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General Car Chat / Re: Jaguar

« on: Yesterday at 14:48:25 »

Another 'bleeding obvious' headline from the Sun. If you stop building any sort of stuff then people can't buy it.

Zackly.

The 'them' in my previous post was the press rather than Jaaag

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Omega General Help / Re: Plugging SAI manifold holes

« on: Yesterday at 14:46:51 »

Use 3.2 manifolds.

The pump/wiring can potentially be relocated either out of sight or cut right back with a suitable resistor

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Omega General Help / Re: Radiator fan

« on: Yesterday at 11:47:11 »

My car only has one front fan and one rear. I've just done a cold start with the aircon on auto, both fans started immediately. When I switched the aircon off both fans stopped. I presume the rear fan has two speeds as it was not as noisy as the other day, so I think things are working as normal and rear fan will switch to fast (noisier) speed when things warm up.

Certainly sounds like it, in which case, nothing to worry about from a fan perspective

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Omega General Help / Re: Radiator fan

« on: Yesterday at 02:58:06 »

Does the front fans run when the Aircon is on?

Basically the front fans(s) run with AC on and the rear fan runs when the thermoswitches tell it to.

When it gets properly hot it will run all the fans.

AC trumps the colder thermoswitch and the hotter one overrides everything.

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General Car Chat / Re: Jaguar

« on: Yesterday at 02:54:50 »

Not defending them, but they stopped building cars, so of course new car sales are going to fall off a cliff

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General Car Chat / Re: Behold!

« on: Yesterday at 02:53:33 »

At least it's German

Joking aside, looks very smart

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Omega General Help / Re: Radiator fan

« on: 02 July 2025, 21:47:45 »

Stuck thermoswitch perhaps.

Do the front fans run?

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

« on: 02 July 2025, 21:31:22 »

Sounds like the 3 pot 1.0 with cylinder deactivation 

Whomever came up with that nonsense in that package clearly wants a job at Audi design.

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General Car Chat / Re: Mercedes S500 Ongoing "Project Upgrade"

« on: 02 July 2025, 21:29:08 »

I'm always drawn to not-three-litre-diesel-airport-taxi-spec saloons when they pop up, they usually have interesting backgrounds. 

It would be interesting to chat with the person that ordered it.

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General Car Chat / Re: Mercedes S500 Ongoing "Project Upgrade"

« on: 02 July 2025, 17:08:24 »

It's a pretty rubbish advert though...

No seat ventilation, Distronic, Night Vision or panoramic roof. The only Designo thing about the interior are the floor mats. MoT history is, um, interesting and makes the lack of service history more suspicious. That said it does look exceptionally clean.

Rear entertainment and the fridge are pretty rare and it doesn't have the ABC suspension which is good.

Be interesting to see what it actually ends up at ..

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General Car Chat / Re: Mercedes S500 Ongoing "Project Upgrade"

« on: 02 July 2025, 16:05:47 »

I could have done with that as a taxi

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Royal Train

« on: 02 July 2025, 12:10:37 »

She must have been quite amused, with all the sprogs they churned out. 

They were all Mr Browns'...

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

« on: 02 July 2025, 12:09:29 »

How does cruise control affect the  life of the pads?

It shouldn't unless it's advanced cruise that also slows the car... In which case slowing the car from the rear makes for smoother braking from a passenger comfort perspective as it limits the nose dive effect.

That said I found the brake bias on my Altea to be heavily to the rear, so my first thought is that accelerated rear brake wear is either a VW thing or indicative of a fault.

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Omega General Help / Re: AR35 autobox

« on: 02 July 2025, 00:34:00 »

The ECU is in the car, not the gearbox. As long as speed sensors and selector switches are removable, the Carlton bits should bolt onto the Omega B one.

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General Discussion Area / Re: The Royal Train

« on: 02 July 2025, 00:03:09 »

Prince Albert is known for being, er, open minded

I’m rubbish at history, I’d always thought that a Prince Albert was a genital piercing. Every days a school day.    

I was being witty... Prince Albert was husband to Queen Victoria before he became a fetish.