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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Old member back from the dead - how is everyone?

« on: Yesterday at 12:44:12 »

Yay!

I am now Omegaless, sadly, as not much beats it for mile crunching

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

« on: 28 April 2025, 20:07:28 »

………..
Fingers crossed on the rims  , given the bulge, the strongest side of the rim took the brunt.

New tyres fitted, but the inside of the wheel is slightly buckled from the pot hole.     It’s not losing air but he said to keep an eye on it. The state of the roads is shocking now, the worst I’ve ever known them.

Round these parts, there is a place in Banburyshire and a place in Enslow that will straighten wheels for under £100, if you need that.

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

« on: 27 April 2025, 19:01:07 »

some tit in a Range Rover

As the old question goes, what is the difference between a hedgehog and a Range Rover?

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General Car Chat / Re: Received an email today....

« on: 27 April 2025, 18:59:37 »

So do turds....

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

« on: 27 April 2025, 13:46:19 »

I have actually been entertaining the thought of a Motorhome recently.
I really am getting old ! 

Well, err, I was toying with hiring one next year and doing a 2 week tour around the top of Scotland.

I'm pretty certain camper vans ain't for me, so I suppose if I tried one for a holiday I'd know either way.

 Let's guess, going to do the fabled "500" with all the other wannabe Rob Roys, and try a bit of Haggis and have a wee dram..

 It isn't for you TB, trust me, all the tinkers bumbling along at 50mph, stopping without indication, O and you wait till they see anything bigger than a fly coming towards them.

I purposely wanted to avoid the 500, though any route covering that area is obviously going to follow bits of it.

Ironically, when I was up in the highlands last month, getting about was easy and fairly quick, despite a lack of roads.  Everyone drove at the speed limit, or pulled over after a mile or 2, bar the odd camper van.  That ease of getting about, added to the fact the scenery is breathtaking, is why I half considered a passion wagon for a trip up there again.  The area is too vast to have a single base to do day visits out.

The alternative would be being organised to have hotels booked and a strict itinerary, but that's not how we holiday.

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

« on: 26 April 2025, 14:35:03 »

I have actually been entertaining the thought of a Motorhome recently.
I really am getting old ! 

Well, err, I was toying with hiring one next year and doing a 2 week tour around the top of Scotland.

I'm pretty certain camper vans ain't for me, so I suppose if I tried one for a holiday I'd know either way.

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

« on: 26 April 2025, 14:33:21 »

I think it's disappeared off their site now Rangie, but I saw some others and fell off the chair!!  £50k for a 2nd hand pikey palace!!!  I really am out of touch, as I thought mid range new ones were only £20k.  But then I think small family hatchbacks are only £15k


I must be getting (almost) as old as Uncle Albs!

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Omega General Help / Re: ABS issues

« on: 26 April 2025, 14:27:05 »

As Doctor Gollum said, ABS ECU failure is pretty common on the post 1997 V6 Omegas.  The dash gets its speed info from the ABS ECU, hence your speedo and odometer stop working as well. On later cars with built in Satnav, that also stops working as it positions primarily by accelerometers and speed signal.

You can try reading the ABS codes, but if its the usual failure mode, the ABS ECU will be unresponsive.

A working 2nd hand one from a same drivetrain and era car* will work, or get yours repaired.


*Same engine, same gearbox, Omega.

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Cars for Sale & wanted / Re: 2.6 Saloon

« on: 25 April 2025, 15:59:36 »

As has been mentioned, FL bonnet struts are stronger than PFL/MFL, due to extra weight of the bonnet, and the leverage effect of where that extra weight is.

No issue with pattern struts, but check the specs, just don't rely on some offshore pikey website to get it right, in the same way you would not expect Euroshite to get the parts correct.  Or, following in from Mutha's crank sensor thread, even GM dealers in some cases.


Many cross reference lookup software used by aftermarket shops is actually american, and is often more wrong than right.  For example, I know for a fact that if I put the oil recommended by Euroshite in my car, I'd be on a low loader in less than 1000 miles, as the yankee variant of mine never got a DPF, unlike all european variants.

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

« on: 25 April 2025, 15:48:26 »

Enjoy your new pikey palace

Obviously, just let us all know where you're off to, so we don't get stuck behind in the convoy

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Refurbish speakers for 15£

« on: 23 April 2025, 15:03:42 »

Even when new, the non-Bose speakers weren't the best to begin with.  So any replacement speaker is an upgrade

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Philips SC804

« on: 23 April 2025, 15:01:24 »

The lasers on those Phillips units are prone to failure with use. Fortunately replacement lasers are (or used to be) readily availlable. Bit of a ballache to have to change it when you don't actually need it though!

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: No brake lights, cruise control doesn't disengage while braking

« on: 23 April 2025, 10:42:28 »

Glad its resolved, and thanks for posting your findings on the old one

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General Discussion Area / Re: Happy Easter!

« on: 21 April 2025, 12:20:31 »

Looks like the Pope hasn't risen like Jesus....

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

« on: 21 April 2025, 12:19:20 »

Tescos.  Close their petrol station a week early for refurb.

Sainsburys was chaos, and I'm banned from the BP.