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[pscocoa]

Dealer is now struggling with part numbers etc for exhaust and it has been quiet all day - so still have courtesy car.

Just spoke to Long Life at Basingstoke who could make exhaust and fit in 2 weeks time so still ok for MOT. Cost will be £500 fitted. Just spoke to former Service manager of my VX dealer who is now at a different dealership who reckons a re-slieving of back box would work given mileage I do.

[chrisgixer]

Dealer is now struggling with part numbers etc for exhaust and it has been quiet all day - so still have courtesy car.

Just spoke to Long Life at Basingstoke who could make exhaust and fit in 2 weeks time so still ok for MOT. Cost will be £500 fitted. Just spoke to former Service manager of my VX dealer who is now at a different dealership who reckons a re-slieving of back box would work given mileage I do.

Where exactly is the rusted section ?

It's usually the section behind the rearmost silencer to the john that fails.

[pscocoa]

Not had chance to go into garage yet. I am still on original 2001 back boxes.

[pscocoa]

Going back to original topic price for mine in book is £350 in good condition and £230 for fair condition. So square root of bugger all. A few niggling faults with mine which I ignore but will I accept make it difficult to get up to the £1500 mark.

[chrisgixer]

Going back to original topic price for mine in book is £350 in good condition and £230 for fair condition. So square root of bugger all. A few niggling faults with mine which I ignore but will I accept make it difficult to get up to the £1500 mark.

Book doesn't account for irmscher everything though. Does it!

The irmscher stuff alone is worth £1500. Forget the car.
Sport stars. Air dam, skirts, rear bumper with duplex exhaust. Steering wheel.
Then add in Head unit. Gid. Leather interiors with memory.

....well, except the exhaust of course that buggered ... but I'm sure somebody could graft on a new box to the irmscher pipes for less than £650 or whatever it was, for a new item. Might be a bit louder though.

Put that in ebay with exhaust and mot expect £1500 minimum. MINIMUM.

[chrisgixer]

I thought the irmscher exhausts where stainless anyway? makes me think it's the mid section TOO the silencer section. Not the silencer itself so much, although the pipes to the bix todo rust a bit.

[05omegav6]

I thought the irmscher exhausts where stainless anyway? makes me think it's the mid section TOO the silencer section. Not the silencer itself so much, although the pipes to the bix todo rust a bit.

Either way 13 years is a pretty strong effort for an exhaust in anyones book

[pscocoa]

I thought the irmscher exhausts where stainless anyway? makes me think it's the mid section TOO the silencer section. Not the silencer itself so much, although the pipes to the bix todo rust a bit.

Either way 13 years is a pretty strong effort for an exhaust in anyones book

Went into garage and a lady who better understood the issue has got it sorted I hope now. The mid section mufflers are now ordered from VX and some slieving from somewhere else. With my "discount" this brings exhaust to £400. I have said proceed. Hope it doesn't fail on emissions for some other reason after exhaust fitted.

[05omegav6]

Hopefully that will see it right

[pscocoa]

Hopefully that will see it right

Thanks Al - all sorted now and serviced as well for less than original quote for exhaust. 12 months to 23 October 2015 so another year of Omega possibly. It drives so much better now.

Shame to surrender the Agila - been using it all week including couple of 25 mile round trips and it has consumed just 12 litres of petrol

[05omegav6]

Hopefully that will see it right

Thanks Al - all sorted now and serviced as well for less than original quote for exhaust. 12 months to 23 October 2015 so another year of Omega possibly. It drives so much better now.

Shame to surrender the Agila - been using it all week including couple of 25 mile round trips and it has consumed just 12 litres of petrol

Do your joints still work seriously though, the Agila weighs approximately half an Omega so I would hope it to be more economical...

Glad it's sorted though Who knows, this time next year, I might have space on the drive for it...

[conalnugent]

It will be a few months before I go hunting and ive no doubt that when ive cash in my pocket it'll take a while to find a nice one.

What do you need to watch for on estates and the 3.2?  Is there any prone areas to rust that isn't the norm with a saloon?  What are there common issues/faults?  Any electrical gremlins with having alot more thsn a td tractor?

[05omegav6]

Estates rust on the tailgate as well as rear arches and front chassis rails.
 Other issues are standard Omega items:

Hbv
Coil packs
Cam covers
Oil cooler if poor coolant maintenance
Sludged breathers
Suspension bushes/front wishbones
Steering idler
Cranksensor

All easy enough to sort

[05omegav6]

Tbh you're better off looking to see if PSNI have any left, and buying that regardless of mileage.

Plod cars make a good blank canvas...

Also worth considering that crap fleet cars don't do a high mileage as they're always in the garage

[conalnugent]

It's been a while from I started this thread but I finally got round to replacing the td saloon. Poor old girl had about 20 tesco door dings on one side and soon bastid keyed the life out of her but she drove like a dream was only one thing I hated and that was load capacity.

So I naturally replaced it with the only thing I could.

A 2000 2.5td elite estate in graphite meca ll

She's got 150k miles
Chipped
Manual
box removed (real lovely gouwl)

And drives really lovely and a big comfortable tank with standard suspension all round. My old saloon was lowered so I'm loving the comfort at the mo.

Only one iggle. Must be a super low ratio diff as she's got a low top end and I'm changing gear dead early but problem solved as I've my old lsd bought back.

Well please. Will get a couple of snaps up now