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Omega General Help / Re: Deciding between Omegas...

« on: 26 September 2007, 10:23:17 »

Dave - thanks for the PM, have replied.


All,

Thanks for the comments. I agree that getting a good car outweighs the spec, but I'm not in a rush at the moment to buy so hopefully I can wait for the right one to come along. I side with Paul in a way because I  enjoy being involved with driving, not just sitting back and being chauffered by the car but sometimes I think I'd just like to relax.

My present weekday car revs highly in all gears (I'm in fifth before I reach 45!!), making any trip fuel-hungry and it's only a 1.6i. I'm looking for a comfortable ride in a nice environment (ability to smooth potholed Dorset roads essential), that can happily sit on the motorway at 90 (leptons) without revving to 5,000 rpm, but also be reasonably useful along country lanes without swallowing the oil reserves of the middle east in the process. I'd be using it to drive to work (5 miles each way) and trips around the countryside and also to places likes Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, etc when the mood takes me. I don't have kids to ferry around and having an estate Omega as a 30 year old bloke scares me as I've already got a few grey hairs!  

I could just get a diesel and be done with it but I've heard that they are gutless until the turbo kicks in, and I do like to drive my cars properly and improve my driving, not just stagnate behind the wheel.

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Omega General Help / Re: Deciding between Omegas...

« on: 25 September 2007, 17:19:11 »

Thanks for all your comments, chaps. I'm coming round to the idea of an auto but I do need a longer test. I drive mostly country roads and trips up the motorway so I want something that can handle both.

Is an Elite or MV6 worth getting over a CDX do you think? I do like the thought of the top model as I shall keep it a long time.

Also, I can't work out if there were any 3.0s made after 2000 as I haven't come across any. I'd prefer the 3.0 for the sound (seems more meaty) and extra oomph and the MPG doesn't seem to suffer too much, but the later engines (BMW?) seem to be better.

All the manual MV6s I can find are estates!

Please keep the comments coming.

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Omega General Help / Deciding between Omegas...

« on: 25 September 2007, 15:02:53 »

Hi all,

Found this site through a post on VXON. I'm hoping some learned people here can help me.

I want to buy a facelift Omega saloon in the next couple of months, but, ideally, I want a manual. That's obviously my first problem. I've always driven manuals and it wasn't until Saturday that I first drove an automatic, which was also my first drive in an Omega. It was only a short round-the-block test and I hope to have a longer test soon, but I still have the nagging doubt that I'd never be able to live with an auto for long. Gearchanges are part of the driving experience for me. As you all know, finding manuals can be a bit difficult and I'm looking for a reasonably specific spec because it will be a car I'll keep for a long time.

But with all the automatics out there, I would be stupid, I think, to overlook some great auto cars in preference for a possibly average manual. Does anyone have any pros and cons for the auto / manual. I have driven a couple of manuals but not the right spec. My girlfriend says I should just go for a good auto and keep my toy car for manual driving but I'm really not sure.

I'm looking for a 01 or later Elite or MV6 2.6 V6 petrol with dark leather interior, FSH and under 80k miles. Nationally there just doesn't seem to be any when I look in the usual places.

I have also seen a 3.0 MV6 but that's an older car than I would prefer.

I've looked online and can't find a very specific guide to what the difference is between an MV6 and an Elite, apart from the sportier suspension. Do they both have the self levelling suspension and all the toys? Wisebuyers suggests they are the same spec.

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Omega General Help / Checking the toys

« on: 27 September 2007, 11:30:18 »

As mentioned in my other thread, I'm looking for an Omega.

Coming from a car that only has air con and heated electric mirrors as toys, the range of electrical equipment supplied in the Vauxhall luxo-barge is somewhat bewildering and I will have to check it all works when I finally buy a car. On a test drive I don't want to be relying on the owner, dealer or an owners manual to work out how it all works.

Does anyone have a checklist of how to operate and check the electrical bits on Elites and CDXs so I can easily whack through it instead of wasting the seller's time?


Thanks for any help.

