Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: annihilator on 18 April 2017, 15:29:58
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Whilst browsing the bay of e I came across a standard f/l bumper with fogs listed for £350.00 and being the kind soul that I am messaged him to let him know he'd put the decimal point in the wrong place only to be told it was rare and the price was correct.Told the joker to dream on. :D
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If it fixes someone's pride and joy, somebody will pay that.
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Seriously doubt that.
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Seriously doubt that.
If you 'did a Lizzie Zoom', £350 is a small price to pay to get the car back and looking in its preaccident condition.
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Seriously doubt that.
If you 'did a Lizzie Zoom', £350 is a small price to pay to get the car back and looking in its preaccident condition.
Yes indeed, someone who is very keen to get their Omega back on the road looking as good as new may well just go for it, and forget the cost!
However, I got a bumper with all the fittings, bonnet, the two fans, fog lights and the washer bottle for £320 and that I thought was just right. ;)
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I give up :-X
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Hmmm I have a spare bumper buried somewhere. :)
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I give up :-X
No point trying to compete with that masterpiece... :-X
I once paid £125 for a genuine new tailgate and quarter panel... ::)
For £300, I had my car collected, a brand new genuine slam panel fitted and painted and the car returned... and that was at a VX main dealer.
£320 for that list above is, well, above reasonable prices.
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Hmmm I have a spare bumper buried somewhere. :)
Underneath all the rust that keeps dropping off your car?
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Hmmm I have a spare bumper buried somewhere. :)
Underneath all the rust that keeps dropping off your car?
There's no rust on my car! >:(
Just holes where I poked it all away!! :-X ;D
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90 % of Omega rust is not visible :o
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90 % of Omega rust is not visible :o
Wrong. 90% of an omega is not visible because of rust. ;D
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Hi STEMO
Wrong. My welder is the fastest one all around! So my Omegas will stay visible...
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I agree with the OP that it is expensive, and probably not that rare (although don't see many Omegas at scrappys now - we're hanging on to them).
The point I was trying to make is the old addage "its worth what somebody is prepared to pay for it". And if its in good condition, and the correct paintcode, somebody will think its an acceptable price. Respraying a wrong colour or damaged one will be £200+
Much like paying, say, £2k for a good nick Elite - its a heck of a lot of car for the money, its just on OOF we've become accustomed to paying a pittance for them. Same with parts - we've had a good supply of parts from the breakers we have on this site, at great prices.
If the seller is patient, and the right buyer comes along, he might achieve his price.
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If the seller is patient, and the right buyer comes along, he might achieve his price.
Yes my spare bumper can only increase in value. Maybe I'll list it at £349.99 to undercut the other guy! ;D
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I agree with the OP that it is expensive, and probably not that rare (although don't see many Omegas at scrappys now - we're hanging on to them).
The point I was trying to make is the old addage "its worth what somebody is prepared to pay for it". And if its in good condition, and the correct paintcode, somebody will think its an acceptable price. Respraying a wrong colour or damaged one will be £200+
Much like paying, say, £2k for a good nick Elite - its a heck of a lot of car for the money, its just on OOF we've become accustomed to paying a pittance for them. Same with parts - we've had a good supply of parts from the breakers we have on this site, at great prices.
If the seller is patient, and the right buyer comes along, he might achieve his price.
That is so true in my case. The spare parts I needed, like now, were local, in excellent condition and available to my repairer who could pick them up and respray them. I couldn't live with driving my treasured Omega around badly creased, and the police could have taken issue at any time, so to have exactly what was required, on the doorstep, and available at, to me, an acceptable price was too good to miss. No long distance driving, or arranging of couriers was required, so it was a no-brainer with a certainty that my car would be again as I wanted it within 7 days.
As for Omega spare parts, one very good local breaker who specialised in breaker Vauxhall's, and especially Omega's, who I relied on in the past has wound his operation down and he has now stripped his last Omega. The great breaker I have found online is still working his way through a supply of Omega's, and parts are still available, but for how long? Over the next 3 years, I suggest, the last Omega's will be disappearing fast as owners like me, and those on the Forum, will not be so plentiful and so keen to keep the chariots going with the costs involved. Then the crunch will come with, after maybe a glut, far less parts available, which I suggest, will mean market forces take over and price will hinge on demand. What professional concern is going to store Omega parts, with money tied up, with a good reward when they do actually find an Omega customer? ;)
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Don't worry Lizzie my sheds full of
crap Omega parts so there'll still be parts ;D
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Don't worry Lizzie my sheds full of crap Omega parts so there'll still be parts ;D
I am counting on people like you omegod for the future :-* :-* :-* :D :y
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My collection of parts has been greatly reduced in recent times. Its going to be reduced further soon. I'm going to go through it, and anything I know I wont need for my current car is going to the tip. I just don't have the space to keep hanging on to stuff.
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My collection of parts has been greatly reduced in recent times. Its going to be reduced further soon. I'm going to go through it, and anything I know I wont need for my current car is going to the tip. I just don't have the space to keep hanging on to stuff.
Indeed, I'm taking advice of others, and when I'm fit enough to start taking bits off MV6, it will only be those bits already sold.
Last time I had a garage full of bits stripped from one of my scrapped Omegas, I had to take extreme measures to empty it ;D
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Having taken parts off two of my Omegas I had to break for various reasons, I can guarantee the most obscure part that you can think of will be the one you want 5 mins after it's been trailored away!
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Having taken parts off two of my Omegas I had to break for various reasons, I can guarantee the most obscure part that you can think of will be the one you want 5 mins after it's been trailored away!
That happened with the last one - the day after it was picked up, I needed something, and had to buy from one of the breakers here ;D