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Rust. Particularly around the front chassis legs and rear sills.

The usual rules apply re water ingress and rodent damage.

Being the BMW 6 cylinder lump rather than the GM 2.2dti, it should go ok. Haynes manual might be of use.

Depending on specification it may have self levelling rear suspension. If this doesn't work and you fit standard rear shocks then you're going to need to uprate the rear springs. If it requires suspension repairs then budget around €1000 to go through it.

Good luck, but remember, there's no such thing as a free lunch

Looks like Thursday is old farts driving day out, for effs sake 35 in a 60 on a clear road. Then the road ruiners have filled a layby with gravel to wreck some side roads (same ones they ruined last year by the look of it) and have temp traffic lights so they can load wagons. 20mph and loose gravel signs on the main road so of course the old farts are slowing down even though the side roads have not been tared.

Goiod afternoon, I have just agreed to "rescue" an Omega td automatic estate car that has been parked up in  a field in France for at least five years.
The paintwork (metallic) is faded from the sun and it clearly needs a full service and overhaul but,I think , it will be a good workhorse for us in rural France and plenty of room in the back for our big old dog. I have restored many abandoned, parked and neglected cars in teh past but am wondering if thetre are any specific things to look at and/or watc out for specific to an Omega Estate car ? Cheers Andy.

I received a large questionnaire in the post yesterday from Essex County Council.
Apparently my household has been chosen to do this in order to " help shape the future of Essex." 
Im looking forward to filling it in, but well aware it wont make a blind bit of difference.
Its just so they can claim to consult residents / voters, take their views into account etc. etc. 

Had to login to OOF this morning to see what people were whinging about today. Guess some cookie or other had become stale.

Self inflicted. You can tick the stay signed in box

well ..... that was money well spent on 20mph roads in Welsh Wales ..... apparently now under review

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw945l3zy91o

One of the 2? Pilot towns was the town 2 miles from me...
Feedback nearly all bad (exceptions of schools / housing estates etc)

I'd love to know what lessons were learned from the feedback.....I'd suggest none, so why pilot in the first place.

To demonstrate some level of consultation.

The qualification is to ask the question, not to regard any of the responses. It's an illusion of democracy.

The way the world actually works is that people with an agenda sponsor puppets into positions of control. Unfortunately, many of those being sponsored, mostly leftists, don't think, or want to ask why they're being sponsored.

Ironically, many of those who complain about this way of doing things are actually Labour voters.

The only way to stop this state of affairs is to either not vote for these sponsored puppets, or if it's too late, hold the puppets to the ultimate account... It's not accidental that Sadie Kahn has a larger protection detail than Dishy...

Ask the question then ignore the reply. Sounds about right.

Had to login to OOF this morning to see what people were whinging about today. Guess some cookie or other had become stale.

well ..... that was money well spent on 20mph roads in Welsh Wales ..... apparently now under review

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw945l3zy91o

One of the 2? Pilot towns was the town 2 miles from me...
Feedback nearly all bad (exceptions of schools / housing estates etc)

I'd love to know what lessons were learned from the feedback.....I'd suggest none, so why pilot in the first place.

To demonstrate some level of consultation.

The qualification is to ask the question, not to regard any of the responses. It's an illusion of democracy.

The way the world actually works is that people with an agenda sponsor puppets into positions of control. Unfortunately, many of those being sponsored, mostly leftists, don't think, or want to ask why they're being sponsored.

Ironically, many of those who complain about this way of doing things are actually Labour voters.

The only way to stop this state of affairs is to either not vote for these sponsored puppets, or if it's too late, hold the puppets to the ultimate account... It's not accidental that Sadie Kahn has a larger protection detail than Dishy...

well ..... that was money well spent on 20mph roads in Welsh Wales ..... apparently now under review

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw945l3zy91o

One of the 2? Pilot towns was the town 2 miles from me...
Feedback nearly all bad (exceptions of schools / housing estates etc)

I'd love to know what lessons were learned from the feedback.....I'd suggest none, so why pilot in the first place.

Finished a head gasket repair on a friends 1.4 Turbo Zaf C.

I guess that is the smaller vent hose from the top of coolant elbow at the gearbox end of the engine to the header tank?

Yes it was this hose, 5 minute job thankfully. So much space in the engine bay!

I'm wondering about the exhaust flexi though when the time comes, can same thing that was done on the old 2.2 Omega's be done. In that the old flexi is cut out and a replacement welded back in?

I'd also like to clean the throttle body but not sure how. The ZafiraC forums are all into bonnet lip spoilers, rear wiper deletes and air intake replacements. 

I find them a pain to work on as you have to remove the skuttle 

The throttle body just bolts onto the inlet, not to hard to get at and remove at all, its just inlet duct off, four bolts and an electrical connector, no coolant hoses to worry about.