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Break

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[TheBoy]

I think the poor ol' girl suffered the neglect last year, when I couldn't do anything with her, due to being a cripple following a little bump or 4.

The list of jobs is growing:
Wishbones
ABS ECU
Thank really annoying, pesky oil leak thats really frustrating
Windscreen
A/C compressor

She's done 210k, and over 15yrs old. I've had her for almost 10yrs, and over 120k.

No tools, no space to do much even if I did.

So, what should I do?

[cem_devecioglu]

OOF needs another saga

seriously its your car , and you have memories in it so  if I were you I would keep it

an OOFer meeting at your home with free beers may solve  within a day or 2
 

[TheBoy]

OOF needs another saga

I don't think I do. Not sure I can take much more "excitement"

[chrisgixer]

Get another one, there's a few about.

Tools will be an issue no matter what you buy.

[Mr.OmegaMan]

How about a poll ?

I'd say fix seen as you've had it so long, But if not definitely keep and do it up slowly 

[TheBoy]

Poll added.

[TheBoy]

Get another one, there's a few about.

Nah. Never managed to find one as good as this one, although Tractor came bloody close

Tools will be an issue no matter what you buy.

Indeed. Though hoping a lighter, less powerful car will need a shade less fettling. Certainly initially (by the spring, I'm hoping to have a garage again, which means I can start rebuilding a tool collection. But until then, its a Halfords 12pc set, and a el-cheapo DIY toolkit)

[chrisgixer]

Get another one, there's a few about.

Tools will be an issue no matter what you buy.

Should have said, scrap it, and get another one.

Same model. Didn't we see one on the way back from Newent one year? I said buy it at the time.

[cem_devecioglu]

Get another one, there's a few about.

Nah. Never managed to find one as good as this one, although Tractor came bloody close

Tools will be an issue no matter what you buy.

Indeed. Though hoping a lighter, less powerful car will need a shade less fettling. Certainly initially (by the spring, I'm hoping to have a garage again, which means I can start rebuilding a tool collection. But until then, its a Halfords 12pc set, and a el-cheapo DIY toolkit)

OOF has/have wide resources of toolkits

ps: I found the older shape still more handsome

[chrisgixer]

(Chrisgixer knows that whatever Chrisgixer says TB will do the opposite )

[cem_devecioglu]

(Chrisgixer knows that whatever Chrisgixer says TB will do the opposite )

tell him the reverse opinion then

[chrisgixer]

(Chrisgixer knows that whatever Chrisgixer says TB will do the opposite )

tell him the reverse opinion then

[TheBoy]

(Chrisgixer knows that whatever Chrisgixer says TB will do the opposite )

This thread has been about 3 or 4 days in the making. I didn't post it until my own mind was made up.

So whatever anyone, you included, says, its unlikely to sway my decision

[TheBoy]

OOF has/have wide resources of toolkits

Indeed, and not just toolkits. OOF has artificially kept many Omegas from being baked bean tins. Mine included.

ps: I found the older shape still more handsome

Me too, but all UK ones are made of iron oxide.

[05omegav6]

Having seen mine written off twice in four and a half years/156k, I have obviously gone with fix it

If it's any consolation, mine needs the following doing/dealing with...

Thermostat stuck open
Heater matrix leak
Rear wheel arches need attention (again)
Engine mount needs replacing (got one, just need to fit it)
Gearbox mount needs replacing
EML needs sorting

I will get them all dealt with eventually, and you can add a whole load of other jobs that are on the list before next spring

Some might well say it's only a sodding car, but it's MY sodding car and it's as much a part of me as my arms and legs. I don't know what it is about the Omega that does that, but I suspect that it is a sentiment widely shared.

Even in Brackley