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Omega General Help / Re: Head gasket?
« on: 28 February 2024, 20:59:11 »
Fire ring failure on the v6 is very rare, but certainly no harm in testing, either by smelling for fumes in the coolant tank, or one of the test kits as mentioned above, or get your local garage to use their tester.

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General Car Chat / Re: Land/Range Rover insurance
« on: 28 February 2024, 11:32:36 »
Thank god for the Mersey....   ...to separate the scousers and taffs ;D
Doesn't do a very good job, every pub manager in North Wales is a scouser. And going to the North Wales coast in summer you'd swear you were in Liverpool.
As ineffective as the English Channel then...

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General Discussion Area / Images server
« on: 28 February 2024, 11:25:48 »
Our hosting provider is doing some work on our images server.  This serves static content like (guides) photos, logos, icons, smileys, and non visible stuff like CSS and javascript.

Its very likely this will cause some disruption to the site today and possibly overnight, resulting in corrupted pages, strange page layout, and the inability to post stuff.

We'll try to mitigate as much as possible by trying to serve some of that from the webserver instead, but expect issues.  We can not serve photos from the main webserver, so guides will be pictureless for a day or 2.

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General Car Chat / Re: Might be of imterest JLR independant garage
« on: 28 February 2024, 10:18:15 »
No I've been pretty fortunate with the RR so far & try to keep on top of any problems asap, I've been advised to replace the suspension compressor as its thrown up a couple of faults recently & is getting sluggish in operation, according to the service history it was replaced a few years ago so that's booked in at the beginning of April before I start towing the caravan.
Yup, get it done.  Not sure if its worth checking for leaks in pipework before replacing compressor, depending what the actual codes are?

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General Car Chat / Re: Land/Range Rover insurance
« on: 28 February 2024, 07:52:13 »
Thank god for the Mersey....   ...to separate the scousers and taffs ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: Might be of imterest JLR independant garage
« on: 28 February 2024, 07:50:09 »
The more I hear about new cars the less I think about getting one.
How much of that is actually due to genuine unreliability, and how much is due to perceptions generated on and via social media?

After all, you currently drive what is perceived to be one of the most unreliable cars in the world, and the only uninsurable car in the country, but its been reasonably trouble free?

I (well, she) drive one of these 2l diesel Ingeniums, and engine related problems so far consists of having to replace an EGR filter when we bought it - easy enough job, apart from I managed to shear a bolt.  I've had to replace a glow plug as well, but consider that a service item.  TBH, the EGR filters are service items as well IMHO.  Yet I'm told the reliability of this engine makes the Range Rover look like a Toyota ;)


Although I agree that the amount of emission bolt ons on all, but especially diesel, modern engines is never going to help with reliability of anything, not will it help much with overall emissions, but it keeps the misinformed idiots happy...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Hottentots?
« on: 27 February 2024, 16:28:17 »
Part of the job is building rapport with the passengers and also seeing that sprogs are suitably strapped in... It's easy enough to call the kids cheeky little monkeys without giving colour a second thought :-[ and whilst our announcements might now be Everyone/Everybody most of us call people Sir/Madam and the crew darling...

Absolutely every person I encounter gets treated the same unless the rapport suggests otherwise be that positive or negative... The really nice person will get treated much better than the hoighty toity arsehole regardless of how much money they spend.
Yeah, but if I was on one of you flights, I'd be nicer to the trolley dollies that I would to you ;D.

S'pose that makes me sexist.

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General Car Chat / Re: Can I buy one?
« on: 27 February 2024, 16:25:39 »
This is exactly right. It's all very well saying you should run an older XYorZ but when any kind of minor repair at a garage, or even routine items like suspension bushes runs well into three figures it makes much less sense to buy cheaper older cars.

For a lot of people a £500 bill (easily achieved these days) will quickly become £6-700 by the time the credit card company has had its due.
And as Omegas (as we are an Omega site, some people might still have one ;D) aged, I suspect it was relatively high garage bills for relatively simple work that made them depreciate hard, and in turn made even minor service type work uneconomical in the minds of some - those who argue its not worth spending £800 to sort out the worn out front suspension on a car worth £500...

If you have to rely on garages for virtually everything, old cars don't really work unless you are buying them for their long MOT, then rinse, repeat...

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General Car Chat / Re: Might be of imterest JLR independant garage
« on: 27 February 2024, 16:18:54 »
Presumably a similar notion to a wet clutch, although the idea of soaking a rubber band, synthetic or otherwise, in engine oil does seem to be asking for premature failure... :-\
And even if the belt survives, the debris off the belt will block all oilways around the rest of the engine...

