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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Newbie from northwest
« on: 28 February 2014, 12:00:50 »
How do Looney, welcome to OOF!
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Hi, my name is James and I'm an alcoholic! Oooh! Sorry, wrong group!
Ok although I'm not an Omega owner I do very much like these cars and would love a 3.0/3.2 Elite but, alas, my finances won't stretch to ownership of one at this present time sadly. That said I'm swear it'll not cost as much as my Vectra 2.2 CDX estate which is suffering running problems at the moment, poxy thing.
Anyway, may father has an Omega, he has a 51 plate, 2.2 cd but due to failing health issues he doesn't drive that much so I get to play with it occasionally, although at present it needs a cat as the current one is blowing badly. Any help on supplies there would be greatly appreciated.
Anyhoo, I'm off to look round the site a bit more so will speak to you guys later.
Yeah, insurance is crazy if you're less than 21! My Dad has a Carlton 1.8 GL which I'd love to get off of him, but I think even with classic insurance it'd still be pretty crazy.
CD 2.2, I sense some sarcasm in your comment?... Haha.
As I have constantly stated the origins of the First World War are complex, and as the original post demonstrated different historians have varying opinions and observations - I have been privileged enough to sit listening to their arguments. Alsace-Loraine to many is a side issue, and the Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913 are the crucial issue. The "Third Balkan War" which should have been kept a local conflict was allowed to develop into a full scale war by extremely poor diplomacy in the July of 1914. As I stated before, Russia's mobilization heightened the tensions, and coupled with the flawed diplomatic process going on around Europe, Germany acted and furthered the by then unstoppable path to full scale war.
Britain however could have stayed out of it all, but the aforementioned bad diplomacy resulted in terrible miscalculations in especially Berlin of what Britain would do, and just worsened an already awful situation. Britain put itself in the thick of it on August 4th 1914 by declaring war on Germany and mobilizing it's military forces, including a small standing army that was not ready for modern warfare. The German army was. All this was in the midst of political confusion in London, with emotions running high, and various cabinet ministers resigning over this progress into a war they could not agree to, although in principle Britain would support France in any conflict. Confusion led to telegrams being sent threatening war, and then being amended after the Foreign Office received false information of war being declared on Britain by Germany. A complete mess ended the awful diplomatic events of the last 13 days and Europe found itself at war.
It maybe strange, but in history these things happen. Sudetenland contained within Czechoslovakia after WWI is another similar example, which of course Hitler laid claim to in 1938, and which now is part of the Czech Republic, although devoid of a large part of it's German speakers that existed before 1938. This is what happens in history; war transpires and people's of certain nations, speaking their own language, end up being ruled by speakers of another tongue. The Soviet Union had the same situation within it's empire. Do not forget, closer to home, that the English ruled over Celtic masses in Wales, Scotland and Ireland to form Great Britain. It is therefore not unusual for the ruling nation to have many diverse cultures within it's mix. The Romans of course were masters of that!
Alsace-Loraine was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, so when that broke apart control over certain states dissipated, and that is just one factor in the complex mix of the origins of The Great War.
Yes, but the French considered that region as part of their empire and the loss of it back to Germany was very painful to them. It had been considered by the French as part of their natural territories since they started to acquire those lands back in the 17th century, and strengthened their hold on them during the 18th century, before Germany as such existed so claims of any justifiable ownership by them is extremely weak. It had caused embarrassment to them to lose such a strategic area and The French wanted it back. All that only further backs my statement that Britain should have supported Germany and not engaged itself in a war on the side of the French. Europe could go it's own way as Britain could have just concentrated on the Empire.
Good night.I'm driving a 2001 plate opel omega auto with a z22xe engine.There's no problem at all when the car is cold.But when the car warms up sometimes it tries to stall when turning the steering wheel, when putting the car from neutral to drive or when the cooling fan kicks in.It only stalls when i wait in neutral position for almost 1 minute and then try to put the gear in d.Otherwise it almost stalls but recovers quickly.And there's no problem at all when driving it pulls great, fuel consumption is ok and there's no anomaly in driving.But when idling with warm engine it sometimes tries to stall.Is there anyone who had these symptoms?I can only assume it can be related with maf or lambdas as it only happens when the car is in open loop.There's no flashing EML or fault code stored too.Thank you for you help.
Seems to get worse when car parked on an incline as if coolant is running out of the back onto exhaust1.. The smell of coolant coming into car through vents2 makes me feel sick.
If you have a spare coolant bottle cap, nip down the local tyre fitters and grab a shroader valve off them and fit it to your spare cap.
Swap with the one on your bottle and pressurise the coolant system with a few pumps of a bike pump.
If you have a leak, you should be able to see it pishing out
Are you 'resting' the hand brake in the last pic
Looking god mate