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General Discussion Area / Re: There's a blue ex police Omega on eBay...

« on: 13 September 2024, 17:54:43 »

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There's no way anyone with a brain would go back to a manual after driving an automatic. I mean...why?

Exactly! 

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General Discussion Area / Re: There's a blue ex police Omega on eBay...

« on: 13 September 2024, 12:11:57 »

... Wrong gearbox though

Where does it mention "manual"? 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person

« on: 09 September 2024, 22:31:15 »

James Earl Jones ...... 

I am your father ....

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person

« on: 31 August 2024, 21:51:49 »

I'd never heard of him! 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Our new boy has fitted in so well.

« on: 30 August 2024, 17:39:57 »

we lasted from last June to this April after we lost little Molly, I always said she would be a very hard act to follow. We both missed her.
We collected Buddy from the dogs home, he's a Collie/Lurcher cross & is now about 22 months old. He's brilliant .... other than when he was at the vets yesterday after eating a load of grapes! Cher-ching ... £182 please!!!!!!

Sorry I missed your post, Andy. You're either a doggie person or you are not. It's really hard to get non believers to understand just how much they mean to us. Hope you and Buddy have many happy years together.

Thanks .... I'll try to get a decent picture of him posted

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General Discussion Area / Re: Our new boy has fitted in so well.

« on: 30 August 2024, 14:44:35 »

we lasted from last June to this April after we lost little Molly, I always said she would be a very hard act to follow. We both missed her.
We collected Buddy from the dogs home, he's a Collie/Lurcher cross & is now about 22 months old. He's brilliant .... other than when he was at the vets yesterday after eating a load of grapes! Cher-ching ... £182 please!!!!!!

Sorry I missed your post, Andy. You're either a doggie person or you are not. It's really hard to get non believers to understand just how much they mean to us. Hope you and Buddy have many happy years together.

Thanks .... I'll try to get a decent picture of him posted

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General Discussion Area / Re: Our new boy has fitted in so well.

« on: 30 August 2024, 14:42:48 »

………..other than when he was at the vets yesterday after eating a load of grapes! Cher-ching ... £182 please!!!!!!

My son has just spent out on his dog, with a big helping hand from me. His dog ran into long grass and got a piece caught in his eye. Removal of grass, X-rays and follow up - £600. It caused an ulcer to form on the dogs eye so more X-rays and medication- £700. The medication didn’t resolve the issue so surgery required to either remove the eye or cut out the ulcer.  That’s on top of his usual £80 here and £80 there for bleeding claw etc.    Thankfully the surgery to remove the ulcer was successful so he still has his eye - at a cost of £2K. This is the expense of owning a dog unfortunately. To insure his dog he was quoted over £180 per month, and there would still be maximum payout clauses, so he takes the risk.

Insurance paid for 1 of Mollys cruciate ligaments  ..... 12 months later I paid for the other ... £3000 please. In her last year she had her spleen removed which was another £3k plus the various extra charges for different tests.
As you say, they can be bloody expensive! But we love them.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Our new boy has fitted in so well.

« on: 29 August 2024, 21:35:51 »

we lasted from last June to this April after we lost little Molly, I always said she would be a very hard act to follow. We both missed her.
We collected Buddy from the dogs home, he's a Collie/Lurcher cross & is now about 22 months old. He's brilliant .... other than when he was at the vets yesterday after eating a load of grapes! Cher-ching ... £182 please!!!!!!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Guy Martin

« on: 26 August 2024, 12:49:50 »

going back to Guy's Merlin engine ......

This video is brilliant ..... wasn't for Guy at the time! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKEMpREO-TY&t=75s

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?

« on: 22 August 2024, 08:46:20 »

Same colour and year as my 24v Senator & with the digi dash  .... as above I still miss that car. Effortless to drive.

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General Car Chat / Re: walk around scrapyards

« on: 21 August 2024, 14:02:18 »

.....
There used to be a tool in the Jag or Merc  tool kit previously (20+ years ago )
a bar about 9" long ,coated in the centre with grey plastic , you insert it through a wheel hole ,
pick the wheel up and insert the tool into a hub hole to align the holes
and it takes the weight while you insert a couple of wheel bolts

a bit like a Scaffolder's podger

There's one in the boot of my ML but as it lives under the spare wheel, it's easier to manage without it than it is to remove the spare to get it.

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General Car Chat / Re: Urgent help request

« on: 31 July 2024, 13:33:47 »

and i've mentioned the calliper at altham ....

It's been a  long while since I've been there ....its not too far from me.

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Omega General Help / Re: Sticking caliper

« on: 30 July 2024, 13:40:50 »

I love all these just pop the piston out replies, after James described how bad the caliper is.


If it's that bad, even if he does get the piston out there's an excellent chance the bore will be damaged - either rusted or scored due to the crap in it - beyond any sensible repair.  .....

it doesn't matter about the bore of a brake caliper .... the piston moves on the static seal, not the other way round like a piston in the bore of an engine. New pistons are easily come by.

I've moved pistons before by swapping bleed nipple for a grease nipple & using a grease gun to move the piston.

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Omega General Help / Re: 1999 Omega elite 2.5 v6 petrol timing belt change - locking the cams

« on: 27 July 2024, 19:56:30 »

I'm not quite so dogmatic but it's extremely unlikely he'll get the timing better than close, and that will require considerable experience of this exact job. My car was clearly done the same way, with several extra marks. Unfortunately for whoever did the job, the timing tools showed that all four cams were a tooth out. Correcting that made the car run and perform better and added 3mpg to the fuel economy.


The cam locks are not the really important  part of the tools, as they only save you having to grow six more hands to feed the belt into place. What's essential is the crank tool and the gauge which allow you to ensure that all five toothed pulleys remain correctly timed after you adjust the various tensioners. That's probably the error whoever had fitted my belt made, as it can take multiple rounds of adjustments to get the timing exact. Anyone who thinks exact takes too long or is too much work shouldn't be trusted - I managed to do mine, for the first time, correcting the above faults in about two hours.

when I did a cam belt on mine, it took me a week end. It's not often I'm ill, but I started the job & then felt unwell ... so I did a bit .... then a bit more the next day!

Dr Omega did the next belt! 

I agree with the fact that you could do a belt something like without a locking kit .... but it'd only be a best guess.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Just stop oil

« on: 18 July 2024, 19:03:03 »