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General Discussion Area / Re: Google Earth

« on: 15 April 2008, 00:35:15 »

clicky
We're looking for a Blue Omega?  

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General Discussion Area / Re: selling a car

« on: 15 April 2008, 00:10:53 »

its the bit where he offers to do the service on it when you buy it worries me, does he know theres something wrong with it ??

richie

But doesn't know when the cambelt was last changed. :-?

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General Discussion Area / Re: If a job's worth doing...

« on: 15 April 2008, 00:50:45 »

....Probably true .. but doesn't automatically make him a "bad driver" - in fact his experience with crap brakes/useless steering/grossly underpowered cars/ bad lights etc etc etc may well actually make him a "better" driver than many modern ones all used to "driver aids".....

I didn't say he was a bad driver.

Who saw that TV programme a few months back with Jo Brand about elderly drivers? There was one old bloke who was just over 100yrs old (since died) who took 3 or 4 attempts to get his car off the drive. And when he did managed to get 3 of the 4 wheels on the pavement on the other side of the road! :-? He wouldn't voluntarily give up driving although he was a danger to himself & everyother road user. ...

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General Discussion Area / Re: If a job's worth doing...

« on: 15 April 2008, 00:22:33 »

Well, didn't mean to spark such a debate. It was just a story that caught my eye.

"I've been driving since I was 17, have a clean licence and have never even picked up so much as a parking ticket,"

I hope I can say the same if I ever manage 76 years "in the saddle".

Kevin

Thing is. Being as old as he is, chances are he'll have not even taken a test.

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General Discussion Area / Re: If a job's worth doing...

« on: 15 April 2008, 00:08:59 »

......
What makes you say that? a sticky throttle is just a likely, without the facts how can we say, I was not there so can not offer any opinion as to how this might have happened,

In 27 years of owning a car my throttle has never stuck. The closest it's come is when the return spring broke.    

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General Discussion Area / Re: If a job's worth doing...

« on: 14 April 2008, 23:54:04 »

my dad still drives at 77, he was a long distance driver for yrs, admitidly hes not as young as he used to be or his reactions are not the same  but he hasnt had an accident in yrs.

richie

So is that acceptable then that someones reactions are not the same as they where and they are still allowed to drive? Am sorry but if you do not have the reactions or strength to hit the brake pedal hard enough or fast enough if someone walks out in front of you then you shouldnt be on the road, end of story.

I think Richie was saying that his Dad's reactions weren't as fast as they once were NOT that they weren't fast enough. My Dad is a little younger at 70 & I'm quite happy that he's a safe driver. My Mum however is 'only' 69 & I'm not quite so happy .....  
Old doesn't need to be unsafe. The young dickhead in the Alfa on my way to work this afternoon was proof of that. If I'd only been in my Omega .......    

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General Discussion Area / Re: If a job's worth doing...

« on: 14 April 2008, 23:27:47 »

Looks to have a case for declaring it a miracle    

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General Discussion Area / Re: LSD Ratios

« on: 14 April 2008, 10:54:26 »

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How much will it throw out the speedo etc...by???

It won't. Your speedo takes its reference from the ABS.  

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General Discussion Area / Re: LSD Ratios

« on: 13 April 2008, 21:54:50 »

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Are the manual and auto ratios different???
 ........

According to Mr Haynes it depends on the year of the car

Final Drive ratios;
  Up to 1998 model year:
    All 2.0 litre 4-cylinder models ....................... 3.90 : 1
       2.5 6-cylinder models
          Manual transmission .............................. 3.70 : 1
          Auto transmission ................................. 3.90 : 1
       3.0 6-cylinder models
          Manual transmission .............................. 3.70 : 1
          Auto transmission .................................. 3.70 : 1

From 1998 model year:
    All 2.0 litre 4-cylinder models ....................... 3.90 : 1
       2.5 6-cylinder models
          Manual transmission .............................. 3.90 : 1
          Auto transmission .................................. 4.22 : 1
       3.0 6-cylinder models
          Manual transmission ...............................3.70 : 1
          Auto transmission ...................................3.90 : 1

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General Discussion Area / Re: Omega hearse on ebay

« on: 12 April 2008, 23:57:01 »

I'd suggest buying it for the forum - we all get old, but it is only a 4 pot

we could have a transplant party and put a mv6 engine in it,and then oofers could make their final journey in style 8-)

I'vegot to disagree. If you want your final journey 'in style' it'd have to be in a Daimler DS420 hearse.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Omega hearse on ebay

« on: 12 April 2008, 23:49:21 »

"guess who i had in the back last week..."

sometimes they do end up with "plod" hubcaps on the old ones, i passed a stretch saloon near home today, theres 2 places that customise them near me, one does the omegas and whatever replaced them, the other does the ford scorpios

Coleman Milne?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Omega hearse on ebay

« on: 12 April 2008, 23:13:46 »

Dunno if it is me, but for a 1996 Omega hearse with hub caps, I find this expensive.  ......

As a comparison one of the funeral companies my Dad works at has recently shelled £90 000 for one of these :-

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General Discussion Area / Re: hey Marie

« on: 13 April 2008, 10:23:09 »

.....not sure i have one on the pc's but ill se what i can do!

why?

I was just pulling your leg.  

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General Discussion Area / Re: hey Marie

« on: 13 April 2008, 01:33:32 »

great sober but great. i had to drive:(

i now have a snoring hubby next to me! god did he drink tonight!

i have a picture of me in my glad rags which i cant post until later as i am on the laptop. but ill post it in the morin for you guys.

Do you have a picture of you in your No 1's?    

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General Discussion Area / Re: I'm bored

« on: 13 April 2008, 01:25:36 »

.......
Also found a loose nut on the prop shaft flange.......

At this time at night? Are you sure it's not a loose nut(ter ) holding the steering wheel?