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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: LFF64 on 26 September 2015, 16:20:07
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I am on a day out today at a tank driving place Tanks a lot the winning team get to crush a car I am gutted it's a 2.5 omega w reg in champagne it only has 55000 miles on it and it is bloody good nick apparently it only needs an aux belt and tensioner
I have got dibs on the alloys with m
New tires
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That's not fair, Tank vs. Omega, hope the Tank doesn't get damaged too much.
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Any pics?please
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(http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad98/stevens651/ebc5f9cdf0f88ddc6f52d407e75e2eed_zpsaur4cqkz.jpg)
(http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad98/stevens651/05b9c07a8b283434cf0240464191fc95_zps8wvidi80.jpg)
(http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad98/stevens651/b53b47f721e6425bb504342a3b8e72b3_zpsnzzdruw8.jpg)
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There's a video on YouTube LINK (http://youtu.be/T1FNevaPlWw)
Some numpty titled the video Vauxhall Carlton ::).
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Not a lot of that left
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It was flattened it also took two of the wheels out so I didn't bother with them in the end
Not a bad day out though :)
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Modified post above to show all 3 pics :y
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It,s a bloody crime. :'(
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(http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad98/stevens651/aca2a4381fe43b8461f0c27ea50029f3_zpskmsuhnxh.jpg)
This is what was left they were going to try to go over the centre and save the wheels but it veered to the left slightly and 55 ton of chieftain tank doesn't really care where it goes
They said afterwards that if the ground had been wetter it would have pushed the car down rather than squash it so much
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thanks for posting pics,sad to see a mig die that way :'(
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Looks like it will polish out. :o :o :o :o
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It,s a bloody crime. :'(
Seconded.
I appreciate that they're unloved, but destroy a complete shed, or at the very least strip it first...
That had Xenons fitted, with all the associated gubbins, all of which is in demand... apart from being a bit grubby the panels looked reasonable.
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Actually, propper oppsing pissed off now...
That car was MoTd until 24th June 2016 >:(
Total and utter waste.
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Actually, propper oppsing pissed off now...
That car was MoTd until 24th June 2016 >:(
Total and utter waste.
It's just a car.
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Migs have souls :)
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True, but someone could have used it for a year first... even an MoT failure Omega would have been preferable...
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Migs have souls :)
That they do, but I fear Nick belongs to the appliance school of daily motoring ::)
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Migs have souls :)
That they do, but I fear Nick belongs to the appliance school of daily motoring ::)
No, but I've spent far too much time trying to move actually useful stuff onto new, and appreciative homes. Often for free.
Put simply it is total and utter waste of time and effort that would have been better spent watching paint dry.
And those pictures are a good illustration on where the Omega is in its life cycle: many owners are glad to see the back of them.
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I know I was gutted I even asked if they would sell it to me I would have had it off of him to stop it being killed but they wouldn't have it I did do a deal for the wheels but they managed to squash one
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As Nick says that was the case with this one they had got fed up spending money on it the last straw was when it broke down coming back from the airport after a holiday recovery water pump and four tires
If you know the cars they are Ok and with the help of everyone on OOF they can be kept going
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Dans, in the for sale section, looks an absolute corker. If you did nothing to it and got a couple of years out of it, it would only cost £400 a year......£8 a week......
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Dans, in the for sale section, looks an absolute corker. If you did nothing to it and got a couple of years out of it, it would only cost £400 a year......£8 a week......
Cost more to Tax and Insure it, and about double that again to fuel it, but yea your on the right lines. ;)
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Dans, in the for sale section, looks an absolute corker. If you did nothing to it and got a couple of years out of it, it would only cost £400 a year......£8 a week......
Cost more to Tax and Insure it, and about double that again to fuel it, but yea your on the right lines. ;)
Well, yeah...but that's the same with any car, I meant just the purchase price.
