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Omega General Help / Re: Misfire/EML light

« on: 27 January 2021, 23:09:40 »

Have I got the layout right -

Windscreen end
5 - 6
3 - 4
1 - 2
Radiator end

Fault is at cylinder 2, therefore 2-4-6 coil pack (9118115)?

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Omega General Help / Re: Misfire/EML light

« on: 27 January 2021, 17:09:41 »

Thanks - I'll take a look. Probably tomorrow, as apparently 'we' should be making dinner.

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Omega General Help / Re: Misfire/EML light

« on: 27 January 2021, 16:50:25 »

Pedal test -

P1612 Immobiliser No Or Wrong Signal Immobiliser (I used the spare key today)

Then it cycles between

P0300 Random/multiple cylinder misfire detected
P0302 Cylinder 2 Misfire Detected

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Omega General Help / Re: Misfire/EML light

« on: 27 January 2021, 15:41:48 »

Those were my first ideas too - coil packs have never been changed.

It doesn't help I've knackered my back doing stupid DIY.

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Omega General Help / Misfire/EML light

« on: 27 January 2021, 15:24:30 »

KW02 is unwell again - starts and runs but it has a misfire and now a steady orange EML.

Months (and barely any miles) after new cam sensor, service, MoT and cambelt this isn't ideal.

I'll try a pedal test, but research on here makes me think coil pack? Cam gaskets were replaced around 2010 but at 51k miles now, lack of use probably won't have helped.

Or am I missing something basic?

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General Discussion Area / 1951 Scammell Explorer

« on: 22 January 2021, 00:33:15 »

I would have put this in General Car but it's definitely a truck:

https://youtu.be/fV2iM6Sy99I

VYJ204 is still showing as taxed and MoT'd at 70yo. And probably still rescuing lesser things, since it was built up to a standard and not down to a price.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Putin’s Palace

« on: 21 January 2021, 00:14:54 »

Robert Mugabe's blue roof mansion comes to mind

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General Discussion Area / Re: Biden's speech...

« on: 21 January 2021, 00:00:12 »

As a historical comparison,

“Every four years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power, and we are grateful to President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition. They have been magnificent.”

- Trump's 2017 inauguration address (which he might have been reflecting on from Mar-a-Lago)

And IMHO there aren't many better renditions of the US national anthem than this one:

https://youtu.be/_rbwFsIlows

If memory serves, it's the only time the Queen sang the anthem of another country.

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General Car Chat / Re: Low mileage Elite (2.5)

« on: 20 January 2021, 00:35:39 »

Ah I'm getting nostalgic for the long lost days when someone would post up an Omega ad from Ebay/Autotrader and we'd pick holes in the car/ad/seller over several pages!   

That interior isn't doing it for me... 

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General Discussion Area / Re: What do believe in most?

« on: 19 January 2021, 16:00:17 »

Summerhill was part of a college course I did - I got that learning and teaching don't always achieve the intended outcomes, but also wasn't sure this method worked every time (which the founder seemed to believe).

It probably didn't help that Lord of the Flies was in the same course.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What do believe in most?

« on: 19 January 2021, 00:40:21 »

I think the grammar school education - which I "benefitted"* from - was in no way elitist, because attendance was on pure merit, not if your dad was in the old boys club.

I also believe it helped all levels of ability, as the brighter kids were not held back by the dimwits, and the dimwits were not left behind because the lessons were too advanced for them to follow.



*I have long believed I would have done better by not going (not that I did often), as the school was more into academia, and particularly more art subjects rather than science.  Which is not the way my simple brain works.  Out of us 5 kids, 2 went to the grammar school system, the other 3 didn't.  The 2 that went to the grammar schools, one is almost unemployable, and I work for some tinpot telco.  The 3 who went to the John Collet School for Thickos have all done rather well...

Despite being from Brackley TB has this spot on.

I also have siblings some of whom went to a grammar, and some of which went to a comprehensive.

Most have done better than me. Although my sister describes her comprehensive education as 'the organised production of mass mediocrity'

Out of interest, what do you make of this?

https://youtu.be/4-C2i9Iq9vY

I believe it still exists.

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General Discussion Area / Re: No more mortgage payments on this property.

« on: 17 January 2021, 02:23:29 »

Mine was a traditional low-cost interest-only which seriously started to wobble around 2010. I made a few lump sum payments to reduce the principal (and therefore the interest) but stopped around 2015 when it was within 5 years of finishing, as I had more than enough in savings to cover the max shortfall.

In the end it still paid back enough and substantially more than I'd paid in.

Got loads of those mis-sold compensation claim letters but didn't take them up - left them to those in real need and I knew it wasn't risk-free tbh.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What do believe in most?

« on: 17 January 2021, 02:15:06 »

The ladder and the rope:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulqATsIgXf8

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General Discussion Area / Re: What do believe in most?

« on: 16 January 2021, 01:39:28 »

As a psychology aside:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control

It's a long read but, in a loosely political sense, I see the 'left' aligned with an external locus of control (where the government or whoever decides your outcome) and the 'right' aligned with an internal locus of control (where you decide your outcome). The rope-and-ladder analogy is similar.

Ok, it's been a long day at work and I'm not sure if I'm making this clear, so I'll leave it there and reflect further.

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General Discussion Area / Re: No more mortgage payments on this property.

« on: 15 January 2021, 01:53:33 »

25-year endowment mortgage paid off last year, came out £5k to the good (all gone, of course)