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Author Topic: So what have you done to your car today?  (Read 2980224 times)

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12870 on: 29 July 2016, 22:43:10 »

Old cars cost money to keep on the road. If you are mechanically proficient and know a lot about the omega, most things can be fixed fairly cheaply and in short order. But you've got to have the time to do it and be willing to give up that time.
If, like me, you just want to get in and drive a car, then the omega is not for you. They can be very frustrating and you have to love them or you'll hate them.

Believe me STEMO Iv had plenty old cars, cant afford to get new....

I can weild many spanners, welders, ratchets etc... mechanically profieciency isnt a problem, time isnt a problem - pissed off working on the same car coz something else has gone wrong thats just cost a oppsing bomb to replace is a problem.... genuine gaskets etc... cost a shit load of money that I just aint got.... Im fed-up of the ruddy thing going wrong constantly... its now travelled 160000 miles, that in my book is a lot of miles for a car.... please dont start bleeting on about it not being a lot of miles for an Omega, or its only just run-in .... 'dangle berries'... its an old car that IS starting to cost a lot of time and money... im am unwilling to repair it again coz Im fed-up of repairing the ruddy thing...

At the end of the day - its just a car..... its old... its costing money to keep it running... im spending no-more money on it .....

Simple as that really....
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12871 on: 29 July 2016, 22:47:12 »

You're late to the party. Some of us came to that conclusion five or six years ago.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12872 on: 29 July 2016, 23:06:53 »

Drove it!  8)  West Dorset to The Fens.  :y
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What you doing passing thro or near hoof'land  :o
Stocking up on the water most likely... ::)

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12873 on: 29 July 2016, 23:51:10 »

Drove it!  8)  West Dorset to The Fens.  :y
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What you doing passing thro or near hoof'land  :o
Stocking up on the water most likely... ::)

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Yes, the water will do that to you... :P
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12874 on: 30 July 2016, 09:04:24 »

Upset the Beemer.  :(  Driving along the lovely Welsh mountains and 'Drivetrain Malfunction' keeps popping up on screen. A quick system reboot temporarily sorts it but it looks like a trip to a dealership is in order. Driving through the hilly Welsh terrain of the Brecons in 'limp' mode is not ideal.
The indicators still work though.  :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12875 on: 30 July 2016, 10:27:56 »

Upset the Beemer:(  Driving along the lovely Welsh mountains and 'Drivetrain Malfunction' keeps popping up on screen. A quick system reboot temporarily sorts it but it looks like a trip to a dealership is in order. Driving through the hilly Welsh terrain of the Brecons in 'limp' mode is not ideal.
The indicators still work though.  :y

Its caused by Brexit.  :y ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12876 on: 30 July 2016, 10:34:14 »

Upset the Beemer.  :(  Driving along the lovely Welsh mountains and 'Drivetrain Malfunction' keeps popping up on screen. A quick system reboot temporarily sorts it but it looks like a trip to a dealership is in order. Driving through the hilly Welsh terrain of the Brecons in 'limp' mode is not ideal.
The indicators still work though.  :y

Speak to jasonm, he gets all sorts of warning lights up his ones.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12877 on: 30 July 2016, 10:54:33 »

Since when did they fit warning lights to cars? I've never noticed any!  :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12878 on: 30 July 2016, 11:11:07 »

Fitted a new distributor cap and plug leads , plugs and coil
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12879 on: 30 July 2016, 13:01:52 »

Upset the Beemer:(  Driving along the lovely Welsh mountains and 'Drivetrain Malfunction' keeps popping up on screen. A quick system reboot temporarily sorts it but it looks like a trip to a dealership is in order. Driving through the hilly Welsh terrain of the Brecons in 'limp' mode is not ideal.
The indicators still work though.  :y

Its caused by Brexit:y ;D

Ah, that will be it.  :y
The Welsh voted out, my car is German so that can only end in a personality clash.   :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12880 on: 31 July 2016, 12:03:16 »

Just fitted a Kenwood DAB headunit in fifty shades of grey my 190D.
Now got planet rock on max. volume. Eardrums bleeding profusely. Happy days.  8) :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12881 on: 01 August 2016, 00:41:21 »

Fitted new Headlights, new alloys, DAB, taxed, insured, washed, polished and waxed.

All ready for a friend's wedding. To say I ache is an understatement........
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12882 on: 01 August 2016, 00:59:57 »

Fitted new Headlights, new alloys, DAB, taxed, insured, washed, polished and waxed.

All ready for a friend's wedding. To say I ache is an understatement........

Yes taxing and insuring a car these days is bloody painful! 😭  ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12883 on: 02 August 2016, 07:32:58 »

Left it at train station, as apparently this noisy, uncomfortable, slow DMU is preferred. Really?
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #12884 on: 02 August 2016, 19:29:20 »

Looking forward to getting off the children slug and getting in the omega for the final 12m home :)
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