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General Car Chat / Buzzing from headlining/rear window

« on: 21 June 2024, 17:50:58 »

Separating out into a new thread.

Got an intermittent buzzing from somewhere in the back, I believe to be in area of rear headlining or rear window, sounds like an airy wasp stuck in a confined space, or a relay chattering at high frequency.

Remove sigma pod containing the GPS antenna and DAB Band-L receivers, as it appeared to be coming from that area, and putting pressure on PCB changed the tone or eliminated it.

After a test drive with it removed the noise is definitely still there.

I had it present for long enough to do further tests.  The noise disappears if:
any window slightly open
and door open
sunroof tilted or open
climate turned off
pressure applied to OS top of rear window and/or that area of roof.


Can it be cabin pressure in the car?

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General Discussion Area / D-Day

« on: 06 June 2024, 17:20:04 »

I note, sadly, the UK TV channels have not bothered this anniversary, I'm sure Celebrity Tits Out is more important.

As, not only Overload but all of the 2nd minor disagreement, falls out of living memory, remembering and learning from this time in history is important, more so as we head into a period of heightened global tension.

If ever you get a chance to visit the coast of Normandy, ignoring what some may think of the French, Socialist, EU, whatever, I would urge you to do so. Not only to pay your respects for those that never made it back, but also to understand those few weeks in history.

Lest we forget.

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General Discussion Area / Disk space

« on: 30 April 2024, 08:52:10 »

Database server is getting tight on disk space, so just need to increase a bit.  Should happen with no outage required, but shit can happen.

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General Car Chat / MOVED: Brakes

« on: 18 April 2024, 19:55:11 »

This topic has been moved to Omega General Help.

https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=150942.0

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General Discussion Area / Outage this weekend

« on: 06 April 2024, 13:06:18 »

Trying to increase disk capacity due to an uptick in activity and subsequent increase in log file sizes, but Linux is being an arse.  For whatever reason, its not re-reading the drive size, so its gonna need a reboot. Sorry.

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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 / Can I buy one?

« on: 23 February 2024, 18:54:12 »

I saw this garage at the weekend....

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General Car Chat / MOVED: Kingswood and Wellingborough By Elections

« on: 17 February 2024, 20:57:10 »

This topic has been moved to General Discussion Area.

https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=150835.0

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Early 2.0l brake discs, 286mm

« on: 04 February 2024, 12:30:43 »

Free to good home, but collection only from Brackley.

2 sets of 286mm brake discs as fitted to early 2.0l petrol Omegas, and I think to some Senator and Carlton models.

Genuine GM, but been on the shelf for a few years.  PN: 90487103

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General Discussion Area / Anyone near Hayle, Cornwall in next few days?

« on: 13 December 2023, 08:44:26 »

I need a favour....

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General Discussion Area / That crept up fast

« on: 11 December 2023, 14:31:22 »

Bloody hell, its that time of year again.  And she's asking what toys I want for Christmas.  And I have even less idea than normal!

Ah well, must be time to piss Opti off put up the OOF decs....

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General Car Chat / Age old question....

« on: 04 December 2023, 15:09:10 »

Perusing Autotrader, can't find anything that fits.

Large saloon
RWD
Auto
200+ BHP
£10kish for sub 10yr 100k miles example
40+ mpg capable day to day

I think my choices are:
BMW 7 Series - too many reliability issues, and struggle to fit in budget for a 100k mile example
Merc S class - a remotely acceptable one is 30+ years old.
Lexus (anything) - too narrow/cramped
Kia Stinger - could prove expensive as pattern parts and info hard to get
Infiniti - couldn't live with interior


Any other pearls of wisdom?

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General Car Chat / Maybe that debris she idiotted did break it...

« on: 12 November 2023, 10:27:32 »

She got back a couple of weeks back saying she had hit some fallen debris quite hard during that storm, but we couldn't see any damage, and the car drove and braked as it should.  So forgot about it.

A few days ago it started making a loud banging noise when going to full lock.

So over to Gixer's in it, as with my neighbours in, I cant jack up the NS on mine, and he had a Veccy-C that needed some Tech2 love, and a new key programming to his car.

Obviously nothing could start until the ever lovely Mrs Gixer had sorted out some bacon, eggs, sausages and beanz, so the light was starting to go before we checked out the noise on Mrs TB's car.  Turned to full lock when stationary, and a loud bang from NSF.

Wheelarch liner is smashed in miltiple places, and dropped enough to just catch the thicker end of the boot over the end of the rack.


No sure whether to try to fibreglass it, or just bend over the dealer's bench for a £150 rogering.  Its partly bodged for now, but doubt it will last.

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General Car Chat / Breakdown cover

« on: 09 November 2023, 11:17:41 »

Renewal is due soon, and the AA are taking the piss, rather predictably.  And I point blank refuse to use RAC, given the last 3 times I've called them in the last 30 years.

What are you boys and girls using?

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General Discussion Area / UPS and UPS

« on: 27 September 2023, 09:38:44 »

Firstly, we've got a (hopefully) shagged battery on the UPS that supports the OOF servers, so running with battery disconnected, so fingers crossed that the usual Brakkers power cuts stay away today.


Got 2 parcels coming from UPS (the courier), both from The Netherlands.  One is an ebay seller who should have posted last week, but clearly ebay bone idleness kicked in, and other is from DJI who are normally quite slick.  Both parcels appear to have stopped tracking somewhere in Holland.