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General Car Chat / Zaffy rear wiper

« on: 06 April 2018, 17:55:47 »

Is shit.  It lifts off the rear window at the edges as soon as it starts to move upwards, and gets worse. At the far end of its travel, only the middle 4-6" are touching the glass.

Has to be the arm, surely?  Its hard against its endstop on the arm hinge, so not just gone stiff.

Arm is approx. 2 years old.

182

General Discussion Area / MOVED: Corrosion

« on: 31 March 2018, 09:41:25 »

This topic has been moved to General Car Chat.

https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=142241.0

183

General Discussion Area / Oh conkers...

« on: 30 March 2018, 14:09:19 »

One of the lights in the garage wasn't working intermittently, and has been that way for several weeks.  Its been on my to-do list for a while, but as I've had the week off, finally got around to looking yesterday.

Swapped the tube over with another light in garage, and the fault stayed with the fitting - an HF type with no starter.

So, off to shitfix this morning, bought new fitting, and fitted that. Exactly the same problem. Bugger.

So out with the meter, and pinpoint it to one of the 2 way switches had failed - hence the intermittencies.  Lesson being I should have got the meter out first, and save time, money and effort

184

Cars for Sale & wanted / MOVED: WANTED: F/L Xenon Conversion Kit

« on: 26 March 2018, 12:23:38 »

This topic has been moved to Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted.

https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=142195.0

185

General Car Chat / New F1 rules...

« on: 25 March 2018, 17:09:37 »

...have managed to make it even more dull 

186

Omega Gallery / MOVED: MOT day for my 2,5v6 estate

« on: 25 March 2018, 12:00:19 »

This topic has been moved to General Car Chat.

https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=142187.0

187

General Car Chat / I always know when she's broken the car

« on: 14 March 2018, 18:05:39 »

By the fact I can hear her bongo tunes from 2 streets away.  Her fix to strange noises, turn the radio up 


I jump in it, turn radio off, move about 2 foot, park it back up, order some rear pads.

*sigh*. Women.

188

Cars for Sale & wanted / MOVED: new parts For Sale - wishbone, handbrake shoes, steering idler

« on: 06 March 2018, 17:49:11 »

This topic has been moved to Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted.

https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=142056.0

189

General Car Chat / Well, I wasn't expecting that

« on: 04 March 2018, 18:44:32 »

Opened the garage today, as most of the snow against the door had thawed, only to be treated to an 18" snow drift about 2 feet inside the garage

 

190

General Car Chat / I guess thats bust..

« on: 03 March 2018, 20:09:06 »

Just nipped down to Tiffins to pick up a takeaway, and its a bloody blizzard out there again and settling again, so much for rain!  TBE was impeccably behaved, as expected

Anyway, the outside temp started at 7C and rose to 10C, so I guess I need to get another.


I seem to recall they are cheap, so not worth bothering 2nd hand?

191

General Car Chat / Mrs TheBoy bought me a little pressie

« on: 03 March 2018, 10:28:58 »

Whenever the Old Bag nicks my car to go anywhere, she always grumbles there isn't a bag in it to carry some of her purchases. So she rectified that by going to the shop she has onsite.


So the Old Bag bought me a Bag for the Jag




Now, I'd never admit this to her face, but its actually quite a good idea, so I might get her to pick up a couple more 

192

General Discussion Area / Whilst walking to collect the car, part 2

« on: 28 February 2018, 18:09:57 »

Walking past the secondary school (chuckling at an E Class not able to get moving), I notice the entire playground is now a carpark, instead of netball markings, just parking spaces.

I know there was a 2nd playground at the front of the school, but as I walked past that, I notice that had been converted to a carpark. And the old staff carpark still a carpark.


Where do the kids play now at break time?


Not a dig at teachers or TAs (a new invention since I last went to school), just a period of reflection on modern society...

193

General Discussion Area / Whilst walking to collect the car, part 1

« on: 28 February 2018, 17:51:11 »

Walked past a Sky installer/repairer swearing away loudly, clearly a bit miffed, that the whomever had installed the dish had mounted it above waist height.

He weren't happy, and I couldn't help it, but I chuckled. Which annoyed him further

194

General Car Chat / The Jags sound system

« on: 27 February 2018, 17:03:57 »

A bit of angry music came on the wireless, and being in the mood for bongo bongo, I turned it up.


Jesus, its proper loud.  I had wanted to try it at full chat to see if there was distortion, but my head couldn't take it

195

General Discussion Area / Middle class cooking

« on: 25 February 2018, 17:53:37 »

Knowing we have some poncers on here, WTF is Quinoa?