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General Discussion Area / Re: How long to change 6 spark plugs?

« on: 29 November 2006, 20:56:18 »

On my old CDX v6, I changed them in halfrauds car park, with a semi-flexible spark plug spanner, and a couple of small spanners to remove the ICV/Loom at the LHS of the enigine. Not really a bad job. the leads seem to not want to come out at the back, but they will come out in a certain way.....

I would say 45 mins to one hour if not an expert...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Aaaaaaargh Not Happy

« on: 29 November 2006, 21:00:28 »

I Resigned from my Work.!!! :-?

Matt

Bloody Hell, that is a bit extreme

Yeah well go so fed up explaining the same thing OVER and OVER again, to people who are just not interested and couldn't give a toss, except when they have too to stop them selves getting into the shite.
I got fed up constantly holding them up....



... SO I said f you all, dropped everything and walked out!

Matt

I worked with some colleagues like that mate, and it's a total dead end. Gotta get out. However, I did find another job before I told them to jack it

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General Discussion Area / Re: Urgent - All users read and test

« on: 28 November 2006, 21:39:57 »

What are you doing Jamie, something with the DNS records?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Urgent - All users read and test

« on: 28 November 2006, 21:38:50 »

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Maria>ping www.omegaowners.com

Pinging www.omegaowners.com [217.155.56.220] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 217.155.56.220: bytes=32 time=121ms TTL=52
Reply from 217.155.56.220: bytes=32 time=124ms TTL=52
Reply from 217.155.56.220: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=52
Reply from 217.155.56.220: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=52

Ping statistics for 217.155.56.220:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 42ms, Maximum = 124ms, Average = 82ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Maria>

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General Discussion Area / Re: Did this server have a crash last night around

« on: 27 November 2006, 19:19:42 »

Funny thing was, VXON site was down at exactly the same time.

Someone against vauxhalls?

DDOS?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Accident in my v6 :(

« on: 20 November 2006, 15:14:42 »

The Omega is built like a tank, and the metal re-inforcer behind the bumper is like an RSJ - there is not mega damage to the car. It needs a new wing, and a few bits, but it's do-able.

Re. the law re. the RTC - having checked it out purely out of interest, the breath test+producer is apparently only policy when you hit something such as another car, a person, or someone's property = it doesn't apply to simply hitting a wild animal!!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Accident in my v6 :(

« on: 19 November 2006, 13:37:33 »

Straight up matey. I wasn't carrying my licence at the time so I've even got a producer for 7 days to take all my driving documents to the station!!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Accident in my v6 :(

« on: 19 November 2006, 12:46:56 »

The police called out someone to dispose of the deer

To be honest, I was too shocked and upset at all the blood etc to really give it a thought, but I don't think I'd have kept it anyway.

I was a bit disappointed in the police - I called them simply because It was creating an obstruction on a major road, however when they got there, rather than tend to that, all they were interested in was breathalising me, checking my tyre tread depths, checking out my insurance and tax on the database etc... I felt like they were trying to get me for something!! Thankfully they could not.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Accident in my v6 :(

« on: 19 November 2006, 08:43:44 »

Thanks mate. I really gotta get this 2.0 running now  

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General Discussion Area / Accident in my v6 :(

« on: 19 November 2006, 08:30:30 »

As per the title.

Driving to work this morning, at 6:30am, driving at the national speed limit on a quiet A Road. From nowhere, a big deer jumped directly in front of my Omega, leaving me little reaction time. Obviously I hammered on the brakes and the ABS did me proud on an icy morning, I also swerved to avoid it, but unfortunately despite these efforts, we collided.

I never realised how much of a mess they can make of your car

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General Discussion Area / Corsa stuck!!

« on: 19 November 2006, 15:06:26 »

My friend is stuck with her corsa. It's an older one, a 1.4 of the 1993 era.

It appears her rear brakes are stuck on, and it won't move! She's burning her clutch trying to pull away, so she's given up and called out the breakdown coverage.

I seem to remember this is common on corsa's. If I'm right, they have drum brakes on the rear (I can't see this model having ABS)

What does anyone think for a longer term resolution - new brake shoes, and maybe clean out the drums, or get them machined maybe? Or just sod it and replace drums too?

Maybe it's caused by a spring?

Any ideas appreciated, I'd like to help her out with it.

Cheers guys
James

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General Discussion Area / Re: Outrageous offer on ebay....

« on: 04 November 2006, 19:23:46 »

It's been removed!!

Haha

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General Discussion Area / Re: Outrageous offer on ebay....

« on: 04 November 2006, 19:22:42 »

As a personal opinion which I am allowed

I actually don't think the seller is doing anything wrong. I wouldn't want to get involved with it, but if the people bidding that kind of money are so brain dead not to clearly see the word "EBOOK" in the TITLE and see the big capital letters saying "YOU ARE BIDDING FOR AN EBOOK" then they are a complete moron and deserve to pay £1000 for a book!

At the end of the day, the seller has started it at £20, the fact that it's gone up £950 more than that, is the decision of really stupid bidders.

This has really caught my attention, and to be honest, I can't see that the seller is really mis-representing anything with that description!!

It's worrying how genuinely thick as sh*t the general public can be.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Outrageous offer on ebay....

« on: 04 November 2006, 17:09:57 »

I agree Fin, that you'd not suceed in enforcing them to pay.

However, what if the buyer decided to take it further, and get a refund?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Outrageous offer on ebay....

« on: 04 November 2006, 15:25:59 »

Even if the listing states clearly that pictures are for illustration only, and what if it's sold to the USA for example? Trade desc. act won't apply!!!

I think someone is gonna get ripped off.... and have no comeback

But to be honest, I blame them totally for being so dumb to bid near £1000 and not read the listing!!