I bought my Omega a few weeks ago cheap from Ebay - year 2000 2.5 V6 CD Estate. It was in great condition and drove spot on. Couple of weeks later and niggles started to surface – thermostat issue, slight misfire occasionally, exhaust baffles rattling, knock from front suspension etc. Then the crank sensor gave up and it was the last straw. Sometimes you just get a bad feeling about a car and rather than put money into it, I decided to cut my losses and get shut. Bought myself a very tidy 2001 2.5 Vectra CDX and put the Omega on ebay as a non runner for spares or repair due to crank sensor and also listed the other issues with it.
Guy from Sheffield bought it and came to pick it up yesterday with crank sensor in hand. I was at work so the wife gave him keys and docs, took the money and left him to it.
Twenty minutes later I get a call saying the key doesn’t work in the door locks and he cant get in (battery was flat due to being stood so no central locking). He wrestles with key without success. I start to worry that overnight, somebody has tried to break in to it and knackered the locks. After an hour he decides to break the radiator grille to get at the bonnet release catch so that he can charge the battery and use central locking. Smashes grill but can’t get at release catch. Another hour passes and he decides to smash one of the windows to get in. Meanwhile I’m ringing him and he’s ringing me totally perplexed by whats going on and the wife is mortified trying to help him out whilst looking after our three kids!
So, he gets in through the smashed window and pops the bonnet, gets the battery on charge and gets to work on the crank sensor. Four hours after he got there, he’s finished. Then I get another call saying the ignition won’t turn!!! It’s now dark, raining, I’m still in work, wife’s still mortified and he can’t start the car. I ask a mate of mine who used be a technician for Audi to nip down to have a look. He can’t sort it either.
I come home from work at 6.30. Glass all over the floor, radiator grille in bits, bits of metal and wire which they used to try to break into the car all over the place.
“Still can’t get it started” he says and passes me the key. “You have a go”
I looked at the keys. And kept looking at them. And kept looking at them……
“Why are you trying to use the keys to my Vectra?” I asked.
The wife had given the guy the owners pack for the Vectra including a spare key and fob!!! She almost collapsed with shame when I told her what had happened.
Put the Omega key in, fired up straight away. He drove back to Sheffield in the rain minus a radiator grille and with a piece of plastic taped over the smashed window and I spent twenty minutes brushing glass off the pavement.
I’ll make sure the wife will NEVER live this down!!
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