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General Car Chat / Re: Allegro

« on: 17 June 2016, 21:23:49 »

Its chassis, running gear and engine are from a ZR1 'vette and by Christ does the ground shake when its running. The only thing of the Allegro left is the body, the rest of the car, floor, tunnel, bulk heads, inner wings etc have all been hand built.

I've seen his next project which is going to be just as good but that's all i'm saying

Andy

General Car Chat / Allegro

« on: 17 June 2016, 21:06:47 »

A very good friend of mine has just finished building this for a customer

Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Wiper Stalk

« on: 07 June 2016, 19:20:09 »

Hi Guys

Trying to find a Wiper Stalk for a pre-facelift Estate that has the info display buttons on the end. These are the same as the Vectra B and one of the buttons is missing from mine, pm me if you have anything kicking around

Cheers
Andy

General Discussion Area / Re: Cars Again - What's the worst car you have ever owned.

« on: 02 May 2016, 20:20:38 »

Talbot Alpine, the gear stick was like stirring soup, it always over heated so had to drive everywhere with the heater on and carry a couple of gallons of water in the boot and a dodgy alternator bracket that would slack off just enough to stop charging but nit enough to squeal.

Went everywhere in that old banger!

Andy

Omega General Help / Re: Removing pagpipes without draining coolant

« on: 02 May 2016, 20:10:56 »

Sorry for the hijack but speaking of Haynes they are now doing or are about to launch Autodata style manuals for the trade!!

Andy

Omega General Help / Re: Omega 2.5 timing belt kits

« on: 02 May 2016, 20:08:32 »

Well said TB. From personal experience don't use a pattern pump on the 2.2. I fitted two pattern pumps (don't say a word!) to our Astra and both failed, the second was fitted as a warranty for the first. In the end went OE + New belt kit and not had a problem since

If your looking for cheaper genuine parts and can get the correct part number then either try Genuine Parts Search or Car Parts Connections. These sites list only dealer Ob stk.

Cheers
Andy

General Car Chat / Re: Opel parts base etc...

« on: 28 April 2016, 19:20:17 »

All I would say is these sites are never updated, also please remember that if you give a dealer a part number and its wrong don't offended if he won't take the part back. Haven't got a problem with people doing this but please get the dealer to check your number.
Oh, and yes GM are always on the lookout for sites like this who breach copy write laws

Cheers
Andy

General Car Chat / Re: Quick Engine lift question X16XE

« on: 26 April 2016, 19:38:35 »

Think these have an alloy sump so big block of wood and you should beok

Andy

Omega General Help / Re: 2.6 Cam cover gaskets

« on: 25 April 2016, 19:30:34 »

The early gaskets are still available from Vauxhall, at 5pm tonight Luton ware house had 33 in stock with over 200 in European stock

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General Car Chat / Re: Meriva P.A.S. problems.

« on: 24 April 2016, 21:05:54 »

If it is a Meriva A then contact your dealer as Vauxhall might change it under PGT scheme, you might need FSH ETC though

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General Car Chat / Re: 2010 Corsa 1.4 Coil Pack Fault

« on: 10 March 2016, 20:28:37 »

Handed out one today in the workshop so I had a quick look. They are Delphi and the one that came off the car had a blue'ish "ok" stamp on it, the new one didn't have the stamp, hope that helps

Andy

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General Discussion Area / Re: Litter- where did it go wrong?

« on: 04 March 2016, 21:17:04 »

We have a guy in our town who has taken it on himself to clear the rubbish out of the local rive about twice a week, lets just say most of the cans have names on them that I cannot pronounce.

He post on the local forum a couple of days ago that he collect sixty pieces of rubbish from mile stretch of the river.

Andy

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General Car Chat / Re: Anyone know about the Insignia 2.8T elite 4x4?

« on: 28 February 2016, 11:22:05 »

started to see rear diffs going pop, that will be 3k please.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Killed another BMW last night

« on: 16 February 2016, 20:44:40 »

Don't worry you'll soon have Vauxhall's to play with!

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General Car Chat / Re: Did you know?

« on: 20 November 2015, 20:01:13 »

Yes and its the way they are arranged that gives them the power and range.