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Omega Gallery / Re: 2.6 MV6 - 14 years on

« on: 14 December 2024, 16:29:37 »

My Elite is also KW02.
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=136018.0

Your 2.6 still looks really good. 

. 
 Luton registration.  Quite a popular place to register Vauxhall's in the past. Be Peugeot soon.

My 2.6 CD is also KW02, but is now far away in Scotland!

My old MV6 manual is now a parts donor elsewhere but was also a KW02, ex demo car.

My last memory of it is how well it demonstrated the ability to crumble once the sill covers were removed...

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

« on: 05 December 2024, 15:24:38 »

Finished welding the Mazda.

Naturally the old adage of grinder and paint was employed.

Going to slap some chassis black on it, Alphalan the beJesus out of it, and it'll last another 15 years...

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

« on: 02 December 2024, 19:08:01 »

Blimey. How many of you jumped when it went pop

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

« on: 02 December 2024, 17:20:54 »

With the assistance of Addy, also of this parish, took the front wings off the sensible Mazda yesterday. Thanks to their laissez-faire attitude to rustproofing they had crumbled to the point that would shame a Mk5 Golf.

Then got under, removed the plastic undertrays (main purpose to trap wet mud and make the floor rot).

This evening I scraped some underseal and found some bawbag has fibreglassed and undersealed over a rusty hole in the pan. Happy times Means I have to work out how to lift the carpets now... So much for a quick refresh! 

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General Car Chat / Re: A positive Jag review... Sort of.

« on: 28 November 2024, 11:22:26 »

Only problem is that it's a five year old car and they've simply not moved forwards.

That's ironic coming from a Merc fanatic - they haven't moved forward since the late 1980s

Backwards at a rate of knots in the late 90s...

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General Car Chat / Re: Track days

« on: 26 November 2024, 11:10:08 »

I wouldn't take anything valuable on track, we have an old Saxo for it. Even at 750kg plus fat git driving I cooked a set of tyres.

You make another good point. The heavier the car, the more brakes, tyres and fuel you'll get through. Kit cars are thus also a good option.

The purple project I'm on with now was previously owned by an esteemed member of this parish. He had used it as a track car... I'm not sure his nostrils have yet recovered!

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Omega General Help / Re: Under carpet bitumen

« on: 25 November 2024, 14:52:36 »

Hope it goes well, Mr Shampoo efficient. 

I lnew there was at least one other member crossing the streams!

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General Car Chat / Re: Track days

« on: 25 November 2024, 11:51:59 »

No, if its trailered there it just has to be safe, each organiser hs their own rules for if you need whatever stickers, spill kit etc, but generally if there's nothing leaking or falling off then it's fine.

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Omega General Help / Re: Under carpet bitumen

« on: 25 November 2024, 11:50:00 »

Oh excellent shout! Ta!

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Omega General Help / Re: Under carpet bitumen

« on: 25 November 2024, 07:27:18 »

Self leveling roofing goo would probably work, or you could use dynomat or similar 

...but my car doesn't have self levelling?

Trying to avoid using sticky mats because I used them in Zeke and I got bored shaping them to the contours.

I've been pointed to some compound on Frost auto which looks designed for the job, and more importantly it's cheap with the Black Friday sale! I shall report back. Odds are I'll have forgotten about Frost by payday so will end up with the roofing goo as suggested

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General Car Chat / Re: Track days

« on: 25 November 2024, 07:24:38 »

MrsGK is a track day fiend. We did an MSV day at Bedford a few months ago and it was brilliant, but you do have to watch out for the muppets in fast cars who think horsepower is more important than sticking to your line, I nearly got wiped out by a young lass in an Audi S1 who decided to go up the inside on a hairpin.

I wouldn't take anything valuable on track, we have an old Saxo for it. Even at 750kg plus fat git driving I cooked a set of tyres.

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Omega General Help / Under carpet bitumen

« on: 24 November 2024, 20:19:53 »

Carpet removed and some of the bitumen has necessarily been removed so I can use the old sparkly glue gun.

Is the bitumen the same as the roofing stuff you get from the Toolfixes or Screwstations? Or is it something particular?

TIA!

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

« on: 10 November 2024, 17:24:19 »

Finally got sme time to cobble together something resembling the inner arches and inner corners. Slapped a load of zinc primer over it all. Got a lot of it up my arms  nose and over the dog, as is the rules.

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General Car Chat / Re: Mighty Signum for sale.

« on: 05 November 2024, 14:02:55 »

Is this the one needing a steering rack before MOT?

I'm tempted but don't have the time!

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General Car Chat / PSA for anyone still owning an Omega... Check your seams!

« on: 26 October 2024, 18:22:15 »

Today in the world of the purple project I've been carrying on with the inner rear arches. Both sides looked to have surface rust but nothing too bad until I started digging... Where the floor meets the inner arches under the back seat - both sides have rotted under the seam sealer.

This is as well as the spare wheel well which felt a bit... Flexible... And also had rotted the outer 1/2 inch almost all the way round.

On the plus side I was expecting the rear turrets to be made of hope and underseal but luckily they've survived.

But yes, anyone who still has one... Give it a good check before it becomes terminal! It's only my patented cocktail of idiocy and stubbornness that's going to get this one back on the road!