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[Sehen]

Hello 
Have reasently bought myself two Omega F/L, one saloon with 2,2 Auto, somewhat like yors GLS, but with the standard Norwegian package, HID, washers, 4*el.windows, cruise and an LSD.
The other one is an Estate, like yors cd, but named Elegance here, also a 2,2, but with a manual gearbox, standard Norwegian package, velour, wood and car computer. This one is smashed in the fornt and rear an is for parts only.

The Saloon was bought unseen,cheap from a dealer who couldn't  get it to start 

Picture from when it was picked up 500km from my home. As you can se on the photos, my friend has the equipment to bring home even an Omega on icy roads in northern Norway  Excursion with 4" lift and 7,3 powerstroke diesel



Car looks god, has no rust, have never seen salty roads



Got it home safe  and started to investegate what the problem could be.
After 5 hours I had it running from a homemade fueltank of 4 liter, pump from the estate and a return line, connected directly to the battery.
The fault codes was long as .... , but to make the list short. 50/50 with gasoline and diesel in the tank, dead coil on the third sylinder, faulty airflow meter, knock sensor(?) and fan switch on the radiator.(allways on)
When I changed the Airflow meter, the faultcodes on the autobox never came back....... What is that??? 1700 code IIRC...
So to the rest of the car...New shocks, brakes with calipers and mountings, new exhaust and so on 
The only thing i could find before the MOT was the Idler arm, wich I replaced.

Offcourse the garage did find one thing  Left side wishbone balljoint. Ordered a new Lemförder yesterday at £45.
Mounted it today, outside in -3...se picture



The sharp ones of you would now have noticed that the 3 lights on the bonnet is gone. Not allowed with 3 in Norway, only two, so I am using the bonnet from the estate as the MOT bonnet  I have a plan with the other bonnet including 55w HID...
So tomorrow I'm going to get the licenceplates and pay the gouverment £705 to get my name on the papers of the car
Yes, that's only for changing the name on the registration...... road tax is due in march....

And I had forgotten how comfy and nice a standard Omega with Auto is to drive, even with the 2,2.thought it would be slower
So it will stay this way for a while, the only thing I'm going to do, is to move the interior and car computer from the estate

[millwall]

looks nice good luck getting it all sorted   glad the lights are gone they looked a bit crap

[Sehen]

looks nice good luck getting it all sorted   glad the lights are gone they looked a bit crap

Thanks  It's all sorted out now, and regarding the lights... it's only 4 hours of daylight here in the winter, and a lot of moose and reindeer around here. So good lightning is needed But have BiXenon 55w kit in a box someplace, and 55W H7 HID is on order for the long beam, so maybe I dont need the extra lights Time will show

[Sehen]

Found some pictures of my first Omega B
8,5*19 in front,10*19" in rear wit 235 and 265 on the rear












V6, manual and a LSD

[Stallion]

Very Nice Matey! Liking the alloys on the estate! 

[omega3000]

Nice motor 

265 on the rear

Lovely alloys on the red one ...hope you held onto them 

[millwall]

liking the estate   never seen a omega with keep fit windows

[Sehen]

liking the estate   never seen a omega with keep fit windows

Normal here in norway on the early Omega B. First time I heard that thou

Nice motor 

265 on the rear

Lovely alloys on the red one ...hope you held onto them

The alloys, with the car, went to the scrapper after I landed it on the roof on a field 
Her I'm braking it for parts, but you can se the dammage  very nice and good car...miss it

[Ken T]

Hello 
Have reasently bought myself two Omega F/L, one saloon with 2,2 Auto, somewhat like yors GLS, but with the standard Norwegian package, HID, washers, 4*el.windows, cruise and an LSD.
The other one is an Estate, like yors cd, but named Elegance here, also a 2,2, but with a manual gearbox, standard Norwegian package, velour, wood and car computer. This one is smashed in the fornt and rear an is for parts only.

