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[terry paget]

Y reg 2.5 manual saloon, MOT till January, 41000 miles, £32, will drive away. For sale spares or repair, loud knocking noise at top of engine. Recent cam belt change is the clue; I reckon belt has jumped a couple of teeth.
 I have been there; took advice, checked cam belt, 2 teeth out, replaced cam belt and pulleys, car did 4 years more service till daughter crashed it.

Too far away for me, I wouldn't drive it home, but could be a real bargain.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111981111708?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[biggriffin]

Car park leprechauns, will get that

[baggers]

Maybe £150 - 200 end of auction.  All the mileage numbers are evenly pissed so 40K mileage is maybe questionable, radio head hanging out and looks like dogs have been jumping all over interior.  That said still worth a pickup for spares.

[05omegav6]

Officially, it's done around 3k miles every year since 2006... Fail items seem to have been done on demand rather than being allowed to fester

[STEMO]

This guy sells cars. If it was an easy repair, I'm sure he'd have done it.

[Viral_Jim]

This guy sells cars. If it was an easy repair, I'm sure he'd have done it.

Indeed, but then again, would he? a good'un is only worth £750 at a garage maybe? Timing belt must be a few hrs labour, even if you have all the kit, and that assumes no other damage done. He's probably given someone £250 for it against another car and just wants rid. Of course he's lying about not knowing (or at least suspecting) whats up with it. That's par for the course 

VOSA MOT history shows mileage evenly spaced since 2006 2-3k/yr with 18 months off the road. So it would have had to be clocked every year for the last decade (seems unlikely) - don't think you can re-write the odometer history on the MOT can you? 

I'm not in the market for it - just speculating. 

[STEMO]

Omegas in general are cheap enough without driving miles to pick up a poorly one.

[Elite Pete]

The wear on the top of the gear stick and handbrake gaiters suggest its done more than 41000 miles to me

[RobG]

Mileage digits don`t seem to "sit" right

[STEMO]

If there's any doubt about it...just leave it.


Move on.....nothing to see here.

[tunnie]

Bet that has done 141k miles 

[omega2018]

ooh there's a nasty bird poo on the windscreen too.

you lot are so critical............

[tunnie]

ooh there's a nasty bird poo on the windscreen too.

you lot are so critical............

Not really. Just know a shabby example when we see one, with excellent examples to be had for £500. What's the point in a shit one, with loads to fix up?

[terry paget]

Thanks for your collective wisdom. I did not know I could check early MOTs on the VOSA web site; I do now. As I said at the start, it's too far away and not really driveable. so I was never really interested, just tempted.
And yet, best car in my fleet is X168, bought as spares from ajsphead in Portishead. Omega 2.5 CDX, manual petrol, MOT failure, e-bay £302. On the drive home I realised it was a better car than  my current 2.5 estate, so repaired it and scrapped other estate. My current favourite is 2.5 CDX V828, bought in Clacton last summer for £257, to replace Jonny's 2.2 with head gasket failure. Both these cars are unusually rust free, so will not suffer the fate of Catherine's Opel, rear shock absorber mounting failure, scrapped. I note this Llangollen car had brake pipe rust problems, bad sign.

[baggers]

Maybe £150 - 200 end of auction.  All the mileage numbers are evenly pissed so 40K mileage is maybe questionable, radio head hanging out and looks like dogs have been jumping all over interior.  That said still worth a pickup for spares.

Final price £190  There are a lot of spares on it but I don't think I could have gone to that price with it's condition.