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Omega General Help / Re: fault lights on

« on: 13 October 2013, 16:57:11 »

Time for the scrapyard then

For the sake of a well documented affordable guaranteed repair...

Are you mental?

About £100 to fix if memory serves.

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General Car Chat / Re: Goodyear Efficiency Grip - first impressions

« on: 13 October 2013, 13:03:07 »

How about a tyre thread?

We haven't had one for awhile.

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General Car Chat / Re: Not a good start to first Mercedes

« on: 13 October 2013, 10:33:55 »

No he bought car yesterday - but garage is shut today and car needed tomorrow 7am. Have left message on garage answer machine and son emailed them but someone must have known there was a problem - not necessarily guy who sold it I suppose. If you have to jump a car at all these days you have to think to check the battery unless it has been stood a while which I do not think the C280 was. We will give it a couple of hours in case they pick up message.

Very likely.

A new battery to show good will from the dealer I think.

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General Car Chat / Re: One for the Girlies

« on: 13 October 2013, 10:30:52 »

Come on girls , your never going to lose sight of this in the car park  And even comes with matching scoot for an extra fee 

Cadillac

Not many girlies on this forum, Mr Emd.

Only Lizzie comes to mind and she is about 106 years old.

Kisses for Lizzie.

23165

General Discussion Area / Re: Sunday TV.

« on: 12 October 2013, 23:04:32 »

MotoGP - BBC2 1230
F1 from Suzuka (awesome track) 0600,repeated at 2.05pm
How to build a supercar - documentery on the building of the McLaren MP4 12c
BTCC finale from Brands - 1045am
Senna, the film. ITV1 - 1020pm.
Doesn't get much better than that.

For the third time since 2008 I agree with you, Albs.

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General Car Chat / Re: Heads Up - Halfords 5 Piece Lifting Kit 2 Tonne, 30% Off - £49.99

« on: 12 October 2013, 19:40:05 »

Downside of any creeper is you have to get the car 5 inches higher...

I'll Mention no names ...... but I imagine that some on here have trouble getting their beer belly under the car.

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General Car Chat / Re: What you don't need the day before you pick up a new car

« on: 12 October 2013, 18:30:08 »

Put a new, and an old Mini next to each other, and the difference in size is obvious.

Surely the definition of the word 'mini' means small.

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General Car Chat / Re: Another Heads Up - Up to 50% Off this weekend - eurocarparts.com

« on: 12 October 2013, 17:54:19 »

Are the Vistapro wiper blades up to snuff?

 At just £1.50 for the 24 inch, and £1.26 for the 19 inch it may be worth the gamble.

£10 each at full price, apparently.

Not used them. However, I find most of the junk they sell to be quite poor.

Perhaps,TB........but they can't be any worse than the RAC wipers which are currently on the car.

So.....Two new wiper blades and a new air filter for £9.12 including delivery. What's the worst that can happen?

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Omega General Help / Re: Cannister or Cartridge

« on: 12 October 2013, 15:52:58 »

TB runs back to bed to see if he can't fall out of the correct side next time he wakes up

Sorry, I bit, as I often do when somebody talks complete, unadulterated 'dangle berries'.  I am trying to fix that particular deficiency 

So you don't rate Evans Halshaw then

There I offer no apologies. Useless, lying, retarded, breakless, wankstained retards. Thieves as well.  Though I feel sorry for the Service Manager's mum, who clearly slept with a retard.  100m sperm in that shag, and that was the quickest?
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That bad, huh.

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Omega General Help / Re: Revamp of loose linkage

« on: 12 October 2013, 15:47:57 »

The gearbox fitted to manual Omegas is just plain horrible. Thats why I have 2 autos

Snap!

Having owned one manual Omega, I don't lust after a second.

The gearbox from a 1950's bus would be superior.

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General Car Chat / Re: Another Heads Up - Up to 50% Off this weekend - eurocarparts.com

« on: 12 October 2013, 15:12:02 »

Are the Vistapro wiper blades up to snuff?

 At just £1.50 for the 24 inch, and £1.26 for the 19 inch it may be worth the gamble.

£10 each at full price, apparently.

Back to our tightwad ways, are we?

Not everyone is lucky enough to be wealthy and live in Wakefield.

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General Discussion Area / Re: News at ten on bbc1 last night

« on: 12 October 2013, 15:09:19 »

I wasn't really paying attention but glanced up to see a chap with his name on a caption underneath. Dick Fidly. I think if my name was Richard Fidly, I would insist on people using my christian name in full. It's a good job it was the last report because I think the news presenter was about to wet herself.

I used to know someone called Richard Puller........Think about it

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General Car Chat / Re: Another Heads Up - Up to 50% Off this weekend - eurocarparts.com

« on: 12 October 2013, 13:46:31 »

Are the Vistapro wiper blades up to snuff?

 At just £1.50 for the 24 inch, and £1.26 for the 19 inch it may be worth the gamble.

£10 each at full price, apparently.

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General Car Chat / Re: Another Heads Up - Up to 50% Off this weekend - eurocarparts.com

« on: 12 October 2013, 13:36:21 »

Bosch wiper blade ....19inch £3.36. Any good?

Can't find the longer one for the other side though.

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General Car Chat / Re: 2.5td 0-60mph

« on: 12 October 2013, 12:38:33 »

So I got an omega sales brochure for 99p on flea bay during the week. Always buy one of these always cramed with useful info. Anyway I seen the 2.5td tractor in manual has a 0-60 of over 11 seconds. Nit suprised to be honest.

So tried mine there now. One attempt got 8.2 sec. Seems the lowrr raito lsd mapped brain etc have made a substantial difference.  Just makes me wonder what it will do with launch practice,  a long overdue service and this front mount ic fited and boost leak fixed.

Sounds optimistic.

Timings taken from the speedo and a hand held stop watch are far from accurate.