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Omega General Help / Re: BMW ZF GS6-53DZ
« on: 05 March 2026, 13:18:56 »
I thought the ZF6 was an autobox?
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Omega General Help / Re: BMW ZF GS6-53DZ
« on: 05 March 2026, 10:25:55 »
Mechanical fitting aside, you would need somebody to map any TCM you can find that works on the ZF6 (the standard Omega one won't, as its for the 5 speed variant)
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Omega General Help / Re: Some unknown issue (Y22XE)
« on: 05 March 2026, 10:23:53 »
MAF on a V6 should read about 12kg/hr with A/C off, and 13-14kg/hr with A/C on. 2.0/2.2 will probably be around 1-2kg/ht less.
OBDII code readers aren't often successful on a 2.2, so you will need something a little more GM specific or upmarket. If a given code reader reports in g/s, just use maths to convert to kh/hr
OBDII code readers aren't often successful on a 2.2, so you will need something a little more GM specific or upmarket. If a given code reader reports in g/s, just use maths to convert to kh/hr
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 03 March 2026, 19:59:19 »Ah, but you live in Oxfordshire. How dare you use a car, car's are evil and must be banned at all costs, hence those eedjits have never maintained roads in decades!Driving out of the village tonight in the C1, avoiding the worst of the potholes, most of which have traffic cones sat in them to help with this.
Suddenly realised that the cone had gone missing from the last one, just too late and hit it so hard it burst the n/s/f tyre, which was brand new a month ago.
The state of the roads are a national disgrace, but the powers that be couldnt give a toss.
Will need to check in the morning if anything else is bent / broken.
Although there’s no guarantee of a successful claim, our council has been inundated with damage claims for pot hole damage. Anything ranging from a tyre to suspension damage. Such is the scale of the number of claims, the council have reported that it may take over four months before your claim gets dealt with. I’ve had to replace nearly new tyres due to pot hole damage, so has my daughter and son. I’d like to think that the more people that claim, the more chance that they may do something about it.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 03 March 2026, 19:54:30 »
You're a wrong's Sir Tig
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 02 March 2026, 08:18:16 »It's probably a 25 mile stretch. Even most local Merc drivers realise within 10 miles....I drove to Coventry and back yesterday, and found myself shouting and ranting at the stupidity of other road users. Including the stoned out knob jockey in a Saab doing between 55 and 75 in the outside lane all the way from Longbridge Island to Banbury.And that surprises you because? Saab drivers always fell into one of three camps... Those flat cappists who graduated from MGs, Architect types (and we all know how they are
Totally oblivious to the carnage caused.) and hairdressers in their 9-3 convertibles.
No reason why that has changed any
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 02 March 2026, 08:15:55 »
I can see you still desire another Marina, Sir Tig.
Not sure you could use one as a daily now, without it disintegrating around you....
Not sure you could use one as a daily now, without it disintegrating around you....
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General Discussion Area / Re: Middle East
« on: 01 March 2026, 13:56:34 »Will I fill my car up today? Depends on my levels of CBA on the way back from the place the Nazis did a piss poor job of destroying, aka Coventry.I did, as I passed Costco, and it was £1.31 for lorry juice.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 01 March 2026, 13:54:15 »
I drove to Coventry and back yesterday, and found myself shouting and ranting at the stupidity of other road users. Including the stoned out knob jockey in a Saab doing between 55 and 75 in the outside lane all the way from Longbridge Island to Banbury.
Totally oblivious to the carnage caused.
Totally oblivious to the carnage caused.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 01 March 2026, 13:49:24 »Best thing you can do is choose a car you like, and buy the nicest one you can find.What if you'd overdosed on Dorset Turnips and liked a Morris Marina, like Sir Tig.....
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Omega General Help / Re: Radiator replacement
« on: 01 March 2026, 13:45:10 »Mine seems strange in that its an auto but does not use the holes in the side of the main rad for cooling also its got aircon but the pipes that run over the top seem to be from a separate trans oil cooler radiator. Thanks for your help everyone.As in run over the top of the rad, preventing the rad from lifting upwards? This was what I was debating with DG, and as far as I know, the only solution is to Degas the A/C, remove those pipes, and refit afterwards with new seals, and regas.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Middle East
« on: 28 February 2026, 12:13:16 »
Filling up with fuel is so overrated. And tedious. And boring.
That's probably why I run out a lot.
Will I fill my car up today? Depends on my levels of CBA on the way back from the place the Nazis did a piss poor job of destroying, aka Coventry.
That's probably why I run out a lot.
Will I fill my car up today? Depends on my levels of CBA on the way back from the place the Nazis did a piss poor job of destroying, aka Coventry.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 28 February 2026, 12:10:22 »Im making a concerted effort not to get mad about it any more, because its just so common I would be permanently in a state of anger on the roads.Me too. Only I fail. A lot.
It's got to the point I don't actually drive that much if I can help it. I get Mrs TB to take me to work on those pointless days I go into the office to collaborate by myself, and for many work trips, I have a chauffeur, and sit in the passenger seat with wine gums....
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 28 February 2026, 12:06:25 »As for new cars versus older models, we recently visited several dealerships (mainly BMW and Audi) with a view to replacing one of ours. I can honestly say that nothing took my fancy, and I never thought I’d ever say that. Ridiculous dashboards that extended to the passenger side and looking tacky did nothing for us, and most exteriors have gone weird, so I’m sticking with what I’ve got.I was recently having a similar discussion with a petrolhead colleague, and neither of us could name any new (or near new, for that matter) sensible car either of us would want at any price, let alone what you have to pay for a new car.
It left us quite depressed, as when our current cars need replacing, there isn't much to replace them with.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 27 February 2026, 14:02:25 »Yes, never had no functionality.I'll also bet that on your HPE servers, a failed boot drive in a RAID1 doesn't bring the OS to a crashing halt either. In 30 years of working with Proliant servers, under the Compaq, HP and HPE brands, I have never seen one crash just because one of the boot drives in a mirror failed.
The worse I ever saw on a Proliant, an old Compaq Proliant 2000 I think it was, running NetWare, I hot swapped a failed 500MB drive, and it all started smoking badly until I yanked said drive out, sadly not before all the fire alarms and suppression* systems went off. NetWare remained running.
*Halon days, thats how long ago that was.