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General Car Chat / Re: Behold!
« on: Yesterday at 08:32:07 »
Welcome to the club! I have a 530D F10 M Sport. 
- 04 July 2025, 03:55:30
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Please play nicely. No one wants to listen/read a keyboard warriors rants....
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General Car Chat / Re: Mercedes S500 Ongoing "Project Upgrade"
« on: 16 April 2025, 09:06:38 »A feature I would REALLY like on the Jag - both of 'em - is a clock that can adjust itself. Every other bloody car has been able to since the 1980s. No idea what JLR were smoking when they suffered CBA to implement something so simple.
Volvo V70 is the same. Unbelievable.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 15 April 2025, 14:02:07 »
MOT pass on the 530D 
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Omega General Help / Re: Changing V6 Cam Oil Seals without Renoving Cam Covers
« on: 26 March 2025, 08:20:30 »Found interesting tool.
Looking at that picture confirms, it's usually the exhaust cam seal that goes first, certainly the case on various Omega's i've owned.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 21 March 2025, 10:56:43 »Drove it to Pickering for a short break. These diesel’s are in their element just cruising along motorways. A journey of 230 miles and it cost me peanuts in fuel.As soon as mine gets beyond around 70mph, it has a drink problem worthy of any AA attendee, and virtually always returns 32mpg (reality, not the trip computer) over an entire tank. Last tank was 35.9mpg - she'd used it for work and to nip to Oxford, and clearly she is more reformed than me...
I've had 67mpg from her little diesel going to work over a 70 mile run to central Brumingham, but I was keeping it under the instant ban territory...
I set the car alert to 70mph.
Mine's set a bit higher than that
(NB. For use on my private test track officer 
)I do regularly use the speed limiter for roadworks etc, mine only has standard cruise, not the radar active version found on later cars so is more of a pain to use on busy roads, hence preferring the limiter.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 20 March 2025, 08:33:49 »
Two tyres on the V70, two on the Omega and replacement wiper motor and mechanism. Roll on payday 
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Nextbase ODB port to power for Dashcam - OK for 2000 plate MFL Omega ?
« on: 19 March 2025, 23:37:45 »
Soldered the hardwire kit on mine onto the rear 12v socket legs with an inline fuse. Dash cam will then stay on for 10 mins after you turn the ignition off as its on the multitimer switched circuit.
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Omega General Help / Re: Part numbers for service items
« on: 18 March 2025, 10:58:40 »
I currently use this oil in the Omega's:- https://www.smithandallan.com/product/smith-allan-momentum-ss-10w-40-engine-oil-4141 which comes in at a good price when you buy 20L
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Omega General Help / Re: Part numbers for service items
« on: 18 March 2025, 08:18:36 »
Air Filter - 91149684
Fuel Filter - 25313359
Fuel Filter clips - 90542453
10W40 Oil - 93165215
Fuel Filter - 25313359
Fuel Filter clips - 90542453
10W40 Oil - 93165215
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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Wanted: Wiper Motor and Mechanism
« on: 14 March 2025, 08:54:28 »
As per title in good working order please!
If you can ship then all the better but will pick up possible.
Many thanks
If you can ship then all the better but will pick up possible.
Many thanks
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: How to replace a dash display bulb
« on: 18 February 2025, 22:58:55 »
Yep, GID has bulbs in the back
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: How to replace a dash display bulb
« on: 17 February 2025, 15:14:21 »No changeable bulbs in a CID, backlights built into the LCD panel....and make sure you get the right wattage bulbs as it's all too easy to buy the wrong ones. Correct wattage is 3W I think. Anything brighter and the brightness is totally different to the rest of the dash illumination including the CID.Actually, that's another two/four bulbs worth changing whilst you're in there
Also, you'll need to unplug the MiD/CID as you remove the cluster. Pull the cluster straight out, then roll the top towards you and you should be able to release the plug.
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: How to replace a dash display bulb
« on: 17 February 2025, 09:19:48 »
...and make sure you get the right wattage bulbs as it's all too easy to buy the wrong ones. Correct wattage is 3W I think. Anything brighter and the brightness is totally different to the rest of the dash illumination including the CID.
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General Car Chat / Re: Car Tax Scaremongering
« on: 17 January 2025, 15:21:45 »Noticed in my web new feed there's an everywhere increasing amount of clickbaity headlines about 'tenfold' cat tax increases for drivers of petrol and diesel cars...Sod that, my cat can buy his own food if that's the case.
The reality?
If you drive a car over 76g/km and are currently paying £10 A YEAR, there's a good chance it will rise to £110.
Sure, in percentage terms that's a hefty increase, but the reality is that it's the price of two coffees a month. If you can't afford two coffees a month, the reality is that you already don't own a car.
The other increase is for more expensive EVs so I really wouldn't worry too much about it.
