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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: Yesterday at 14:08:53 »

Because you then suddenly hear the sound of your own voice and realise you dont sound even remotely like the lead singer of the band you were listening to. 
Not that I have any experience of that type of thing. 

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Omega General Help / Re: Thermostat transfir pipe

« on: 10 January 2026, 17:12:15 »

Which begs the question - why do we go to all that trouble and replace the Stat with housing as a matter of course ? 

Annoyingly I'd already removed the transfer pipe to do it when I tested mine. 

Maybe the pipe still has to be separated from the housing to allow the housing to be turned over far enough to remove and insert the new Stat ?
My memory is so fuzzy ! 

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Omega General Help / Re: Thermostat transfir pipe

« on: 10 January 2026, 17:09:37 »

Usual issue though, ime, is lazy Stat resulting in engine struggling to get up to temperature, which doesnt help empeegee figures.

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Omega General Help / Re: Thermostat transfir pipe

« on: 10 January 2026, 16:31:59 »

Which begs the question - why do we go to all that trouble and replace the Stat with housing as a matter of course ? 

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Omega General Help / Re: Part number help wanted: Fr coil spring

« on: 10 January 2026, 15:00:19 »

The rear springs DG has linked to are for a Dacia Logan. 

Actually they're not... Part number from Kilen themselves 

https://web.tecalliance.net/kilen/en/parts/cars/part/176/60038/detail?targetId=15328&typeNumber=15328#@brc/brands:Car;targetType:cars;skipHistory:true;suppressAutoSelection:true/models:VAUXHALL;targetType:cars;manufacturerId:117;skipHistory:true;suppressAutoSelection:true/cars:OMEGA%2520(B)%2520Estate%2520(V94);targetType:cars;manufacturerId:117;modelId:1931;skipHistory:true;suppressAutoSelection:true/assem:2.6%2520V6;targetType:cars;targetId:15328;typeNumber:15328/lnkparts:Coil%2520Springs;targetType:cars;assemblyGroupId:100113;targetId:15328;typeNumber:15328/assignedPartDetail:60038;targetType:cars;brandId:176;articleNo:60038;targetId:15328;typeNumber:15328

But if you click on the link for the ebay listing, it shows them as Dacia Logan. 

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Omega General Help / Re: Part number help wanted: Fr coil spring

« on: 10 January 2026, 14:02:13 »

The rear springs DG has linked to are for a Dacia Logan. 

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Omega General Help / Re: Thermostat transfir pipe

« on: 10 January 2026, 14:00:01 »

I had the idea a long time ago that the thermostat could be removed from  / replaced in the housing without removing the transfer pipe just just turning the housing upside down in the valley of the engine.
I cant remember whether or not I managed to do it though. 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 08 January 2026, 21:50:47 »

Im not too bad at remembering numbers. Its everything else that I cant recall.
Especially anything that I promised swmbo that I would definitely remember. 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 08 January 2026, 19:25:20 »

I can understand that. Dad,s been gone over 10 years but I can still remember his number off the top of my head.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 08 January 2026, 15:06:13 »

Maybe a sniff test to check for exhaust gas in coolant ?

This. There are a few options that could cause it, best to eliminate the most expensive first 

Could be dodgy waterpump, but can a mechanical waterpump work intermittently ? 

If its got a plastic impeller that's started to break down you could have a bit of plastic fin inside the impeller chamber that gets in the way occasionally and stops the pump spinning. I had a similar issue with a clutch once where a piece of friction material had broken off and occasionally prevented the clutch from disengaging  .

If you can whip the water pump off easily, I'd do this second, if exhaust gasses have been ruled out.

Third guess (and it would be a guess) would be a coolant cap as it could give you similar symptoms as a partially blocked rad but is easier and cheaper to change 

Wtaer pump is less than a year old, although that doesnt rule out it being faulty.
Its a real ballache to remove/ refit. It runs off the cambelt, which is a pig of a job because of really tight access.
I might be prepared to have a go at that if it was summer weather anfd I had no timesacale for getting it running again.
If we go down that route, he will probably have to buy another cheap car and gorget about this one until some time in the summer when I have changed the waterpump on this one.
I think test for exhause gases with an ebay kit. I f thats ok try and blast water under a bit ( but not too much) pressure around the outside of the Rad, and change the coolant cap.
Maybe flush it again and make sure its well bled to rule out airlocks.
Aint doing any of it in this weather though.

Thanks for the advice. 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 08 January 2026, 11:57:45 »

Sons Civic overheating again, with loss of heat from the vents, after being fine since I put a bottle of flushing stuff through it a couple of weeks ago.
Got what I can only describe as thick soap suds type of stuff at the top of the rad when engine is running.
So presumably thats either residue of the flushing agent or head gasket failure.
Ime though HGF would be a stream of bubbles rather than something that looks like the inside of a washing machine before it starts the rinse cycle. 

This started not long after the cambelt & waterpump were changed. Could be dodgy waterpump, but can a mechanical waterpump work intermittently ? 

Had thought of throwing a new Rad on it to eliminate blocked fins, cool spots and the like, but I dont like playing parts darts.
Maybe a sniff test to check for exhaust gas in coolant ?

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 08 January 2026, 11:51:12 »

I have the same thing with mine. I blame the wife putting them on too hot a wash. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Proof that Trump is insane

« on: 07 January 2026, 13:23:43 »

Problem is, that then means the U.S. will probably be run by Socialists.
There is no easy answer. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Proof that Trump is insane

« on: 07 January 2026, 12:04:46 »

Size of population is irrelevant. Its the principle of self determination that matters.
It has been the bedrock of governance of the free world for a long time, and why the UK sent its forces to take back the Falklands, for example.
If the U.S. throws that in the bin it becomes another rogue state like Russia, Iran, Libya etc. etc.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person

« on: 06 January 2026, 23:54:46 »

The other Michael Schumacher - a very good author who wrote Bigraphies of Francis For Coppola, Eric Clapto and several other people. Aged 75.