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General Discussion Area / Re: What do we drive today
« on: 13 January 2022, 00:04:11 »
Good to hear from you all and thank you for the warm Welcome Back.

There is an interesting array of cars we all drive now, i guess we were lucky in Oz to have the VE/VF replacement for the old shaped Omega/Commodore and a real shame they didn't send more to the UK, i guess being all v6 and v8 the market was limited over there 🙄 I'll try and dig some photos out of the ones i have had since i have been here and post them up if anyone would be interested in seeing them

In answer to how is Australia, bloody awesome mate! WA is definitely the best postcode in the world IMHO, not to everyone's taste as i discovered but it is home for me, yes it does get a bit hot at times, 44 on Christmas day this year was a tad warm but the pool helped cool off, yes there are a million different creatures that can and want to kill you but you learn to live with that  ::) Yes its a bloody big place and nothing really prepares you for the vastness and then there is the language barrier, how we can be divided by the common language, imagine my horror the first time i went to a mates house and was told they had a party last night and to excuse the thongs scattered about the place, i thought what the hell, thongs are something you wear on your feel over here  ::)

Anyway, i look forward to chatting some more and catching up with a few old names in the coming weeks, it's good to be back  :y

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General Discussion Area / What do we drive today
« on: 12 January 2022, 01:53:30 »
So, it's been a long while since i was on here, some of you may remember, some will have forgotten me and others will have absolutely no idea who the hell i am 🙄
I moved over to Perth Australia 10 years ago so maybe that long since i was last on here (Its good to still see some familiar names as i look through the posts) and since my time here have owned a few Holden Commodores, a ute (Pick up to you poms), a 4wd estate and saloons, sadly not a Monaro,  v6 and v8 models from the familiar shape we had back in the Uk to the last VE/VF model.

All have been fun, some frustrating and some downright bloody terrible, the 4wd v8 crewman Ute was awesome and the latter VE estate a stunning looking and driving car in V8 form, although petrol is half the price here than in the UK, popping out to see a friend can often mean a 300+ KM round trip and i struggled to keep pace with the rapid rate the big V8 consumed her drink and alas with the demise of Holden (Thanks GM 😢) i decided to move on to a different make

I currently run a 2015 Audi A6 S-line Quattro with the 3.0 V6 supercharged engine, oh what a car and oh what an engine, linear power from the minute you tickle the throttle and right through to the red line, it makes you realise how engineering has progressed and makes the Commodore seem very agricultural in comparison.

Would i have another Commodore, maybe if the right one came along, the last of the VE Estates would be my choice in V8 form and as a sunday driver only, it would have to be the right car though in the right colour and in the right trim level

So, after all that i got to thinking what everyone back in the Uk now drives, on my last visit back two years ago i think i only saw one Omega in the whole of the 3 weeks i was there so i guess they are becoming a bit thin on the ground

Would be really interested to hear what the vehicle of choice is for everyone these days if you no longer drive an omega

Cheers

Jez 

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Omega General Help / Re: new custom stainless exhaust
« on: 28 April 2009, 15:42:27 »
Years ago on both my RS2000 and 3 litre capri i had custom made exhausts made out of 2.5 inch copper tube, they both had a glourious sound, a sort of muffled roar for want of a better discription, far better than any Janspeed or Peco system of the time, the downside IIRC is that it is not legal for exhausts to be made from copper but back in those days we seemed to get away with far more than we can today. Bring back the good old days  ::)

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Omega General Help / Re: Dissapearing battery thread
« on: 12 August 2011, 11:30:47 »
Hi Tony

As i said on the vanishing thread, i would go for the battery  ;), it would indicate to me that you have one cell in the battery that is falling over, as it is less than 12 months old you should get a replacement FOC, so nothing to loose by having it replaced anyway  :y

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Omega General Help / Re: Fitting Heated & Electric Seats
« on: 28 January 2010, 16:07:31 »
Face lift seats into a face lift car as follows, passenger side straight swap,  Drivers side there is some wiring differences as there are feeds out to the memory mirrors etc but they will fit with all functions working if time is taken with a multi meter. Pre face lift into face lift is as above but with one exception, the heated seats are fed from an on/off switch in the pre face lifts but from a variable switch in the face lifts, if wired up they cannot be turned off, the only answer to this iirc is, in the heated facelift seats there is a control box buried in the foam of the seat squab which works in conjunction with the variable switch on the dash, this has to be removed and wired into the pre face lift seats wiring, it is a pita. HTH

