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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: omegod on 30 April 2015, 21:40:28
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Big juicy Saab has to go as it's going through petrol like STMO does nappies so needed something cheap and economical to batter to work and back, spotted a 306 2.0HDI on the bay for £250 ono as it has a month left on the MOT,great condition and drove mint and I got it for £150 ;D. Plan was for it to be a free car as the original cat is worth £220 and would have been removed but some shite garage has fitted an aftermarket one along with a new exhaust ::)
186,875 miles on it :D How long do you reckon it will last ?
Bangernomics rules :y
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The bodywork will be long gone and rotten before the engine gives up.....
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The bodywork will be long gone and rotten before the engine gives up.....
;D Not a mark on it but I know what you mean, wifey just rolled her eyes when I said I needed a lift to Warrington...she's given up asking why !
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Big juicy Saab has to go as it's going through petrol like STMO does nappies so needed something cheap and economical to batter to work and back, spotted a 306 2.0HDI on the bay for £250 ono as it has a month left on the MOT,great condition and drove mint and I got it for £150 ;D. Plan was for it to be a free car as the original cat is worth £220 and would have been removed but some shite garage has fitted an aftermarket one along with a new exhaust ::)
186,875 miles on it :D How long do you reckon it will last ?
Bangernomics rules :y
My old 406 which packs the same lump has just passed 225k,still uses no oil between changes and goes very well indeed.
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Big juicy Saab has to go as it's going through petrol like STMO does nappies so needed something cheap and economical to batter to work and back, spotted a 306 2.0HDI on the bay for £250 ono as it has a month left on the MOT,great condition and drove mint and I got it for £150 ;D. Plan was for it to be a free car as the original cat is worth £220 and would have been removed but some shite garage has fitted an aftermarket one along with a new exhaust ::)
186,875 miles on it :D How long do you reckon it will last ?
Bangernomics rules :y
I'd still get an alarm on it where you live. ;D
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No need, every peugeot is fitted with an anti-theft badge on the front and rear. Called a Peugeot badge. :y
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No need, every peugeot is fitted with an anti-theft badge on the front and rear. Called a Peugeot badge. :y
DBG you're just jealous of my sexy new ride and the fact it cost less than a pair of crappy omega coil packs ;D
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No need, every peugeot is fitted with an anti-theft badge on the front and rear. Called a Peugeot badge. :y
DBG you're just jealous of my sexy new ride and the fact it cost less than a pair of crappy omega coil packs ;D
:D
Yeah, well, my whole Omega cost £170, and was perfect and Mot-able, aside from just a couple of teeny-weeny little tweaks. Ready to go, all I had to do was replace the..
exhaust
new flanges welding onto old cats
heat shields
dampers
springs
drop links
track rods
O/S hub
wheels
tyres
sill cover
coilpack
vac tubes
plenum
breathers
ICV
N/S caliper
seals & boots on both front calipers
Brake caliper banjo bolts
discs
pads
brake hoses
cam belt and tensioners
drive belt
battery
HT leads
wishbones
ball joints
poly front bushes
Vx rear bushes
N/S arch liner
fuel line
Hand brake pins/mechanism
...to then still fail her mot on tyres, emissions and bulbs!
See?? Simple! And all it took was 6 months of up to 16-hour days and many many hundreds of £s. Not hard at all!
And the griffin's missing off the V grille. ;D
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No need, every peugeot is fitted with an anti-theft badge on the front and rear. Called a Peugeot badge. :y
DBG you're just jealous of my sexy new ride and the fact it cost less than a pair of crappy omega coil packs ;D
:D
Yeah, well, my whole Omega cost £170, and was perfect and Mot-able, aside from just a couple of teeny-weeny little tweaks. Ready to go, all I had to do was replace the..
exhaust
new flanges welding onto old cats
heat shields
dampers
springs
drop links
track rods
O/S hub
wheels
tyres
sill cover
coilpack
vac tubes
plenum
breathers
ICV
N/S caliper
seals & boots on both front calipers
Brake caliper banjo bolts
discs
pads
brake hoses
cam belt and tensioners
drive belt
battery
HT leads
wishbones
ball joints
poly front bushes
Vx rear bushes
N/S arch liner
fuel line
Hand brake pins/mechanism
...to then still fail her mot on tyres, emissions and bulbs!
See?? Simple! And all it took was 6 months of up to 16-hour days and many many hundreds of £s. Not hard at all!
And the griffin's missing off the V grille. ;D
Got one of them in the shed ;)
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No excuse for a car to fail on bulbs or tyres imho... And the emissions failure was self inflicted, but was sort of excusable as it could simply have been down to stale fuel :-\
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Absolutely no excuse at all, indeed. I performed several Hail Mary's and a number of 19th century Royal Naval punishment exercises including being keel-hauled under a local trawler. I then proceeded to hand myself in at the local police station where I served 35 years imprisonment, before parole. My story was later dramatised into a major film 'The Shawshank Redemption' Sadly all the scenes where I mention OOF were cut by the Director, who shall receive no more Christmas cards..
Tyres- The rear tyres failed because they didn't match. (two unused omega spares, turns out one was a 195, one a 205)
Numberplate lamp - was working when I left the driveway, but wasn't when I arrived. Oh, it was working when I got home, too.
As for the 'self inflicted' misfire, sorry but not so. I wasn't the one who butchered the loom, fitted a vectra square-plugged coilpack and plug, but did it with chocolate box connectors, which failed. I'd been tracing that misfire/rough idle for months, as most OOFers know, and had apparently sorted it. Clearly what was a wire that was partially and intermittently making a connection had, on the way there, come loose completely. Not stale fuel.
The scene were I took my Omega for MoT was cut from the film, too, and replaced with a homosexual rape scene instead.
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No need, every peugeot is fitted with an anti-theft badge on the front and rear. Called a Peugeot badge. :y
DBG you're just jealous of my sexy new ride and the fact it cost less than a pair of crappy omega coil packs ;D
:D
Yeah, well, my whole Omega cost £170, and was perfect and Mot-able, aside from just a couple of teeny-weeny little tweaks. Ready to go, all I had to do was replace the..
exhaust
new flanges welding onto old cats
heat shields
dampers
springs
drop links
track rods
O/S hub
wheels
tyres
sill cover
coilpack
vac tubes
plenum
breathers
ICV
N/S caliper
seals & boots on both front calipers
Brake caliper banjo bolts
discs
pads
brake hoses
cam belt and tensioners
drive belt
battery
HT leads
wishbones
ball joints
poly front bushes
Vx rear bushes
N/S arch liner
fuel line
Hand brake pins/mechanism
...to then still fail her mot on tyres, emissions and bulbs!
See?? Simple! And all it took was 6 months of up to 16-hour days and many many hundreds of £s. Not hard at all!
And the griffin's missing off the V grille. ;D
Got one of them in the shed ;)
Spare griffin? PFL one? :)