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General Car Chat / Re: Omega milestone.

« on: 12 February 2025, 13:47:00 »

I paid £560 for mine about 8 years ago.
Ive spent quite a lot of money on it since then though, to get it more or less how I want it.
Its never going to be worth paying to have it repainted though, unfortunately.

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General Car Chat / Re: Omega milestone.

« on: 12 February 2025, 13:06:34 »

Mine is getting cosmetically scruffy now. Recent frost got under the lacquer on the bonnet and front of the roof and caused a lot of peel.
I still love driving it though and dont plan on ever getting rid of it.
Partially inspired by the number of people on here who regret no longer having one.
They are just a great old thing to drive, and minus some of the unnecessary complications of new cars.
When I got my first one - around 18 years ago - I soon had buyers remorse, as it had a most of the standard problems of a neglected Omega.
I searched the internet for answers and found OOF (which had just started up) and soon got the car back to full health, including replacing the autobox.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Downside is I have had to suffer STEMO for all that time.

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General Car Chat / Omega milestone.

« on: 12 February 2025, 10:06:51 »

On the M11 yesterday going down that London, the old girl passed the 200,000 mile mark.
Still drives pretty much like a new one.

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General Car Chat / Re: Excellent engineering or shouldn't be allowed?

« on: 09 February 2025, 16:53:40 »

Respect for getting the girlfriend to wash the tyres on your bike.

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General Car Chat / Re: Think I might buy an actual French Renault at the weekend

« on: 09 February 2025, 16:37:13 »

Quote from: STEMO on 09 February 2025, 15:32:18

Quote from: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 09 February 2025, 12:59:01
Quote from: STEMO on 09 February 2025, 12:17:55
Quote from: Sir Tigger KC on 09 February 2025, 11:42:36
When they first brought the Kadjar out I thought it was a nice looking car, but thought it was the size of a VW Touareg or Audi Q7, so when I saw one in the flesh I thought "Is that it?" $:-\$

I think you've done the right thing giving this a swerve Uncle STEMO. You're never to old to need that little smile when you plant your right foot down and you weren't going get that with a 1.6 diesel.
I have a 1.6 diesel
135bhp is enough to propel an astra quite nicely. It's as quick/slow as my 2.0 diesel astra J, which had 165bhp. But the K is much lighter.

Broadly speaking about the same as a 3 litre Capri from the seventies....and that was considered something of a hotrod.
The capri didn't have the low down grunt of a diesel, either.

They didnt have much grunt, full stop.

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General Car Chat / Re: Excellent engineering or shouldn't be allowed?

« on: 09 February 2025, 16:35:14 »

I was the same when I was young. I think most of us were in the 70,s.
Didnt pass my bike test until the late 90,s.
Got caught riding a 750 Norton Commando in 1976 when I was 16. Actually, I got caught doing just about everything traffic offence related when between 16 & 18.
Strangely they never got me for all the other stuff though.

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General Car Chat / Re: Excellent engineering or shouldn't be allowed?

« on: 09 February 2025, 07:16:10 »

I had a GPz 750, but unfortunately it wasnt the turbo version. In its day it wasnt a bad handling machine, which is the point really. The old Kwak triples had a vicious powerband, frames made of plasticine, and you may as well put your feet down to stop as use the brakes. All those combined made them a lethal combination.
Having said all that I probably found the early Yamaha R1 scarier than any of them. The chassis wasnt up to coping with the power of the engine (around 150bhp if my memory serves) which meant it didnt take much to provoke it into doing the dance of defiance all over the road.
Particularly when accelerating on a bumpy surface.
The good old days.

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General Car Chat / Re: Excellent engineering or shouldn't be allowed?

« on: 08 February 2025, 20:37:21 »

You need to exeperience the 70,s Kawasaki two stroke triples. 500 MACH3 and 750 MACH4. Aka the widowmaker.
They were pure evil, but highly exciting for teenagers too stupid to have an imagination.

RD350 was a little friendly commuter bike in comparison.

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