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General Discussion Area / Re: Scam Amazon order email

« on: 22 September 2017, 17:50:56 »

Got an email the night from what looked like Amazon, opened it to find I had supposedly ordered:

Verbatim 53150 500GB Store 'n' Go Ultra Slim USB 3.0 2.5 Inch External Hard Drive - Black
Sold by Amazon EU S.a.r.L. £53.86

There is a Cancel these Orders button in the email which I guess is the bait for you to click on. Takes you to this funny URL "Amazon.Cancel.Order.R7lRab.Review"

So checked my Amazon, hadn't ordered anything, nothing out of bank. there is an address in the email saying:

Your order will be sent to:
chris kriticos
8 LEYLAND CLOSE
CHESHUNT, Hertfordshiore EN8 0ND
United Kingdom

that's Hertfordshiore!

Anyone else received one of these?

Do a malware check if you've clicked on it!

I'd clicked in to email but not on any of the links. Got Malwarebytes so will give that a bash, it's due a run anyway.

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General Discussion Area / Re: BIG NEWS ! ! !

« on: 22 September 2017, 17:48:54 »

The skidmarks wouldn't only come from the tyres with that! 

Ron.

First one, then the other!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Scam Amazon order email

« on: 22 September 2017, 06:17:47 »

I get them from Rayban and Oakley for some reason. 

That's shady

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General Discussion Area / Re: BIG NEWS ! ! !

« on: 21 September 2017, 21:42:01 »

Hoping it was "Vauxhall to re-launch Omega with Corvette V8" oh well can live in hope!

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General Discussion Area / Scam Amazon order email

« on: 21 September 2017, 21:41:11 »

Got an email the night from what looked like Amazon, opened it to find I had supposedly ordered:

Verbatim 53150 500GB Store 'n' Go Ultra Slim USB 3.0 2.5 Inch External Hard Drive - Black
Sold by Amazon EU S.a.r.L. £53.86

There is a Cancel these Orders button in the email which I guess is the bait for you to click on. Takes you to this funny URL "Amazon.Cancel.Order.R7lRab.Review"

So checked my Amazon, hadn't ordered anything, nothing out of bank. there is an address in the email saying:

Your order will be sent to:
chris kriticos
8 LEYLAND CLOSE
CHESHUNT, Hertfordshiore EN8 0ND
United Kingdom

that's Hertfordshiore!

Anyone else received one of these?

636

Omega Gallery / Re: Omega 24v Work in Progress

« on: 20 September 2017, 22:22:02 »

Probably lazy cam followers/tappets.

If it only does it from cold then it might be the exhaust manifold gaskets.

Thinking the same thing. It went away after 5 mins and then when I tapped the throttle a little it came back then went away after a couple of mins. Seems ok now. I did an oil change on it but I don't think I flushed it. Will do that next oil change give it a good flush.

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General Car Chat / Re: Driverless Cars in Oxford next Year

« on: 18 September 2017, 18:57:03 »

Are they not built to follow road markings as a reference? All ours are worn away bless the council coffers!

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General Discussion Area / Re: ERE epic everyday tale of corruption in Europe

« on: 17 September 2017, 18:57:05 »

A similar thing happened in portugal regarding eu. They pumped lots of money into the economy because it was crashing due to adoption of the euro, lots of building, lots of new "jobs"and opportunities, mainly for fly by night grant hogs taking advantage of the crest of the wave. Now the economy is in tatters, lots of people lost their jobs due to cut backs. Portugal and other small med coubtries were doing well through tourism and investment because it was so cheap to buy thibgs. Then euro came along and put paid to that.

I remember 20 years ago you could go out for a 3 course meal, all the trimmings and as much booze as you could fill yourself with, cost about 10 bucks, now going out costs same as here, set you back 70 + for a simple night out, and more and that was before the exchange rate for euro started coming into line with the pound.

EU has destroyed all those med economies.

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Omega Gallery / Re: Omega 24v Work in Progress

« on: 14 September 2017, 06:35:28 »

Seems to be running ok now, after a kind of noisy start up. Got me worried. It sounded like a tappety noise, maybe sticky tappet. It disappeared then reappeared, but eventually went quiet.

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Omega Gallery / Re: Omega 24v Work in Progress

« on: 13 September 2017, 13:33:29 »

Small update: fixed scuttle leak. Sealed the join on n/s and sealed wiper hole on o/s with panel sealant. Dried out coil packs, look ok. One got a wee crack at base but no rust. Took plugs out. They were very hard to undo, and 5 of them broke, so got new ones from vx dealer. Due to rebuild it all tonight if it doesn't rain!

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Omega General Help / Re: Slight misfire when settling to tickover 2.6 V6

« on: 06 September 2017, 20:28:03 »

I believe others on here have used the black cam cover gasket sealant on this area,so maybe some silicone sealer round the edge of the spindle hole would be a better bet than tape?

Will give it a shot, if it is up round the spindle, like a cone shape that should stop it running in.

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Omega General Help / Re: Slight misfire when settling to tickover 2.6 V6

« on: 06 September 2017, 19:34:05 »

Took packs out tonight, the 246 one was replaced with a genuine Bosch one when I done the TB work, however the 135 one, which looked fine, was kept. I noticed tonight there was a slight crack on the plastic where it bonds to the internal metal, perhaps indicating corrosion on the inside on one of the plugs on the 135 coil. The metal looks ok, although not as bright as the new one.

