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Messages - Nick W

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General Car Chat / Re: Vauxhall Signum buying advice required....
« on: 14 December 2016, 14:50:52 »
Whats soo bad with fwd??

For everyday use? Nothing.

For the 14.5 minutes a year that you use 100% of the performance? It's unacceptable.

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General Car Chat / Re: Least complicated path to a MV6 3.0 Manual
« on: 14 December 2016, 11:09:22 »
You mean like this:

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90592.0

Can comfortably be done in a day, the worst bit is the gearbox removal and refit.

I have now looked at the link. That is a lot of parts. I start to understand all the suggestions to get a donor car. The thing is finding a 3.0 manual donor car is probably as hard as finding a driving one. And if not going the donor car way, I wonder how hard it is to get all the parts separately.

Which is why many of us suggested fitting a 3.0l to a manual 2.5. Engines are easy to find, and there are no external differences to show you've done it.

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General Car Chat / Re: Is this any easy fix ?
« on: 13 December 2016, 22:47:26 »
New one I think , just had a look on line seem cheap enough.


Get a matched pair: one high, and one low tone. They're much more effective that way, and only shitty cheap cars have just one.

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Omega General Help / Re: Replacing ignition switch
« on: 13 December 2016, 17:24:57 »
I did one several years ago, but don't remember how.
And telling you how to change the ignition switch on a Piper Cherokee, which I did today, won't help you very much

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General Car Chat / Re: Least complicated path to a MV6 3.0 Manual
« on: 13 December 2016, 14:20:46 »
If you fancy as day trip over here, have a word with Serek who did mine  ;)

He is a good lad   :y :y

And if you do that, I've a 3.0l and manual gearbox for sale you could pick up on the way past. ;D

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Reversing bulbs upgrade
« on: 13 December 2016, 10:53:26 »
Reversing lights are more of a signalling device than one to actually see with.

Perhaps a light on the drive would be an easier way to an effective solution?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Worried farmers
« on: 13 December 2016, 09:34:44 »
So, who picked these crops 20 years ago ?  ::)

The pikeys, they would follow the seasons, and now they find it easier, to pinch diesel and cut trees down.
Also students would pick hops and summer type work.
Then farmers got greedy cut the wages, brought in foreign students under the student work programme, pay'd crap money,.
Now they pay gangmaster's who rip off the pickers.

You missed a step before the last sentence: eastern European countries joining the EU creating yet more available labourers willing to work for cheap.

Now that this has become standard, there will be a huge hole in that part of the labour market, that will only be filled by throwing money at it. And that will be one of many causes of inflation over the next few years.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Happy Xmas
« on: 12 December 2016, 21:31:37 »
Happy Xmas you miserable gits  ;D ;D ;D




Thank you, but I suspect my mother has made alternative arrangements ???

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General Car Chat / Re: Thinking of an old Merc?
« on: 12 December 2016, 21:29:11 »
..............
 a W210 is to be avoided. Doesn't take much reading or talking to ex owners to realize that.

As I know zilch about Mercedes I had a quick Google to see what a W210 is. My goodness, I've never seen a brand described as severe catastrophic rust problems before, well, not since the early Alfas:o 





You still see examples of just how bad they were all over the place, so much so it's unusual to see a nice one. I must have recovered dozens where the suspension collapsed due to rust damage. That was when Mercedes were still paying for repairs.


The drivetrains aren't much better; engine(especially the diesels), gearbox and diff failures were common.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 12 December 2016, 16:36:42 »
Bought a car, that is 200 miles away, unseen, from somebody I have never met.

What could possibly go wrong?

It will be fine. I've a friend who bought his last three cars the same way: two Jensens and a Ferrari. He's never lost a penny doing this.


Although I will acknowledge he might be the exception!

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Omega General Help / Re: Normal or an issue?
« on: 12 December 2016, 06:26:07 »
You could just use the car more often. Or fix the fault. The longest I've left mine was about 3weeks, and it was still on the button, although I wouldn't expect much more than that.

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General Car Chat / Re: End of the road for my Omega
« on: 12 December 2016, 06:19:57 »
Of course it's a daily driver. There's no point in having a car you can't just get in, turn the key and drive to today's destination. If you can't rely on that, it's junk.

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General Car Chat / Re: 20ltr gm red colant
« on: 11 December 2016, 12:38:53 »
That is a great deal - as normally its about double that.

Only if you're likely to need five cars worth of antifreeze in the near future. Otherwise it's just more stuff to store.

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General Car Chat / Re: Predicament
« on: 11 December 2016, 12:33:03 »
Sod the bidders, it's still your car!

End the Omega auction and use the car until you know what you're doing with the BMW. That removes the urgency, and will enable you to make a better decision.

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General Car Chat / Re: Diesel anyone ??
« on: 11 December 2016, 07:40:23 »
Never underestimate the stupidity of politicians.  ;)

Why limit that to politicians?

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