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Omega General Help / Re: rear brake pad question.
« on: 11 February 2024, 21:56:12 »Just a thought....do the rears have wear indicators?
No wear sensor on rears.
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No wear sensor on rears.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 05 February 2024, 21:31:17 »As the opposite of what has pissed me off...I'm finding a lot of ebay purchases are delivered quickly recently by Royal Fail ,some orders are being delivered by Amazon vans too
Ordered a very expensive USB charger from the Gay of E at 7pm (Sunday). Arrived by noon today (Monday). Suitably impressed.
It doesn't always go well though , I ordered a brand new 500 GB SSD , a crappy 1 TB spinny toshiba external drive arrived ,had to disk part clear it to get it recognised (to find out how old it was etc) 2019complained and said send a refund ,but the seller insisted I return the crappy EWASTE spinny drive
which meant going to the post office
Check that they didn’t charge you double due to a software glitch.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 05 February 2024, 21:24:40 »I hate it when I’m out with a few inches left to do🤣🤣👍
Yep, nothing worse than being a few inches too short in a certain area. I’ve suffered with that but I believe they do pills for it now.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 05 February 2024, 16:58:58 »As the opposite of what has pissed me off...
Ordered a very expensive USB charger from the Gay of E at 7pm (Sunday). Arrived by noon today (Monday). Suitably impressed.
Welcome to civilisation.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 05 February 2024, 16:57:31 »
Pissed off because Thule/BMW have changed the thread size for the fixpoint roof stud fixing for the Thule roof bars, so my current kit wouldn’t fit. Had to buy another kit just for the studs as I couldn’t find the new style studs sold separately. If I’d have still been on the tools I could have made them, as the top thread is different to the lower thread.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Police for sale?
« on: 05 February 2024, 16:41:42 »……………..
Only one is keyless entry, but both are keyless start, so presumably both vulnerable to relay attacks ………….
Although both of mine are keyless, I personally can’t see any benefit from them being keyless. I unlock the door, chuck the key fob in to the double cup holder and off I go. If I grab a drink en-route I then have to move the key somewhere else.
I can’t leave the key in my pocket as it doesn’t take much pressure to activate the powered tailgate from the key fob.
My earlier BMW’s had a slot in the dash, which was not only an immobiliser link but also somewhere to park the key.
Some things are just unnecessary.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 03 February 2024, 22:13:36 »Finally, I took a photo, just for you!Acquired 2 freebie logo puddle lights, so fitted them. ………
So you have pretty little Jaguar logo lights illuminating the kerb when you exit the car now then.
…………
Looks a decent, clear projection.
I looked up the price of my factory fit lights and the price is err….. scary. 
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 03 February 2024, 10:16:50 »I'm finding the stop / start function is a Real pita , I really don't want to have to go through a pre flight check to manually disable/enable it ,the lane assist and gradient handbrake each and every time I use the car ……………….
I daresay manufacturers will try to block over-riding stop/start but I’ve coded mine out on both of our Audi’s. On VAG vehicles it’s really easy to code out using VagCom, or Carly, Carista, OBDEleven dongles etc.
If not possible to code out, people would set the stop/start battery parameters ridiculously high using the above dongles so that stop/start voltage could never be achieved.
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General Car Chat / Re: Price of parts
« on: 01 February 2024, 20:57:59 »Just been to VW dealer. And looked at S/H cars outside. Saw a nice car for 25,000 euros.
Got quote for two parts. Not including fitting, they were about 1000 euros for the two. I reckon if you bought a car from parts it would be a million pounds. No wonder car insurance has gone up!
Best not get a quote for Matrix LED adaptive headlights like fitted to mine then, you’ll fall off your chair.
Some people have paid less for a complete car than it costs for a pair of these headlights. Based on that, I agree with your way of thinking regarding building a car.
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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?
