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[Webby the Bear]

...ordered a HBV and they were priced around £30 + vat... now at £15 at vat

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

...ordered a HBV and they were priced around £30 + vat... now at £15 at vat

Extremely rare for them to fail. Almost unheard of.

[Raeturbo]

Ha ha,

[Viral_Jim]

I just hope this doesn't mean they're selling off the last of them 

[Webby the Bear]

Well it's a very good point. I rang the other day for some prices for stuff like interior switches and a lot of them are discontinued 😢

[BazaJT]

I suppose really the only bits that will be available for a while longer are those[if any]that were used on other-possibly later-models.Isn't it some kind of rule that manufacturers have to maintain a parts supply for 10yrs after a car has left production?If so that time is now long past for the Omega.

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Baza is spot on, yes. Obliged, but that's now well gone. Only chance for certain items is if it the same as on the later development of the V6 engine (on Signums/Vectra) and little wee screws/fastenings/clips etc that are also used on other models. The brake pad wear sensor bracket on inner wing is the same on Omega as Zafira, to give a sad, specific example. 

[Diamond Black Geezer]

PS - Jesus! £15?!  Ta for the heads up.

[Viral_Jim]

Well it's a very good point. I rang the other day for some prices for stuff like interior switches and a lot of them are discontinued 😢

Sorry to be the cloud to your silver lining . Hopefully soon they'll get picked up for specialist/classic car parts suppliers. But I'm not holding my breath

[Varche]

...ordered a HBV and they were priced around £30 + vat... now at £15 at vat

Buy the lot Webby. Plus anything else you can't afford. You will be able to name your price in years to come .

[Nick W]

...ordered a HBV and they were priced around £30 + vat... now at £15 at vat

Buy the lot Webby. Plus anything else you can't afford. You will be able to name your price personally throw them away in years to come .

FTFY

[Lazydocker]

Don’t worry too much, the HBV is used across several models 

[aaronjb]

...ordered a HBV and they were priced around £30 + vat... now at £15 at vat

Buy the lot Webby. Plus anything else you can't afford. You will be able to name your price personally throw them away in years to come .

FTFY

  Or we'll see him on an episode of "Hoarders"..

[Nick W]

Well it's a very good point. I rang the other day for some prices for stuff like interior switches and a lot of them are discontinued 😢

Sorry to be the cloud to your silver lining . Hopefully soon they'll get picked up for specialist/classic car parts suppliers. But I'm not holding my breath

The specialists get their stock of genuine NOS parts by being available when manufacturers decide to devalue and dispose of it. Often this involves loading the stuff into the van, rather than paying a storeman to dump it all in a skip. This is a very random process, and can result in the acquisition of stuff that you'll never sell. Anyone who ever went to RJ Grimes(Rootes/Chrysler etc) specialists will have seen this in action; for years there was a broken crate by the door full of new Talbot Samba headlights that must have numbered more than the remaining cars.


Don't forget there's a load of parts that they wouldn't have bothered keeping once production stopped as they usually outlasts the car and is never needed - there isn't, and never was, a complete stock of parts that you could build a new Omega from

[LC0112G]

Isn't it some kind of rule that manufacturers have to maintain a parts supply for 10yrs after a car has left production?If so that time is now long past for the Omega.

I wrote a letter to the CEO of VX many years ago whinging about the lack of supply of LC parts, and mentioned the 10 year rule. He replied (or one of his lackies) saying that the 10 year thing was a SMMT code of practice, and only covered major mechanicals and service parts. For other parts, such as trim, the SMMT code of practice was two years.

I did however get them to change one thing. I wanted 2 suspension washers. They were £12 each, and only sold in packs of 10. They had 376 in stock ?