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Messages - Doctor Gollum

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 13 March 2024, 11:38:53 »
Got a puncture and failed it's MoT.

Puncture caused by summat I picked up moving over for a fire engine, hole too big to repair so replacement on order.

Failed on both fronts lower arm ball joints, headlight adjustment and NS brake light.

Headlights adjusted by tester, and brake light turned out to be tester error... he confused the single fog light for a brake light. Son only the arms to address.


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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.
« on: 12 March 2024, 23:39:20 »
Entitled

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General Discussion Area / Re: London Eye
« on: 12 March 2024, 11:39:39 »
Blimey, April has come around quick :D

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General Car Chat / Re: The future: EVs or ICEs?
« on: 12 March 2024, 11:37:53 »
Fair play to the marketing bods for upselling that, but surely an EV doesn't really require actual brakes given the regenerative braking power...

And presumably if you knock it into neutral it would simply roll to a stop ::)

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Omega General Help / Re: Micksgarage and cheap wishbones
« on: 12 March 2024, 11:23:08 »
What is listed there is what I fitted to mine.

If you want shocks, Sachs are the factory fit and cheaper than Bilstien and fit better in my experience, springs I can recommend Kilen HD.

Yes shocks and springs will take you to £800 territory but the rewards are in how the car drives.

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Omega General Help / Re: Lumpy cold idle
« on: 12 March 2024, 07:58:01 »
Update: having cleaned and lubricated the throttle body and thinking this had solved the problem, it came back again. I put a new throttle body on and immediately had a smooth tick over from cold and it would seem much better fuel consumption. I even saw 36 mpg as an average from Surbiton to Rushden and back, well pleased with that.
:-X

Did you clean the cam cover and breathers from the sump to the TB  :-\

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.
« on: 11 March 2024, 23:06:11 »
Puppets

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General Car Chat / Re: Omega in Iceland
« on: 11 March 2024, 23:05:50 »
There's a ferry there from Denmark, so it's not impossible  :y

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 11 March 2024, 18:57:30 »
3 Store unable to assist with billing enquiries, so as suspected, they win that prize.

In the process of moving to O2 so that's them told.*

*Not that they actually give a shit because if they did I wouldn't have had to query six of the last eight bills :-X

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 09 March 2024, 21:41:38 »
Currently 50/50 between 3 and a thin skinned precious little snowflake who was almost mortally wounded when I got a bit snappy at him.

I suspect 3 will win because they are a total bunch of frucktards.

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Omega General Help / Re: Problems with LTFT on LPG
« on: 07 March 2024, 02:01:51 »
Yes, it has to be when refueling, but I can't imagine what could cause there to be practically no changes in the long-term adjustment no matter how much I add or cut, and also if I demand power the STFT drops drastically when it should go up.
The spark plugs have 20,000 km, so I doubt it could be
I would check the plugs if only to rule them out. Start with the side that's showing the trim discrepancy. Do you have any LPG filters fitted between the evaporator and the injectors? And if so where/how.

Also do you have any live data for the LPG side of things... Injector timings etc.

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Omega General Help / Re: Problems with LTFT on LPG
« on: 06 March 2024, 20:40:34 »
If they sell alot of it then the blend might vary alot according to the conditions.

The fact that the behaviour changed after refueling suggests that's the cause.

As an aside have you changed the plugs recently as LPG requires a much stronger spark than petrol and the quality of the combustion on one bank would certainly affect the trims.

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Omega General Help / Re: Problems with LTFT on LPG
« on: 06 March 2024, 19:15:16 »
What's the thermostat doing? Coolant temp at ECU sensor Vs radiator temp Vs evaporator temp...

When did the issue start? ie sudden climatic change or just refuelled or change of use of the car...

The car temperature is fine. The problem came after refueling, I observed an increase in consumption and looked at how the LTFTs were. It is not the first time that it happens, it seems that they change the proportions at will and it is time to tweak, but this time the usual does not work and does not seem to lead to greater contributions or cuts
That suggests a fuel issue then although it sounds like the Italian tune up has made the LPG ECU think about what it's doing.

Perhaps fill the next tank from a different supplier and see if it improves further.

Incidentally does LPG get varied according to season :-\

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