Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: waspy on 19 February 2008, 19:09:34
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I've just been on the Haynes manaul site to look for the Omega manual for 2000 on.
It's under the short list for consideration.
I figure if enough of us contact Haynes, they may take this into their consideration.
You may think you don't need a maual, because you have an earlier car, but hey you may have a facelift oneday ;)
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link to website please
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I've just been on the Haynes manaul site to look for the Omega manual for 2000 on.
It's under the short list for consideration.
I figure if enough of us contact Haynes, they may take this into their consideration.
You may think you don't need a maual, because you have an earlier car, but hey you may have a facelift oneday ;)
The prefacelift manual is enough, main bits missing are wiring and interior trim.
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Link www.haynes.co.uk
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it's been my experience that the existing pre-facelift manual works just fine as a step to increase one's natural reach over the bonnet.
and as a swatter for small to middle sized spiders.
as such, i really don;t see the need to update it or have a separate version for face lift miggys as well
:D
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I don't believe Haynes will produce a follow up for the Facelift models.
Let's face it, the Omega's an obsolete vehicle.
You 'knowledgable ones' can slag the manual off all you like. I still find it useful for quite a few things, provided you use a bit of common sense. We could all re-write it to be better I'm sure, (I can't understand why they never took the trouble to record the sizes of sockets etc. needed for different tasks). That would be a great time saving help for we mere mortals.
Hands off the Haynes Manual. ;D ;D ;D
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i have the prefacelift one and that covers most of the stuff i need.
if i had a 2.6 or 3.2 though i have a feeling i would be stuffed :-[
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they could publish a manual...with one page...open it up and it says......JOIN OMEGA OWNERS FORUM ;D ;D
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Yes, call it the "OOF Manual" :y :y :y :y :y
With technical input from MarkDTM, James V6, etc.
Who shall we get to edit it ? Loo-knee ????
Ken
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i just used my Haynes manual for the first time, wanted to check the air filter, so i did, its clean enough.
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I get by with Mr Haynes on my facelift but I think it is a poor publication because:
1. Local newspapers are printed on better quality paper
2. The tiny B&W pics are few and far between and vitually impossible to make out.
3. There is no index.
I cut my teeth using a Haynes manual fixing up my 1972 Marina and later an MGB GT in the mid eighties. They used to be really good in those days.
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I'm with Shyboy. It definitely has weaknesses but when supplemented by the forum I think its fine and is useful. Not least for the torque values and wiring diagrams.
Even with the forum available, I would recommend anyone other than the most experienced to have one to hand.
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I'm with Shyboy. It definitely has weaknesses but when supplemented by the forum I think its fine and is useful. Not least for the torque values and wiring diagrams.
Even with the forum available, I would recommend anyone other than the most experienced to have one to hand.
Mr Haynes always used to just put a 'supplement' in the back to cover later versions of cars, facelift cars just need that, as they're not that disimilar from the older cars.
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I'm with Shyboy. It definitely has weaknesses but when supplemented by the forum I think its fine and is useful. Not least for the torque values and wiring diagrams.
Even with the forum available, I would recommend anyone other than the most experienced to have one to hand.
Mr Haynes always used to just put a 'supplement' in the back to cover later versions of cars, facelift cars just need that, as they're not that disimilar from the older cars.
should be a fairly minor addendum to deal with the drive by wire and body work changes. I guess whether they do it depends on the potential return vs other publications they could be doing.
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I've just been on the Haynes manaul site to look for the Omega manual for 2000 on.
It's under the short list for consideration.
I figure if enough of us contact Haynes, they may take this into their consideration.
You may think you don't need a maual, because you have an earlier car, but hey you may have a facelift oneday ;)
TBH, there's more than enough knowledge on here.... get an e-bay prefacelift manual.... you could alway search the web for a legit version of T.I.S..
DC
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I've just been on the Haynes manaul site to look for the Omega manual for 2000 on.
It's under the short list for consideration.
I figure if enough of us contact Haynes, they may take this into their consideration.
You may think you don't need a maual, because you have an earlier car, but hey you may have a facelift oneday ;)
TBH, there's more than enough knowledge on here.... get an e-bay prefacelift manual.... you could alway search the web for a legit version of T.I.S..
DC
Here (https://opel-tis.eur.gm.com/imtportal)