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General Car Chat / Re: Annoying little shits.

« on: 30 November 2023, 17:39:16 »

Have you thought of driving it now and again? 

I do, almost every day. It is the warm engine bay that attracts them.

Have you thought of not driving it?

Park it next to a Mercedes. Rats love Merc wiring

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 29 November 2023, 21:45:13 »

Merc drivers.   All of them.  Is it a requirement for a lobotomy upon purchase.

How oppsing slow can they all drive, and just how much fresh air can they give way to.

 

Is it a lobotomy, or because they're so blind that they willingly buy such ugly cars?

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Omega General Help / Re: cambelt 3.2 elite gates

« on: 26 November 2023, 12:59:00 »

It's at half the mileage, and over the age limit. I would fit a timing belt kit in the next year or so.


The only reason to change the water pump is if it's leaking. The original suggestion to change it while you're in there was that reliably good quality replacements were readily available for so cheaply it wasn't worth not doing it. That's no longer the case, it isn't driven by the timing belt, and replacing it isn't that big a job.


Now that these engines are over twenty years old, I would put the extra time and a fiver into changing the crankshaft oil seal instead.

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Omega General Help / Re: What lies beneath

« on: 18 November 2023, 16:13:11 »

Thanks Nick, yeah springs all appear to be in Europe.

I bought all four springs for my estate from Germany for about the same price as one rear spring from a British supplier. Not that any of them had stock available.

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Omega General Help / Re: What lies beneath

« on: 18 November 2023, 15:20:45 »

The sill covers slide along their fittings, so should come off easily.


If you think finding rear springs online is faffing about, you'll hate trying to find somewhere to get them over the counter. Paying for them that way will be even more painful.

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General Car Chat / Re: Lets do the maths.

« on: 17 November 2023, 21:55:39 »

The old scouse lad will be on in a minute to tell me his soot chucking planet destroying  derv only costs £30 pa.

1.0l Focus is £24 pa. That's the only good point of the entire car. It isn't a good deal.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Potholes

« on: 17 November 2023, 17:56:45 »

I wonder if Rishi will appoint Rod Stewart as chief coordinator?

What if we used former ministers as initial ballast for filling the holes? They're no use for anything else, and there's loads of them....

I see absolutely no reason to wait until they're former ministers.

I was allowing my natural optimism to bubble to the surface.

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Omega General Help / Re: Bonnet opening

« on: 17 November 2023, 13:25:40 »

Hello Doc why are you saying lubricate the lock barrel which lock barrel,

All four** of them. That's both front doors, the boot lid and the ignition lock. The good news is that it's quick, cheap and easy to do:


  give each barrel several copious squirts of solvent cleaner(brake/carb/contact/whatever you have).


  rub a soft, good quality pencil over the sharp bits of the key and


  pump it in and out of the barrel a few times.




Finish the job by ensuring that the keyring you use for the ignition holds a maximum of one key.


While you have the cleaner handy, use it on the both parts of the bonnet latch then grease them both and as much of the inner cable as you can see.






**I know Omegas might not have four, but this isn't Omega specific advice.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Potholes

« on: 17 November 2023, 13:18:08 »

I wonder if Rishi will appoint Rod Stewart as chief coordinator?

What if we used former ministers as initial ballast for filling the holes? They're no use for anything else, and there's loads of them....

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General Discussion Area / Re: No one going to Rwanda anytime soon

« on: 16 November 2023, 12:26:23 »

Staggering figure.

Time for a war, good way to sort out debt?

Do you have a particular victim/culprit/aggressor in mind, or should we just pick one for political expediency?


If it's the latter, how about Liechtenstein? That would save the Navy getting involved, and we have instant scapegoats in Switzerland, Germany and Austria not allowing us to cross their territory to shoot a few people. Then we could get Braverman to change a few words in her hilarious letter to the PM and everybody is happy.

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General Car Chat / Re: Cortina or All-aggro?

« on: 15 November 2023, 21:15:07 »

We used to call russet brown rat shite brown

At its best when the interior was the same colour.

Could be worse; Chrysler did a bright green Sunbeam GLS with a matching velour interior. The whole car looked like it had been dipped in pond slime. The bright red one was only slightly less garish.


Vermillion ought to be a brilliant deep red, not any kind of brown.

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General Discussion Area / Re: No one going to Rwanda anytime soon

« on: 15 November 2023, 13:13:42 »

To be fair Nick, I think they are all shitty😁👍💩

I wouldn't take much convincing....

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General Discussion Area / Re: No one going to Rwanda anytime soon

« on: 15 November 2023, 12:40:38 »

It was never intended as anything other than a distraction from their inability to come up with a practical policy that could actually do something. Now, it's not their fault but the court's.


I've used this before but it bears repeating:
modern Conservatives - the shittiest politicians not very much money can buy.

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General Car Chat / Re: Breakdown cover

« on: 15 November 2023, 09:28:51 »

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12748325/Businesswoman-fined-council-van-enters-Clean-Air-Zone-pick-truck-breaking-down.html

 

Probably why you often see the number plate of the recovered vehicle with tape over it while it's sat on the recovery truck.

You're not supposed to show more than one number plate at any time, so the recovered vehicle ought to be covered whenever it's on the truck. Nobody actually bothers doing this without additional  good reasons.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Omnishambles.

« on: 13 November 2023, 22:23:20 »

She certainly said some of the right things, but what did she actually do ? 

Have you ever publicly and deliberately disobeyed your boss, whilst stoking up trouble amongst your colleagues and customers? If you haven't, how would you expect them to react if you did - invite you round for a pat on the back, tidy bonus, followed by tea and cake? A history of competence would mean you might get some allowances made, but that's not been a trait required by the Tories for a depressingly long time.