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Omega General Help / Re: Pollen filter box / housing removal
« on: Today at 08:17:01 »Question is, why would you want to remove it ?
see reply #2
He wants to paint behind it. 
- 17 December 2025, 10:15:05
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He wants to paint behind it.
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General Car Chat / Re: AA Renewal
« on: Yesterday at 18:59:49 »
I paid Green Flag/May Day £145 last Sept, that includes recovery from home to a garage and also recovery to home and taking my caravan elsewhere ie storage yard if needed. If I can't tow due to illness, I'd get a chauffeur driver cos SWMBO wouldn't tow.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: Yesterday at 12:41:53 »
Changed the wiper motor on SWMBO's Citroen C3.
A few months back the high speed packed in on it, no big deal as she doesn't go far enough or fast enough to need it, but on the suggestion of a neighbour who works at Peugeot bought a used clock spring assembly to relace the switch (in their infinite wisdom all the column switches are part & parcel of the clock spring assembly
) Needless to say, it didn't fix it.
Out of interest I phoned Citroen for the price of a new motor, assuming it comes as an assembly with the linkages .... how much could it be?
Over £400!
The new motor was £35 & took 1/2 hr to fit (ignoring the fact that the motor arrived a week or two back but this is the 1st time it's stopped raining! )
A few months back the high speed packed in on it, no big deal as she doesn't go far enough or fast enough to need it, but on the suggestion of a neighbour who works at Peugeot bought a used clock spring assembly to relace the switch (in their infinite wisdom all the column switches are part & parcel of the clock spring assembly
) Needless to say, it didn't fix it.Out of interest I phoned Citroen for the price of a new motor, assuming it comes as an assembly with the linkages .... how much could it be?
Over £400!
The new motor was £35 & took 1/2 hr to fit
(ignoring the fact that the motor arrived a week or two back but this is the 1st time it's stopped raining! )
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 14 December 2025, 20:19:34 »
what's pee'd me off tonight were all the drivers infront of me that can't read speed signs & continue at 30 in a 40 & make no effort at all to speed up to the limit .... (I know it's a limit & not a f...ing target!!!!!! 
)
And the prick in front of me that refused to move from the outside lane of the slip road that continued to drive at 40 when they were yards from lane 1 of a f...ing motorway.
......... and breathe
)And the prick in front of me that refused to move from the outside lane of the slip road that continued to drive at 40 when they were yards from lane 1 of a f...ing motorway.
......... and breathe
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General Discussion Area / spotted
« on: 11 December 2025, 17:18:13 »
I spotted a X reg facelift today on ASDA's car park ..... in an uncommon green colour. It was in fantastic condition ... no rot in sight. I spoke to the owner who had only owned it for a few weeks & paid the princely sum of £500 for it. Bargain of the year! It was 'only' a 2.2 CD but none the less it looked a damned good buy!
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General Car Chat / Re: Ban on ICE cars
« on: 09 December 2025, 17:23:02 »you might be right. 14 degrees here today, in December ffs ! .....
same up here in the Northern waste lands
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 08 December 2025, 18:07:31 ».Charged the Range Rover battery, after being careless..😄Ah. keep an eye on that, JLR cars are somewhat sensitive to buggered batterys, and letting it go very flat will have damaged it a bit. Fingers crossed no issues, but always best to be forewarned and prepared
Funny enough I checked my service records / receipts and I put this one on just over 5 years ago so I've ordered a new one this morning 👍
my 14 plate ML is still on its original batteries ....
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Omega General Help / Re: Y26SE Oil Leak around Oil Filter
« on: 03 December 2025, 10:14:23 ».....
I would urge the OP to carry a spare sensor in the boot, along with the torx socket (E8?)!
I used to do that & when the CSS failed on my Omega I presented the recovery driver (there was snow on the ground & I had a caravan attached to the back of the car) with a the boxed sensor & told him the fault! His reply was ... 'no one has ever done that before!'
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General Discussion Area / Re: Budget.
« on: 28 November 2025, 19:18:47 ».We keep a few grand in ISAs as an emergency fund instant access if we need it, the rest is all in premium bonds had them since 2021 and no word of a lie we've won a few quid every month since we've had them, don't know anything about stocks & shares and certainly at this stage in our lives don't see the point.You don't need to know anything about stocks and shares, Mick. You just hand over your dosh to a fund manager and they invest it for you, according to chosen risk level. Then they take a cut every year now matter how the fund performs.
That would mean putting trust in somebody with our cash , what could possibly go wrong ?
That's what we thought about 30 yrs ago ..... the name of the advisor should have been a clue .... he was called Grantham Fidler!
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General Discussion Area / Re: Budget.
« on: 28 November 2025, 19:16:36 »Think of the poor unmarried mothers with half a dozen kids or more, each one with a different father.
Got to be looked after by the state.
I can think of a few of them, all from the same family & have never worked a day in their life ....
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 18 November 2025, 17:26:28 »So, turns out it was bent as well. So the bill for welding and straightening was 160 notes. Ouch.
I discovered a cracked rim on my ML the other year .... I reckoned it was more cost effective to buy a used rim than repair the cracked one.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 18 November 2025, 14:05:18 »Yet another puncture. I'd had a good run for a few months, but thats now 2 in a week.
I'd not had a puncture for years
..... I replaced all 4 tyres on the ML & then got a puncture within a couple of weeks!!!!
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 17 November 2025, 16:48:01 ».....
Turns out I had 0.6l left in the tank
I never believe my cars when it tells me I have so much fuel or so many miles left. The Smart will tell me I have 4.0 litres left which should mean there's room for another 31 litres ..... in reality there's room for another 25/26
I used to take the Omega down to zero miles or not much more
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 17 November 2025, 16:39:42 ».....
£110 later....
I see your £110 & raise it to the £116 it cost to fill my ML ..... and just to add to the kick in the wallet I then filled the Smart with another £40(?)
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General Car Chat / Re: Harry Metcalfe's Jag
« on: 12 November 2025, 11:59:54 »Harry has a fantastic collection of vehicles, I watched about an hour of his stroll round his warehouse collection on YouTube last week £140,000 must be like pocket change to him.
He does have a great selection of both cars and bikes.....including a 'widowmaker' 750 2 stroke Kawasaki triple and 6 cylinder Honda CBX.
they have one of them at The Lakeland motor museum