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Omega General Help / Headlight cleaning

« on: 15 November 2013, 20:45:28 »

I geuss this is a long discussed matter but I had a car come in to work today with yellowed lights so i masked around the surrounding area with duct tape and took to them with 600/800/1200 wet grit paper in that order and then hit them with a cutting compound and then put a nano coat on them and they came out like new and only took around 10 minutes each maybe this will help someone on here as i know the pre facelifts have this problem.

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General Car Chat / Saab 9-5

« on: 15 November 2013, 14:19:46 »

Hi all, i was perusing the used ads over here and came across a saab 9-5 from 99 with the b308(150,000 km) motor in it which the timing belt has jumped a couple of teeth, is this worth fixing? what would i be up against new valves? or is it likely the pistons would be damaged as well? I'm geussing the repair isn't going to be cheap i've done a bit of research but any extra info would be great sa i'm sure there's plenty of people on here that know this lump better than me,
regards,
Rich.

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Omega General Help / Re: Has someone removed my post re selling/breaking a car??????????????????

« on: 05 November 2013, 19:12:51 »

No problems guys - just thought some helpful advice might be forthcoming like "ooh - stick it on Piston Heads, someone will want the engine" or "don't bother with Autotrader these days" etc.

Anyway, I've stuck her on an internet auction site so I'll gauge the interest from there

/malc.

P.S. I can say it's listed elsewhere on the internet without censure, can't I? 

so far so good!!! should i post a link!!!

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General Car Chat / Re: Got a problem

« on: 26 October 2013, 12:24:26 »

Pah, no faith in the 4 pot Omega. 

The four pot is not a proper Omega.........Not that I wish to upset anyone.

it maybe slow but i've had it two years and have only done brakes and oil changes e.t.c to it, very reliable and very easy to work on should the need arise as for not being a proper omega well.........

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General Car Chat / Re: Costco/broken tool

« on: 25 October 2013, 18:00:36 »

Steak is at its most tender when it is cooked medium rare to medium, which is how a chef will cook it by default.

I used to have a lot of fun in France where my ex-wife liked her steak well done as a French chef's idea of well done with another 10 seconds cooking each side, when she would send it back was not my ex-wifes. After 3 or 4 attempts she would give up and just eat round the outside, so I always ended up with another half a steak. 

On one of my trips to the US, one restaurant I went to had marinated raw beef as a starter, very nice it was too. 

As I like my meat dead, I struggle with this modern, stupid idea of undercooking meat.  Pubs that are trying to be resturants are the worse offenders. You can even order it "I want it burnt to a crisp" and it will come out bleeding, just because the "chef" (an undertrained cook) thinks its trendy. Each to their own, we all like things done differently, I just get frustrated at this relatively recent trend of rarer food = more upmarket/exclusive, moreso when it means that I have to say that I want my steak so badly burnt, that they'll need the fire brigade. Then still end up sending it back to be cooked properly.

If I was cynical, I'd say it was due to piss-poor quality steak, so it needs to be rarer to stop it being like old leather. Hence why I said that even when properly cooked, it was still melt-in-mouth tender

As for the French, they can't cook steak. Learnt that one early one, yet always seem to try it every year "just one more time". Actually, that said, the French can't really cook much

  the french can't cook! that's not bad considering French cooking is the basis of European cooking, as for bad quality beef if it's tough it's tough no matter how you cook it, i'm geussing you are in the minority here with well done meat although there is an arrogance among chefs that won't cook to the taste of a paying customer which is crap, a well done steak should still not be dried out but the blood should run clear like on a roast joint if you cook that too long as well!!!, as you may geuss i like my stuff pink!! as for Blue you can keep that i don't like the texture...........anyway back to that ratchet

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Omega General Help / Re: turning over not starting

« on: 23 October 2013, 05:43:31 »

there is a little oil in lifters but if theres not enough would that stop it starting

Sorry, I see what you mean now.... you were talking about a lack of oil to the lifters  my mistake.

by cranking the engine unless im otherwise mistake will circulate the oil so oil should have reached there.

Lifters need full oil pressure to pump them up, just cranking doesn't generate enough pressure. When the engine first starts after a (re)build there should be mostly air in the lifters but this doesn't stop the engine starting (it does make a scary rattling noise until the lifters fill up though )

What may stop the engine from starting is having lifters that are already pumped up and are therefore holding valves open & killing the compression. This guide Cleaning and testing a hydraulic lifter describes the process of freeing up used lifters and preparing them for re-use.

so with that said a compression test would tell you if you had this problem, but i'm geussing spark, something not plugged in e.t.c

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Omega General Help / Re: tramlining

« on: 20 October 2013, 17:05:21 »

Drive shaft is easily changed. Has one of the rubber boots split? But I'd suspect the dif first tbh.