Jez

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Omega General Help / Re: Steamy windows
« on: 28 January 2010, 15:50:12 »
Just to update, tried the MarkDTM prognosis and all is well now, clear windows  8-) A day later the battery managed to turn the engine over for about two revolutions before dying a death, so i am guessing that the battery was on its last legs and after starting in the morning the voltage was low enough that the recirculation flap was switching to the recirculation position and thus causing the problem. Fitted a new battery and now all is well again in omega land. Thanks Mark for your help and everyone else for your suggestions  :y

Jez   

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Omega General Help / Re: Steamy windows
« on: 24 January 2010, 14:45:57 »
Thanks for all your answers, been away from pc for a couple of days so just off out to try some of the suggestions before delving into the heater department, will keep you posted  :y

Thanks again

Jez

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Omega General Help / Re: Steamy windows
« on: 21 January 2010, 17:02:34 »
Thanks dbug and djac, scuttle and drain already checked so looks very much like the matrix  :( It may just have to wait for the warmer weather though as a drive job!!!  ::)

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Omega General Help / Steamy windows
« on: 21 January 2010, 16:37:34 »
After frolicking about on the rear seat with an Icelandic blond with gorgeous blue eyes.................................no hang on, reality check, after the car gets warm and the heater kicks in the windows start to steam up badly, this has only just started to happen and i suspect the heater matrix may well be leaking as there is no damp in the car at all, so i was wondering, A, if my prognosis is correct and B, what sort of a job is it to change? Has anyone here done this before and if so any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance

Jez   

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Omega General Help / Fitting a crank sensor to a dti
« on: 13 December 2009, 13:11:37 »
Just wondered if anyone has done one of these on a dti before, as per my last thread i have decided it is the crank sensor so will be replacing it, just wondered if it is a reasonably straight forward job?

Tia

Jez

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Omega General Help / DTI INTERMITENT LIMP MODE
« on: 10 December 2009, 19:36:41 »
Well, the DTI has been running so well, have done nearly 10k in it over the last 7 months and its never missed a beat, in fact i only thought last week that it seems to be pulling better than it ever has, and then last night all went wrong, i was driving along when for no apparent reason the rev counter stopped working along with heated rear screen and MID and the engine would not run at much more than an idle, i tried to get home and after a couple of miles everything started working again and all was well, then again today the same thing happened, i just kept my foot buried in the floor and after a little while all was well again. So does anybody have any ideas, she is just short of 200k by 40 miles but has been well looked after, i dont think it is pump as these tend to fail full stop so guessing it could be crank, cam or lamber sensor or could it be the cat, i say the cat because as previously mentioned over the last week or so the car has seemed to pull so much better and i think i detected a slight difference in exhaust note, though that may just be physcological. So any thoughts please, all suggestions very welcome, and Mark DTM, if all fails and i can get to you would you do me a code read, would this pinpoint it?

Thanks in advance
Jez

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Omega General Help / Re: Who has the closest Tech2 to me?
« on: 27 August 2009, 13:56:18 »
Drop Mark DTM a PM, i know he lives near nottingham but pretty sure he works in Coventry now, so maybe you could meet him your way on, Just a thought, good luck

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Omega General Help / Re: No accelerator
« on: 13 August 2009, 10:34:00 »
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does the engine rev ok when in P or N? If not most likely failing cam sensor. I had it once, start up, press pedal nothing happens. That plus hot starting issues, i replaced the cam sensor, never had any problems since.

Tunnie
No nothing, just sits there and idles!!!
Seriously thinking about buying it as at 300 quid i should think i could break it at worst and make my money back. Kevin, my thoughts were throttle body as i have heard of a similar problem somewhere else, if it was, would it need tech 2ing to the ecu or just plug and play?

Thanks all for your advice
Jez

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Omega General Help / No accelerator
« on: 12 August 2009, 21:37:04 »
I have been to lookat a 2001 CDX estate with leather, it has a genuine 83000 mls on the clock and is a four pot petrol version. The problem with the car is that there is no accelerator, by which i mean the car starts, selects gears (auto) but when the go pedal is pressed..............nothing, i know these are FBW so what could the worse case sinario be, the car has been offered to me for 300 nicker, just dont want to buy it and end up throwing endless amounts of money at it to sort it out. Any suggestions would be greatly received.

Thanks in advance
Jez

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Omega General Help / Re: Total climate control failure
« on: 05 July 2009, 11:36:13 »
Cheers Jason, fuse had blown and traced it to a faulty sat nav power lead, cool air again  :y

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