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Omega General Help / Re: Omega 3.2 Elite V6 (2002) Heater Bypass Valve symptons

« on: 16 September 2023, 15:57:21 »

Johnny does have a point ..... Allan has been the/part of the reason why various people have left the forum over the years 🙄

The last HBV I changed was on a campsite with basic tools .... i just removed the scuttle (&maybe the wipers ..... it was a while back now)

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General Car Chat / Re: Heavy Oil Stain

« on: 16 September 2023, 10:00:23 »

Cost will depend entirely on depth, area and type (density/composition/reinforcement). That said, if you're only talking a couple of square feet, it should be pretty diyable

F*ck me, you're a builder now as well....?

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General Car Chat / Re: Heavy Oil Stain

« on: 15 September 2023, 09:08:43 »

I've had reasonable results in the past with Gunk driveway cleaner .... but it was only small stains ... not a bucket full of oil.

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General Car Chat / Re: Thirty minutes to kill so...

« on: 08 September 2023, 00:15:07 »

The one car I would have loved was a 24V Senator,....

I loved my 24v Senator 

Interiors have shrunk over time, My Carltons were a tad smaller, Omega a tad tighter.

I like a roomy car with the gadgets, sunroof and electric sunroof have to be a must on my next car, but I am not aware of anything that I would like that compare to a Senator, Maybe a BMW series 7/8 or an S class Merc.  But I havnt enough spare cash to in vest in either, and would they ever be classed as a proper classic in t he future.

I never really noticed that ....

My R Class had a pano roof ..... I do miss it on my ML 

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General Car Chat / Re: Zafira Tourer engine choices

« on: 07 September 2023, 23:53:03 »

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I do, awful things ....

go on ... why do you think that. I think it drives quite well .... certainly moves OK at speed on the motorway

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General Car Chat / Re: Zafira Tourer engine choices

« on: 07 September 2023, 23:51:35 »

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, I have the luxury of not having to compare it it a post 1980s Mercedes <snigger>

 

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General Car Chat / Re: Thirty minutes to kill so...

« on: 07 September 2023, 19:10:25 »

The one car I would have loved was a 24V Senator,....

I loved my 24v Senator 

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General Car Chat / Re: Zafira Tourer engine choices

« on: 07 September 2023, 16:23:55 »

Trouble is, as soon as you go van base you lose a hell of a lot of the everyday use refinement

Compared to a Voyager?

My Dad has a diseasal Voyager ..... I don't think it's that bad. I've driven worse.

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General Car Chat / Re: Zafira Tourer engine choices

« on: 07 September 2023, 10:55:29 »

How many seats do you need ?

Six is the minimum. And that's on and approximately monthly basis. 7 is useful as it's very often 6 people plus mobility scooter, so a 2-3-1 formation works best unless the car is mahoosive enough to have the scooter behind the rear seats.

You need a Chrysler Grand Voyager with the seats that fold into the floor (apparently not all have that option) Seats up & you seat 7 in total ie 6 passengers ... seats down & it rivals a Transit for carrying stuff. 
They're getting on a bit now though.

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Omega General Help / Re: Omega X30XE emissions problem

« on: 02 September 2023, 20:06:52 »

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 so I am resigned to stripping it down and starting again.   ...

  bugger 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Haltrac Hoist

« on: 01 September 2023, 07:25:56 »

Auto hill hold, but without a button. The S has it too. Great when you first stop on a slope, but not so functional in stop start/creeping traffic as it thinks you've pulled away already and won't reapply itself so you have to physically apply the parking brake to stop rolling back

The R had it too, not surprising being a related chassis to the ML/GL, although it had the traditional foot operated mechanical parking brake. The hill hold aspect is done through the ABS

That's what your left foot is for   

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General Discussion Area / Re: Haltrac Hoist

« on: 31 August 2023, 17:00:20 »

electric hand/parking/emergency brakes ..... the answer to a problem that never existed.

At least my ML's only goes on when I tell it to & not automatically when the car stops.

Agree. Plus the stupid interlock . Open your door and the handbrake comes on.

Not always .....  It'll go into Park if already in Drive, but doesn't always put the parking/hand brake on. In 4 plus years I've never quite worked out when or why it'll put the brake on. I know that if it puts on itself, it won't auto release & I have to release it - that's caught me out once or twice.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Haltrac Hoist

« on: 31 August 2023, 12:15:32 »

electric hand/parking/emergency brakes ..... the answer to a problem that never existed.

At least my ML's only goes on when I tell it to & not automatically when the car stops.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Burger King

« on: 30 August 2023, 14:14:45 »

Burger King has been taken to court somewhere, probably America, on the grounds that their Whopper isn't really a Whopper! 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66654440 

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General Car Chat / Re: The engineering that went into this......

« on: 30 August 2023, 13:11:09 »

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Impressive for something from 1977 built by communists.

I was amazed that the V12 still used a rope type rear crank seal