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[RonaldMcBurger]

Well, most of you know me. My name is Finlay, I am 21 (SHUT IT!!!!!!!) and live in Nottingham. We own several businesses and Omegas is very much a hobby of mine, albeit an extra business too. I am married (16 years) and have a great son who is exceptionally gifted in many areas, not least graphic design. He knocked up the site logo in 5 minutes.

My experience with all things mechanical started at about 8 with taking my bicycle apart. I moved on through various motorbikes including the dreaded FS1E. I also spent 3 years in the RAF fixing Tornado aircraft and also worked for Jack Barclay Rolls Royce in London fixing expensive cars. I have rebuilt many automatic gearboxes over the years and hence my willingness to buy an Omega with a dead autobox.

I broke my back when I was 7, crushing 2 vertebrae but amazingly didn;t know about the damage until 2000 when my back gave in. I have had 3 operations so far on my spine, the most recent one giving me a new lease of life, although I am still in pain most days, I am far more mobile than I was a year ago.

I learn very much by doing things and have pretty much a photographic memory. There is very little I won't or can't take on with a car, as some of my projects have shown and surprised many.

My involvement with this forum are because of a fall out with another forum, the details of which are now history. Suffice to say I approached several key people to find that they were very much interested in starting this forum. The rest, is history and here we all are.

My ambitions with the site are simple. I want it to become THE place for Omega owners to look first for advice, help and a good fun chat. I have no visions of grandure for me, just for the site. I think you will agree we have a good team here and some great forum members already, each and everyone with knowledge and experineces of Omegas to share.

There you go. A little about me.

[tunnie]

Wow you go married when you were 5!!

Someone started young!

[Allenm]

Hi all,  

I am Merv, 38, married with 2 boys.

I am mechanically challenged, but love my omega to bits.  I somewhat shamelessly use the superior knowledge of the amazing people on this (and previously the other side!) forum to get enough knowledge to avoid getting (completely) ripped of by garages!

Cheers
Merv

[nixoro]

Hi all

I am Roy and I am 23

I currently am living with my partner and have 2 sons, Liam nearly 2 and Kai is 4.

I currnetly have a 97P 2.0 16v in silver it has its little niggles but nothing major so far. I also have another 94M 2.0 16v in black which i am doing up for my dad ideally he would have had a silver one but as we got it for peanuts thought it worth fixing up.

I also have a Honda runaway stored in the shed I plan to do up, it was given to me by my uncle and as it is possibly the only one left in the country. The bike itself is the same age as me so a collectable.

Cheers Roy

[Jay w]

Hi Guys,

I'm Jason, known on other forums as Wildfire.

36, married, used to work in a vaux dealer (10 years) now run my own training company.

My Miggy is a facelift Elite, bought it for work and glad i did, currently rebuilding a Mk2 cavalier convertable that will have a C2.5XE fitted (love the sound of V6's)

Good to see some old faces

[rob114]

Hey, just found the link from the 'other place' & over the moon !

Me is 38,married/divorced/married again with 3 kids.

Occupation - Police Sergeant (No speeding jokes please! get satnav & a ro

Drives 3.0 MV6 & lovin it!

[Markie]

Occupation - Police Sergeant (No speeding jokes please! get satnav & a ro

Drives 3.0 MV6 & lovin it!

Hee Hee so how does your personal car compare to your company cars?

[Marks DTM Calib]

New to this and just found the site......well ok thats not entirely true.

Most know me, I think.

Mark, 32, married with one son (William) age 2 and a further 1 due in October (I predict a boy follwing detailed studying of the last scan but, dont tell the wife!).

I work for Ericsson (formerly Marconi and GPT) and also spent a year working for Alstom in Stafford on HVDC projects. Degree qualified in Electrical and Electronic engineering, I studied in Nottingham where I now live. I currently work as a product champion on our OMS1600 range of SDH/data products.

I own 2 Omegas, 1 2001 registered (200 model year) facelift 2.5V6 CDx saloon manual which I ahve had now for 3 years and the recently accuired ex merseyside Police 3.0V6 Estate project car.

I got involved in cars at a VERY young age, my father was a motor mechanic (Saab trained!) who now runs the aftersales section of a Vaux dealer in Leicestershire and was always carrying out jobs at evening and weekends to make ends meet.

So add the years of mechanical experience to a knowledge of electronics and pile on an engineering approach to learning/problem solving and you get me!

So if anybody needs bits etc or wants to borrow tools (I have most standard tools plus V6 cam locking tools plus the special guides required to replace wishbone bushes to.....) or needs parts at trade then just get in touch.

[TheBoy]

So if anybody needs bits etc or wants to borrow tools (I have most standard tools plus V6 cam locking tools plus the special guides required to replace wishbone bushes to.....) or needs parts at trade then just get in touch.

Err, a TIS dongle if you have one  

[Markie]

this has been worthwhile - dont shoot me Marks_dtm - but i had it from somewhere in my head that you were a service manager for Peugeot....jeez how wrong could i be!

[Marks DTM Calib]

Peugeot, how dare you swear in my presence!  

Thats one car that I hate, I get one most weeks as a hire car through work, not yet had one that worked 100%....ive had faulty central locking, radio not working, faulty passenger seat (kept winding back of it own accord!) and to top it all.......the exhaust fell off one at 70mph on the A46.....terrible cars....

[Marks DTM Calib]

So if anybody needs bits etc or wants to borrow tools (I have most standard tools plus V6 cam locking tools plus the special guides required to replace wishbone bushes to.....) or needs parts at trade then just get in touch.

Err, a TIS dongle if you have one  

Still working on it.....

[Marks DTM Calib]

I should have also added that I like playing with Rover V8's....which although an over rated, unreliable dog of an engine....is quite interesting!

[rob114]

Occupation - Police Sergeant (No speeding jokes please! get satnav & a ro

Drives 3.0 MV6 & lovin it!

Hee Hee so how does your personal car compare to your company cars?

Hmmm,well a ford focus can be hairy during rush hour on a blue light job believe me!  Omega does remind me of 'proper' police cars - I used to drive escort cossies/cav turbos/t5's but dont now since being promoted

Anyone needs any advise/help in the plod dept - i'm ur man!!

[Salty]

Hi, My name is Glenn and I live near Blackpool and I work in the offshore gas industry. Got my omega only 2 weeks ago  :)previous to that had a volvo S40 :-/ :-? for a year and before that a 2.6 senator   (should have skipped the volvo and gone straight to the omega).