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General Discussion Area / Re: Proposed driving licence changes...

« on: 15 August 2021, 23:15:02 »

I didn't realise that my C1+E entitled me to drive up to 12 tonne truck & trailer.

Got totally lost in the description of the proposal. It doesn't appear to involve any change to the HGV or PSV classes and no mention of operator licences.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Car pass

« on: 13 August 2021, 11:37:27 »

Phoned them up, I need to bring in V5 and 30 bucks

Is that a new Scottish currency?

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Omega General Help / Re: 1995 rear brake back dust shield undo

« on: 12 August 2021, 09:14:23 »

It is definitely doable. I was convinced it wouldn't work but by persevering I was able to wriggle the awkward retainer in from behind.
You need to do it by touch, if you try to see where the hole is you will get an eye full of crap.

I may have distorted the hole a little (& flattened it again after) to get the retainer in but it was so long ago that I can't remember whether I had to go that far.

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Omega General Help / Re: 1995 rear brake back dust shield undo

« on: 12 August 2021, 01:20:14 »

When the keyholes in the backplates on my 1994 Omega became too rusty for the retainers to get a grip I bought a set of early Passat (that what it said on the packet anyway) retainers.

I was able to insert them from behind in the same way as the later Omega retainers. I didn't need to pull the backplates off. Don't know if the Passat retainers are different to the Omega ones

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General Car Chat / Re: Used car market...EV's

« on: 11 August 2021, 03:09:18 »

Think most of this EV shit a just a ruse to get a lot of older cars and drivers, (not necessarily old) off the road. As with most government policies these days, it's the lower paid who bear the brunt of this because they are the ones who can't afford to buy a new car, EV or otherwise. Motoring will again be the hobby of the rich. By the way, i am not a rabid leftie.

Yes I think you're right Ronny. 

Lord Opti will be OK wafting about in whatever luxury motor he buys next, but poor old Uncle STEMO will be on the bus! 

 

Would a 500hp Mercedes V8 twin turbo suit you sir?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255085166978?_trkparms=aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20200818143132%26meid%3D1f1a65b858c44a4e961e554ede9b85e9%26pid%3D101198%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D265237713720%26itm%3D255085166978%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DDefaultOrganic&_trksid=p2047675.c101198.m1985

(Opti won't like it being Diesel)

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Omega General Help / Re: Lights flashing

« on: 09 August 2021, 11:11:42 »

The alarm horn died on my 2.6 so it didn't make any noise when the alarm was triggered (at least not after I took the power sounder out)

I did buy a new alarm horn and a new power sounder but never got around to fitting them 

I assume that you have already removed the self immolating power sounder? that has a habit of triggering the alarm just before starting the fire........

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Omega General Help / Re: hand brake light flashing under hard acceleration

« on: 08 August 2021, 22:50:17 »

When I had that happen it was low fluid in the reservoir.

The fluid was low because the pads were worn out.

The pads were worn out because I was young and foolish and hadn't checked them for a while.

Now might be a good time for new discs, pads and fresh brake fluid

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General Discussion Area / Re: Best method for removing masonary paint from brickwork.

« on: 05 August 2021, 22:42:42 »

The brickwork of my last house had been painted. I tried paint strippers and grit blasting (both air and hydraulic) with no success.

Then I left it for 15 years to let nature do it's work. No change - just looked dirty.

In the end I repainted using masonry paint and sold the house.

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General Car Chat / Re: tyre change woes

« on: 05 August 2021, 10:10:43 »

They force the tyre off the bead by hand just enough to repair the rim rather than using a machine and removing the tyre completely. It saves time, but stresses the sidewall.

The Insignia had 20"s on it, which didn't help, but they had failed from the inside out wirh no visible external damage.

That puzzles me - I would have thought that the tyre machine would need to exert the same amount of force.

I thought you were going to say that solvents in the tyre paint and wheel paint are to blame 

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Alternator Problem??

« on: 05 August 2021, 08:59:32 »

When that happened to me it was the regulator in the alternator.

Unlikely to be caused by the wiring because the alternator & starter share a lead to the battery. (do check the wiring though - the crimp connections fail over time and get very hot when passing 200A to the starter, they get less hot passing 120A from the alternator to the battery)

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General Discussion Area / Re: SSD card.....working or not?

« on: 29 July 2021, 00:59:24 »

I have used two free/open source programmes to recover lost photos from memory cards. They also work on disk drives.

https://www.techspot.com/downloads/4171-testdisk.html

Testdisk works on the drive to try and fix it. If Testdisk can't fix the drive then Photorec grabs all the files it can find so you can recover most of your pictures of fluffy kittens (or whatever. )

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Omega General Help / Re: Oil Build Up Advise

« on: 28 July 2021, 10:45:26 »

You shouldn't have any oil in the bagpipes.

The breathers are designed to function in two ways
- at idle and with small throttle openings there is a big vacuum in the manifold - the big vacuum pulls crankcase vapour through a tiny hole in the oil separator behind bank 2 cylinder head - fresh air should be pulled into the crankcase through the large breather (which connects to two ports just in front of the throttles)
- at large throttle openings there is less manifold vacuum to pull vapour through the tiny hole but there is some vacuum at the two ports in front of the throttles which will draw the oil vapour into the manifold.

What happens is that the breather pipes on top of the manifold AND the tiny hole in the oil separator get blocked with oily crap. The vapour that should get drawn straight into the manifold can't go that way so it comes out through the ports in front of the throttles. This isn't an issue when the throttles are open but at small throttle openings or idle (eg most of the time) an oily mist is dumped into the inlet where it usually coats the throttles in crap (but it might find it's way into the bagpipes).

When you clean out your breathers you should also check the tiny hole in the small spigot on the oil separator. It is a pig to get to so most people don't know it is even there..............

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General Car Chat / Re: ABS module

« on: 27 July 2021, 11:30:50 »

A final point - the 3 channel ABS presumably has one channel each for the front wheels with both back wheels on the third channel. Following that logic - if you can get fluid out of one rear caliper then it can't be the ABS - it has to be something basic like a crushed pipe (metal or flexi).
NB - this is just a theory but I would have a good hard look at the bits I had worked on before considering trying to change the ABS.

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General Car Chat / Re: ABS module

« on: 27 July 2021, 10:31:24 »

Not a direct answer to your question but.... could the problem be the new caliper or flex pipe or hard pipe on the rear trailing arm? Did the hard pipe twist or kink in the fight to dismantle it?
If you slacken the flex pipe can you pump fluid through?

I think you need an ABS from a V6 (2.5 or 3.0). IIRC the 4 pots don't have traction control, the 2.5/3.0 V6s have 3 channel ABS with basic traction control and the later V6s have 4 channel ABS with a more advanced traction control.

TB should be able to give you the answer re the ABS module.

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Omega General Help / Re: Engine SWAP Omega 2.5 with I6 BMW

« on: 25 July 2021, 10:08:09 »

halhorn73 has a V6 in his profile.

The good news is that Opel demonstrated that a BMW I6 will fit. The bad news is that halhorn73 will need to recreate all sorts of parts that he would already have if he was starting with a 2.5td