The new 246 coil however does look a bit less shiny on the little springs inside the spark plug sleeves. Not sure if that is damp or what.

This is the slight crack I can see on the middle of the 4 plastic holes where it bonds on the 13 coil.


This is the 246 coil:


Thinking on treating it to a new set of plugs. Would you condemn that coil for that small crack? Any thoughts? I'm going to have them sit on the window sill in the sun for a couple of days to let any moisture out.

Also, the scuttle is not leaking at the passenger side anymore, but is pouring out below the wiper on drivers side, luckily the water is dripping straight down past the steering box to the deck. While this is not hitting the plug area, at least when not driving, I would like to get that fixed. I did put a bit of tape over the wiper hole, as it was leaking through that. The foam seal had seen better days. However initially that looked to have fixed it, but is dripping out again.

Any thoughts on fixing the wiper hole properly without removing it all again. Not that I don't mind removing it, however I had sealed the other end and will break the seal if I remove it again. Thinking I could take wiper arm off, get a square bit of duck tape, small hole in it for wiper spindle, put a dab of grease at hole to stop it sticking to wiper spindle, then place it over the hole.

Cheers

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General Car Chat / Re: Royale Coupe and MOT

« on: 04 September 2017, 21:47:57 »

Thanks all,
Grifter that would be great-but I'm a little way from you! What colour was yours?


Steve

Hi Steve

Sure if you want them just give me a shout. Mine's was the same colour as yours. Not sure of the exact name of the colour though.

Blue.

Smartarse.

Lol fell into the trap!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Maunder Minimum

« on: 04 September 2017, 21:44:02 »

Pollution now is nothing like it was 50 or 60 years ago, well except from my rear end! The recent 40k deaths a year from traffic pollution was shown to be a total fudge used by government to reignite the pollution "problem" since they are loosing the co2 argument. Government always needs a problem so they can tax us more, nothing new under the sun.

Maybe not in terms of heavy industry belching out filthy smoke from huge smoke stacks around the country, but we now have millions more cars, buses and trucks on the road all making contributions to pollution. 

To be honest I am slightly sceptical about man made climate change as there has always been climate change, but nobody can deny that the worlds climate is changing or that mans activity has no affect on our planet. 

CO2 or no CO2, clean energy generation is a good ambition IMHO. 

There is actually no evidence Man-Made CO2 is causing global warming, it's just a theory, a very big scary theory which can make a lot of people very rich like Al Gore with his beach front properties (rising seal-levels anyone?) and make governments oodles of extra tax plus control.

CO2 is a product of temperature change not the other way around, when Oceans warm they emit it and absorb it when they cool. We may well be emitting what seems a lot of CO2 but out of all CO2 in the atmosphere, about 2-3% of all atmospheric gases, we are emitting about 3.7 % of those CO2 gases. So 3.7% of that original 2-3%.

I never said there was or there wasn't.    But by bringing it up you've proved how brainwashed people are about CO2.   

Rods did it as well.  As soon as I mention pollution, you all start whittering on about CO2!   

There was and still is a big push to class CO2 as a pollutant, I suppose you could call anything a pollutant, even oxygen if there was too much and it was making us a light-headed! I know you aren't saying that either

It's not that I am sceptial or not sure about CO2, I just don't see any proper scientific evidence for it apart from circumstantial, which is about a 0.7oC warming in the last 150 years (from the little ice age in the 1800s no less), very stable when you look at past sudden climate changes. I do agree pollution is a big problem and we are causing havoc in some places with industrial waste, emission pollution like diesel in cities where high concentration of transport plus people is going to cause obvious problems, just like horse and cart shit caused in old London. Don't think we can ever have a functioning modern society without some form of emission, in that case ban curries - no more wind and methane!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Maunder Minimum

« on: 04 September 2017, 21:15:46 »

Pollution now is nothing like it was 50 or 60 years ago, well except from my rear end! The recent 40k deaths a year from traffic pollution was shown to be a total fudge used by government to reignite the pollution "problem" since they are loosing the co2 argument. Government always needs a problem so they can tax us more, nothing new under the sun.

Maybe not in terms of heavy industry belching out filthy smoke from huge smoke stacks around the country, but we now have millions more cars, buses and trucks on the road all making contributions to pollution. 

To be honest I am slightly sceptical about man made climate change as there has always been climate change, but nobody can deny that the worlds climate is changing or that mans activity has no affect on our planet. 

CO2 or no CO2, clean energy generation is a good ambition IMHO. 

There is actually no evidence Man-Made CO2 is causing global warming, it's just a theory, a very big scary theory which can make a lot of people very rich like Al Gore with his beach front properties (rising seal-levels anyone?) and make governments oodles of extra tax plus control.

CO2 is a product of temperature change not the other way around, when Oceans warm they emit it and absorb it when they cool. We may well be emitting what seems a lot of CO2 but out of all CO2 in the atmosphere, about 2-3% of all atmospheric gases, we are emitting about 3.7 % of those CO2 gases. So 3.7% of that original 2-3%.