The Saloon was bought unseen,cheap from a dealer who couldn't  get it to start 

Picture from when it was picked up 500km from my home. As you can se on the photos, my friend has the equipment to bring home even an Omega on icy roads in northern Norway  Excursion with 4" lift and 7,3 powerstroke diesel



Car looks god, has no rust, have never seen salty roads



Got it home safe  and started to investegate what the problem could be.
After 5 hours I had it running from a homemade fueltank of 4 liter, pump from the estate and a return line, connected directly to the battery.
The fault codes was long as .... , but to make the list short. 50/50 with gasoline and diesel in the tank, dead coil on the third sylinder, faulty airflow meter, knock sensor(?) and fan switch on the radiator.(allways on)
When I changed the Airflow meter, the faultcodes on the autobox never came back....... What is that??? 1700 code IIRC...
So to the rest of the car...New shocks, brakes with calipers and mountings, new exhaust and so on 
The only thing i could find before the MOT was the Idler arm, wich I replaced.

Offcourse the garage did find one thing  Left side wishbone balljoint. Ordered a new Lemförder yesterday at £45.
Mounted it today, outside in -3...se picture



The sharp ones of you would now have noticed that the 3 lights on the bonnet is gone. Not allowed with 3 in Norway, only two, so I am using the bonnet from the estate as the MOT bonnet  I have a plan with the other bonnet including 55w HID...
So tomorrow I'm going to get the licenceplates and pay the gouverment £705 to get my name on the papers of the car
Yes, that's only for changing the name on the registration...... road tax is due in march....

And I had forgotten how comfy and nice a standard Omega with Auto is to drive, even with the 2,2.thought it would be slower
So it will stay this way for a while, the only thing I'm going to do, is to move the interior and car computer from the estate

  Over here you could buy a going car for that.

Well done getting it started, so it was diesel in the petrol, Lazy Docker could have helped you with that 

You certainly are determined working in snow like that 

Ken

[Reefpotato]

Quote "So tomorrow I'm going to get the licenceplates and pay the gouverment £705 to get my name on the papers of the car
Yes, that's only for changing the name on the registration...... road tax is due in march...."

I didn't realise Norway was so expensive, is that normal just for registration of an import?     and respect for sticking with it M8   

[Webby the Bear]

Quote "So tomorrow I'm going to get the licenceplates and pay the gouverment £705 to get my name on the papers of the car
Yes, that's only for changing the name on the registration...... road tax is due in march...."

I didn't realise Norway was so expensive, is that normal just for registration of an import?     and respect for sticking with it M8

When I went there Oslo was the most expensive City in the world, just ahead of Tokyo 

[Sehen]

Quote "So tomorrow I'm going to get the licenceplates and pay the gouverment £705 to get my name on the papers of the car
Yes, that's only for changing the name on the registration...... road tax is due in march...."

I didn't realise Norway was so expensive, is that normal just for registration of an import?     and respect for sticking with it M8

Thanks

It's not an import... thats just for registration in my name (changing owner)
And the normal price for that car is £6000........ Paid £1500 for it.
And have to get it sorted out, becouse my sons cousine bought his 95 2,5 CD saloon, and my son took my 98 2,5mini F/L 14 days ago. Both 19 years old, so they couldn't wait until i got the car on the road  Gotta help this kids a bit
My son came by today, and I had to take that old miggy for a spin in the snow, all polys,2,5 V6, manual, camberkit, lowered 40 mil and yellow Koni's. Long time since I've had so much fun Sideways in 80MPH on icy roads, and the V6 skreaming in 3 gear...priceless
It's a nice car, handles well. Maybe get some pictures out in the morning

After driving the V6, I recon the four pot isn't staying in that F/L for long. Already looking for an 3,2 , leather and manual in germany and UK

[Sehen]

So, finally got the licenceplates on the car, passed the MOT and payed alot of money to get my name on the registration papers
Took it out for a spin today, and everything worked fine
It even has the Licensplates from my home town all the way up north, by the russian border
Only 15" snowtyres on it...looks so tiny on the big car

Pictures



And here you se the Estate that i picked up in Sweden, with an engine that have only done 60000 miles 
It will be dismantled into atoms next week, and then it will join all the other Omegas on the etarnal hunting grounds

[x25dt]

Well done

[pirate]

loving the dash in your old estate want to do somthing like that to my steinmetz,wish i had the alloys that was on it to ,enyway wish we had the snow over here boring winter so far just wet ,