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General Car Chat / Re: R169 PNP

« on: Today at 13:20:06 »

It was a very early MFL. If memory serves me right, it was on the month of change. Like the way he sold it for what I sold it for 2 years ago.

Sold with about 136.000(ish) on the clock and 4x nearly new Dunlop Sport SP Max tyres and geometry that was always spot on for WIM settings. Now got 4x new Chinese budgets on it with only about 10k miles on it (I used to get almost double that round town when I had it per set of tyres).

I sold it to a bloke in Greenwich who was moving to Northampton. He kept it for 4 months or so and then sold it, changed at least 3 times since then and now back down in SW. been most of the way round England at this rate.

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General Car Chat / R169 PNP

« on: 15 June 2025, 18:09:45 »

Hi all

Just wondering if anyone here knows the current situation with this car? Was my old Estate until President Khan forced me to sell it. Been keeping a track on it and it has sold a few times in the last year or so, last times in May and then again this month.

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General Car Chat / Re: Motor Factors?

« on: 14 May 2024, 12:57:25 »

Remember as well that ECP and GSF have the same parent company and are now both known to inflate the retail prices to offer the discount. I have a trade account with GSF as I have caught them increasing the retail price by 50% to offer a 40% discount, which was still 16% dearer than if I did a click and collect as a retail customer. Warranty is a nightmare, electrical will almost certainly be declined unless from a garage and then, they insist you purchase a replacement in most cases whilst they claim to try and get a warranty claim paid out for you. Avoid both like the plague now, use a local factors called ABM.

Almost anyone that has the “Parts Alliance” logo will probably be as bad as ECP.

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General Car Chat / Re: I've been given this for free.

« on: 14 July 2023, 12:51:51 »

As someone who works in a BMW dealership dealing with techs all day, my advice is to not do it. We will find out as the system will flag an animist for the tech to investigate and they are obliged by BMW to raise an appropriate “info only case” and a warranty marker is placed on the car. This makes any warranty claims relating to the running gear almost impossible to claim, extends the delay for anything not related to the running gear and makes it unlikely you will be able to trade it back to a dealer as they have to check for the markers as part of their due diligence.

We have had so many people try it, they all fail.

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Omega General Help / Re: water ingress

« on: 06 April 2023, 17:27:17 »

Check this thread out.

https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=147555.0

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General Car Chat / Re: What sort of price?

« on: 31 March 2023, 19:18:33 »

Collected by a guy moving to Northampton area in next few weeks. All gone 

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General Car Chat / Re: What sort of price?

« on: 27 March 2023, 07:17:09 »

Hi all, looks like the Omega estate is going up for sale soon (possibly as soon as this or next weekend).

What sort of money do they go for now? 1997 MFL 2.0 16v CDX auto estate with 136k on the clock and probably described as average condition?

Well, went up for sale and sold yesterday. Guy collecting this week.

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General Car Chat / Re: What sort of price?

« on: 16 March 2023, 17:22:17 »

Omega prices are all over everywhere with everyone either wanting a Elite or MV6 which is now starting to fetch good money but sadly the lower models never seem to fetch that much

Id say 500 to 1500 depending on condition & mot for you estate

£500 it will sell tomorrow
£1500 might be for sale for a few months

I was going to stick it on the bay with a £300 reserve or something. Only reason getting rid of it is because of ULEZ and I need to thin the car collection out a bit (currently sitting at 8 cars)

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General Car Chat / Re: What sort of price?

« on: 15 March 2023, 19:56:54 »

Put the registration number in WBAC (or similar) to get a rough guide.

Used cars fetch silly money these days.

According to them, £30

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General Car Chat / What sort of price?

« on: 15 March 2023, 17:58:59 »

Hi all, looks like the Omega estate is going up for sale soon (possibly as soon as this or next weekend).

What sort of money do they go for now? 1997 MFL 2.0 16v CDX auto estate with 136k on the clock and probably described as average condition?

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General Car Chat / Re: Rather expensive cossie

« on: 27 February 2023, 20:44:22 »

Prices for all classic and older cars is going up on average.

Sold my 1992 Sierra Ghia 4x4 Sapphire with 106000 miles on the clock in January this year. Got paid £10,700 for it. Paid £400 for it back in 2002 with 48000 miles on the clock.

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General Car Chat / Reducing car collection

« on: 10 January 2023, 19:55:51 »

Well, the car collection is starting to thin out a bit. Had quite a few cars and bikes but now some have got to go because of Khan and ULEZ.

T-reg Golf has already gone in October, my Sierra Sapphire 4x4 sold between Christmas and New Year (for silly money as well), got to move on my Nissan Primera and the Omega soon.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 02 January 2023, 20:10:59 »

Listening to various folk discussing the proposed enlargement of the ULEZ , although it won't affect me at all but it pisses me off that  Khan can be allowed to get away with this money grabbing scheme.

Well, in defence of the useless moron, many other cities are implementing similar money grabbing schemes, as the motorist is evil and a socially easy target.

No, there is no defending “President Khan”. He changed the rules every time it went against him and even the “loaded” questions on the proposal consultation were designed to work for him (and still managed to do the opposite). Example was that when the votes were all counted, it was something like 87% against it, so he decided to exclude anyone not living inside the zone, so all those that would be affected just outside it had no say.

In my work, we have 45 employees in our branch on average, 36 of them live outside the zone currently and 29 will still be outside it when it expands. Each one of them has to travel into the new zone. How many have to change their cars just to get to work or find alternative employment (2 have already handed in their notice as not worth the grief and are going elsewhere purely based on ULEZ). How many customers have cars that are not going to be compliant that will either go elsewhere to service their car outside the zone, change car to another brand if inside the new zone or something else?

He only got back in last time as West London voted for him and they have the higher concentration of voters.

I could rant for ages on that cretin but you get my gist. And the main reason that other place are doing the same is because of the revenue generated by the initial LEZ (commercial diesel vehicles). What they forgot is the damage it does to the commercial and retail sectors. Not as bad on inner London areas, but will potentially decimate outer London and Kent/Surrey/Essex areas over time.

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General Car Chat / Re: MOT Inconsistencies

« on: 31 December 2022, 21:01:12 »

My current MOT tester doesn't do a roller test on my ML's brakes ... AFAIK he should really do a road brake test with a decelerometer. His rollers will only go one way .. previous tester could spin the wheels on an axle in opposite directions. I assume he just goes off the overall condition of the car.

I don't get that 
because it's all wheel drive ?
he'd have to enter some figures on the VTS device for the brakes 

I leave my car and wait for a phone call. They might not even use my car for the test as far as I know 

It's always nice to have the car "on site" when doing an MOT 

Not necessarily. Only check is for grabbing, binding and obvious imbalance. Of three awd cars I have owned, only the Sierra XR4x4 had the test done with the box in the passenger footwell.

My MOT tester only ever took my Sierra 4x4 out once for that test. Car stopped from 30 mph in a cars length as if someone had dropped an anchor (his words, not mine) and he ended up with suspected whiplash so could barely do any work for over a week. Refused to ever test brakes on that car ever since. And yes, the brakes are massively upgraded from standard and do stop it pretty quickly.

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Omega General Help / Re: omega 2.0 X20XEV 16v running cold

« on: 28 December 2022, 07:18:25 »

You could try blocking the lower half of the radiator with something and see if that allows the car to warm up on the road.

If it does, pretty much confirms thermostat as most likely cause. As said above, either faulty, wrong or installed incorrectly.