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Cars for Sale & wanted / Wanted cheap Omega

« on: 07 November 2010, 19:09:04 »

Ideally red mini facelift elite V6 auto saloon but will consider anything must have MOT and tax and be driveable. Don't mind identied problems and rust.  East Midlands would be a boon however willing to travel.

Operative word is cheap!      

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Cars for Sale & wanted / Wanted. Auto Mini facelift Elite saloon

« on: 15 August 2010, 19:56:22 »

Still looking. Not bothered about body condition at all but must be mechanically OK (able to be driven to Spain either by vendor or me or both) and with some MOT and Tax.

Don't mind known faults or shortcomings!!!!!

Wanted Mini facelift saloon, Elite, V6 auto. Probably a 97,98 or 99 car.   Cheapish.

There must be someone, somewhere on the forum who has one they want to part with and get a newer car!!! It would be going to a good home honest. ( I have now had mine exactly 11 years to the day)

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Cars for Sale & wanted / Cheap Mini facelift Elite saloon Wanted

« on: 16 June 2010, 17:53:12 »

testing the water really.

Not bothered about body condition at all but must be mechanically OK (able to be driven to Spain either by vendor or me) and with MOT and Tax.

Wanted Mini facelift saloon, Elite, V6 auto. Probably a 97,98 or 99 car. Cheap

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Omega Gallery / The home fleet - Spain

« on: 17 February 2011, 19:25:26 »

Here is a selection of photos of my two 97 Omega Elites here in Spain. The silver one is pre minifacelift 3.0 litre auto and runs fine but needs a bit of sorting. No music, check straps bust, no boot light etc etc The red one (2.5 litre auto) is one of the very first minifacelifts and apart from a bit of lacquer trouble  is in good original order. We have owned it from mid 99 and as far as I know only Jim on the forum has owned his cars longer. His position is unassaillable for me as the red car has to go! A few problems.






The silver car with trailer is taken at our olive Co operative as we drop 800kg of crop.


The snow capped mountains 40 miles in the background are the Spanish Sierra Nevadas. Taken from a hermitage perched atop a ridiculous mountain near Lucena near Cordoba.

The silver car atop my very handy 40cm high homemade ramp!  Perfect for gearbox changes, oil changes etc etc Can you see my creative use of photoshop?


Last picture is why I need a 4x4. April is mostly spent gathering our winter fuel - tons of olive logs of course.! What else.

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General Car Chat / Found an unlikely Spanish Omega enthusiast!

« on: 10 September 2011, 10:58:56 »

Most unlikely too. In our next local village is a chap who runs an old fashioned garage. You know the type - 50 cars in a compound, most of which look destined for the scrapyard. Another 15 out on the road for sale. Covered buildings with about 4 million pieces of cars which might just one day "come in".

Last night he flagged me down and asked me "do I like Omegas?". He has three manuals! two turbo diesels and a wait for it 2.5 V6 (rarity in Spain most are diesels) It was too dark to have a look at any of them. He asked me if I had a 2.5 V6 engine spare. Huh where was he two weeks ago when mine went to the scrap yard. He made me smile when he said he had two good V6 exhaust systems inside if I needed one ( I am hoping to sell the car before it gets to a new exhaust) He might just be a potential buyer as he was admiring the leather interior and memory seats.............

Not a potential member of OOF as he speaks no English, in fact the Andaluz he speaks would be hard for some Spaniards to understand.

Small world as I have only ever seen two Omegas locally. a 95 diesel with senator wheels and a very,very nice facelift diesel saloonelegance. If I ever see the owner of the latter, I might ask if it is for sale.

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General Car Chat / Things you would never hear an OOFer say but a

« on: 30 August 2011, 15:00:27 »

Things you would never hear an OOFer say but a  seller might.      Just a bit of fun.

" Its had its cambelt done at 80k doesn't need doing again till 160k"    " Easy job, don't need any special tools"

"Its very economical for its size"

"Its got a bit of a misfire , just needs new plugs"

" ABS light on on dashboard, probably needs sensor cleaning"

"Front inner tyre wear, all big front engined cars do that."

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General Car Chat / Value of maintenance

« on: 30 August 2011, 11:42:02 »

Did a long journey yesterday and was driven mad by squealing from front tyres under braking at low speeds. It has been doing this a for a few days but I just put it down to the heat of the tarmac.

Wrong. Got underneath today and the steering idler bottom nut was loose and you could jiggle the idler around. Have torqued it up. Hope that is all it was. Track rod ends and other joints seem fine. 

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General Car Chat / Think I have found the perfect replacment vehicle

« on: 16 August 2011, 21:39:03 »

Came across this. Seriously interested

Honda GX engine four forward gears and one reverse.

