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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 22 March 2017, 13:52:03 »

Will be sanding the bonnet when the weather picks up ... what about Mustang white stripes for something different 

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General Car Chat / Re: Spotted

« on: 22 March 2017, 13:47:42 »

Irmscher fl in Tesco car park yesterday , corby . Looked like it had been lowered , star silver of course and an oldish bloke got out to go to the cash point .. looked really nice 

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General Car Chat / Re: 3l V6 coffee table

« on: 22 March 2017, 13:43:38 »

Chrome in a spray can , comes up really good if you do all the prep work 

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General Car Chat / Re: Looking at getting another car...

« on: 16 March 2017, 16:38:48 »

I have a bit of a soft spot for the Mundanos (not the early buckets, but from about 2004 onwards).  However, colleagues who have had the current ones have had all sorts of electrical gremlins - instrumentation, DAB packing up, satnav not moving etc - which have either taken ages to get resolved, or never got resolved.  Its possible the local dealer in MK is shit of course

For the Mundano v Insignia debate, I have driven a detuned, 130bhp CDTi Insignia to the France/Spain border and back, and it was an effortless, comfortable drive, with no reliability issues except running out of brakes on the way down.  So I wouldn't be put off by an Insignia. I've also been a passenger in a Mundano from Luton to the home of Stella Artois, again no issues with comfort etc....   ....all issues on that lads weekend were purely down to trying too many of Belgiums finest

Have been eye`the insignia up and good news is there seems to be loads about cheap as chips to choose from  Whats the most powerful petrol engine in the range from 09 onwards 

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General Car Chat / Re: Lunch time ponder...

« on: 16 March 2017, 16:23:51 »

Set of 17" elite alloys and a boot spoiler would set it off nicely. 

Thats what i did    You`ll have fun gluing the spoiler on 

Just need a decent 3.0 engine now 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Away tae f**k, wee Jimmy

« on: 16 March 2017, 16:20:10 »

Krankyland is beginning to boil , wee jimmy will no doubt retaliate after stamping feet in the corner 
Why dont she just go away and stop causing trouble 

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General Car Chat / Re: My car is back on the Forum!!

« on: 05 March 2017, 22:54:07 »

Ouch !! Tis but a scratch though  Welcome back lizzie , glad your ok 

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Omega General Help / Re: Oil filter housing (3.2 V6)

« on: 05 March 2017, 22:52:19 »

It's a common problem.


We can't call it bad design, it makes the Omega apologists foam at the mouth. But you can buy an adapter to convert back to a reliable spin-off filter.


You need to hold the housing by whatever method suits you(large pliers, mole grips, strap clamp) to undo the cap. Then you can undo the bolt that attaches the housing to the engine. Having done all of that, throw the oppsing thing in the bin.

This is most favourable  Besides i like to get oily sometimes 

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General Car Chat / Re: Mercedes S430

« on: 28 February 2017, 10:05:31 »

I shall go and have a look tomorrow...

You bought it then 

Yes, drives a treat 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 28 February 2017, 10:04:31 »

Need to sand the bonnet as the lacquer is making a more drastic bid for freedom 

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General Car Chat / Re: I Wonder

« on: 28 February 2017, 09:57:00 »

Ideal for parts or a long term project if your feeling brave to diy on your drive  Those seats would be worth a bob or two being the superior mv 

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General Car Chat / Re: Mercedes S430

« on: 27 February 2017, 16:38:09 »

Only thing that worries me on mercs is electrical problems 

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General Car Chat / Re: Update on "The engine light came on".....

« on: 26 February 2017, 19:32:59 »

Um, to be honest, Rumpel, not often up to 4,500 rpm, although after adding the Cataclean I drove the 17 miles to the Shell garage in Sport Mode to give the juice a chance to work - and it did! My non-elastic pension won't allow me to floor it very often.....
EMD, I'm glad to hear that it isn't an MOT issue: I do give it Cataclean before the test and a good 20-odd mile warm-up before taking it to the MOT centre. I usually have the first appointment of the day, so it is still warm for the test and I've never had any emissions comments so far.
Once again, I am grateful for the help on here, especially having my mind put at rest for the journey home from Swanage - I ignored the light!

Ron.

That stuff has got a lot of cars through the emissions ron including my old vectra sri . The mot place could not get the emissions low enough so popped a can of cataclean in and took it for a blast ... came back and passed emissions with ease 

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General Car Chat / Re: 2.2 sport ?

« on: 26 February 2017, 19:29:44 »

Same and no servotronic so actually pretty tidy to drive hard

Never had a Sport but I thought they were standard GLS suspension. 

As said Chris, MV6 suspension, prodrive bootlip, prodrive front bumper, "silver" MV interior trim and seats, headlamp washers (no Hid`s)

Interesting to know , i think the mv seats are the comfiest of them all plus the suspension set up is spot on 

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General Car Chat / Re: Update on "The engine light came on".....

« on: 26 February 2017, 19:26:47 »

Just get the lambas moved Serek does it in about 20mins job jobbed

Yes i was there when he moved some with markdtm , dont take long but im not going to bother ... ill just put a sticker over the light