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« on: 12 April 2024, 06:38:37 »
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General Car Chat / Re: Bavarian brawn
« on: 12 April 2024, 06:37:03 »
It's a trend started by those dickheads at Vag who couldn't package a car if their lives depended on it.
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Omega General Help / Re: Micksgarage and cheap wishbones
« on: 12 April 2024, 05:40:29 »I'm the same with balljoints, only replace if necessary. The originals usually last the life of the car TBH. The pattern ones are shite. The ones ATP use are shite from the beginningThe 'life' of the car being 100k ish...
Once you replace the ball joints, it becomes a bolt on serviceable part.
Yes the ATEC arms from ATP are cheap and cheerful, but with the poly bush mod they are a cost effective solution. Especially when you consider that the genuine arms each cost more than a scrap Omega. Even refurbishing the factory arms with genuine VX/GM parts costs far more than the ATP wishbones.
An alternative approach would be to treat the ATP arms as disposable but keep the original GM arms and refurbish them with genuine bushes/ball joints and probably Poly bush the fronts ready for when the ATP ones fail. And that of course presumes the wishbones are the ones it left the factory with... Which is highly unlikely.
At the end of the day, what works for one won't always work for someone else.
Speaking personally, I have fitted ATP arms to my own cars and have always found them to out perform their price point.
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Cars for Sale & wanted / Re: 2.6 Elite Estate for Spares or Repair!
« on: 09 April 2024, 15:38:10 »Yes but then you'd address it head on in the advert. There's clearly a discrepancy and not mentioning it suggests a level of deception.I hadn't spotted the mileage discrepancy. Either the person who bought it from you has turned the dealer over and they're too stupid to have done even a basic check, or the dealer is a slippery as a mouldy trout. Or both.
Or the clocks have been changed because of a cluster issue.
When I swapped the clocks on my Ex Plod it was noted in the service book, both the end mileage on one set and the start mileage on the replacement. A third cluster replacement was adjusted to accurately reflect the combined total of the previous two
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Cars for Sale & wanted / Re: 2.6 Elite Estate for Spares or Repair!
« on: 09 April 2024, 14:48:01 »
I hadn't spotted the mileage discrepancy. Either the person who bought it from you has turned the dealer over and they're too stupid to have done even a basic check, or the dealer is a slippery as a mouldy trout. Or both.
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Omega General Help / Re: Micksgarage and cheap wishbones
« on: 09 April 2024, 12:52:39 »
Only ever used Poweflex, and to good effect, so no reason to recommend an unknown based on price.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 06 April 2024, 00:49:55 »No shit? After all the work you done on it?For the day
Not too shabby for a four banger.
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Omega General Help / Re: Micksgarage and cheap wishbones
« on: 05 April 2024, 23:44:18 »
The self leveling shocks firm up the rear end so GM fit softer springs to compensate.
The result will be akin to driving an old Cadillac and it won't help the life expectancy of the new shocks.
The front springs are the same for each engine type but there are variations according to the model... ie police/sport/mv6/Elite.
The result will be akin to driving an old Cadillac and it won't help the life expectancy of the new shocks.
The front springs are the same for each engine type but there are variations according to the model... ie police/sport/mv6/Elite.
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Omega General Help / Re: Micksgarage and cheap wishbones
« on: 05 April 2024, 23:38:30 »
720mm from ground to centre of wheel arch from memory.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 05 April 2024, 21:25:34 »
Swapped it for a convertible Mustang.
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General Car Chat / Re: 1.6 Zaff
« on: 05 April 2024, 19:17:26 »Not a new one... Obviously.Yeah, cause everyone cab afford one of those.I would definitely class the 2 rear seats in a Zafira as occasional use only, the Zafira is too small to be a full time 7 seater. With 4 "little darlings" and the associated crap that has to be carried, I would start to suggest something a little larger.Transit Tourneo or LWB Vito/Viano.