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General Car Chat / Re: Cooked it
« on: 27 June 2023, 21:14:24 »
Ooops, shame after you've done so much work on it.
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General Discussion Area / Re: OOF next few days....
« on: 23 June 2023, 10:54:34 »
No!!! Don't mess with the packet pushing machines! 
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Omega General Help / Re: Steering Groaning
« on: 17 June 2023, 22:03:47 »All I know is that my trusted Vx parts manager checked my Omega’s specification, and told me that it was now Dex VI that is suitable for it.
Your trusted parts manager is wrong. It might have superseded it but it's not right.
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Omega General Help / Re: Replacement Radiator
« on: 16 June 2023, 22:46:51 »Most all aftermarket ones have the integrated cooler ports.
Put another way, replaced six or seven over the years and all had the integrated cooler
I've only replaced three.
Wrong way round though...
The current one will have an external ATF cooler mounted to it. To change to the integrated ATF cooler requires modification to the existing pipework, simpler to just buy a radiator with the mount points for the existing ATF cooler.
Of course this may all be academic if it's a manual
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Omega General Help / Re: Replacement Radiator
« on: 16 June 2023, 21:29:59 »
If yours is an Auto be careful which one you buy - 2.6 and 3.2 ATF Oil cooler bolts to mount points on the coolant radiator, earlier 2.5 / 3.0 radiators often don't have those mounts as the ATF cooler is integral (on the side) of the radiator.
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General Discussion Area / Re: 20 mph speed limits
« on: 15 June 2023, 20:44:37 »all the roads on my estate are 20mph ..... no one takes a blind bit of notice, despite the speed humps.
Thing is it's loads of roads and key routes in London, you know, the place where there's a camera every few metres to charge the motorist for one thing or another...
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Omega General Help / Re: Steering Groaning
« on: 15 June 2023, 20:41:22 »STOP PRESS!!!
I have just found pictures on the internet of where the fluid should go. I cannot believe I have never put any fluid in that black topped thingy!
I will be looking there in the morning.
If it's never been changed then probably worth running completely new fluid through the system. Easy to do once the front wheels are off the ground so you can wind the steering lock to lock.
Oh and make sure you put Dex III in (getting harder to find now) the later spec fluid will rot the rubber pipes from the inside out.
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General Discussion Area / Re: 20 mph speed limits
« on: 15 June 2023, 18:55:05 »
They are just plain stupid.
I work regularly in London and have no choice but to drive from site to site due to my job (Public transport not an option), it's made the roads more dangerous for everyone in my opinion, the drivers and pedestrians are frustrated and more risks are taken. Just like ULEZ and Smart Motorways, the Country has gone mad!
I work regularly in London and have no choice but to drive from site to site due to my job (Public transport not an option), it's made the roads more dangerous for everyone in my opinion, the drivers and pedestrians are frustrated and more risks are taken. Just like ULEZ and Smart Motorways, the Country has gone mad!
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General Car Chat / Re: Can 'lane assist' be permanently disabled?
« on: 15 June 2023, 18:39:19 »Probably similar to my XJ - 40Gb Hard drive, although only 10Gb is reserved for music, which it rips from inserted CDs itself to make a kind of virtual 10 disc CD changer. In addition, a USB key full of music can be plugged in (but the Gen2.1 HD system takes forever to read a USB with more than a few thousand tracks on every time the car starts), an iPod socket, and normal bluetooth music streaming....all music on a micro SD card and "bucket avoidance rear view camera"....
I did replace the Omega's wax cylinder player with a bluetooth enabled touch screen ,i don't answer calls or texts while driving , .....
Seems like a waste of time & money then buying a bluetooth head unit if you don't answer calls while driving
I have enough junk in my car without taking up space with cassette tapes, and 78s to play on the Omega's original radio-gram
I must admit I tend to just have the radio on ..... My ML has a built in 10 Gb hard drive ... there's next to nothing on it
My old Jag was the same.
No idea how to play music in my new car....other than the radio.
It doesn't appear to to a CD, a cassette tape, an 8 track cartridge, a 45, or a 78.
No doubt it is all related to apps and a smartphone or USB stick in some way.
...like Andy_B, I tend to just stick to the wireless.
BMW has Hard drive, USB, Streaming etc. I do have quite a bit of Music stored on the Hard Drive sorted into different directories and find it easy to use when you've exhausted all the DAB stations
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General Car Chat / Re: DSG gearbox
« on: 07 June 2023, 08:17:08 »I'm going off the idea, glad I asked. Question is, why are more modern boxes not as good as torque converter ones
I hope the current VW DSG boxes are better than the first ones. You know, the ones that had a nasty habit of selecting two gears at once, which cost about £3k to fix. Their biggest selling point seems to be how fast they can change gear, which is utterly irrelevant in real use.
.. and I'd wager the ZF8 in my Jag is just as quick at shifting and it's certainly more refined. I'd only ever go for a conventional slushbox. Dual clutch types are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
Have the ZF 8 Speed in my 530D and agree, it's an excellent box.
A little while ago we were looking for an automatic estate for Mrs VXL, we really liked the Passat's but at the age and mileage we were looking at I didn't fancy anything with a DSG going on the general opinion of them. I guess at lower mileages with a service history on the box then it's a different story.
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General Car Chat / Re: The future....
« on: 25 May 2023, 20:12:45 »If my memory serves me correctly Oxford Services have 16 Tesla chargers but only 4, maybe 5, chargers for other vehicles.Yup, a million Tesla chargers round the back, 4 normal chargers out the front, not that I've frequented that establishment for nearly 2 weeks
Mind you, not so long back the bank started to slide on that side of the car park.... Imagine returning to your Tesla smug because it's charged only to discover a ton of earth surrounding it!
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 22 May 2023, 18:00:05 »I'll stick with my method 😂😂😂I used to use the Gliptone leather cleaner and treatment but haven't bought anything to replace it since running out. Was doing some research into the subject a while back and decisions were split given the coating applied to the leather.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 22 May 2023, 17:20:22 »Leather all cleaned & treated in the Range Rover, 16 years old this year & still looking like new, my farmer mate has a 2018 Range Rover but the leather has not aged well.
Leather ages as well as it is treated, maybe his is an ex management car
I was under the impression that all leather used for upholstery since 2000 has had a plastic urethane coating treatment on it, so feeding and treating it is a waste of time, may as well just wipe it over with a damp cloth and some G101.
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Omega General Help / Re: Ground clearance for exhaust replacement
« on: 19 May 2023, 19:11:38 »I cut the rubber hangers(I always replace them)
If your car has the original GM rubber exhaust hangers, and they are not deformed or damaged, I would recommend reusing them on your new system.
From past experience, I replaced my original GM rubber hangers with aftermarket ones, thinking at the time it was sensible to change them at the same time - at the next MOT, the tester pointed out the hangers were perishing and cracked / spliting.
Fortunately, I had kept the GM ones as they had appeared ok - I refitted them and they are still on the car to this day.
Cheap replacements are just that - cheap. Just a few quid compared to the far more costly GM ones, but the rubber is undoubtedly inferior to the genuine GM ones.
So I would recommend reusing the hangers if genuine GM and are serviceable.
That echo's my experience as well. The Polish eBay exhausts are brilliant value and work well but the rubber hangers are best binned and stick with the original GM ones.