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Newbie Area => Newbie Welcome Area => Topic started by: GraemeT on 28 October 2008, 18:03:44

Title: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: GraemeT on 28 October 2008, 18:03:44

New guy here....

At the weekend our previous car ate the alternator belt which, in turn, slipped under the cam belt cover, wrapped itself around the cam belt and - bye bye top end. Scrap one Laguna estate and your truly in need of a big estate to act as the family barge.

Quick bit of reading on here, scout around Fleabay and Autotrader and - this morning - picked up an Omega. 1999 (registered on the 2nd July - maybe somebody can tell me why they did not wait 4 weeks to get a 'V' plate on it - first owner was a Fleet Management company so maybe they didn't care). The Omega runs fine with just a few niggles (see my post elsewhere) - it has the GLS trim so not so many bells and whistles but those it does have all work (apart from the front and rear windscreen washers which have a blockage somewhere - daylight and better weather permitting I'll have a shuftie).

Pretty good with the spanners and I fancied something that was fairly easy to work on and has a good deal of support (plenty of that on this forum by the look of things - if only somebody did the same for the Laguna - e.g. to replace the starter motor on the 1.9 DTi you have to take off a gearbox support and the oil feed pipe to the turbo - Mr Haynes does not mention either  >:( If you leave them in situ you are about 2mm short of space to get the new motor in there no matter how you twist and turn it.

So (hopefully - after a bit of tinkering, cam belt and brake checks the Omega will join the rest of the 'fleet' - 1998 Escort Encore (yes - the one with manual window winders) currently runabout for SWMBO and soon to be thrown to the wolves (17 year old Learner Driver - mini-SWMBO), 1989 AWD TL masquerading as a horsebox, 1978 DB 885 Tractor and a 1968 88" Ser 2a Land Rover.

I've not yet had time to really pull around at the Omega - it all looks straight and clean, oily where it should be and the steering/handling is 'tight' Auto box does what it should in all gears plus sports mode - 104,000 miles from new with main dealer up to 76,000 so (touching wood) it'll last as a lot longer than the 18 months we got out of the Laguna.

Cheers

Graeme

p.s. forgot to add - my only previous Vauxhall was a 1983 1.2 litre Nova Saloon (Whoooo!) which I owned from new for a few years - never put a foot wrong but was only doing 5-7,000 miles per annum

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 28 October 2008, 18:08:10

Hello Graeme and a very warm welcome to you! :y

Sad to hear about your other car, but perhaps there is a silver lining in it all with you obtaining a great car; the Omega!! :y  :y :y :y

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 28 October 2008, 18:09:59

Hi, welcome to the forum.   :y

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: waspy on 28 October 2008, 18:56:33

Good evening & welcome along :y

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: HolyCount on 28 October 2008, 19:35:14

Hi and welcome aboard.  :y Where in Deb'n are you ?

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: mars on 28 October 2008, 19:37:08

Hi Graeme and welcome to OOF :y

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: Entwood on 28 October 2008, 19:57:29

"Hello" and welcome .. :)

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: achoo81 on 28 October 2008, 20:01:26

Hi Graeme, welcome to the forum.

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: dieseldean on 28 October 2008, 20:09:48

welcome :y

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: Welung666 on 28 October 2008, 20:16:25

Hi Graeme and welcome to OOF   :y

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: amigov6 on 28 October 2008, 21:09:45

Welcome aboard, hope the Mig serves you well. I used to have a s3 88 diesel landy, spent a fortune on a full galv chassis, got bored & sold it at a huge loss.!!!!!!!!! ::)

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: dbug on 29 October 2008, 00:19:33

Welcome to OOF  :y

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: The Red Baron on 29 October 2008, 05:25:12

Welcome to the forum mate.  :y

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: bob.dent on 29 October 2008, 09:26:07

Hi Graeme and welcome to OOF  :)

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: RobG on 29 October 2008, 20:26:59

Welcome to the forum Graeme :y

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: ngrainqey on 29 October 2008, 20:52:22

welcome aboard the OOF ship if you like lol!

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: Miggy24 on 30 October 2008, 13:01:44

Welcome my friend.I see that your from sunny old devon like me.Where abouts are you :y

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: Elite Pete on 30 October 2008, 13:24:06

Hi Graeme and welcome :)

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: GazS14 on 30 October 2008, 20:06:14

Welcome to the forum mate  :y

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: craig on 31 October 2008, 10:34:17

welcome to the oof :) :y

Title: Re: Another newbie says 'hi'
Post by: less on 11 November 2008, 21:21:44

Hello Graeme, welcome aboard mate  :y