Two people, more in tipper back if needed.

Air conditioned.

Easy to maintain

Easy to park

Good ground clearance for all the speed humps.

Don't know the fuel economy  or max speed but will be great in my olive grove.

Few negatives. No auto dipping mirror, electric unroof, heated seats, cig lighter or bose but they can be added.

Wonder how long it would take to drive it back from England?

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General Car Chat / Respect to the car breakers on the forum

« on: 11 August 2011, 11:28:18 »

I have half heartedly been dismantling my red mfl Omega over the past two months. This week I decided to give myself a deadline. It goes tonight at five p.m. free collection (that is the deal in Spain but he will let me go to the yard and take the wheels off later) 

Have taken a mountain of stuff off ( Lord knows where I will keep it all)which may or may not ever be used and it has been hard work. Even assuming you find buyers and they actually follow up their interest then the other work begins packaging, sorting out postage costs and so on..

Having had lots of parts from other members over the last five years I would just like to say - respect to the breaker

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General Car Chat / My Eiite's obituary

« on: 12 August 2011, 13:31:19 »

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After 12 years (coincidentally to the day) yesterday my trusty? car went to the Spanish scrapyard. Collected free (that is the deal here) no cash changed hands. It was one of the very first mini face lifts regd in Autumn 1997

It was very tough seeing the car go as we have done 100,000 comfortable miles in it mostly  England up and down motorways etc . Also used it to scour France and Spain for somewhere to permanently move to. No crank sensor change but lots of other parts changed, including a failed gearbox (thanks to great help from Omegatoy for that). In fact thanks to lots of forum members for parts and help since the forum started. 3xABS ECU, 2 DIS packs etc etc

It died from a combination of items. I am fairly certain the head gasket had gone and the wishbones were in need of replacement - nowhere local to get "WIMmed"

I have taken loads of parts off her as I know that the car would just have been crushed as no real call for parts here, certainly not off petrol V6's. I shall try selling them but really it was just a way of sending her off.

Silly getting attached to a car but 12 years is a long time! (unless of course your name is Jim).

Still got the grey Elite but with no air con or music it is just a disposable runaround and will be for sale T and T this winter. Looking for a 4x4...

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General Car Chat / Differences between 2.5 and 2.2 diesel Omegas

« on: 02 August 2011, 09:41:28 »

I am sort of considering changing to a manual GASP oil burner .

What differences are there between the two engines?

What sort of fuel economy do they give on general running around?

Is the 2.2 a better bet purely because they are likely to be facelift cars and have done less mileage?

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General Car Chat / Tyres- how many years do they last unused?

« on: 17 July 2011, 16:18:08 »

Had a front puncture today. Got the spare out. Plenty of air but it is the original Michelin Pontius Pilot spare. 14 years old! Bit cracked. Is there a shelf life for tyres?

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General Car Chat / 22p and a boiled sweet

« on: 20 June 2011, 14:38:21 »

Just had two back seats out .

I am thinking, I wonder what treasures I will find after potentally 26 years of pocket losses.

Hmm  20p and a 2 p piece, a bent screw, a small lightbulb and a boiled. sweet. What a haul!

I bet that is the worst anyone has ever managed.

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General Car Chat / In car kit for Nokia 5110 value?

« on: 08 June 2011, 12:32:41 »

Years ago , I had an in car kit installed in The Elite for the then popular Nokia 5110. Still got the phone but no contract. Cradle "pokes" into dashboard left of centre console and the mike is behind the mirror.


Do the kits and wiring have a value? Or does it just go to recycling with the rest of the car?

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General Car Chat / Price and future of Omega spare parts

« on: 28 May 2011, 12:45:27 »

I have started stripping parts off my beloved Red Omega. No going back now.

I got to thinking about the value of parts. A couple of years ago anyone dismantling a pre facelift or mfl car was deluged with requests. Now it seems to be facelift cars. Prices of parts has fallen. Lack of demand or plentiful supply?

Back in the seventies, I dismantled a lot of Mini Cooper S's. In those days you couldn't give away 1071 engines. Similarly 970 ones. Later no one even wanted the larger engines. I guess that folk moved on to much better cars. Now those same parts would be worth quite a bit I would guess if they had been stored well.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mini-Cooper-S-970cc-crankshaft-/290568842748?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item43a740adfc

Same with Omega parts? Will folk be lovingly restoring 3.0 Elites in 2050?  Advertising in the vain hope of finding a pair of self levelling shocks, a Bose wiring loom, heated leather seats that still work, rear blind, Irmscher body parts, Crank sensor, genuine hbv, radiator, undamaged projectors .etc

If you have the space now might be the time to lay down spare parts as a nest egg for your grandchildren?   What do you think?