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General Car Chat / Re: Might be of imterest JLR independant garage
« on: 27 February 2024, 08:09:27 »
Loads of info on this on LR forums some love them & some hate them, " you pays your money & take your choice" and then pray luck is on your side..
Plenty on all the Jaguar forums as well, with all sorts of rash comments like guarantees it won't last 80k miles.  Mind you, my car is the V6 diesel, and I'm apparently guaranteed a snapped crank before 100k....    ....so I assumed it must have snapped about 60k ago, and I've not noticed ;D

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General Discussion Area / Re: Hottentots?
« on: 27 February 2024, 08:05:27 »
I'd never heard of that word before.  Now added to my dictionary of words to slip into conversations...

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General Car Chat / Re: Land/Range Rover insurance
« on: 27 February 2024, 08:01:53 »
Back in the seventies my cousin bought a brand new Alfasud looked great, but after 4 years every panel including the roof had bubbled up with rust, his sister had a Fiat Strada which was just as bad.
Much like my Astra GTE, only that was 3yrs old when I got shot of it.  No idea where that was made, kinda guessing in Liverpool. By Italians.
Ellesmere Port is not Liverpool, it's not even Merseyside.
Near enough.

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General Car Chat / Re: Might be of imterest JLR independant garage
« on: 27 February 2024, 08:01:17 »
As an owner of a very early, 130k example that looks to have been serviced by independent garages but to JLR intervals
I should add, its on its original chains as well.

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General Car Chat / Re: Might be of imterest JLR independant garage
« on: 27 February 2024, 07:58:01 »
CBA to look at vid, but there is an awful lot of BS about the Ingenium 4 pot.

Yes, like any modern EU6 diesel, there are a bucket load of emissions crap bolted to it, to appease the misinformed tree huggers, such as DPFs, SEC, EGR(s), electronically controlled flows on the water pump, stop/start blah blah blah

The Achilles heel with the soot chucker is stated as being the chains.  I'd counter argue that, and say the achilles heel is stupid service intervals of (in the UK market) 21,000 miles.  Nobody makes an oil that hasn't significantly broken down enough to lose its properties beyond 7k, and on diesels you have the added fun of diesel particulates (which makes the oil go black so quickly).  Given virtually all diesels are turbocharged, and turbos need good oil, any owner would be a bit soften in the head to let the oil run for that long for feel of shagging the turbo.

Given that this engine is also chain driven, all those particulates, which is like microscopic grit, aren't going to do chains any favours either.  As with any chain driven engine (and elastic band driven engines that use wet belts, like Ford), long service intervals are a sure way to increase wear.


Now there are some idiotic designs on it, like the chains being fitted at the back of the engine, which is a brilliant idea if you need to replace the chains regularly due to the marketeers winning the service interval battle. NOT.

There are also some designs on it that confuddle the usual "mechanics", like active engine mounts, and positive crankcase pressure.

Like any new engine, its been revised to overcome its issues.  I think the biggest is a revised chain/tensioner setup that became standard from around 2018ish? (sure DTM can confirm exactly when), and this is the setup you want to swap over to if ever you do need to replace the chains or tensioners.


As an owner of a very early, 130k example that looks to have been serviced by independent garages but to JLR intervals, I think its not a bad engine.  Mostly easy to work on (chains aside!), very drivable, and stupidly economical - even I'm knocking on the door of 70mpg when I drive it into the office in Brumingham.


Back to Youtube. Most "creators" on Youtube are just saying stuff to try to make their videos get viewed.  Controversy is always a good way, particularly if you can get forums or social media to make it go viral.  Its all money for the "creators".  I can guarantee you they have turned on monetisation on the channel ;).  And everyone loves to hate JLR, as can be seen from millions of Range Rover insurance youtube videos.  And don't even get me started on the wankstain Geoff Buys Cars - I can only assume his father abused him as a child...

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General Discussion Area / Re: London under the control of Islamists .
« on: 26 February 2024, 16:20:28 »
I just caused some embarrassment on my walk with the dog. As my wife says, I would cause an argument in a telephone box  :-[
On Grimethorpe muckstack, there are loads of lovely conifers that have been growing for about 20 years, just starting to look full and smell lovely. They're cutting them down! When I asked why,  I was told they shouldn't have been planted in the first place, they are an invasive species. What about these twáțs who come over on boats? I asked. They're an invasive species, are we gonna chop their fùckin legs off?
Silence. I walked off.
;D ;D

Oh, that has properly cheered up an otherwise miserable afternoon :y

Not the tree bit, obviously.

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