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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hi i'm new!

« on: 01 February 2011, 19:04:31 »

hey james welcome.

you're from the south west and you drive a range rover...  I gotta ask, are you a farmer??

(not taking the mick, I spend a month a year in somerset and love it) 

haha no i'm not! i do have a couple of fields and a few horses though! but not quite a "farmer" !

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hi i'm new!

« on: 31 January 2011, 20:43:14 »

wow, i've never had such a warm welcome on a forum! thanks chaps and chapesses!

When am i getting an omega, if the right car came up tomorrow i'd have one! But ideally a 2.5td facelift auto estate!

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Newbie Welcome Area / Hi i'm new!

« on: 31 January 2011, 19:10:48 »

Hello chaps, i'm afraid i'm not an omega owner nor even a vauxhall owner, infact i work for the opposition; ford!

I've never owned a vauxhall but always had a soft spot for an mv6 and since owning a 2.5 td m51 range rover i'm hoping i can pick some of your brains on here as the chaps on the range rover forums don't really know much, "take it to an indy" being the most popular answer and the bmw forums aren't interested unless it has "M" in the model name!

So yeah, i'm James, 24 from the south west! I drive a range rover, golf vr6, bmw 525i & mondeo estate!

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General Car Chat / Re: Bringing EU 2.5 DTI Omega's to UK

« on: 02 February 2011, 18:18:55 »

Now this is another thought i've had, the 4.4 bmw 540i engine put into my p38 range rover.................

got any info/links?

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General Car Chat / Re: Bringing EU 2.5 DTI Omega's to UK

« on: 31 January 2011, 23:28:17 »

ok thanks for that info, my only options then are import one or buy a polish registered one already in this country. of which there seems a few locally atleast but not sure how you'd go about buying and re registering a forign car in the uk.

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General Car Chat / Re: Bringing EU 2.5 DTI Omega's to UK

« on: 31 January 2011, 22:00:08 »

I've been thinking about that Mike, and you're quite right. It would have to be an Omega enthusiast to buy it. Most likely I'd bring a DTI over, keep it complete so anyone who's interested can drive it before it's broken for parts. The DTI and gearbox can be palleted up and sold with perhaps a dead 2.2 DTI vehicle for someone to do the engine fit themselves.
It's just an idea currently, I'll have to work it out carefully.

Only real stumbling point I can see in this idea is that some of the engine bay components may be in the way :-/ :-/

Also, just as an addition Josh, it would have to be Lump and gearbox, Engine and Gearbox ECU's, possibly ABS unit(?), keys etc.

TBH, I think it will be a bit of a nightmare :-/ :-/

I've seen a BMW 330d engine transplanted into a range rover classic before, so anything is possible.

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General Car Chat / Re: Bringing EU 2.5 DTI Omega's to UK

« on: 31 January 2011, 20:18:17 »

That said, did they do a 2.5dti in this country?

Vauxhall didn't, pretty certain Land Rover didn't, obviously BMW did

So it was just an Opel option then? I thought the omega facelift 2.5's was a common rail bmw engine?

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General Car Chat / Re: Bringing EU 2.5 DTI Omega's to UK

« on: 31 January 2011, 18:49:16 »

lol, i might be a total newbie to this forum with this being my first post but this thread came up on a google search and the ebay link on the first page was a car that i was watching aswell almost for this very purpose! That is transplanting a y25dti into a p38 range rover!

Also i have no idea about buying a car abroad, i was palnning on putting it on a trailer and catching the ferry.

That said, did they do a 2.5dti in this country?