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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: JamesV6CDX on 19 September 2014, 08:59:34
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This is my saloon, not my DTi estate.
Facelift, 3.0, 100k miles, auto, elite.
I bought her for the grand sum of £200 from an OOF member. I changed the gearbox for a known good AR35 with new ATF and then changed both head gaskets to fix a coolant drip from the NS bank. At the same time new stat and cam belt kit and gm cam covers.
Mechanically she is absolutely sound as a pound. I would get in her and drive anywhere with no worries.
I love driving her, quickest v6 I've driven, comparable to my old 3.2.
Problem is she is cosmetically tatty. The rear bumper is the wrong colour due to the old one being badly damaged and both rear quarter panels have very poor DIY paintwork compared to the rest of the car due to rust treatment on the arches.
The car also needs a new carpet.
There is also v minor cosmetic damage to the bonnet from a lady who decided to park in my engine bay. Nothing structural and v v minor, people don't notice unless I show them
The saloon, my second car, is "MY" car. No dogs allowed. As such I want something that looks really nice.
At the moment, this one doesn't. Ideally it would need a re spray and a deep clean / new interior.
But it owes me nothing and is mechanically soooooo good and bags and bags of fun to drive!!
Rock / hard place!!!
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Go banger racing and have some fun :y
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Know your pain. Makes me cringe at the condition of some/many that are broken for parts on here. (but the parts have to come from somewhere, of course)
Will there be a cosmetically mint Omega appear some time soon, but with a stuffed engine, maybe snapped cambelt, for instance? In which case you swap over the mechanical/trim/spec you know to be good, thus creating a 'minter'?
The next answer may be, break it, therefore knowing all those good components are keeping other Omegas alive and running across the country. Having paid £200, you'll get a large proportion of that back in weighing it in. Being the Elite, it's chocked full of all the goodies people are after.
Next option is to pour the money into it, a full restoration, effectively. To be honest you've got the better half of it - what I mean is you've got a mechanically sound car, with rough bodywork. That's a lot more preferable to a clean shell, but full of mechanical niggles, and bits constantly failing.
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Keep it as it is. It'll be reliable and a joy to drive, yet you won't worry about it getting dented when you have to park it in a supermarket car park. :y
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Man up ::) the carpet takes all of five minutes to change and you don't even need to remove the seats to do it...
Get a bumper the correct colour, again five minutes to fit...
If the quarters are sound the get them blown over...
Job done and all before October :D
If it helps, the carpet from the estate is identical :y
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Man up ::) the carpet takes all of five minutes to change and you don't even need to remove the seats to do it...
Get a bumper the correct colour, again five minutes to fit...
If the quarters are sound the get them blown over...
Job done and all before October :D
If it helps, the carpet from the estate is identical :y
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Keep it as it is. It'll be reliable and a joy to drive, yet you won't worry about it getting dented when you have to park it in a supermarket car park. :y
This.
Keep it good where it matters which is inside and underneath, and wash the exterior occasionally.
A scruffy but otherwise decent car that doesn't owe you much is perfect for everyday use.
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And put a 2.0 GLS badge on the boot... just to infuriate the BMW driver disappearing in the rear view mirror a little bit more :D :)
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I love driving her, quickest v6 I've driven, comparable to my old 3.2
The 3.0 is the best engine of them all ;)
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I love driving her, quickest v6 I've driven, comparable to my old 3.2
The 3.0 is the best engine of them all ;)
If I had the energy, I'd fit the 3.2 running gear into a MFL car. That's the best of BOTH worlds. :y
I like my car, but it is uncomfortable (read; yet extremely comfortable) in comparison to the MFL's I've had in the past.
Ahhhhh, it's just the interior is sooooo much better in the older cars.
I think we need a new thread. Combination of MFL v's FL, Premium brand tyre 1 v's budget brand 6, and Auto v's Manual! ;D
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I love driving her, quickest v6 I've driven, comparable to my old 3.2
The 3.0 is the best engine of them all ;)
If I had the energy, I'd fit the 3.2 running gear into a MFL car. That's the best of BOTH worlds. :y
I like my car, but it is uncomfortable (read; yet extremely comfortable) in comparison to the MFL's I've had in the past.
Ahhhhh, it's just the interior is sooooo much better in the older cars.
I think we need a new thread. Combination of MFL v's FL, Premium brand tyre 1 v's budget brand 6, and Auto v's Manual! ;D
i agree with you there. :y
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I love driving her, quickest v6 I've driven, comparable to my old 3.2
The 3.0 is the best engine of them all ;)
If I had the energy, I'd fit the 3.2 running gear into a MFL car. That's the best of BOTH worlds. :y
I like my car, but it is uncomfortable (read; yet extremely comfortable) in comparison to the MFL's I've had in the past.
Ahhhhh, it's just the interior is sooooo much better in the older cars.
I think we need a new thread. Combination of MFL v's FL, Premium brand tyre 1 v's budget brand 6, and Auto v's Manual! ;D
Hang on a sec...
