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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Wanted: F/L estate load cover

« on: 11 May 2011, 11:07:52 »

Need a replacement load cover as mine's finally fallen apart. Ideally in Herts/Beds/Bucks/Essex/Kent area as probably expensive to send by post or courier.

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Wanted: HID headlight self levelling sensor

« on: 28 September 2010, 19:52:51 »

Getting Low Beam Fld/Vision message in MID and upon investigation, the nearside front wishbone sensor is broken so need a replacement for 2002 3.2 MV6 estate if anyone has one for sale.

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Door lock solenoid wanted

« on: 23 August 2010, 13:38:24 »

I'm in need of a drivers door lock solenoid for a 2002 facelift estate if anyone has one for sale.

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Outside temp sensor wanted

« on: 26 January 2010, 09:24:10 »

Not sure if the sensors I've got are faulty or there's a bad connection in the connector that plugs into it. Tried fitting a spare sensor I had but still no function.
Has anyone got a spare sensor with connector they could sell me?
Cheers, Bob

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / cigar lighter wanted

« on: 06 August 2009, 10:25:01 »

Anyone got a cigar lighter for the front ashtray of a facelift estate? I've tried one's from older models but they are different size.

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Omega Gallery / Snetterton pics 1

« on: 18 August 2008, 16:26:00 »

Some pics from our day at Snetterton yesterday. Plenty of good racing all day with 2 Team Palmer Audi single seater races, 2 Britcar S1 races and the feature race Britcar 4 hour endurance featuring the V8 Star Omega. Alex Watson kindly invited us to the garage of the V8 Star Omega run by Irmscher Sport/Wessex Vehicles so here's some pics from the pit garages.



Tyres at £1000 a pop!!





The 7 litre V8 650bhp heart of the beast


An Aston in the garage next door


One of the Beemers


Not sure what this was :-/


Martin Brundle's son Alex from the Team Palmer Audi series

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Omega Gallery / Snetterton pics 2

« on: 18 August 2008, 16:38:36 »

Here's some pics from various parts of the circuit.

The Britcar parade lap


More of the parade lap lead by the 2 Mosler V8's


The v8 Star Omega carving it's way up the field







Mosler coming up to lap the Corvette!!

The Aston

The Jag (sounded gorgeous)

One of the several Ferrari's in the race


The Omega in clear air

The Dodge Viper


The Omega had a poor grid position after gearbox problems during Saturday qualifying and started 13th. At the end of the 1st lap it was in 5th!! After a great battle with one of the Mosler's he got up to 2nd but unfortunately suffered a gearbox linkage failure after about an hour and a half and had to retire.

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Omega Gallery / A1 GP pics from Brands Hatch

« on: 12 May 2008, 15:01:46 »

It's taken me a while but here are some pics from last Sundays A1 GP. Unfortunately the damn fence gets in the way of some shots.

Sister, brother in-law and son Greg at around 7.45am

Team GB's pit garage

The pit lane totty


A1 cars lining up for the morning sprint race

The safety car



Team GB on pole for the sprint race

Team GB leading after the first lap (damn fence in way again!!)

Team GB's driver Robbie Kerr on top of the podium after winning the sprint race.

Heritage sports car race



Robbie Kerr being delivered by bus to his car for the feature race.

Crowd shot behind us

More pit lane totty!!




The grid for the feature race

Team India won the feature race and then stalled it doing donuts after the race!!

The podium after the feature race - 1st Team India, 2nd Team GB, 3rd Team Switzerland

Lotus cup race

and finally, the Wessex Motorsport V8 Star Omega way out in front in the Britcar race


Hope you enjoyed.

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Omega Gallery / Bob's WIM pics

« on: 02 May 2008, 21:34:01 »

Well, here's a few I took while Tony and the boys were hard at work on my Omega......

The new gaff


The new toys





My setup before adjustment

Fine tuning adjustment



Various modes of operation


Work on the car and other random shots

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Omega Gallery / Wessex Motorsport V8 Star Omega

« on: 09 May 2008, 11:25:13 »

This is the stunning V8 Star Omega owned by Alex Watson that was racing in the Britcar series at Brands Hatch on Sunday at the A1 GP.
Alex was kind enough to e-mail me a few pics of this incredible machine. Powered by a Corvette LS7 V8 punching out 645BHP!!

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Omega Gallery / Bob's new Beast

« on: 01 June 2007, 13:33:28 »

Here's a few pics of the new MV6 taken in my office car park - will get some more on later, I hope you like 8-)

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General Car Chat / Just met my Omega's original owner on here!!

« on: 26 July 2011, 11:26:54 »

Had a PM sitting in my inbox this morning from paul.lovejoy who recently joined the forum and turns out he's the original owner of my MV6 when he first aqquired it as an ex-demo car from Vauxhalls. I always wondered about it's original origins and it was really nice to find out and have a chat.
Welcome to the forum Paul and good chatting to you.

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General Car Chat / Team Lotus buy out Caterham

« on: 27 April 2011, 12:50:45 »

Quite a logical step I guess. :-/

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/90955
Weren't the Lotus 7 and Caterham 7 serious rivals years ago?

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General Car Chat / Window tint removal......aaaahhhhhggg!!!!

« on: 21 March 2011, 15:38:57 »

Finally got round to having a go at removing my front window tints after being pulled up and warned by plod. Using a heat gun and a sharp window scraper blade, I managed to get the film off relatively easily, however, the glue left behind on the window is a rather nightmare!! Been trying using the window scaper blade, white spirit and meths and it's a real sod to remove. Think its going to be several weekends before they're completely clean.

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General Car Chat / Stopped by the rozzers for window tints

« on: 04 March 2011, 09:25:59 »

I got stopped at a police check point at stansted Airport on my way to work yesterday morning and was told the reason I had been pulled in was because my front window tints were illegally dark. I had an idea they were as Broocie (Hotel21) had told me in his capacity as an ex policeman at one of our previous OOF meets. Having bought the car with  the tints alreadyon and having owned the for nearly 4 years without being stopped, I hadn't given it much more thought. They said I could be fined £60 per window and get 3 points on my licence per window. However, they said if I removed the front tints there and then I would just get a £30 fine. :-?
Anyway, was impossible to peel off at the roadside and they could see I was struggling, so after a car inspection they said because I had not been "arsy" (their words) with them and co-operative, they let me off with a warning but said to remove the tints at my earliest opportunity.
I could have agued that I can see out of them perfectly well and they haven't caused me any problems in the 4 years of ownership, but then the law is the law and I probably wouldn't have been let off.
My problem now is how the hell do I remove the bloody tints without scratching the windows? :-/
Anyone done this before?

PS......OK Broocie, you were right so no gloating please!!