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Omega General Help / Re: 2.6 - No Gear Selector Lights / Dead TCM?
« on: 06 June 2023, 14:32:11 »
Thanks all. Will report back after the weekend
Please play nicely. No one wants to listen/read a keyboard warriors rants....
I’ve not yet quite finished the 2.6 project …. And now I’ve bought another Omega!
A 2003, 3.2 V6 came up on Facebook marketplace. Only a few miles from me.
Owner seems a very genuine guy. He said “the water pump pulley broke, I replaced the pulley and unit, but checked the cambelt and it had slipped / sheared teeth or similar.
Plan is to attempt a fix. Will do head-off work if needs be although it’s slow progress with my back. It’s had a lot of work including new sills for last MOT.
Will be making every effort to get it running again, would be criminal to break a 3.2 if it can be fixed.
£500. Can’t loose and will enjoy the summer tinkering now the 2.6 is almost done.
I’ll have to sell one of them in due course. Can’t keep two. Tempted to keep the 2.6, it’s not so good paint wise, but mechanically I’ve replaced everything imaginable under the Bonnet!
Wouldnt happen to be the silver elite estate by chance would it?
Oh. And Euro Crap Parts. They have also pissed me off. I ordered some brake discs and pads this afternoon. Went to collect them. Arrived at the store at 16:02. "Sorry, mate, we closed at 4, can't serve you till Monday". Fick off, I've done a 60 mile round trip so I can have these todayI suspect you know Sunday trading laws better than most
I get it's not the spotty yoof's fault, I suppose the tills automatically shut down / are cashed up at 1600 on the dot. But it's still bloody annoying. Almost as annoying as a 4pm closing time (on a weekend, which is when most people want to fix their cars).....
I cant understand the obsession with low mileage.
Cars that are rarely used suffer all kinds of problems that cars with plenty of miles, but well looked after dont.
Do Lucas still produce the wiring?I think the early L322s had the 7 series electrics (hence its extra issues), and the BMW 4.4 incontinent lump. I mean, just imagine, combining 1990s Range Rover reliability with BMW reliability, they never thought that one through