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Could have put that on egay and got a few hundred :(
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Could have put sthat on egay and got a few hundred :(
Just as likely to get a mouth breathing timewaster who has no money to pay the £47.12 winning bid, and expects you to take it in installments.
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I'm always on the lookout for a 2.5 V6, ideally very low miles for parts... like that one. :( There was one in my local scrappy for a while, but they crushed it before I had had all the bits off it I wanted.
Because the earliest FLs were 2.5, not 2.6, as we know, they can be a good source of bits which will drop straight onto a PFL. Crank sensor, alternator, air con piping, various bits n bobs in the engine bay that would be just 'nicer' or 'cleaner' than mine. I bet the header tank was creamy white. Spare set of vac pipes, HBV, the induction pipework between the airbox and the plenum, little fuse box above the battery, spare cam covers, spare coil pack, that's off the top of my head.
Now all that lot could easily come to hundreds if I had to pay the going rate piece-by-piece, but then you see it all go under a set of caterpillar tracks and you think 'well hang on, clearly the going rate is free! if they're in such abundance that they can be bought and destroyed like that' :( That being the case why can't I find one? Ah well, be philosophical about it, I suppose. Plenty more fish in the sea etc... :(
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Migs have souls :)
That they do, but I fear Nick belongs to the appliance school of daily motoring ::)
As do most of us who work in the trade ;)
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Could have put sthat on egay and got a few hundred :(
Just as likely to get a mouth breathing timewaster who has no money to pay the £47.12 winning bid, and expects you to take it in installments.
Sorry to say, however, that Nick's basically speaking the truth. :( The only person that cares about your car, is you (and often not even he/she)
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This is not the best place to show an omega being crushed :( Although in reality i guess quite a few do at the breakers . Cant find any omegas around here at the scrappies and one scrap yard said never heard of an omega ::)
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True. And afraid to say Nick's sentiments are so close to the truth. I have access to a mint....mint Omega, only a 2.2, or whatever, but all unmarked body panels, the drivetrain and back axle will be gone, bumper has had a poor respray in its time, but the shell is stunning. I offered it on here a few weeks back, anyone who fancies a bit of a 're-shell' project (or, for that matter, take their engine, box and back axle and wheels off their own car, and drop in into this'n) and you've got a mint condition Omega, with whatever engine/interior/diff combination you want. Not a single reply. The guy will just want basically thruppence ha'penny above what he will get from the scrap man for it, that's it.
If not I'll be chopping some repair panels off it for myself, for the future. But that makes the car a bit terminal, then. Not as attractive a proposition for a 'simple re-shell' when a 3 foot section of the sill is missing! ;D
They're sadly wandering in the misty, unfriendly limbo purgatory between just an old car and classic car. And, like any old Vauxhall, will never achieve the same kudos and allure as MX5s, MR2s, BMWs, etc etc are set to, either. Only Crestas and HP Firenzas hit real money, due to horrific rarity, but the Omegas most powerful weapon in its arsenal - best-selling executive saloon car - now proves its downfall, as they're relatively common, still.
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Now the youngest Omegas are over 10 years old and the average life of a car is 13 years, in 5 years time they will be almost as rare as hens teeth.
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I often like to play a game on the motorway. Spot a car older than my 2.2.
Often get zero ;D Saw one car at the weekends drive down to Brighton. One P Reg shitron :o
So it's no surprise they meet this fate :(
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I often like to play a game on the motorway. Spot a car older than my 2.2.
Often get zero ;D Saw one car at the weekends drive down to Brighton. One P Reg shitron :o
So it's no surprise they meet this fate :(
Not just age, for the junior mgr/rep on a motorway, it has to have a pesky merc/bmw/audi/vw badge, as that gives them the ability to drive like inconsiderate self-abusers
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I play the 'spot the older car / spot the older Vauxhall' Managed a P reg Astra the other week (so same age) and there's a Mk II Cav taxi (yes, taxi :y) round the corner from work, that's L reg. But other than that I'm the oldest swinger in town. :D