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Title: Expensive MOT time!!!!
Post by: Hollywood_Wheels on 06 November 2007, 00:08:30: Hi Chaps,

Thought I'd combine a general 'Hello!' with a tale of my upcoming MOT! It's not a tale of woe, because I love my Omega....

I thought I'd get my '97 R Omega 3.0V6 Elite Estate (99,000miles) ready for it's MOT next week. Little did I know what awaited me!!! ;)

1) Four new Falken tyres (from Event mobile tyres, very good service...) £294. I could have gone budget, but as far as I'm concerned you cant skimp on tyres. I'd always gone for £30 part-worn before........BUT.......
2) Both wishbones are mullered, £117 from Motorfactors. Didn't know until I went to Supertyres in Malden (great guys...) and couldn't believe what they showed me on the ramp........wheels wobbling all over the place! And here's me thinking it was the part-worns and dodgy alignment that were making the 'mega drift all over the road! Even with the knackered wishbones the handling is great with the Falkens.................just shows you how good even cheap new tyres can be....
3) £208 - New central sections and backbox from motorfactors....
4) £45 for the new MOT
5) About £250 to fit 2 and 3 above.....
6) £65 for wheel alignment and balancing after MOT, IF it passes!!!

I could have PX'd the car (was looking at Lexus Ls400's), but I love the Omega so much I reckon it's worth splashing out on, for a few more years reliable motoring, I plan on driving through Europe next summer, and hopefully the Omega will do the job. Once these jobs are done I hope the car will be tip-top.

The car is all standard but is SUCH good fun. Some of you may recognise my name from Pistonheads, where I post on the Elise forum ( I have a S1 Sport 160 in the garage....), but as I've said on there...............

.........I took my Omega to North Weald airfield on an Andrew Walsh carlimits day (I have a picture on my Pistonheads profile of the car lining up with Elises and Imprezas!), and I EASILY beat many of the Elises around the large circuit (no I'm not joking!!!! :y) Awesome car, love the thing !!!!!

Will keep you all updated!

Eamonn.
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Post by: Entwood on 06 November 2007, 00:13:05: "Hello" and welcome :)
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Post by: Elite Pete on 06 November 2007, 00:23:16: Hi Eamonn and welcome to the forum ;)
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Post by: Hollywood_Wheels on 06 November 2007, 00:27:03: Cheers guys! :)

Having decided to spend all this money, I plan on you all being stuck with me for a while yet!!! :y
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Post by: Bo Bo on 06 November 2007, 08:29:35: Hello & welcome :)
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Post by: Auto Addict on 06 November 2007, 08:54:25: Welcome to the forum :y
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Post by: A380 Elite on 06 November 2007, 09:34:57: :) Hiya Eamonn.
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Post by: Golfbuddy on 06 November 2007, 12:58:09: Welcome to the forum. :)
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Post by: Boldy on 06 November 2007, 15:39:46: Hello and welcome to the best auto forums ever 8-)
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Post by: ffcgary1 on 06 November 2007, 16:52:08: Welcome to the forum. :y
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Post by: TheBoy on 06 November 2007, 20:23:56: Welcome to the site :)

If I may suggest you look at getting a Tradeclub card - standard genuine Vauxhall consumables at cheap prices. eg, the exhaust, you may have got near the price you paid for the much better genuine part ;)

Also, many members here get the wishbones from Ebay for around £20 each.

We know a few ways of keeping Omega maintenence much more affordable :y
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Post by: Chopsdad on 06 November 2007, 22:07:35: Hello and welcome - once you've been here a while - you can never leave ::) :D
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Post by: Jimbob on 07 November 2007, 11:59:46: Welcome & Enjoy :y
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Post by: maria on 07 November 2007, 17:33:34: Hello and welcome to the froum :y
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Post by: Crazydad on 07 November 2007, 18:29:06: Hello and welcome to the best Omega Forum on the Net :y
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Post by: amigov6 on 07 November 2007, 19:19:37: :)Welcome aboard. Now you've done those MOT jobs you might not have to spend as much next time. Mine's also done 99k & recently sailed through its test. I used to oval circuit/banger race but never raced an Omega (too expensive then) but they're pretty quick & surefooted given thier size.
I know some lads who still race bangers & rate the Omega...which is good & bad i suppose!
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Post by: Kev on 07 November 2007, 22:47:23: Welcome to the forum. :y
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Post by: bob.dent on 08 November 2007, 10:19:20: Hi Eamonn and welcome to the forum. :y
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Post by: macca on 09 November 2007, 20:17:12: Hello, welcome to the forum :y
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Post by: Markie on 11 November 2007, 20:01:09: Hello and welcome to the forum :y
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Post by: Martin_1962 on 11 November 2007, 21:19:14: Hello & Welcome :y
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Post by: Hollywood_Wheels on 13 November 2007, 21:02:14: Cheers for the welcome guys. :y

Wish I'd known about the ebay wishbones..............I search for just about everything on there and never thought of those....... ::)

Will try to post up some pics if I can figure out how!
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Post by: hotel21 on 14 November 2007, 00:20:48: Howdoo and welcome to the best place for Omega info on the web...

Thought I recognised the username from somewheres..... ;)
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Post by: GastronomicKleptomaniac on 14 November 2007, 13:40:28: I thought I recognised the name... welcome. :y
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Post by: MutantCav on 14 November 2007, 14:18:14: Wow, thats the very best part of £1000, could have got a replacement with full MOT for less than that lol

Welcome mate :)
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Post by: MutantCav on 14 November 2007, 14:20:08: Also shame you didnt join sooner as I have a good condition set of alloys with good condition Pirelli P6000 tyres all round that you could have had for £50 and swapped straight on :(
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Post by: thewelshman on 14 November 2007, 14:36:29: Hi and welcome to the O O F :y