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Omega General Help / Re: Problems with LTFT on LPG

« on: 05 March 2024, 12:49:26 »

Yes, it is not the first time that this has happened to me after refueling, but with a slight adjustment to the calibration it was perfect. The problem is that now it does not respond and it does not matter if I add a lot or a little or even cut, the LTFT does not change. I can't find an explanation, but as soon as I put it on petrol it goes down quickly and works perfectly.
It happens in both banks equally

Both banks would therefore imply a fuelling restriction (if positive trim), so blocked LPG filter, kinked hose, tank or evap valve not fully opening etc.

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Omega General Help / Re: Problems with LTFT on LPG

« on: 04 March 2024, 14:15:07 »

If it reverts to nigh on 0% on petrol, its the LPG thats the problem.  Note, with piggy-backed LPG, it will never be 0% on LPG, but should really stay single digits, or very low double digits, even with shittier LPG setups - assuming nobody still uses mixer setups.

From memory, a positive trim on those means its having to increase fuelling, negative is decreasing fuelling.

So if its fuelling up, thats not enough LPG getting in, if its trimming down, then not enough fuel is getting in.

Its most likely to be mapping on that bank, or a fuelling restriction, or a pressure difference between the banks.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 02 March 2024, 17:44:49 »

Yet another puncture. Is that 3 or 4 so far this year?  Not including the pothole that wrecked a tyre and wheel.

FFS

You don't half have some bad luck with that pussy of yours. I've had 2 punctures in the last year and I feel fairly hard done to!

Oh, the wheel and tyre bad luck doesn't end there.  Looks like I might also now have a sensor fault in one of the wheels as well.  FFS.

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Omega General Help / Re: Timing belt kit question

« on: 02 March 2024, 17:41:35 »

Unlike the V6, its doable without. But given the wedge to lock the cams is probably less than a fiver, anybody would be incredibly stupid to contemplate it.

Also, unlike the V6, its either a tooth out, or perfect.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 01 March 2024, 20:32:13 »

Yet another puncture. Is that 3 or 4 so far this year?  Not including the pothole that wrecked a tyre and wheel.

FFS

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Omega General Help / Re: Head gasket?

« on: 29 February 2024, 19:40:05 »

Weren't the 2.5 and 3.0 of certain year prone to failure of the back of the 246 gasket

Early 98MY 3.0l (built in 1997) were prone to a HG failure allowing coolant to escape at the back of pot 6.  That particularly failure causes no other symptoms aside from coolant loss and associated steam.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Images server

« on: 29 February 2024, 07:50:08 »

Word from the hosting provider is our images server has been moved to new hardware, and everything should be up and running normally.  Looks like it probably happened at a time that would have minimal impact on the bulk of our primarily UK membership

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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

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

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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 .

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 ) 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...