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Omega General Help / Re: handbrake

« on: 10 July 2007, 14:15:05 »

Handbrakes tchoh. Mine has a habit of sticking too far up whenever I park on the Torpoint ferry (floating bridge across the Tamar to Plymouth). So that I don't go rumbling off the end while pushing the Micra in front straight into the drink, the gradient on the parking ramp requires me to up the HB with both paws. Everytime I've done this so far (had the motor 6 weeks now) I've had to call over one of the nice fellas from guiding the load-offs to get the bloody thing back down for me. While the queue behind me start fuming...
Parking on proper hills means I leave it in gear; maybe I should do that when negotiating the diddy little slope on the ferry. SO long as I can find an infallible way to remind myself to go into neutral before re-ignition.

Am not about to go lolloping underneath to re-tension or nothing, its chucking it down here.

MOT is up in a couple of weeks and all....

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Omega General Help / Re: Uneven tyre wear

« on: 27 June 2007, 17:15:13 »

I really hope I'm not being a Obvious-Idiot here but have you checked out the tyre pressures lately? I had a pull on mine when I got it already equipped with a set of new 'uns but a check check on the boards and a toddle down the BP seems to have sorted the ever-so slight pull I detected.

Of course I dunno if it was going to uneven the wears eventually but I didn't want to wait and it has made the small but appreciable difference.

Of course I should just let someone who knows their stuff on instead.  All the Best though  

PS ANyone know a decent Omega fix bloke in the Far West Country???

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Newby needs halp

« on: 27 June 2007, 17:06:49 »

Why thank you all,  for all your kind welcomes and halps words. I like it here.

I fixed it. Mr Admin and Mr Haynes-Blokes and Messrs all of you - ta. Its a bit delving down these parts as a rule (Cornwall/Devon border) and not just as of lately (everywhere else by the looks of it) and I was getting a bit pissed off at running out to weight down the tarp with yet more chunks of Dartmoor's finest. The gap was about 4" yet its amazing how much sky wet can blow in and the interior is in especially good condition for a heavy mileage motor (I understand its spent most of its 180K plowing steadily up and down the M3). Its already getting marked with Plutonoum27debris but I've got a massive back space to chuck it all into so it won't need turning out for Some Time.

I was off up the A38/M5 and then the winding gets-overly-macho-bikers-every-time bits from the Tiverton exit up through Exmoor to Minehead last Friday and it was atrocious driving especially as the prats on the Devon Expressway appear not to understand that one and all must a) Observe the wet surface distance rules in spades down there (too many grockles bringing the Rover out for its annual airing to the seaside) and NEVER EVER remotely tailgates when its raining so hard that visibility is down to 200yds if yer lucky and b) Turns those headlights - they probly dunno they've even got foglights so we won't go there - the fxxx ON. Goddamn. Anyway it (the Plutonium Tank) did the job beautifully.

Yes. RWD. Never go back.

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Newbie Welcome Area / Newby needs halp

« on: 21 June 2007, 01:46:51 »

Hi
Got myself a 2.0 GLS Caravan (M reg). Depreciation to thank there - its got 187K on the clock but is in grand condition. Every time another motor of mine fails its MOT (ie fails to even get to the garage) I swear I'll get something small and hatchbacked and probly rogered by boyracers but I end up with yet another great barge to toddle all around the shop in.

ANyway I was fiddling with the sunroof and it's stuck open - whenever it gets about 3/4 closed and I try to send it all the way closed but clicking the know from the 7 to the 6 o clock position, it goes back all the way open instead. I had a quick feel for an obstruction but can't find one and anyway it worked ok when I was mucking about with it with the bloke I bought it off. Soon as I get me hands on the V5 and get it home, whaddya know....

I saw Admins post on resetting the windows and sunroof but they're from a CLOSED postion. Will fiddling as per the advice there do it? I sort of guessed I should try holding the knob in for a few secs but that didn't work.

Got to do the A38/M5 schlep friday and its going to rain, I know its going to rain...

O BTW the Omega is the best tank I've ever had - gone through quite a few (including some American rustheaps of extraordinary and pointless dimensions). RWD rules.

O and I'm a short girly and even with the seat on max height I still can't see the end of the bonnet. I better be careful had I not then?