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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 25 February 2025, 19:13:15 »

Specifically the total opposing moron that joined the M25 from a slip road at 32mph. Fortunately I had somewhere to move to when the truck in lane 1 realised the closing speed was almost twice what the van was doing. How he didn't punt the van to the next junction will confound scientists for generations.

Generally the sheer number of total fructards out and about today.

People who don't use the slip road to get up to speed as they join the motorway or use it to slow down as they exit always get my goat! 

I see that on the M61 on my way home loads of the times. The on-slip is plenty long enough but people still want to join lane 1 as soon as possible ... saw it last week end with a silly bint driving a VW camper

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Omega General Help / Re: Omega 2.5 V6 TC light on

« on: 25 February 2025, 19:08:06 »

I don't believe this year has a plug in port (but I'm happy to be corrected and guided to its location)

As above, it's under the steering wheel

https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90581.0

108

General Car Chat / Re: Getting a bit desperate now

« on: 25 February 2025, 10:42:58 »

It could just have been doing a DPF regen at the time

I know when my cars are doing a regen, Mark. My astra J used to idle at around 900rpm instead of 750 and the engine tone changed. On this one, astra K, it sounds as if there's a hole in the exhaust at low revs and, again, the engine tone changes.

I've had my ML for 40-odd thousand miles & nearly 6 years and have yet to notice it doing a regen .... not saying it's never done so, but I've yet to notice! 

109

General Car Chat / Re: Another MOT Pass

« on: 20 February 2025, 08:25:07 »

Today the Omega went into the Protyre garage at 0835, and came back out at 0930, with the two track rod assemblies, offside and nearside, fitted, along with the tracking done.  All within the 1 hour stated by the manager in his quote.  Excellent!!

For a total of £188 I have had the two track rod assemblies fitted, when the Vx dealer quoted £319.20 for fitting just the offside track rod end!  So a great result, which gets rid of two potential advisors come the next MOT and beyond.

Last time I checked Vx wanted around £140 p/h before they would let a spotty youth loose on my car. They don't really want to work on old cars.

Merc want about £170 just for them to 'diagnose' the fault before they even start work on your car ..... even when you tell them what the fault is!

110

General Car Chat / Re: MOT on the Mazda

« on: 18 February 2025, 10:25:11 »

....
, and as  someone once said, I look like a golf ball with legs !!!!

the cheeky bugger! 

111

General Car Chat / Re: MOT on the Mazda

« on: 18 February 2025, 08:30:19 »

it's my ML's MOT today .....

112

General Car Chat / Re: Thinking of getting back into an Omega

« on: 08 February 2025, 20:49:19 »

I'm in the process of hard brake lines, flexi's & slave cylinders on my Smart Roadster ..... it's far too much crawling on the floor for an old git like me! 

113

Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: How to replace a dash display bulb

« on: 08 February 2025, 20:13:42 »

https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90618.0 

114

General Discussion Area / Re: Bin Collections

« on: 05 February 2025, 15:46:18 »

Since we had a whole day of snow last month, our bin collections are all to cock. The streets are full of bins of various colours, because no one knows when they're going to turn up and which bin they will choose to empty when they do.
Labour run Barnsley.

If only there was a universally available resource where the latest schedules could be posted for anyone who needs the information.


Imagine how cool it would be if you could access that information at no cost from a small screen you carry around with you.

I get an emial every week to tell me which bin is collected that week 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Bin Collections

« on: 05 February 2025, 08:48:20 »

we have 4 bins
grey ... general waste
blue ... glass, cans & plastic pots/bottles etc
green .... paper
These are all every 3 weeks

The brown bin is for garden waste & food waste which is collected ever other week

I don't think the deposit idea for supermarkets is a bad idea ..... it's them that create most of the packaging material in the first place. Years back when I was a kid & supermarkets had yet to become a thing, everyone managed with just 1 dustbin.
I see the amount of packaging that we use at work ie shrink wrap on a pallet. This is the wrap that still wraps a pallet of cans that are now in a cardboard pack on the supermarket shelves .... Joe Public is happy because he believes there is now less plastic packaging on the product.

116

Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: 2.6 V6 front bumper needed..any ideas

« on: 05 February 2025, 08:30:18 »

eBay

yet another very helpful reply to a new poster .... 

117

General Car Chat / Re: Further drop in cost of a new leccy Jag.

« on: 31 January 2025, 20:57:16 »

……….
if I were to purchase a Landcruiser I'd find an older model that didn't require Adblue.

Pre 2016 then, like a lot of other manufacturers. 

my 14 plate ML350 has Adblue 

118

General Car Chat / Re: spotted an Omega

« on: 31 January 2025, 07:09:22 »

Just seen an Omega! 
……….
It was in that rare silver too! 

Just spotted a silver Omega on a recent BENGREGERS YouTube clip. He films cars going through floods and KD52 OKL ignored a road closed sign (tut tut) and went through the flood. 
Anyone on here? 

It amazes me the speed that various cars go through the water at & then are surprised they come to a full stop with an engine full of water .... and the 4x4s that think they're bullet proof.

119

Omega General Help / Re: 3.0 oil filler neck....removing.

« on: 28 January 2025, 22:31:48 »

Well, when it stops bloody raining,    ....

hopefully its sooner rather than later ..... I've had enough of the wet! 

It's global raining, don't you know.

I'm still only half way through hard lines & flexis on the brakes of my Smart Roadster .... I started them months ago! 

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Omega General Help / Re: 3.0 oil filler neck....removing.

« on: 28 January 2025, 20:37:01 »

Well, when it stops bloody raining,    ....

hopefully its sooner rather than later ..... I've had enough of the wet!