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Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / Festival of the Unexceptional ‘24

« on: 15 March 2024, 18:20:01 »

Hi guys hope you’re all well.

Is anyone taking their omega to this show? 27 July. I shall be there with the old girl… and my omega 🤣 if you’re going I’ll see u there! 🥰🥰🥰

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General Car Chat / Omega in Iceland

« on: 11 March 2024, 20:04:08 »

Currently in Iceland 🇮🇸 on my holibobs. Been looking out for omegas as I always do.. then I thought.. were they even available here?

There are a lot of new cars, leccy cars etc. however there are a lot of old shitters too. Seen a fair few Astra H’s in HB and estate form. Seen quite a few Suzuki Leannas lol

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Omega General Help / Speedo and rev counter not working

« on: 24 December 2023, 14:19:18 »

Good afternoon guys, hope you’re all well.

Haven’t driven the omega for a while and I’m using it over the Christmas period. Drives beautiful as always. But no speedo and no rev counter. Temp and fuel gauges still working. And the rev needle is flickering really fast.

I’m hoping it’s not the start of ABS ECU needing doing but if it is I’ll have to make time for it. Any ideas?

Oh and no ABS or TC lights on, just the issue with the dials 🥰🥰🥰

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Wanted: various small parts

« on: 07 September 2023, 19:09:37 »

Hi guys.
I am genuinely the most forgetful moron ever. I’ve lost a couple of bits and want to replace them…

On the rear bumper you’ve got those 4 x little colour coded covers for the 4 x T30 bolts. I’ve lost two of those little covers if anyone had a couple. Ideally star silver but no problem at all if not as I can paint them.

Secondly the Ecotec plenum cover. Mines the short 2.5 plenum.

Thanks in advance bros 😍🥰

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Omega General Help / Plenum painting

« on: 25 August 2023, 17:23:09 »

Evening all.

I may have asked this in the past (sorry if I’m repeating myself) but what paint can I use to brighten up the intake plenum. What colour and type of paint ?
I want original look. I think it was originally a light grey. But I’ve seen some that are a lot whiter 🤷‍♂️

Tia

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General Car Chat / My Omega

« on: 18 August 2023, 18:24:42 »

… is back on the road after a year of being SORN’d. Had a shed load of welding to do. Got it MOT’d today and taxed… £341 for the year 🤢

It’ll be doing a lot less miles now as I have a little fiesta as my daily. It’s currently on 135k.. barely broken in 😃

The drive compared to the fiesta is just so comfortable. Absolutely worth keeping it going!

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Omega General Help / Welding

« on: 27 March 2023, 13:20:26 »

Hi guys. Long time no speak. Not been about for a while. Been so busy with work.

Anyway omega needs some TLC. Rear outer sills rotted. And inner wheel arches. And panel that forms side of the inner boot… all roughly the same on both sides. Anyway my welding skills are to a point I can do this myself. But just gonna take me a while. Car’s been SORNd but I keep running it and making sure brakes don’t stick on etc.

The warmer weather is coming so starting to think about prepping.

My question is this… I want a real sturdy place to put stands. It’s gonna have to sit on them for a while. I remember when gixer did my rear springs ears ago he had them somewhere either side of the diff. Obviously want to keep sills free so I can easily move around them.

TIA guys

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Omega General Help / Overheating almost

« on: 05 July 2022, 17:56:33 »

Word men. Hope u r all good.

2.5 v6. Owned this car for many years now. Know it like the back of my hand. When on motorway it sits exactly at 90 degrees. Maybe touch under.

Round town and traffic etc. it creeps up to 95. Fans kick in. Down to 85. It then creeps up to 95. Fans cut in. And repeat.

Now a few times around town it’s creeping up to 105. Fans cut in and it doesn’t go in the red.

Obviously the fans work. However am i right that there are two can switches.. one for standard fan speed and one for omg about to explode speed. I’m guessing the standard speed one is playing up.

So 2 questions… 1.) which is the fan switch that I need to replace and 2.) is there any other possibilities?

No coolant loss or anything odd other than this 👍

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Omega General Help / HT leads

« on: 06 June 2022, 13:15:25 »

Hi guys hope ur all good. Got CC gaskets to do over next weekend. And I will be changing ht leads. Where do u guys get yours from? I’ve just had some utter shite from MPD that I refuse to use 🤣 so they’re going back! And struggling to locate any from other suppliers. Help please men

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Omega General Help / Track rods

« on: 07 May 2022, 21:54:03 »

Hi guys. I need LH and RH track rods. In the past I’ve purchased the entire assemblies from ATP but  I can’t find them. Anyone got a little no for these? Cheers men

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Omega General Help / V6 head removal

« on: 22 April 2022, 21:08:33 »

Hi guys hope ur all good

I have manifold gasket or cracked manifold causing slight fumes in to the car. I have one or more dead lifters. I have leaking cam covers. A duff thermostat. And slight coolant leak from the cooler plate.
My wheel arches are just starting to turn again. The front bumper has a recent scuff. I need at least two tires and two track rod ends.

And this is a car that I’ve always looked after. Talk about all things coming at once 🤣🤣🤣

Anyway I want to take me old man to the vaux fest again this year and I don’t want to take my shed the way it is. All these things have honestly had me looking at new cars.

However the reality is I can’t see anything that I’d like as much and it’s fairly cheap to maintain.

Anyway I’ve decided to stick with the devil I know and I’m gonna take it off road for couple of weeks and take the heads off and get all these things done with the plan to get me and the old boy to the vaux fest.

I’ve done this job before so I know what to expect. Couple of quick questions on things I’ve forgotten about… that metal coolant pipe that runs parallel with drivers exh. manifold…. is it 1 bolt holding it to head or block and is it accessible?
Last question… can u remind me where u put that green snot? If memory serves it’s just under the front cam caps but honestly can’t remember 🤣

Cheers in advance boys 👍

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Omega General Help / Centre track rod / bar

« on: 05 March 2022, 15:17:42 »

Good afternoon men. Hope everyone is all good.

As above I serviced the omega today and found a bit of play in the ball joints of the central track rod. Has anyone got a link for someone in theUK that sells these?

Cheers guys 😃👍👍👍

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Omega General Help / NSR plastic door trim / moulding

« on: 06 December 2021, 20:11:45 »

Good evening men. Hope ur all well.

So. Somebody swiped my omega last week. Rear bumper, arch and rear door all scraped. Got in touch with the guy and it’s all ok. However I need the plastic trim that runs across the middle of the left hand rear door. Anyone got one I can buy? If in star silver that’d be amazing

Thanks guys 👌

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Omega General Help / Steering idler

« on: 01 October 2021, 18:42:59 »

Goooood evening guys. Hope ur all well. I need a steering idler. My one has got some play (yet more things to do 😬😬😬)

Anyhow I ring up Bedfraud Battery and they have two different sizes  new to me. I’m sure there was only one option before 🤔

Anyhow they’re both special order and I don’t know which one is correct. So I’m going to order it online. Any links for recommendations? I put this one on not so long back and I think it was a lemforder. But as it wasn’t that long ago I’d rather try a different longer lasting one…. Unless they’re all short lifetimes 🤦‍♂️😂😂😂

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Omega General Help / Vauxhall letters

« on: 24 September 2021, 16:22:49 »

Afternoon men. Two of the ‘L’ s have fallen off my boot lid. Anyone got any spare they could sell me? Cheers bothers 🙏🙏🙏