Quasi OT - Corrado / possible scirocco sale

[Scirocco-Al" <scirocco-Al@insight.rr.com (Scirocco-Al)]

I had a 92 Corrado for 3 1/2 years.  My payment on it was $350 a month.
Over the time I owned it I averaged $340 a month on it keeping it on the
road, including my insurance, which was $800 a year.  In that time I
replaced or repaired the Clutch/pressure plate/ throw out bearing, The
master and slave clutch cylinders, the main cooling fan assembly ($480) the
secondary slave cooling fan, the head gasket, the $30 chain tensioner that
you have to remove the tranny to replace, the hydaulic piston chain
tensioner, had the head rebuilt because all the exhaust valves bent because
of all the the bad chain tensioner stuff ($240 head bolts, $80 head gasket,
$300 in valves, $80 valve springs, new valve seals and $350 of machine work,
not counting other crap) .  Beyond that I had numourous cooling problems
that all lead back to a crash that happened years before on the car where
the battery got busted.  The acid leaked onto the harness routed under the
battery (stupid) and ate it up.  When I found it and repaired it the AC
worked again too.  I had 1 broken windshield and 3 break ins ( 2 doors, 1
window).  Someone also stole the grill out of it.  I replaced the cracked
driving lights ($110 ea), a couple of front wheel bearings and had to put
pads on it front and rear.

I did all the work myself (except bodywork, windshields and machining of the
head) so you can figure what the parts cost.
My car had 70,000 miles on it when it I sold it.

A guy at work had a another 92 for a few months.  His sunroof broke, the
heater core went, the power windows screwed up and it also needed a clutch.
It had 70,000 miles also.

The cars are great but if you are going to drive one as a primary driver
then stay the hell away from them.  If you are going to buy one as a garage
toy and put less than 5000 miles a year on it then it might be worth it.
They are great cars to drive but suck the big one on reliability and parts
cost.

Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike VanAmburgh" <mvanamburgh@charter.net>
To: "Scirocco" <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: Quasi OT - Corrado / possible scirocco sale


How 'bout head gasket replacement?  The 92 models were prone to head
gasket failure...

Mike (I do like Corrados)

Lyman M. Terni wrote:
> Brian,
>
> I understand what you are saying, and that is what originally kept me
> away from corrados. However, the guy I am buying it from took very good
> care of it and all the big, scary, expensive junk on it (timing
> chains/rollers/tensioners) was done very recently. The car is clean and
> everything works on it. I may be getting myself into something big and
> bad and I appreciate your advice, but where there is a will there is a
> way and I'm twenty... I'm allowed to not know any better :).
>
> respectfully,
> Lyman
>
>
> On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 09:19 PM, brianm@earendel.org wrote:
>
>> Lyman.
>> Im going to make a suggestion that your not going to like. Dont buy the
>> SLC. the maint WILL cost you between 1k -2k per year min. Thats if
>> nothing
>> breaks, you do all the work, etc. If you have to pay somebody it gets
>> much
>> worse. You can get a built, very nice scirocco for much less.  and the
>> list will be happy and able to help you with the repairs.
>> Brian
>> 82 2.0L ABA + GX head topless bunny, beating 16v's everywhere...:-P
>> 88 16v aka skateboard.
>> 84 0v anybody wanna donate a transaxle?
>> 90 90q20v (money pit)
>> 91 VFR750F everybody needs a 11-12 sec vehicle. .75L of pure speed
>>
>>
>> slipping
>>
>> On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Lyman M. Terni wrote:
>>
>>> Well,
>>>
>>> I finally sorted out money enough to buy a black 92 SLC Corrado. I'm
>>> not really sure what I'm going to do with the Scirocco. Part of me
>>> really wants to keep it, but the other part can't really justify being
>>> 20 and owning two cars. So I'm putting this out there just to see if
>>> anyone is interested:
>>>
>>> 1987 Red Scirocco 8v
>>> 240xxx miles
>>> recently done stuff:
>>>
>>> All V Belts, T belt
>>> clutch
>>> motor mounts
>>> valve cover and upper timing belt cover powdercoated
>>> injector seals (upper and lower)
>>> a mess of other stuff that I need to look into my records for.
>>>
>>> I know its not worth much, but if anybody needs a winter beater or
>>> somethin, the car is pretty straight.
>>>
>>> Anybody interested?
>>> L. Terni
>>> Schenectady, NY/ Lakeville, CT
>>> 87 8v
>>>
>>>
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