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General Car Chat / Re: What's everyone driving these days?

« on: 21 July 2022, 20:40:37 »

My NA 4.2 V8 Audi sounds 'lurrvly', especially when giving it some beans , or passing a high wall or in a tunnel. Not like these artificial 'piped' exhaust notes....
My 3.0 V8 Triumph Stag (long gone :'( ) sounded tremendous too.
It does bring out the youth in you, but puts a smile on your face too

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 21 July 2022, 20:16:14 »

I'd like a car as close to the old BRG as possible. I'm thinking 1930 Bentley.

There was never an 'official' BRG, and 30's Bentleys were nowhere near as dark as modern interpretations. Only the metal parts of the body - bonnet, scuttle, wings - were painted green. They weren't metallic either

Not true.
There was a British Racing Green. A Triumph shade in 1974 was called British Racing Green and was available on the Dolomite, Spitfire, Stag, TR6, Toledo and the 2000 / 2500 range.
I have a Triumph colour chart dated 1st Seotember 1974 with it listed as a colour option.
Britush Racing Green was also available as an option for Triumph in the American Market in 1967. Manufacturered by the then paint manufacturer ICI, it had the paint code BRG 2855.
Some manufacturers had Racing Green for some models, but there definately was a British Racing Green as stated above....

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General Car Chat / Re: Car Storage needed near Bucks or Gloucestershire

« on: 20 July 2022, 19:33:48 »

I rent an old granary barn on a farm for very sensible money for some of mine. Nice and dry, spacious, a good smooth floor with plenty of ventilation / through air. Ideal. Although a bit ott perhaps just for one car....but surely  worth asking locally?

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Omega Gallery / Re: Not quite a classic car show

« on: 20 July 2022, 16:20:50 »

Looks like a great show of emergency vehicles and a good day out. Not far from me really - pity I missed it, but I'm currently 2000 miles away on holiday.....

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General Car Chat / Re: What's everyone driving these days?

« on: 20 July 2022, 13:57:37 »

Still have 3 Omegas - an 02 3.2 Elite saloon, an 03 3.2 Elite Estate, and an 03 2.6 Elite saloon, which I have had for years. My favourite Omega however was an 51 reg Nocturno Blue 3.2 Elite saloon, which I now regret selling, but heyho.....
Also got 3 3.2 Elites as scrappers, which is a useful source for spares.
For fun, I've  got a 2015 Audi RS4 Avant, which I've had since 3 months old which is a tremendous and exhilarating vehicle to drive, but also a 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe Premium SE auto which again, is a great vehicle to drive for comfort and lugging stuff around with my trailer. The boss has a 2017 Honda CRV EX 1.6 diesel auto, which she loves, and in fairness, is another car I wouldn't knock.
I also have a several Triumph 2000's, 2.5 PIs and S models to keep me busy....
I like them all, each for different reasons - if I didn't, I'd sell them and get something else...!

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 20 July 2022, 13:37:24 »

The £10,000 worth of options on that disco you linked to is more than I would pay for a car 
 

When my Audi was specc'd new, it had £16,000 of options over and above the standard model. As I bought it used, the main cost of these options was swallowed up by the original purchaser. Optional extras are nice to have, but the many of them you never use, and only really serve to enhance the vehicles appeal when subsequently advertising the car when you sell it.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 20 July 2022, 13:22:41 »

The £10,000 worth of options on that disco you linked to is more than I would pay for a car 
 

Fabulous colour though.

Stick the Jag 5 .0 SC lump under the bonnet and I could be tempted.

I know colour is subjective and everyone has preferences, but over the years, dark green, whether metallic, pearlescent or solid, has never been perceived to be the most popular in the secondhand car market. It does however seem to be more appreciated in the larger prestigious vehicle sector.

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Omega General Help / Re: X30XE timing belt - what am I looking at ?