« on: 29 January 2024, 22:06:13 »From my experience of driving them in the early 90's, if you drove one now, you may not miss it quite as much as you think...I had three of them in total, 1st was 825 Sterling which was under powered,2nd was 827sli auto which is still on the road and the Vitesse was the last one but that was a manual
Built to last by quality craftsmen.
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 29 January 2024, 21:56:33 »OK you guys. You may not believe this and many of you will fall over laughing, but I have a VAUXHALL OMEGA!
It's fast, comfortable and has enough driver aids, like mirrors, switches and analogue dials, to make driving a breeze.
Good car, I cherished mine and it still holds a place in my heart,
although I did send the needle a fair way around the clock on many occasions.
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 29 January 2024, 20:46:12 »My E Class had it, but I never used it…………..
Don’t know what your E Class was like for parallel self parking but the BMW reverses in with one hell of a tight rake. It goes in at a steep angle and swings the front bumper in far closer to the vehicle in front than I’m happy with.
That’s probably why I never use it, but in fairness it can park itself in a fairly tight space.
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 29 January 2024, 12:21:30 »………….
Got to admit, in these days of larger vehicles with smaller windows, I am grateful for front and rear parking sensors. I've never driven a car with a reverse view camera, and I don't think I'd find any use for it.
As for the ones that actually park themselves, no way.
The 360 cameras are good, so are front bumper side cameras.
The 360 allows you to see all around and the bumper side cameras are great for seeing out of hedge lined junctions. It’s like having a pair of eyes five feet ahead of your own eyes. Self parking is a gimmick. Mine does both bay and parallel self park, I used it once on each space and have never used it since.
To parallel park, tap the screen, slow down and indicate left for a space on the left and right for a space on the right. The car searches for a space big enough and when found it beeps. You stop, accept the space and the car does the rest hands and foot free. Sounds easy doesn’t it.
However there is a massive glitch in their thinking that the handbook forgets to tell you. The vehicle uses radars/sensors to position the vehicle so, on a parallel park, the vehicle uses the vehicle in front and behind as a guide, which means that if the vehicle in front and behind have two wheels on the kerb, you’re vehicle will end up with two wheels on the kerb ….. and kerbed alloys. They don’t show you that on YouTube demos do they.
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 29 January 2024, 11:43:42 »The day might come eventually, but I have no interest in any car with a big screen sellotaped to the dash.
Me neither.
I recently watched a YouTube clip reviewing the BMW M60 i5 by Harry's Garage. If you come across the clip, just look at how many times he takes his eyes off the road for simple things like heating controls, vent direction etc. And yes, he disliked it, especially the million and one menus that you can scroll through. He also hated the lane discipline, because he said our UK roads are so shite that we have to swerve to avoid massive potholes and craters in the road, and the lane discipline tries to pull you back in line. He suspects that lane discipline was invented to overcome drivers staring at their touch screens. With a few extra toys on the options list, this i5 was just shy of £116K, for a 5 Series.
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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 29 January 2024, 11:15:30 »A few years ago, I drove an Audi E-tron - apart from having to get used to it being an EV, I quickly realised it had no side door mirrors, just two small cameras instead, which relayed an image to a screen in the door panel area. The image wasn't like looking in a door mirror and wasn't what I would describe as a 'real image', and after 50 years of using wing / door mirrors, altering my line of vision to look at the door panel to see what was behind wasn't as easy as it sounds.
Don't know whether they still use it or whether other manufacturers use it as well, but it seemed to me to serve no purpose other than a gimmicky gadget which probably was very costly to replace as the cameras were just as vunerable as door mirrors to drivers who cannot judge the width of the vehicle they are driving.
https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/tech/audi-e-tron-virtual-mirrors-how-does-it-work/
Unfortunately they do still fit them. Even worse, truck manufacturers are fitting them as well now. My issue with camera door mirrors is, with a standard door mirror you can change the perspective view by moving your head to the left or right, so you can see objects that you otherwise might have missed without moving your head. With a camera mirror, the view remains exactly the same, because moving your head makes no difference whatsoever to the rearward view.