Tramlining...is the car mechanically sound regarding steering and suspension? Especially the bushes. Is the set up correct? Are the tyres wearing evenly?
...is it an Elite?

so it must be tyres then, i've put on Lasso ultra cheap winter tyres on and they don't tram line so i'll just have to live with it over the summer months, in all honesty the Falkens are not nearly as bad as the premacy's but still noticeable, atleast i can drive through the motorway roadworks with them without bouncing off the barriers ( it happened!)

the drive shaft joint i'm talking about is under the heat shield and looks a little perished, the one on the gearbox looks fine, the bushes e.tc are all good, irmscher springs with b4's polybushed, the rear tyres are wearing on the insides which is to be expected with a 30mil drop and 18" rims, not an elite, estate glx I believe? 4 wheel set up after changing the springs/shocks over.

 did an oil change today and I sprayed anti rust on all the rusty bits and then over coated them so hopefully the salt will stay off the bottom of the car this year! I do have a few bits around the rear shock towers and on the front chassis rails under the abs pump which are starting to look a little serious, hopefully my treatment today will slow it down so i don't have to deal with that before i have another car on the road.

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Omega General Help / tramlining

« on: 19 October 2013, 18:39:20 »

o.k i'm going to readress this issue after giving up on it so many months ago, whilst doing my back brakes (pita by the way!) i had to take the heat shields off and i managed to inspect the universal joint on the drive shaft which i always suspected was a bit knackered as on backing off there is a reverberation back through the car so this doesn't disturb me so much as i have now lived with it for two years!! my question is could this be a source of tramlining, my winter tyres don't tramline but my old summer  tyres (premacy or pilot? not really sure but standard fare for the omega) were pretty bad for it unless i pumped them up really hard, then i went to 18" wide tyres 225's or something falkens and they still tramlined so this is an issue i geuss with tyre widths bringing this out more  , is this uni joint on the driveshaft a replaceable part as i would be interested to see if this could be the source and i will have the car on the lift next week doing the oil change before winter anyway, wade in let me know your thoughts.

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Omega General Help / Re: Paintwork revival

« on: 19 October 2013, 18:30:25 »

by hand or machine ?


if you are a beginner for those jobs, and planning to use a machine be very careful on sharp edges and corners.. use lowest rpm possible..

dont do it under sun  or when paint is hot..

work must be done longitudinal to the part..  cover the black plastic parts with masking tape.. be very careful about any dust or particle entering work area.. use soft pads and very soft material to give last shine.. and dont hurry.. start with bumpers first..


good advice if machine i can also endorse 3m pads!
be very gentle when working on roof , as it has many areas where laquer is thin..

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Omega General Help / Re: So how much ....

« on: 19 October 2013, 18:27:00 »

mine sometimes has an issue with the immobiliser but usually the little orange light on the dash comes on at the same time to say as such

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General Car Chat / Re: how much

« on: 18 October 2013, 18:42:58 »

hell if someone offered me that that i'd sell it straight away!!!

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Omega General Help / Re: irmscher exhaust

« on: 18 October 2013, 18:13:24 »

Thanks - thing is Phaeton needs a major service in a couple of weeks and that is £389.

That is not bad considering the car it is, in-fact I'd say that was bloody good!

Although is a "major" service, just oil, air/fuel filters and some plugs?

you'D be lucky to get plugs and air filter from VW for that price those bastards are a ripoff like i've bnever known before

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Omega General Help / Re: Paintwork revival

« on: 18 October 2013, 18:10:32 »

if you can get hold of the 3m cutting compounds i can highly recommend the green for a deep cut and yellow for a shine without hollograms.

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Omega General Help / Re: Welding manifold?

« on: 06 October 2013, 08:30:42 »

I'm going to try that adhesive as mine has a crack and although i've got another manifold for it i am too scared of shearing off bolts to replace it!!

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Omega General Help / Re: Vauxhall omega bought for £600 with a whole load of problems, HELP!

« on: 01 October 2013, 15:47:19 »

Fix that cam sensor and i bet 99 percent of your problems disappear, this forum is great but you do need to act on the advice given for it to help!!