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Omega General Help / Re: Annoyed
« on: 31 January 2010, 10:21:43 »
With a few more details it can probably be found on ebay completed listings,or have i misunderstood and its not been on there yet
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Omega General Help / Re: Annoyed
« on: 30 January 2010, 18:48:31 »
Has it got an oil leak by any chance?
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Omega General Help / Re: Wheel bearings
« on: 29 January 2010, 14:27:23 »
there has to be a possibility that your wheel bearings are ok,you need to identify where the play is coming from first,have a good look for movement in the bottom ball joint
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Omega General Help / Facelift MV6 suspension
« on: 28 January 2010, 23:16:37 »
Hello,cant find the answer by searching so question is what are the suspension differences on a 2.6 MV6 compared to a 2.6 cdx ,is it springs and shocks on the facelift or just lowered springs. if the shocks for MV6 models are totally different are they much more money to buy from VX and are there any recommended alternatives?,regards.
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Omega General Help / Re: Please Read I need help
« on: 28 January 2010, 21:22:23 »
Did you buy this car retail from the garage or was it one of the trade ins sold round the back as scrap/spares/repairs to avoid any comeback? which is fair enough.
It must have been a cheapy with less than a weeks mot!
It must have been a cheapy with less than a weeks mot!
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Omega General Help / Re: Noisy tyres
« on: 27 January 2010, 20:51:35 »
interesting point but i am still sold on michelins doing big mileage,skating with less tread comparable to the other makes may well have a scientific explanation,would need more info to accept your hypothesis
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Omega General Help / Re: Noisy tyres
« on: 27 January 2010, 20:18:53 »
i worked fitting tyres for a short while whilst running a small garage,the overall opinion was that michelins certainly did the big mileage and were definitely not a tyre that wore out quickly.
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Omega General Help / Re: Noisy tyres
« on: 26 January 2010, 17:12:30 »
I was living in ireland the last two years and always had tyres shipped over from camskill.co.uk,and still always use their site as a guide for tyres prices and nearly always find them either the cheapest or no more than others,i.e mytyres.co.uk,blackcircle.Find ebay the dearest!
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Omega General Help / Re: Noisy tyres
« on: 25 January 2010, 22:06:00 »
just want to ask deejaywardy why he hates the michelins as have been offered some part worn/nearly new at £35 each fitted and balanced and thought they would be better than the budget chinese tyres i have now(diamondback and triangle) 235/45/17`s
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Omega General Help / Re: MV6 vented rear discs
« on: 26 January 2010, 19:20:15 »Was just at halfords in york. £54.98 inc vat for vented rear discs(delphi) or £41.23 inc vat with a taxi drivers trade discount!(can be sorted) the vented are 20mm thick as opposed to 12mm thickness for the solid.they list vented discs for all facelift models with no specific mention of MV6,am i right in thinking that MV6 models have standard brakes,only suspension and trim differences?
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Omega General Help / MV6 vented rear discs
« on: 26 January 2010, 16:46:26 »
Hello,i ordered rear discs for my 2001 MV6 2.6 auto today after having a good look at why my brakes were squealing from the rear(highlighted when turning corners without braking).Basically the newish pads are struggling to bed in to a less than flat disc surface with lips to either side of the contact area and the main contact surface area leaving a lot to be desired. i could have left everything to finally bed in over time but as i have just got the car i want it to be 100%.
I needed them tommorrow so rang europarts first,(didnt list them), VX leeds next,(£92+vat retail, £66.60+vat trade) and my local motorfactors in york last(had to order in,trade £135.00+vat).
Ordered the VX discs at £66.60+vat,cash on delivery tommorrow (was at a friends garage(AUTO ENGINEER) and can use the lift tommorrow
I was hoping they were going to be about £45 inc..
My engineer mate says i am well behind the times and thought £66.60+vat a good price for vented rears.
Incidentally i was quoted £12,£6 and £64.50 by VX Leeds(Evans Halshaw) for large gasket,small gasket and filter,respectiveley, for the autobox. Declined the filter as i have read on here somewhere they can be washed out.Cars done 71k and the gearbox works perfectly so changing it didnt seem so much a priority at that price.
I needed them tommorrow so rang europarts first,(didnt list them), VX leeds next,(£92+vat retail, £66.60+vat trade) and my local motorfactors in york last(had to order in,trade £135.00+vat).
Ordered the VX discs at £66.60+vat,cash on delivery tommorrow (was at a friends garage(AUTO ENGINEER) and can use the lift tommorrow
I was hoping they were going to be about £45 inc..
My engineer mate says i am well behind the times and thought £66.60+vat a good price for vented rears.
Incidentally i was quoted £12,£6 and £64.50 by VX Leeds(Evans Halshaw) for large gasket,small gasket and filter,respectiveley, for the autobox. Declined the filter as i have read on here somewhere they can be washed out.Cars done 71k and the gearbox works perfectly so changing it didnt seem so much a priority at that price.
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Omega General Help / Re: recovery job HELP!!
« on: 25 January 2010, 21:01:48 »
sounds like good news if the anti roll bar bending has absorbed the impact and nothing else has bust,rebend it,job sorted !
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Omega General Help / Re: M.O.T exhaust emissions
« on: 25 January 2010, 20:34:55 »
Last year i had a jaguar XJ8 3.2 sport(V8),it failed on emissions quite badly. a local jag specialist quoted me £600 for secondhand cats! I took both lambda sensors out(they were on the manifold downpipes and in the engine bay). totally sooted up and apparently a downside to this is it makes the fuel run rich and only exacerbates the problem.Cleaned them with lashings of brake cleaner and blasting with an air gun and prodded all the holes clean on the outer cover they had. straight back for mot retest and passed the emissions with flying colours.Just thought i would mention it. a few skinned knuckles but no cost.
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Omega General Help / Getting all the atf fluid out
« on: 24 January 2010, 19:56:28 »
Hello,i have searched the forum and asked questions on threads but am none the wiser. When i change the atf in my auto box i would like to get all the old fluid out. i realise just dropping the sump wont empty the torque convertor and also realise if i change what comes out,run the engine/box and change again and again and again that eventually i will get to a nearly all new fluid change but the mathematics on that procedure means i will get through gallons of atf.
So the question is, are there pipes the main dealers or specialist garages connect to and pump all the old stuff out or is there some sort of other procedure to empty all of it?regards.
So the question is, are there pipes the main dealers or specialist garages connect to and pump all the old stuff out or is there some sort of other procedure to empty all of it?regards.
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Omega General Help / Re: Up in the air
« on: 25 January 2010, 05:04:46 »
I was planning to drop the atf fluid out,refill,run the car in the air through the gears to circulate the atf oil then drop this oil out again which ought to have a healthy dose of the unchanged oil that was retained in the torque convertor,and then maybe do a top up,run the car through the gears,drop the oil and refill again.
Unfortunately my maths tells me if i do this repeatedly and literally forever i will still never achieve 100% purity and run in to terrible problems attempting to split atoms !
Unfortunately my maths tells me if i do this repeatedly and literally forever i will still never achieve 100% purity and run in to terrible problems attempting to split atoms !