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Omega General Help / adjusting headlights

« on: 12 June 2010, 07:55:15 »

last year when i put the car through the mot i was told the headlights were at the uppermost range and would have to be adjusted its a very good garage and usually do these things for you however he said he couldnt do it and i might have to replace the lights ?
i have looked into this and there doesnt appear to be any manual adjustment on this model = X reg 2.6 V6 CDX
it has xenon lights which according to the manual are controlled by the onboard computer so the question is can i adjust these manually if so how
thanks for reading this

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Omega General Help / Re: CAM BELT ISSUES

« on: 31 August 2009, 10:54:28 »

excellent point Andy when i bought mine the service booklet had an addition suspicious entry cam belt at 56,000.  lucky for me that that all the services had been done at a dealership and i checked their records turned out it was done at 38,000 

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Omega General Help / Re: CAM BELT ISSUES

« on: 31 August 2009, 10:32:35 »

ah so there appears to be conflicting views here i thought myself 40,000 or there abouts but this 80,000 statement obviously does exist

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Omega General Help / CAM BELT ISSUES

« on: 31 August 2009, 10:14:12 »

Hi guys havent been around for a while.
ok so my son and i are out hunting for an omega for him got a nice one 2.6 elite auto on a Y plate £900.00 117,00 on the clock last cam belt at 80,000.
so i thought that we are looking at every 40,000 miles or so for new cam belt so this one is close.
not so my son says hes read the haynes manual and their is a statement saying that after 1997 Vauxhall had an on going improvement to cam belt which increased the mileage to almost double needless to say i havent as yet seen this statement.
so is there any truth in this ?
what mileage should i actually be looking at before changing a cam belt ?
thanks

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Omega General Help / Re: CLIMATE CONTROL

« on: 24 May 2009, 09:21:30 »

sorry about that sticky fingers on keyboard i bought my car last year in july and to be honest the weather was so crap i never used the air con at all
tried to put it on yeterday very very slight chill but nothing so heres the question
cost to check this and re-charge ? what about the do it yourself system from halfords any good ? can you recommend anyone in my area Swindin Wiltshire ?
any advice very much appreciated
cheers

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Omega General Help / CLIMATE CONTROL

« on: 24 May 2009, 09:17:25 »

Hi guys

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Omega General Help / best tyres

« on: 24 May 2009, 13:49:13 »

ok so its coming up to mot time two tyres are borderline just got a quote almost had a heart attack
current tyres are pirelli p6000 = 225/55 ZR 16 would prefer to keep this size but do you know of a decent reasonable priced tyre  i do no more than 10,000 miles a year
cheers

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Omega General Help / T CUT AND MINOR SCRATCH REMOVER

« on: 16 May 2009, 22:54:40 »

Hi all
I have some minor scratches scuffs which i want to try and t cut out but im not sure what to use as there are so many products on the market
the colour of my car is a deep/burgandy red as per the one on the home page
so a red tcut ? a burgundy tcut? a metallic tcut ? im confused the colour fast ones seem a good idea but will they work with this type of red or make it worse
advice please

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Omega General Help / service history print out

« on: 09 May 2009, 20:51:46 »

hi all
this is a bit of a re-run of the same question i thought maybe on a saturday night more of you guys may be around with some sound suggestions
My car has full service history from the same dealership up to the end of 2006 but only in the form of the service booklet
i have contacted the dealership and asked for any corresponding paperwork to confirm all work actually carried out i have offered to pay for this but they seem very vague i know they have this on their system as i did manage to get a screen shot from them showing the cars details
is there anyway i can get hold of this paperwork any suggestions ?
as a rider on this i want to have a major service on her and have had several quotes the dealership being £190.00 what do you think is a fair price for this.
me doing it is no option as im an arse at anything under the bonnet
thanks guys

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Omega General Help / Re: ex plod or not?????

« on: 09 May 2009, 00:57:34 »

i had a chance to buy an ex police Omega 3.2 mv6 manual couldnt make up my mind asked lots of questions lost the sale have huge regrets overr it

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Omega General Help / Re: IS THIS A SUSPENSION PROBLEM

« on: 09 May 2009, 00:53:50 »

yep sping gone snapped at bottom hence noise
got a guy coming to fix it today £86 fitted fair price i reckon as im a complete arse at mechanics.
he actually said i could get parts cheaper on ebay if i wanted to buy a pair but i wanted to get it done rather than wait.

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Omega General Help / Re: IS THIS A SUSPENSION PROBLEM

« on: 08 May 2009, 00:10:33 »

update
cant see anything got someone coming today to have a look

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Omega General Help / Re: IS THIS A SUSPENSION PROBLEM

« on: 06 May 2009, 23:25:29 »

ok wont know until i do something will let u know thanks for the advice

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Omega General Help / Re: IS THIS A SUSPENSION PROBLEM

« on: 06 May 2009, 23:12:26 »

yeah i will try and get under it and have a look will let you know thought the performance would have been effected but nothing just been down to devon 240 mile round trip drove like a dream

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Omega General Help / Re: IS THIS A SUSPENSION PROBLEM

« on: 06 May 2009, 22:49:47 »

you guys are too confident not a chance i will mess it up
mind you need to find out that thats the problem first