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General Car Chat / Re: TB's buggered motor
« on: 12 July 2023, 21:57:28 »
If I do DIY, have to decide if the genuine part is better quality than pattern.

Genuine part looks to be about £300, including the gasket and bolts.

Britpart pattern looks to be around £130ish.

Won't be buying a Ching Chong special from egay, as it really looks a shit to change, and only want to do it once.

I wouldn't consider anything other than genuine or the OEM personally.

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I will say once it's done ;) Suffice to say it's not a VAG product. >:D

Up!     :D ;D

Lol was reading on a phone without zooming in, thought I read your text as it WAS a VAG product!  ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 03 July 2023, 10:42:20 »
Had a few bits done recently. Got SOS to replace the condenser, re-gas, fit rear discs and pads and do the 3rd sump drop and refill (recomended method for this box) on the V70.

Fitted replacement side view camera and configured using ISTA and had a used headlight refurbished with all new seals and lense to replace the porous one (a very common  issue with F10/F11's with adaptive headlights due to Hella"s piss poor factory sealant) thankfully the TMS module had survived unscathed.

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General Car Chat / Re: Cooked it
« on: 27 June 2023, 21:14:24 »
Ooops, shame after you've done so much work on it.

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General Discussion Area / Re: OOF next few days....
« on: 23 June 2023, 10:54:34 »
No!!! Don't mess with the packet pushing machines!  >:D

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Omega General Help / Re: Steering Groaning
« on: 17 June 2023, 22:03:47 »
All I know is that my trusted Vx parts manager checked my Omega’s specification, and told me that it was now Dex VI that is suitable for it. :)

Your trusted parts manager is wrong. It might have superseded it but it's not right.

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Omega General Help / Re: Replacement Radiator
« on: 16 June 2023, 22:46:51 »
Most all aftermarket ones have the integrated cooler ports.

Put another way, replaced six or seven over the years and all had the integrated cooler ;)

I've only replaced three.

Wrong way round though...

The current one will have an external ATF cooler mounted to it. To change to the integrated ATF cooler requires modification to the existing pipework, simpler to just buy a radiator with the mount points for the existing ATF cooler.

Of course this may all be academic if it's a manual  ;D

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Omega General Help / Re: Replacement Radiator
« on: 16 June 2023, 21:29:59 »
If yours is an Auto be careful which one you buy - 2.6 and 3.2 ATF Oil cooler bolts to mount points on the coolant radiator, earlier 2.5 / 3.0 radiators often don't have those mounts as the ATF cooler is integral (on the side) of the radiator.


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General Discussion Area / Re: 20 mph speed limits
« on: 15 June 2023, 20:44:37 »
all the roads on my estate are 20mph ..... no one takes a blind bit of notice, despite the speed humps.

Thing is it's loads of roads and key routes in London, you know, the place where there's a camera every few metres to charge the motorist for one thing or another...

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Omega General Help / Re: Steering Groaning
« on: 15 June 2023, 20:41:22 »
STOP PRESS!!!

I have just found pictures on the internet of where the fluid should go.  I cannot believe I have never put any fluid in that black topped thingy! :o :o ;)

I will be looking there in the morning.

If it's never been changed then probably worth running completely new fluid through the system. Easy to do once the front wheels are off the ground so you can wind the steering lock to lock.

Oh and make sure you put Dex III in (getting harder to find now) the later spec fluid will rot the rubber pipes from the inside out.

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General Discussion Area / Re: 20 mph speed limits
« on: 15 June 2023, 18:55:05 »
They are just plain stupid.

I work regularly in London and have no choice but to drive from site to site due to my job (Public transport not an option), it's made the roads more dangerous for everyone in my opinion, the drivers and pedestrians are frustrated and more risks are taken. Just like ULEZ and Smart Motorways, the Country has gone mad!

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 I did replace the Omega's wax cylinder player with a bluetooth enabled touch screen ,i don't answer calls or texts while driving , .....

Seems like a waste of time & money then buying a bluetooth head unit if you don't answer calls while driving  ::) ::)
all music on a micro SD card and "bucket avoidance rear view camera"  ;)
I have enough junk in my car without taking up space with cassette tapes, and 78s to play on the Omega's original radio-gram  ;D
:y :y
I must admit I tend to just have the radio on ..... My ML has a built in 10 Gb hard drive ... there's next to nothing on it





My old Jag was the same. :y worked pretty well.

No idea how to play music in my new car....other than the radio.

It doesn't appear to to a CD, a cassette tape, an 8 track cartridge, a 45, or a 78. ::) :-X

No doubt it is all related to apps and a smartphone or USB stick in some way. :-X
Probably similar to my XJ - 40Gb Hard drive, although only 10Gb is reserved for music, which it rips from inserted CDs itself to make a kind of virtual 10 disc CD changer.  In addition, a USB key full of music can be plugged in (but the Gen2.1 HD system takes forever to read a USB with more than a few thousand tracks on every time the car starts), an iPod socket, and normal bluetooth music streaming....


...like Andy_B, I tend to just stick to the wireless.

BMW has Hard drive, USB, Streaming etc. I do have quite a bit of Music stored on the Hard Drive sorted into different directories and find it easy to use when you've exhausted all the DAB stations  :y

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General Car Chat / Re: Mexican car part 2
« on: 12 June 2023, 20:50:37 »
Stunning looking car  :y

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General Car Chat / Re: DSG gearbox
« on: 07 June 2023, 08:17:08 »
I'm going off the idea, glad I asked. Question is, why are more modern boxes not as good as torque converter ones  :-\


I hope the current VW DSG boxes are better than the first ones. You know, the ones that had a nasty habit of selecting two gears at once, which cost about £3k to fix. Their biggest selling point seems to be how fast they can change gear, which is utterly irrelevant in real use.

.. and I'd wager the ZF8 in my Jag is just as quick at shifting and it's certainly more refined. I'd only ever go for a conventional slushbox. Dual clutch types are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

Have the ZF 8 Speed in my 530D and agree, it's an excellent box.

A little while ago we were looking for an automatic estate for Mrs VXL, we really liked the Passat's but at the age and mileage we were looking at I didn't fancy anything with a DSG going on the general opinion of them. I guess at lower mileages with a service history on the box then it's a different story.

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General Car Chat / Re: The future....
« on: 25 May 2023, 20:12:45 »
If my memory serves me correctly Oxford Services have 16 Tesla chargers but only 4, maybe 5, chargers for other vehicles.
Yup, a million Tesla chargers round the back, 4 normal chargers out the front, not that I've frequented that establishment for nearly 2 weeks ;D

Mind you, not so long back the bank started to slide on that side of the car park.... Imagine returning to your Tesla smug because it's charged only to discover a ton of earth surrounding it!

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