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General Car Chat / Re: Corsa 1.2 twin port - poor fuel economy
« on: 10 September 2011, 13:03:01 »
If Ive done the sums right, that works out to just over 40 to the gallon, what was it doing before?
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General Car Chat / Re: OMEGA NOW GONE TOTAL LOSS !!!!
« on: 10 September 2011, 15:39:42 »
Personally I wouldn't have contacted my Insurance Co at all, but gone straight to an independent Insurance Assessor, lot more money for you that way. might not be too late to still go down this route?
Sorry to here about your Car though.
Sorry to here about your Car though.
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General Car Chat / Re: Five Years on
« on: 07 September 2011, 12:34:33 »Quote
It would appear so
Specksavers again
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General Car Chat / Re: Five Years on
« on: 07 September 2011, 12:10:09 »Quote
September marks five years of owning my Mig.
In that time I have changed the Cambelt and water pump twice, the rocker cover gasket twice, replaced the small breather pipe, the exhaust manifold gasket once, the exhaust to the cat back, front wheel bearings, front disc & pads rear road springs sounded like a shot gun when it snapped, plus the normal oil changes and a couple of sets of tyres. Thanks to OOF I've been able to do 80% of that myself
Just completed 90,000 miles, I've done 52,000 of them. Is this reasonable amount of work or is it excessive :question :question
I dont think any work you do to your own car is excessive, saves shed loads from the Garage, so well done, give your self some stars
By the way hope youve done some oil changes in that time.
Chris.
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General Car Chat / Re: 2nd hand windscreens
« on: 05 September 2011, 12:49:28 »Quote
QuoteProblem is that they need to be removed and installed by someone who has the correct tools for the job and knows how to use them, which in all probability is a windscreen fitter.
I had a nearly new one put in my car a couple of weeks ago.
Luckily the OOFer who supplied it is an ex winscreen fitter who still has a good mate in the trade who was up for a cash job on his way home from work.
Thanks Twiglet.
Any time my man!
I've got to stop reading threads about windscreens... a little knowledge is dangerous, and it's starting to make my p1ss fizz again!!
I know a man in Bristol who's good with windscreens
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General Car Chat / Re: Things you would never hear an OOFer say but a
« on: 31 August 2011, 09:46:54 »
I know the Button lights on but the seats only really warm up when drops below -1, their working fine.
Their special bright Headlamp bulbs mate, they should have a tint of pink to them.
Their special bright Headlamp bulbs mate, they should have a tint of pink to them.
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General Car Chat / Re: Another 12 months
« on: 30 August 2011, 12:18:18 »
Well done Rob, those cheapo MOT offers normally come with a mandatory catch, ie, We will find something wrong with the Car and it will cost the minimum of our normal MOT cost to fix.
Nice to hear one that works, and well done to the Car.
Chris
Nice to hear one that works, and well done to the Car.
Chris
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General Car Chat / Re: "mileage correction" - clocking question
« on: 25 August 2011, 14:06:48 »
I can only assume the need for it is to have a accurate speedo in your Elite?, if its for other reasons, pull the RS Sticker off and stick it on your Elite.
Going back to the Calibrated bit, theres a good chance it would have been calibrated with 15" Wheels and different Diff Ratio, so wouldn't necessarily be of use on your Elite anyway.
Chris.
Going back to the Calibrated bit, theres a good chance it would have been calibrated with 15" Wheels and different Diff Ratio, so wouldn't necessarily be of use on your Elite anyway.
Chris.
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General Car Chat / Re: Collected this today.
« on: 19 August 2011, 16:11:12 »
Really depends what you paid for it Rob and the profits against mending / resale or breaking.
theres a lot 3.2 out there for sale at the moment and not really fetching the sort of money they would have done even 6 - 12 months ago.
Personally the body and trim colour ins't my cup of tea, if its an easy and cheap fix?, for a proper resale price it would need to come with a pretty much full MOT and some Tax, more money?
Chris :-/
theres a lot 3.2 out there for sale at the moment and not really fetching the sort of money they would have done even 6 - 12 months ago.
Personally the body and trim colour ins't my cup of tea, if its an easy and cheap fix?, for a proper resale price it would need to come with a pretty much full MOT and some Tax, more money?
Chris :-/
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General Car Chat / Re: Spare key won't start car (Vectra C)
« on: 22 August 2011, 10:25:47 »
You may be lucky then James, think Vx started changing things like this on the Vectra's around 2003/4, or it may be if it looks the same as an Omega key, no transponder chip inside??.
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General Car Chat / Re: Spare key won't start car (Vectra C)
« on: 22 August 2011, 10:12:05 »Quote
pretty sure there is no seperate transponder chip on these
Actually, thinking about it, you might be right there Martin, didn't they change it with the Flip type keys to flashing the code on the main Fob pcb. :-/
Chris.
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General Car Chat / Re: Spare key won't start car (Vectra C)
« on: 22 August 2011, 09:01:02 »
Assuming both Keys are the same type, if you take the key apart, you will find a small black transponder chip towards the metal key bit, it slides out (sometimes falls out, so dont lose it).
Its not actually connected to anything in the fob, but talks to the Ing. barrel through the Transponder loop coil.
So in theory you can hold the chip next to the key to start the car, or put the know working chip in the spare key to check etc.
The position 1 / 2 thing is to recycle the Alarm / Central Locking Fob only, any Transponder issues will need a Tech 2 chat.
My money is on no / lost transponder in the spare key.
Its not actually connected to anything in the fob, but talks to the Ing. barrel through the Transponder loop coil.
So in theory you can hold the chip next to the key to start the car, or put the know working chip in the spare key to check etc.
The position 1 / 2 thing is to recycle the Alarm / Central Locking Fob only, any Transponder issues will need a Tech 2 chat.
My money is on no / lost transponder in the spare key.
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General Car Chat / Re: Spare key won't start car (Vectra C)
« on: 21 August 2011, 23:33:36 »
Does it start if you hold the working Key next to it? (may need to take out the non working key transponder to check this), have you tried doing a recycle on the non working key whilst in position 1 or 2 cant remember now. Is the transponder chip in the non working key or missing 
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General Car Chat / Re: noise from gas tank
« on: 14 August 2011, 17:09:16 »
Do you smoke James??!!!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/3329109/LPG-car-explodes-as-driver-lights-cigarette.html
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/3329109/LPG-car-explodes-as-driver-lights-cigarette.html
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General Car Chat / Re: My Subaru Live Re-Map
« on: 07 August 2011, 23:18:18 »
You just need to keep her tip top now Daz, most Subaru's die after a remap through not being looked after properly.
Chris.
Chris.