« on: 18 July 2022, 20:54:59 »

If you say so...
However, I think you are missing the actual point I was making....

That changing the coil pack each time you change the plugs is a prudent practice?

I changed my plugs every 20,000 miles and the coil packs when they failed either from water ingress or heat damage. Basically five or six plug changes for every coil pack failure.

Like I said, you are missing my point.
If you are doing a routine plug change, then there is no need to change either coil pack.
If you are changing the plugs as a result of a misfire, then a change of coil pack should be considered as well. A bad coil pack may be obvious from corrosion, swelling or splits in the plastic.
The actual point was that only changing the plugs to cure a misfire, may well result in having to remove certain parts twice to access 2 4 6 coil pack, if it then turns out the misfire wasn't due to the plugs themselves.
Is that clear enough?

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Omega General Help / Re: X30XE timing belt - what am I looking at ?

« on: 18 July 2022, 20:00:10 »

If you say so...
However, I think you are missing the actual point I was making....

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Omega General Help / Re: X30XE timing belt - what am I looking at ?

« on: 18 July 2022, 12:28:43 »

Job jobbed - thanks for the guidance folks    Put everything back together, with a bit of superglue for the timing cover and a repack with fresh grease for the aux belt tensioner pulley. Seems to run more smoothly - though that could just be imaginary having discovered one bank was previously a tooth out on the timing.

Of course, now that the tensioner pulley isn't making a screeching racket, I can hear what sounds like a very faint miss, or a splutter. It's only about every five or eight seconds apart, rather than constant and it seemed to fade away as the engine warmed up. Ah well, that'll give me something to look into next time, I guess... 

I wasted time and money fitting new leads & DIS coils to try to fix a slight misfire on my first V6 - problem was solved when I fitted new spark plugs.

Isn't replacing the spark plugs first with any misfire is the cheapest and easiest option? Of course, with DBW V6 Omegas once you are at that point, it is questionable whether to change the coil pack at the same time to save having to do it all again?

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General Car Chat / Re: Rent a heated seat for your beemer

« on: 18 July 2022, 11:59:57 »

In the past, having bought a lot of ex lease cars, I found that many had 'sensible' and 'useable' options fitted above standard spec. The fleet / business sales staff at dealerships no doubt were able to offer certain options to fleet / business buyers in an attempt to gain their business and sell a number of vehicles. Volume sales in many respects were possibly equally as important as the amount of profit, especially considering dealership bonuses from manufacturers for monthly / quarterly targets etc.

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Expansion tank wanted.

« on: 18 July 2022, 11:42:44 »

At least you found one and hopefully will now be sorted.
Quite a few parts now are pretty expensive or difficult to source, so sometimes you just have to bite the bullet...!

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Expansion tank wanted.

« on: 17 July 2022, 20:48:04 »

Yes, even from the USA! I have sold / bought car parts on Ebay to / from the US (and not using their GSP) a lot heavier than a header tank, with tracked courier prices a lot cheaper than that.
A bit after the boat has sailed now, but the correct header tank with the sensor etc is still shown as in stock and available at Autovaux for the price I quoted previously, although I accept their website isn't always bang up to date.
 

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Expansion tank wanted.

« on: 17 July 2022, 16:34:09 »

Search over, got one from Rock Auto, £53.00 plus  VAT and delivery £91.00.

Jesus - that's one hell of a delivery charge.....

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Expansion tank wanted.

« on: 15 July 2022, 12:00:26 »

Just checking....AutoVaux has new OE expansion tanks for £53, but no sensor fitment. So I guess when push comes to shove, then as long as the non sensor tank does its job, there's still the temp gauge to keep an eye on things OR just carry on with the old one and spend the money on Thatchers blood orange and sit in the garden and do nothing 

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Autovaux are showing the sensor versions (90500223) on their site for £62.66 delivered. Not checked actual availability, but if they can get them, £62 is cheaper than the work involved following any overheating issues...