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I love driving her, quickest v6 I've driven, comparable to my old 3.2
The 3.0 is the best engine of them all ;)
If I had the energy, I'd fit the 3.2 running gear into a MFL car. That's the best of BOTH worlds. :y
I like my car, but it is uncomfortable (read; yet extremely comfortable) in comparison to the MFL's I've had in the past.
Ahhhhh, it's just the interior is sooooo much better in the older cars.
I think we need a new thread. Combination of MFL v's FL, Premium brand tyre 1 v's budget brand 6, and Auto v's Manual! ;D
Hang on a sec...
Sorted... (http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=126180.new#new) :y
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I love driving her, quickest v6 I've driven, comparable to my old 3.2
The 3.0 is the best engine of them all ;)
If I had the energy, I'd fit the 3.2 running gear into a MFL car. That's the best of BOTH worlds. :y
I like my car, but it is uncomfortable (read; yet extremely comfortable) in comparison to the MFL's I've had in the past.
Ahhhhh, it's just the interior is sooooo much better in the older cars.
I think we need a new thread. Combination of MFL v's FL, Premium brand tyre 1 v's budget brand 6, and Auto v's Manual! ;D
i agree with you there. :y
Whats the differences then?
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Early cars rust quicker and look dated, but other than that... not much ;D
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quickest v6 I've driven, comparable to my old 3.2.
Either your 3.0 is a dog, or you has the worlds fastest 3.2, bought from Martin Imber.
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Early cars rust quicker and look dated, but other than that... not much ;D
No rust on my 98 superior model ::) Although that extra 200cc wouldnt make much difference would it ::) Interior's of the older cars are so much more comfy and dont fall to bits like in the new ones :P
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Early cars rust quicker and look dated, but other than that... not much ;D
No rust on my 98 superior model ::) Although that extra 200cc wouldnt make much difference would it ::) Interior's of the older cars are so much more comfy and dont fall to bits like in the new ones :P
Makes a surprising difference... ...kills the mid range and top end, though initial surge from standing start feels better.
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Just my two-penneth.....
Having owned a PFL Elite and a FL 'CD'............. I'd have the FL anytime. Much nicer place to be in my opinion.
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Just my two-penneth.....
Having owned a PFL Elite and a FL 'CD'............. I'd have the FL anytime. Much nicer place to be in my opinion.
Methinks Webby has been on the sherbert again ;D
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Just my two-penneth.....
Having owned a PFL Elite and a FL 'CD'............. I'd have the FL anytime. Much nicer place to be in my opinion.
Yep,I agree,I like the facelift inside but prefer the earlier exterior,the front doesn't like a giant Astra on them ::)
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Just my two-penneth.....
Having owned a PFL Elite and a FL 'CD'............. I'd have the FL anytime. Much nicer place to be in my opinion.
Methinks Webby has been on the sherbert again ;D
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Just my two-penneth.....
Having owned a PFL Elite and a FL 'CD'............. I'd have the FL anytime. Much nicer place to be in my opinion.
Methinks Webby has been on the sherbert again ;D
You need to try the MV pfl with the proper engine ::) :P
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quickest v6 I've driven, comparable to my old 3.2.
Either your 3.0 is a dog, or you has the worlds fastest 3.2, bought from Martin Imber.
Did you get that the wrong way around? ;D
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quickest v6 I've driven, comparable to my old 3.2.
Either your 3.0 is a dog, or you has the worlds fastest 3.2, bought from Martin Imber.
Ah....Martins 2.6. Ferraris didn't stand a chance. ;D
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quickest v6 I've driven, comparable to my old 3.2.
Either your 3.0 is a dog, or you has the worlds fastest 3.2, bought from Martin Imber.
Did you get that the wrong way around? ;D
Err, no. The 3.0l is the faster of the 2, with better delivery.
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quickest v6 I've driven, comparable to my old 3.2.
Either your 3.0 is a dog, or you has the worlds fastest 3.2, bought from Martin Imber.
Ah....Martins 2.6. Ferraris didn't stand a chance. ;D
Good job it wasn't a 3.2, really. By all accounts it would have burnt up entering warp speed. ::)
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Not being funny or owt, but my 3.2 is black. Just sayin'. :-\
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quickest v6 I've driven, comparable to my old 3.2.
Either your 3.0 is a dog, or you has the worlds fastest 3.2, bought from Martin Imber.
Did you get that the wrong way around? ;D
Err, no. The 3.0l is the faster of the 2, with better delivery.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I think comparing power between omega v6's is a bit of a something or nothing.
I agree the v6 is superior in all ways to 4 pot, but aside from that, in a heavy old barge being driven from a-b day to day, all the v6's are usable and very smooth and pleasant :y
I am of course, trying to justify that the third omega joining my fleet next week, is a 2.6!! ;D :P
Coincidently, I only bought it because it's black and near immaculate and I can (I will lose testicles when mrs sees it on drive)
I think black omegas are stunning and I've always wanted one :y
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And don't forget....black ones are faster. :y
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And don't forget....black ones are faster. :y
Especially the 1998- 3.0 ones :P ;D ;D