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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: belfastmale45 on 06 March 2010, 15:29:41
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How do these work and how can they be installed if my car has never had them before?
What is needed to install them please?
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Omegas have no heated windscreen option (thank god!)
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How do these work and how can they be installed if my car has never had them before?
What is needed to install them please?
Omegas never had heated windscreens. :y
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I'm sure to fit leccy mirrors, it's just a case of getting a pair of mirrors and the switch (breakers yard) cos the wiring should all be there.
To check, pop the drivers door card off and see if there are any unused connectors hanging around - they may be taped-up and not immediately obvious so have a good look.
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Omegas have no heated windscreen option (thank god!)
My god man they are one of the finest things ever invented.
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Omegas have no heated windscreen option (thank god!)
My god man they are one of the finest things ever invented.
Agreed, had one in my focus :)
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Omegas have no heated windscreen option (thank god!)
My god man they are one of the finest things ever invented.
Agreed, had one in my focus :)
Yep, but if it was as useless as half of Vauxhalls rear demisters... You know what I'm saying!
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I've been out this morning in our Focus with heated front screen. Absolutely fantastic ........ Had them in Mondeos as well, are standard on most reasonable spec Fords
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Hi guys
The main point of my question is...can heated windscreens and heated exterior mirrors be installed in am old vauxhall omega?
I guess some or all of you will say it's not worth it considering it's age...but this last few weeks of winter a heated windscreen would have been very welcome.
for a living I drive £50,000 plus cars...top of the range limosines. There's a button for EVERYTHING, except making tea!!
Being able to get into one with a heated windscreen and exterior mirrors in the dead of winter is tops!!
Someone said thank God they aren't fitted in Vauxhalls. Why? Do you like de -icing? :D
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Not that I like deicing.....but I need to do the side windows as well not just the front. Takes about a minute to scrape light ice off, or about 2 if I use some luke warm water to help.
I despise the constant 'starburst' effect of everything viewed through a heated screen, which is absolutley horrendous to my eyes once switched one.
I get a headache after driving with one for about 10 minutes.
I hate them when turned off,
I despise them even more turned on.
On a similar note...I could never stand using trinitron style computer monitors, I found the damping wires very offputting.
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Hi guys
The main point of my question is...can heated windscreens and heated exterior mirrors be installed in am old vauxhall omega?
I guess some or all of you will say it's not worth it considering it's age...but this last few weeks of winter a heated windscreen would have been very welcome.
for a living I drive £50,000 plus cars...top of the range limosines. There's a button for EVERYTHING, except making tea!!
Being able to get into one with a heated windscreen and exterior mirrors in the dead of winter is tops!!
Someone said thank God they aren't fitted in Vauxhalls. Why? Do you like de -icing? :D
As posted above...
I'm sure to fit leccy mirrors, it's just a case of getting a pair of mirrors and the switch (breakers yard) cos the wiring should all be there.
To check, pop the drivers door card off and see if there are any unused connectors hanging around - they may be taped-up and not immediately obvious so have a good look.
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Hi sjc
I have electric mirrors.
I was just curious to heated electric mirrors. Do they really work, are they worth the hassle?
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Are there models with electric mirror adjustment but no heaters in them???
The mirror heaters come on with the rear demist, they don't have a separate switch of any sort.
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Oh, and yes, they work a treat! They're usually clear long before the back window even when very frosty.
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Hi guys
The main point of my question is...can heated windscreens and heated exterior mirrors be installed in am old vauxhall omega?
There is absolutely no reason why a heated windscreen cannot be retro fitted to a car that never came with one as they work in the same way as a rear screen demister and, i can get one for my Chevette ffs. However, someone has to make one for it in the first place and i can't find anyone that does. Also, i'm not sure if Ford still hold the patent on the way they make them so i don't know how it would work.
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you cannot get a heated front screen for an omega, they never made one
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The nearest fit would be a screen for one of the Jaguar range.
I have a heated screen on my S-Type and find it very useful this time of the year.
Better still, it also has oil fired central heating to warm it up quickly in the winter. :)
NN
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Hi,
Uroglas in the UK make heated windscreens to order and will produce if a number of members get together to share the costs. The URl is http://www.uroglas.com/ They can be contacted at
01527 577477
Email: info@uroglas.com
Uroglas
2 Buntsford Park
Bromsgrove
Worcestershire
B60 3DX
It is entirely possible someone has already ordered a screen for the Omega, they were used in all sorts of climates and by bodies like the Police, Executive car hire, as Hearses and all sorts of roles where somebody might have wanted the car available at short notice and had one fitted.
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Better brush these away ::)
(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z257/belisensis/cobwebs.jpg)
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The heated front screen on my Jag is great this time of the year - and not noticable when driving. Had one on my partner's Mondeo a few years back and whilst it functioned well agree with Jimbob that it was well noticable when driving.
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Better brush these away ::)
(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z257/belisensis/cobwebs.jpg)
Any use?? :)
(http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1517/heavydutyyellowduster.jpg)
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Hi,
Uroglas in the UK make heated windscreens to order and will produce if a number of members get together to share the costs. The URl is http://www.uroglas.com/ They can be contacted at
01527 577477
Email: info@uroglas.com
Uroglas
2 Buntsford Park
Bromsgrove
Worcestershire
B60 3DX
It is entirely possible someone has already ordered a screen for the Omega, they were used in all sorts of climates and by bodies like the Police, Executive car hire, as Hearses and all sorts of roles where somebody might have wanted the car available at short notice and had one fitted.
Bloody hell, they're only 2 mins from my house... :o
I had a heated screen on my old sierra ghia, was brilliant. Beats the blowers on full blast any day, keeping the screen clear ::)
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Not that I like deicing.....but I need to do the side windows as well not just the front. Takes about a minute to scrape light ice off, or about 2 if I use some luke warm water to help.
I despise the constant 'starburst' effect of everything viewed through a heated screen, which is absolutley horrendous to my eyes once switched one.
I get a headache after driving with one for about 10 minutes.
I hate them when turned off,
I despise them even more turned on.
On a similar note...I could never stand using trinitron style computer monitors, I found the damping wires very offputting.
i agree i had a company mondeo altho in winter the screen was yes very good at defrosting on a frozen morning, and the screen was clear in the frosty weather & wipers didnt freeze or get frozen patches knackering wiper blades but i agree that in the sunlight the wavey elec wires "starburst" drove me mad & vision was really odd.... oh the new screen cost more than the car in the end & insurance wrote it off when it got cracked by a gritter lorry!!! as company only had it 3rd party!!
Damit that reminds me i need a screen in my mig estate due to a rather gritter lorry chipped screen right in the black area of sunstrip 1" from rubber! next morning had gone across screen >:( ! Good job im fully comp £60 for a new one!! but i may wait for a week or 2 to have mine changed just my luck it happen again with amount of grit on roads!!!