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Omega General Help / Re: Changing steering box; remove drop arm or disconnect from track rod?

« on: 29 December 2017, 11:24:35 »

If you want to adjust the steering box and take out any slack there is a method in the Haynes manual for the Carltons and Senators, if you want I can scan them in and e-mail the pdf to you so you can have a look, they are basically the same recirculating ball type steering box.

As others have said though I would start with the front suspension top mounts, poly bushing the front bush on the wishbones and a full geometry alignment.

I found my MV6 to wander quite a bit until I poly bushed the front bush in the wishbones.

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General Car Chat / Re: Never again

« on: 25 December 2017, 20:19:45 »

Anyone taking their car to the local eastern European car wash deserves all they get.


All the products they use will be cheap shite and their methods will leave a lot to be desired.

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General Car Chat / Re: Electric engine heaters .....

« on: 25 December 2017, 20:12:23 »

It all depends on how long it takes your engine to warm up, my MV6 was blowing warm air within half a mile so I wouldn't st it was worth it but older cars that take a couple of miles to warm up then it probably is worth it 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Merry Christmas

« on: 25 December 2017, 17:31:46 »

Merry Christmas to everyone, hope you all had a good day 

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General Car Chat / Re: My driveway....

« on: 22 December 2017, 10:26:59 »

Omega?

186

General Discussion Area / Re: Thank You Microsoft

« on: 18 December 2017, 21:21:15 »

Sounds like, quite simply, you've corrupted your profile, which is surprisingly common if you let it get too large. Only real cure for corrupted profile is restoring the profile from backup (the recovery options are to get a system working, not really for fixing profiles).


But look on the bright side, my stupid, gay, useless 2017 MacBook has just had to have the 3rd set of 2Gb updates in about the last month...   ...and the bloody thing has only been turned on about 3 times in that time.  Gimme Windoze any day of the week.

A couple of questions then:

How do you corrupt your profile, how does it get to big and how do I prevent it happening in the future?

After all this only happened after the Windows update.

Generally too much shit, installing/uninstalling lots of stuff, loads on desktop, loads in c:\ProgramData.

A lot of your profile is stored in the registry, and the registry is a really piss poor storage system - moreso whe registry cleaners have spilt their milk all over it. That's why MS discourage its use for apps, but developers are inherently lazy.

You can check profile size in Advanced Settings, Advanced, User Profiles.  I too have currently got profile corruption on this laptop I'm using (Old Trusty), as my profile has grown to 9Gb, which is outrageous, but a lot of shite goes through this machine. Sub 200Mb is good.


Nowadays, I don't even bother to recover desktops, just wipe and rebuild.  Takes about 90mins...   ...when I CBA.

That is good to know, I`ll keep an eye on that.

The odd thing is though that I don`t install loads of programs, just the ones I use and keep, I haven`t used a registry cleaner in over ten years and I only have about six things on the desktop 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 18 December 2017, 21:04:39 »

Essex

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Omega General Help / Re: Are sprung hose clips GM patented?

« on: 18 December 2017, 17:14:09 »

I use water pump pliers, easier than mole grips 

189

General Discussion Area / Re: Thank You Microsoft

« on: 18 December 2017, 16:08:21 »

Same happened to me yesterday...took nearly two hours to update. Then I had no emails, Apps missing, Drives renamed.

So I went into 'Security' and forced Windows back to the previous build. Took a few minutes, and we are running as previous, with no problems 

The update itself was pretty swift but the damage done will take longer to sort out, that is tonights little project. Everything still works ok, I have manually changed the time but there are still a few apps missing and loads of bookmarks have gone, it`s almost as if it has gone back in time but I don`t trust it so I`m doing a clean install.

I can`t use the `previous build` option as I have been on Windows 10 since it first arrived.

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General Car Chat / Re: How many cars have you owned so far.

« on: 17 December 2017, 22:39:59 »

12 in 29 years of driving, I think I tend to keep them more than most.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Thank You Microsoft

« on: 17 December 2017, 20:46:03 »

Sounds like, quite simply, you've corrupted your profile, which is surprisingly common if you let it get too large. Only real cure for corrupted profile is restoring the profile from backup (the recovery options are to get a system working, not really for fixing profiles).


But look on the bright side, my stupid, gay, useless 2017 MacBook has just had to have the 3rd set of 2Gb updates in about the last month...   ...and the bloody thing has only been turned on about 3 times in that time.  Gimme Windoze any day of the week.

A couple of questions then:

How do you corrupt your profile, how does it get to big and how do I prevent it happening in the future?

After all this only happened after the Windows update.

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General Discussion Area / Thank You Microsoft

« on: 17 December 2017, 17:36:57 »

For screwing up my pc 

Got an update yesterday, after the restart I noticed that the time was one hour slow, so into time and date settings strangely the date, location and auto daylight saving were correct so I have no idea what has happened there.

Then I noticed apps missing from the toolbar and a shed load of bookmarks missing from Chrome  It`s almost as if it has been set back eighteen months.

Also none of the recovery options work either, always some problem why it can`t complete the task and there are no restore points either, all gone 

A clean install it is then, fortunately I keep next to nothing on my C drive apart from essentials so it will be quite straight forward, just bloody annoying 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 10 December 2017, 10:33:31 »

Mushroom

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General Discussion Area / Re: My favourite Christmas smilie is:

« on: 09 December 2017, 19:56:35 »

Miserable old bugger 

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General Car Chat / Re: Latest Mustang

« on: 09 December 2017, 11:02:59 »

0-60 is supposed to be around 4.5 secs,but I don't abuse the car as it will tear the tyres up, and tyres are well over £100+ a pop and also I'm still throwing money at the three Omegas as well,so I just drive the car steady without drawing attention to myself....if that's possible in a car that's bright Lime green.

.....for a VXR8?

They must be Wanli 'ditchfinders' at that price.

A pair of rears for my car came to £540.

And I was grumbling at £215 a pop for the fronts

Around £500 for the rears and £400 for the fronts for Michelins finest for the Datsun, and I`ll be needing all four in the spring