got a fully stamped service book which is another thing that was quite good about it because you can never fix service history well you can fix other stuff so it was good that that's all up to date and it just confirmed the mileage which is 147482 which isn't low but it's not ridiculously high either as a the leather is a bit worn out probably going to be quite hard to sort out that's not water that's some sort of oiliness i think the carpets not bad then speed line caps for the wheels which are quite hard to get as with corrado's you always find a bit of trim lying around that goes on there somewhere yeah it could be a lot worse and there is one saving grace to this car that it doesn't have a fault that a lot of them do have let me just demonstrate watch that light hooray the abs light comes on and goes off and stays off it's a really common problem with these so that's one thing i have to worry about does the spoiler work well that's the button for it there uh i'll press it and you look out there yay well the spoiler works as well so that's good i do remember someone telling me many years ago they went to see a corridor and it wasn't working and the salesman said oh yeah you only get that one corrado vr60s mate it was it was faulty they all have it uh just look at those clocks though they're very basic just white on black but compared to a mark two golf this looks like being in the space shuttle because you've got these three gauges and you've got corrado on there as well so yeah it's all coming back to me now right well clearly there's a lot of work to do from what you've seen already should we go and drive it and see if there's even more work to do once we've driven it okay well we're finally driving my corrado vr6 for the first time and first impressions that it drives reasonably normally the reason i like corrado vr6 is is that they're they're a classic now for sure i mean 27 years old some of them are over 30 years old but they don't drive like an old car so you can drive them hard and you know the brakes are going to work and it feels pretty up together what's a bit disappointing is that even on little bumps in what's a relatively soft car there are lots and lots of rattles it's almost like every trim panel has been taken off and put back with half the clips missing if here it's rattling i can hear it rattling in the back the kind of thing that would drive you mad and it's really really hard to sort out rattles that's probably one of the biggest jobs for the future now these cars do drive really nicely and naturally so we've got power steering unlike say an early mark ii golf and it just feels like a modern car in that respect the brakes are pretty good when they're working properly like i said allen kept on top of this sort of stuff so if we break now it's good and it's got abs that works as well though we didn't even engage it because the roads are dry and we've got reasonably good tires the clutch feels moderately heavy doesn't feel overly heavy it's got a little bit of judder when you take off from stationary that's no big deal because if you did the timing chains you'd do the clutch anyway the shift though is unusually nice it's got a very long throw as is customary for older cars but it's actually really precise it's a very early cable change box in the corrado vr6 which is what we have today in the modern cars and uh yeah i'm pretty sure somebody's fiddle with this before because it just feels too good and then we have the noise well alan fitted just before he talked to me jetex exhaust system stainless steel uh really good quality it's not loud or boomy but it does give this car a bit more character and that's great because they sound great as standard anyway so if i put popping a second there which she likes to do and christ i mean we've lost a lot with modern cars i mean fake sound in the gulf are i mean come on this is what we want so yeah it's um it drives well it sounds good the only problem is that at any point the timing chain could fail and i could be looking at not just a rebuild but a new engine so that's definitely something to think about when i'm revving it out but you know the potential is most definitely there okay so why did i buy such a scabby rattly corrado vr6 well as you probably guessed it was cheap it was just three and a half thousand pounds that's how much the owner allen wanted for it when he advertised it on instagram i wasn't even quick to reply to his advert but because we live close by it was pretty quick once i made contact for me to see the car to put that into perspective a good up together corrado vr6 was somewhere between 100 and 150 000 miles would be about 10 000 pounds and i bet you it would still need stuff doing to it so say it had all original paintwork well it's bound to be quite chippy at that kind of mileage so you need to get paid work done to it it might be pretty good under the bonnet but if it's never had timing chains like a lot of them haven't it would need them quite soon i couldn't live with a car like this knowing the timing chain could fail at any time and scrap the engine so i'd have to get that done as well so with a bit of mammoth i reckon for ten thousand pounds in total so six and a half pounds worth of work i can get this car as good if not better than anything i could have bought for ten thousand pounds i'm gonna have to put a bit of my own time into it as well so i'm not gonna take it to the body shop like this i'm gonna strip bits off it take loads of time and care not to damage anything and give them pretty much a bare corrado where they just have to worry about prepping and painting the paint i can't really do that with the engine it's gonna have to go to stuff i'm gonna have to pay big money to those guys but i think it would be worth it in the end just to have this car exactly how i want it to be now as you can see it's a bit of a blank canvas now so if you've got any ideas for this car i don't mean turbo and supercharging it we're not going to do that we're going to keep it as original as possible but oem plus so we can improve things 27 years is a long time in the automotive world so some things have improved like suspension tyres brakes why not take advantage of that effectively resto mod this car so if you've got any ideas comments i will read them all before i sign off i just want to remind you guys volkswagen is primarily a used car dealership specializing in interesting vw group vehicles so if you've got anything to sell get in touch with me i'll come and see the car pay you a fair price for it and give you a completely hassle-free sale anyway guys thank you for watching this box was a video if you've enjoyed it please give it a thumbs up please do comments and please do share and as ever please do subscribe subscriptions as a lifeblood of this channel and i'll see you for the next one soon

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Length: 17min 1sec (1021 seconds)

Published: Sat May 29 2021