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General Car Chat / Re: What's it worth?

« on: 04 March 2014, 14:52:11 »

IIRC it is a tidy example. P0420/30 just needs the lambda sensors relocating, of course. A non-issue on the 3.2.

Not sure on value, I'm sure others will have a better feel than I, although you may well get a better price selling elsewhere.

Make sure you keep in touch. I might need help fitting another kitchen worktop one day.

Very good memory KW!

May well get a better price but I want to give something back to the forum for all the help over the last dozen years of Omega ownership, hence happy to let it go on here first.  Also don't have the patience, for now, to put an Omega on a website and deal with selling it given how little T&T it has and the pre-cat code.

I simply see this as an opportunity to someone to get a NCDC + CID and stainless exhaust with a free car attached that has just enought T&T to get it home.

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General Car Chat / Re: What's it worth?

« on: 04 March 2014, 14:48:23 »

Signature says it's Star Silver, not sure of the exact paint code but a point to note for the ad.

No panel dents, although there are some scuffs on the front bumper and a cracked rear bumper that demonstrates that you can't rely on parking sensors  .

As for rust, none as far as I can tell, apart from the tiny bubble under the rear wiper assembly, but that's a known issue and having fixed it once I'm not doing it again  .

Think I have some old photos I would use and then add to them with photos of the scuffs and rust.

Colour?, dents, rust?

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General Car Chat / What's it worth?

« on: 04 March 2014, 12:53:27 »

The time has come for my Miggy to move on and I want to offer it for sale on the forum first.  Not looking to make much, if anything on it, but would like some (honest) feedback on what price I should put it on at.

It's a 2002 02 3.2 V6 Elite estate auto.
110 000 miles
Well cared for, have almost always fixed everything that's gone wrong, to the point of replacing the roof aerial.
Lots of receipts for all the work done to it and would put a fuller list on the F/S ad.

However it's throwing a P420 or P430 (can't remember which) permanently so the light on the dash is on all the time.
Cambelt is due at next service in April as is a major service, i.e. brake fluid too.
MOT and tax due in April, which I don't plan to renew.
Tyres will probably need replacing but they're legal for now.
Has used a litre of oil in the last year, having done a few thousand miles.

Upside is that it has the NCDC 2015 + (working) CID and when the exhaust rotted away I replaced it with a complete cat back stainless steel system with separate pipes all the way to the back box.

So, what would someone on here pay to take it away, knowing the above?

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General Car Chat / This year's trip to WIM...

« on: 22 March 2013, 17:46:08 »

...which was last Friday.
Booked in for 09:00 and the M25 was kind to me and I got there in just over an hour.
Car straight on the ramp and there was little adjustment needed.
Wishbones from last year still holding up (Lemforder), but have only done about 3k miles since last visit.
One rear tie rod needed heating but that was it.
Steering wheel now straight which has been a bugbear of mine for a while.

Only downside was that price has now gone up to £95 + VAT, but Tony B was happy enough to explain that he's held the price down for as long as he can.  A lot of the Omegas he sees now need the whole hour allocated dedicated to freeing up everything that is frozen solid.

So, a good trip as ever and all my inane questions answered by Pete  .

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General Discussion Area / Re: What brand/model wireless router to buy?

« on: 21 November 2012, 16:15:55 »

As an early adopter of the original 802.11a standard, I can say, whilst the band is (currently) less congested, the 5Ghz band doesn't penetrate house walls so well.

Well in that case, I'll stick with 2.4GHz  .

It might have merits if the 2.4 GHz band in your locality is rammed full with other WLANs and wireless cameras, etc., though. Poor wireless performance is not always down to attenuation through walls, and often simply too many networks competing for bandwidth.

Fair point, there are other networks that I can detect.  However on other devices I have, if I just move away from the wall where the main PC is I get full strenght coverage, so I'll take a guess that my issues are more likely to be the location of the aerial on the wireless card on the main PC than too many other networks.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What brand/model wireless router to buy?

« on: 21 November 2012, 12:19:52 »

As an early adopter of the original 802.11a standard, I can say, whilst the band is (currently) less congested, the 5Ghz band doesn't penetrate house walls so well.

Well in that case, I'll stick with 2.4GHz  .

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General Discussion Area / Re: What brand/model wireless router to buy?

« on: 20 November 2012, 13:45:51 »

Just to throw a potential spanner in the works, 'n' is soon to be old hat.  The 'ac' wireless technology is nearly upon us.  Obviously your current hardware wont support the faster speeds, and without cast iron figures it is difficult to prove how much better it will be, but worth noting if you are looking to spend ~£100 on a Router.