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Morning all!

« on: 08 October 2007, 15:02:48 »

Thanks all for your words of welcome.  

Amigov6, what bands are you into?

Me: Turisas, Opeth, In Flames, Megadeth, Korpiklaani, Finntroll, Nevermore, Sabbath etc

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Newbie Welcome Area / Morning all!

« on: 05 October 2007, 11:24:29 »

All,

I've already been busy in the forums, but now it's time to say a belated Hi.

Thanks for the help so far. Hopefully I'll be sticking around, and popping in every so often now I've put down a deposit on an 01(Y) Elite DTi with 85k on the clock. Had it inspected and it's a solid car; hoping to pick it up either this weekend or middle of next week.

I'm from north Dorset, so if anyone is from round these parts...

Currently pottering around in a dull grey 1.6 Honda Concerto day to day which has been supremely reliable in the past 70,000 miles (brake pads, one caliper, little bit of MOT welding only!). Hoping I'm not making a mistake.

The Omega will be replacing it, but I also have a toy in the garage for weekends and fine days. If I hadn't had that, I'd have gone for the 3 or 3.2 petrol Omega. Different noise to the V8 but love the sound!  

Into motorsport, photography, local history, heavy metal, wildlife.


Graham

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Omega Gallery / Omega Colour Swatch

« on: 02 October 2007, 16:07:41 »

How about posting one picture of an Omega in every colour that they came in?

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Omega Gallery / Re: Racing Omega

« on: 05 October 2007, 11:09:29 »

Left hand drive? Can't see a seat on the right for the driver.

Ex-DTM?

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Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / Re: OFFICIAL Rolling road day!

« on: 12 October 2007, 17:16:10 »

It's a little out of my way... Hull not being the most central of places in Britain  

Would be interested in a South RR day.

I will be organising one in Bromsgrove in the Midlands at some point soon if its any use?

Very interesting indeed. What are the chances of you remapping my 2.2 DTi on the same day with before and after RR measurements?

very high

Excellent! I suppose the price of 200 English spondulicks for the remap would be timed out by then....?

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Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / Re: OFFICIAL Rolling road day!

« on: 12 October 2007, 10:15:44 »

It's a little out of my way... Hull not being the most central of places in Britain  

Would be interested in a South RR day.

I will be organising one in Bromsgrove in the Midlands at some point soon if its any use?

Very interesting indeed. What are the chances of you remapping my 2.2 DTi on the same day with before and after RR measurements?

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Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / Re: OFFICIAL Rolling road day!

« on: 12 October 2007, 09:59:52 »

It's a little out of my way... Hull not being the most central of places in Britain  

Would be interested in a South RR day.

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General Discussion Area / Diesel....

« on: 30 June 2008, 16:05:38 »

My biggest problem in using this forum is that I have a 2.2 DTI engine. It seems this is the least common of all the engines in Omegas, and so trawling through countless pages of V6 and older diesel threads to find a useful bit of info can take hours.

The search function is almost useless in that it returns only 15 results, and a lot of people don't mention 2.2 diesel or DTi in posts so searching for diesel with 15 results only is not exactly a good idea.

Is there any way that there could be engine specific, or at least petrol and diesel engine forums, for specific questions about them.

Also, if anyone knows of a workshop guide to the DTi, like a Haynes, or a picture of what is where on this engine I would be much obliged. Currently looking for the starter motor and there is nowhere to turn!

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General Discussion Area / Re: New Tyres, Anyone using Falkens ?

« on: 22 April 2008, 11:43:41 »

I put GSD1 or whatever they are Eagles on in November and while I still have tramlining issues (caused by what I suspect is still a badly set up geometry) the tyres themselves have lots of grip, wet or dry. Not had any understeer at all.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Trade card=life saver

« on: 27 March 2008, 09:45:39 »

Do you have the part numbers for the dampers?

saloon or estate?

Saloon.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Trade card=life saver

« on: 26 March 2008, 19:26:55 »

Do you have the part numbers for the dampers?