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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: Today at 08:25:30 »

I find them a pain to work on as you have to remove the skuttle 

And there was me thinking you loved working on Zafiras....

//TB recalls when DTM mutters to me "I hate your bloody car"

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: Today at 08:24:17 »

Had a Kia K5 for a day...

Meh.

I had some crappy small van yesterday, Vauxhall maybe?, that I had to tolerate a repeated limp mode, and it was giving me a countdown before it would stop starting due to an emission fault.

Enterprise really make my life a bloody misery

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Omega General Help / Re: which brand do you recommend?

« on: Today at 08:19:16 »

A 1998 omega should have the clear, MFL headlight lenses, which if they have gone cloudy, can be polished back with wet and dry, or one of those 3M headlight polishing kits that fit in a drill (which makes it easy).

OSRAM Nightbreakers or Phillips Vision Plus are good, decent halogen bulbs.

Worth cleaning up the area where the 0V is attached to the chassis, as if that is a bit corroded, it will impact the lights.

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Good afternoon from France.

« on: Today at 08:15:08 »

The auto gearboxes are weak on the earlier 2.5TD engines - they foolishly fitted the AR25 gearbox instead of the stronger AR35.  Fortunately, you can fit an AR35 from a 3.0 or 3.2 petrol to the 2.5TD, but you have to swap over the torque convertor and bell housing.  Or convert it to a manual, which is much better suited to that engine TBH.  If yours is the later 2.5TDI 24v common rail one, that came with a much stronger 5 speed auto.

Other than that, it'll be corrosion as mentioned.

Good luck!

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 24 April 2024, 14:54:05 »

Dropped the wheel off to see if it can be made round again.  He said he'd call me in a couple of hours, but he hasn't.  Not sure if thats a good or bad sign!

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 23 April 2024, 15:03:37 »

Dont know how you do it. Ive had one puncture in the last 20 years. 

This one is a trashed wheel, courtesy of Lincolnshire's crap roads.

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General Car Chat / Re: Arrival of new Vehicle.

« on: 23 April 2024, 15:02:17 »

The Omega engine in the Austin hot rod is doing its own oil change, must remember to get a new sump plug washer------

Ah, but its stops the rust

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 23 April 2024, 09:04:40 »

Another day, another flat tyre.

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General Car Chat / Re: Arrival of new Vehicle.

« on: 23 April 2024, 08:55:57 »

I have a cheap £6 12v oil pump for my car, as its far easier than a Pela .  But it doesn't work on her car with a proper dipstick, so I do use a Pela for that.

Both are easy to change oil on

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Irmscher fog light bulbs.

« on: 23 April 2024, 08:52:26 »

Back to OP, not sure what bulbs TBH.  My bumper came with the loom, so never really checked.  Can't say I ever remember a time in the last 30 years when I needed to turn front fogs on, other than to remind dickheads coming the other way they have theirs on, so never noticed any heat issues.

My current ride didn't even have an option for front fogs

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Irmscher fog light bulbs.

« on: 23 April 2024, 08:50:07 »

Some stations have ATLs (automated test lanes) where the tester can do an MOT on his own
(vibrate plates/shakers to rock suspension, mirrors to check rear lights etc )

This is what my MOTer has, just so he can advise something on the MOT, now that I always remove air fresheners.

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Omega General Help / Re: After Cruise control no throttle response

« on: 23 April 2024, 08:45:40 »

P1600 is generic.  You also need to look in other modules on same CAN - which on Omega is ABS and TCM...   ...and this one is a manual, so that will possible give a clue...

The TC light is controlled by the ABS module, so that will definitely have a fault code stored as well.


Its unlikely to be an ECU failure, as these are rare on Omegas.  It could be bad programming, though.

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Omega General Help / Re: AR35 / Autobox Sensor

« on: 23 April 2024, 08:40:24 »

It measures output shaft speed. It gets input shaft speed from RPM signal.  It compares these 2 figures, and knows what gear it thinks it is in, and if things don't correlate, throws a P0730 Incorrect Ratio  and dumps the box in limp.

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General Car Chat / MOVED: Brakes

« on: 18 April 2024, 19:55:11 »

This topic has been moved to Omega General Help.

https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=150942.0

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General Discussion Area / Re: Democratic European free speech

« on: 17 April 2024, 08:57:08 »

Don't think so

National Conservatism Conference: Police told to shut down right-wing Brussels event https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68826577

You don't need to be very right wing to be considered a right wing Nazi in 2024.

I'm sure our very own Lizzie Zoom called me a Nazi not that long ago