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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: Today at 10:01:04 »
Discovered, with the help of a hosepipe, that her car was actually a metallic red, not dogshit brown.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: Today at 09:59:30 »
The wiring diagrams in the Haynes Book of 'dangle berries' are actually pretty good, unusually 
TIS2000 is better, as its interactive and covers (only) the later facelifts, but its too much of an arse to get working on modern PCs due to Frontend.exe being 16bit.
TIS2000 is better, as its interactive and covers (only) the later facelifts, but its too much of an arse to get working on modern PCs due to Frontend.exe being 16bit.
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General Car Chat / Re: What sort of price?
« on: Today at 09:55:48 »
The 2.6 was, IMHO, the worse of all engines fitted to Omegas. Followed closely by the 3.2. Buggering up the compression ratio for cost saving being the most likely cause.
The 3.0 was the best. Similar power levels to the 3.2, but loads more economical - 500 miles from a tank was achievable even by an eedjit like me, on a good run and keeping it mostly out of instant ban speeds.
The 2.5 was a little more economical, but was flat as a witches tit by comparison.
The 3.0 was the best. Similar power levels to the 3.2, but loads more economical - 500 miles from a tank was achievable even by an eedjit like me, on a good run and keeping it mostly out of instant ban speeds.
The 2.5 was a little more economical, but was flat as a witches tit by comparison.
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Omega General Help / Re: Tech 2
« on: Yesterday at 14:00:55 »
Which was kinda expected if the ABS module is playing up.
Unfortunately, I think the next step is to get the ABS ECU read...
Unfortunately, I think the next step is to get the ABS ECU read...
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General Discussion Area / Re: Masks don't work...
« on: 18 March 2023, 09:30:20 »Thats the one. Funny as fook, as long as it's not you waiting for a drink to arrive...That the place with the, er, slightly eccentric owner by the bike place? 🤔Yes he needs a few pints of high strength beer and a Lamb Naga. That will sort him out!I'm struggling with appetite currently, not that that is necessarily a bad thing, LOL.
Sadly, nobody does a lamb naga like Tiffins used to, and they have long since closed, been a Turkish restaurant for years now. On the upside, cutting down on the number of nagas I was scoffing each week 10 years ago is also not a bad thing! I reckon the only eat-in curry I've had this year was when we went out with Mr and Mrs Gixer to the Kushboo. Now there is a strange place, always has been, always will be
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General Discussion Area / Re: Snow?
« on: 18 March 2023, 09:26:54 »Should be allowed to carry a few over ?Already carrying over the limit.
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General Car Chat / Re: Shaguar anyone
« on: 18 March 2023, 09:25:31 »Within PAG, Volvo didn't actually partake into technology sharing, in much the same way that Saab didn't really with GM, until the god awful Vectra-C was enforced on them.Volvo partsThe old original XJ had presence, class and style, even if the non sporty versions were a tad pipe & slippers. Still on my bucket list of cars to own.I think you are thinking of the X Type, which did heavily borrow from its (then) stablemate's parts bin
The more recent versions are just a Mondeo on steroids to me. May be very good cars, but I have zero interest in them .
Nope. Im thinking of the recent shaped Mondeo. Recent Jags appear to be a bloated version of that in my eyes.
Having test driven both when I was looking to replace the Omega, I can assure you that that's where the similarity ends.
Not sure how they managed to make the Mondeo driving experience so detached and numb.
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Omega General Help / Re: Tech 2
« on: 18 March 2023, 09:20:19 »Not really....Were the snap-off codes from the ABS, or engine?But no ABS light. Which points to the TC circuit or switch.
Speed sensor codes would look suspicious to me, potentially indicating either the ABS ECU failing, or possibly a wheel sensor fault. IME, if the ABS ECU responds to diagnostics, the ECU is OK. If it doesn't, it tends to be the common ABS ECU failure.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 17 March 2023, 16:54:24 »
Not put any fuel in it for weeks, but have had to top it up with electricity again.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Oxfam
« on: 17 March 2023, 16:31:25 »
Oxfam have been a corrupt organisation for 2 or 3 decades now. Anyone stupid enough to donate to them should be aware that their donation is spent on a plush head office and directors' huge salaries.
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Omega General Help / Re: Tech 2
« on: 17 March 2023, 12:12:58 »
Were the snap-off codes from the ABS, or engine?
Speed sensor codes would look suspicious to me, potentially indicating either the ABS ECU failing, or possibly a wheel sensor fault. IME, if the ABS ECU responds to diagnostics, the ECU is OK. If it doesn't, it tends to be the common ABS ECU failure.
Speed sensor codes would look suspicious to me, potentially indicating either the ABS ECU failing, or possibly a wheel sensor fault. IME, if the ABS ECU responds to diagnostics, the ECU is OK. If it doesn't, it tends to be the common ABS ECU failure.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Snow?
« on: 17 March 2023, 12:05:30 »If your sick during your holiday from work, apparently you can legally have the holiday added back on to your entitlement.Yup, I can jump through those hoops, but would lose it anyway, as our leave year ends on 31st March, and I'm already off for most of that
Ludicrous I know, but it was probably something dreamed up by the French when we were still in the U.S.E.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Masks don't work...
« on: 17 March 2023, 12:04:16 »Yes he needs a few pints of high strength beer and a Lamb Naga. That will sort him out!I'm struggling with appetite currently, not that that is necessarily a bad thing, LOL.
Sadly, nobody does a lamb naga like Tiffins used to, and they have long since closed, been a Turkish restaurant for years now
. On the upside, cutting down on the number of nagas I was scoffing each week 10 years ago is also not a bad thing! I reckon the only eat-in curry I've had this year was when we went out with Mr and Mrs Gixer to the Kushboo. Now there is a strange place, always has been, always will be
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General Car Chat / Re: Shaguar anyone
« on: 17 March 2023, 11:58:21 »Now my mileage has dropped to bugger all, I am temptedI do think the design of the XJ has aged well. It's a handsome beast.Its passable from the front of side, but by god, its got a pig ugly arse.
Very true,can't understand that as the XF arse is quite smart,recently drove a lwb jag xj and it's a lovely thing on the road even though it's huge
Try the 575, bloody handful! (RWD only)
, but they seemed to have suddenly got all expensive again. Shame they didn't put that engine in an x260, as that might have become my dream car....
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General Car Chat / Re: Shaguar anyone
« on: 17 March 2023, 11:53:43 »The old original XJ had presence, class and style, even if the non sporty versions were a tad pipe & slippers. Still on my bucket list of cars to own.I think you are thinking of the X Type, which did heavily borrow from its (then) stablemate's parts bin
The more recent versions are just a Mondeo on steroids to me. May be very good cars, but I have zero interest in them .