Yup, 802.11ac is on the horizon.  However having read a bit about it, it only operates at 5GHz frequency, and I don't have any devices that do.  So would cost a lot more to upgrade all my devices, so will stick with 802.11n for now.  Thanks for the tip tho'  .

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General Discussion Area / Re: What brand/model wireless router to buy?

« on: 19 November 2012, 20:50:46 »

Draytek 2xx0 series, such as 2850N (or Vn of you're that way inclined) may do your needs, but they ain't cheap. Draytek have come a long way in the last few years.

A 2850n is liable to be around £180. Add £20ish if you fancy the VoIP option.

Hmm, think the 2850 series is overkill, so 2710n is more up my street at about £120 + VAT.  A 2850n looks more like over £200 all in.

Will give it some thought.  Thanks for the useful and honest opinion, as ever  .

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General Discussion Area / Re: What brand/model wireless router to buy?

« on: 19 November 2012, 15:09:32 »

Any MIMO ratified N wireless ADSL2+ router should do the trick. I'm assuming your other needs are not too taxing, esle you would have mentioned it. To benefit, the PC ideally needs to be N based as well.

Its the sort of stuff I'm normally sending to landfill, but all I have spare around here currently are BT Homehub 3's, which would need hacking to make them work with Demon. Besides, they are not a particularly good router from a Wifi or stability point of view.

Yes, I would upgrade both the router and the PCI card in the PC to match.  And yes, I wouln't bother with a BT Homehub, I would rather invest in a decent router with external aerials.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What brand/model wireless router to buy?

« on: 19 November 2012, 15:00:30 »

The Billion BiPAC 7800N gets pretty good reviews, and the antenna are replaceable if the standard 2dbi ones leave any dead spots in the house.

Yes, same router was mentioned on another forum I posted this question on, but have read about it and it doesn't have a USB storage option.  As I have two Windows PCs that I want to share some stuff between it's more than a nice to have and it's a stepping stone to something along the lines of a NAS without the cost of a decent NAS.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What brand/model wireless router to buy?

« on: 18 November 2012, 22:17:01 »

No option to drill a hole, and use a wire? Nothing will beat a wire.

No, sadly not.  Not a case of just going through one wall.  Running a cable will incur the wrath of SWMBO, although if I ever have the carpet up I could probably do that.

Wireless it is for now  .

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General Discussion Area / Re: What brand/model wireless router to buy?

« on: 18 November 2012, 22:14:23 »

Internal brick walls can be a real loss of strength and you may need to consider doing an "internet over mains" link between router and main pc but make sure you buy a unit that meets your speed demands - I use one of these for connecting to TV.
You should really consider this option and with some you can use as range extender - i.e. extend via mains and then gives great wireless signal from that point.
Which ISP are you with?

My ISP is Demon.  Router will need to stay where it is as TV etc. connects via wires into router.  Main PC doesn't live near a power socket so I have to drag an extension
lead to the nearest power socket so defeats the object of power based adapters.

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General Car Chat / 105 000 miles

« on: 17 November 2012, 23:41:51 »

Well another 5000 miles covered since my post stating I'd done 100 000 miles.  Sat at traffic lights and happened to look down and noticed the magic number.

Car driving sweetly as ever, once the coil pack had been replaced last week, as it had kindly thrown a P0300 and P0302.  Gave the car a good Italian tune up tho once I had got it back and surprised a BT Corsa van at the lights  .

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General Discussion Area / What brand/model wireless router to buy?

« on: 17 November 2012, 23:35:20 »

I currently have a Netgear DG834g wireless router and I would like to upgrade to a newer router. I need wireless for most of the devices I have and it makes sense to go to at least n wireless.

My main PC's line of sight to the router is through internal brick wall so I would like to primarily improve the signal strength and a nice to have would be USB storage on the router. It will be hidden away so looks aren't a problem and I have no plans for streaming media.

I'm willing to invest in a decent router so price isn't so much of a concern. Do I go for another Netgear, so something SoHo such as a Draytek router with lots of external aerials?

Thoughts and suggestions welcomed  .

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 21 October 2012, 19:28:49 »

Yesterday I cleaned the inside of the windows as they were misting up too easily.  I then wrecked my arm pushing it deep into the scuttle to find the usual accumulation of damp tree based crud.  So, out came the piece of cable I keep for this job, cleaned the drain hole and poured a load of water to rinse out the scuttle.

Result - I now have a nice clean scuttle and windows that should resist misting up  .