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General Discussion Area / Re: Admin, mods, anyone who knows?

« on: 12 January 2012, 15:41:24 »

Sorry chaps, thanks for your reply's.

It doesn't take very long to get to 250 posts if you join in with various threads. 

That's the problem Andy, I tend to spend loads of time on the vectra forums as that's what I've always had which means you tend to build up friendships with the other members and spend time on that site even though I ain't got a vectra anymore lol

It takes me ages to build up my posts as I'm more of a reader and looker lol.

Thanks anyway but it'll be advertised anyway, cheers.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Admin, mods, anyone who knows?

« on: 12 January 2012, 15:25:12 »

Sorry chaps, thanks for your reply's.

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General Discussion Area / Admin, mods, anyone who knows?

« on: 12 January 2012, 15:15:48 »

Please delete if not aloud but is there a section where we can advertise a sale via linking it?

Like eBay, pistonheads etc section were you can list without having to advertise on site

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Omega General Help / Re: Bulb help please

« on: 17 December 2011, 17:11:18 »

You might find Removing an Omega Headlight useful too.

First time I tried to change a bulb on my facelift I had to do it in situ because I didn't find the golden rivet.....

Cheers mate, very useful info there, is it just as quick then as I hate taking things apart when there's no need.

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Omega General Help / Re: Bulb help please

« on: 17 December 2011, 16:58:13 »

Ohh, and be no where near those connections when they are live, or were live within a couple of mins to be safe.

So I can just remove the four little tiny torx screws holding that black block on the access the bulb? Airbox is already removed as its fitted with a mahoosive carbon cone and I now the battery side was a right tight squeeze just to get the sidelight in.

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Omega General Help / Bulb help please

« on: 17 December 2011, 15:35:13 »

Hi people, I've noticed that my passenger side xenon is a different colour? It's gone a dullish purple/orange if that makes sense?

I've replaced the side lights recently and that was quite straight forward but the main bulb seems a tad harder to access. My old vectra's were easy to access but this doesnt look as easy, Is it behind this large black box



Tried searching but all I get is people's problems with builds rather than how too replace them, any help appreciated, cheers

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Omega General Help / Re: MV6 oil change help

« on: 12 December 2011, 20:54:07 »

Retail is £31+VAT for 5L, trade club is £12.75+VAT for 5l, usually buy 3 get one free as TB says - for the semi syn. Fully syn is only slightly more.

That's madness, nearly £20 different!

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Omega General Help / Re: MV6 oil change help

« on: 12 December 2011, 20:00:08 »

GM Semi Synth, esp if you have access to Trade Club, as it works out about £45 for 4 x 5l cans. Filter about £5 on Trade Club.

Any Semi should do, but Castrol GTX and Magnatec are known to be problematic, so best avoided.

Cheers mate, no trade club but there's a Vauxhall dealers about 2 miles from me, I'll ask them how much for 2x5l gm stuff.

Ooooh, without TC, rather expensive.  Not sure if any local members could get you stuff at TC prices

How expensive is expensive lol?

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Omega General Help / Re: MV6 oil change help

« on: 12 December 2011, 19:15:55 »

GM Semi Synth, esp if you have access to Trade Club, as it works out about £45 for 4 x 5l cans. Filter about £5 on Trade Club.

Any Semi should do, but Castrol GTX and Magnatec are known to be problematic, so best avoided.

Cheers mate, no trade club but there's a Vauxhall dealers about 2 miles from me, I'll ask them how much for 2x5l gm stuff.

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Omega General Help / Re: MV6 oil change help

« on: 12 December 2011, 18:38:41 »

As title says its an MV6, guessing its a V6 - but thanks for the extra assist.  Was trying to get the OP to search for the info as a lot of time by many members has gone to creating a really comprehensive help/howtoo section for the Omega....      

Yes it's the 2.6 mv6 and I tried using the search function which is pants when on the iPhone lol.

Just been reading up on it now from someone who wrote a how 2 but it was the actual oil used and quantity that I was most intrested in finding out. Thanks anyway.

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Omega General Help / MV6 oil change help

« on: 12 December 2011, 18:05:23 »

Hi peeps, with it being winter I thought I'd treat the omega to an oil and filter change, bit of advice needed though as to which oil would be best (semi or fully synthetic?) and how much I'd need?

I've always had a mate of mine do my oil changes but he's away or always busy so thought I'd get my hands dirty for a change could someone point me in the right place for the drain hole location and any tools needed as its along time since I've done it myself, cheers peeps.

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Omega General Help / Re: Tyre size for 18" snowflakes

« on: 23 September 2011, 02:06:02 »

Bare in mind that if they are not originally Omega wheels, they will have the wrong offset. 

And most probs 7.5j width as its going to be coming from an
astra 

What's the offset and width of the standard mv6 rims I have?

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Omega General Help / Re: Tyre size for 18" snowflakes

« on: 23 September 2011, 01:00:53 »

235/40 x 18
225/40 x 18

Is that front and rear or are you saying either could be used?

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Omega General Help / Re: Tyre size for 18" snowflakes

« on: 23 September 2011, 00:59:58 »

Snowflake's is a slang name that seems to be attached to several different Vxl rims. Even the 17" rims fitted to early Zafira GSi's are somethings referred to as snowflakes.

I'm wondering of the OP actually meant Irmy sport stars.  :-/

I ment the 18" ones that come as standard on the vxr range, astra in particular, the six spoke ones.

Not the normal 5 spoke 19" ones as they tend to suffer from cracking from what I've heard, although there probably better on the muggy due to tyre size?

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Omega General Help / Tyre size for 18" snowflakes

« on: 22 September 2011, 23:26:28 »

As title people, what size tyres would be required to fit on the 18" 6 spoke snowflakes? Also any pics?