I have a Omega dilemma

[OmegaAnglesey]

Might well be looking up this procedure.
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=434597

[kevinp58]

Just remember the V6's have probs with the oil cooler,  and seeing as it is owned by an elderly gent and probably not been above 60mph with the low milage it may well soon need one. I say this because I brought my 3.2 from and elderly gent with 50,000 miles and after 2 weeks of me getting it the oil cooler let go, I wasn't too worried as I got the car for £450, got the cooler from vx and it is now as good as gold, and clean as a whistle. 

[tunnie]

Just remember the V6's have probs with the oil cooler,  and seeing as it is owned by an elderly gent and probably not been above 60mph with the low milage it may well soon need one. I say this because I brought my 3.2 from and elderly gent with 50,000 miles and after 2 weeks of me getting it the oil cooler let go, I wasn't too worried as I got the car for £450, got the cooler from vx and it is now as good as gold, and clean as a whistle. 

Do they? 

Only problem is when they are neglected by poor coolant maintenance, serviced right there is no fault with them. Even more so with later ones as they are stainless steel 

[TheBoy]

Just remember the V6's have probs with the oil cooler,  and seeing as it is owned by an elderly gent and probably not been above 60mph with the low milage it may well soon need one. I say this because I brought my 3.2 from and elderly gent with 50,000 miles and after 2 weeks of me getting it the oil cooler let go, I wasn't too worried as I got the car for £450, got the cooler from vx and it is now as good as gold, and clean as a whistle. 

As tunnie says, oil cooler failures are down to poor coolant servicing. I'm 195k and 15yrs, no oil cooler issues here

[Simon.rose1]

I'm new here and about to take possession of a 2.5v6 cdx with only one owner and 57k on the clock full service history only 4 probs with it are little rust in rear drivers door drivers heated seat doesn't work slight mark on the passenger door rub strip needs blowing over and no towbar lol

[OmegaAnglesey]

I'm new here and about to take possession of a 2.5v6 cdx with only one owner and 57k on the clock full service history only 4 probs with it are little rust in rear drivers door drivers heated seat doesn't work slight mark on the passenger door rub strip needs blowing over and no towbar lol

sounds like you had a dilemma of your own personally I like the sound the 2.5 makes more over the 2.6.

[kevinp58]

Just remember the V6's have probs with the oil cooler,  and seeing as it is owned by an elderly gent and probably not been above 60mph with the low milage it may well soon need one. I say this because I brought my 3.2 from and elderly gent with 50,000 miles and after 2 weeks of me getting it the oil cooler let go, I wasn't too worried as I got the car for £450, got the cooler from vx and it is now as good as gold, and clean as a whistle. 

Do they? 

Only problem is when they are neglected by poor coolant maintenance, serviced right there is no fault with them. Even more so with later ones as they are stainless steel 

Yup But he is buying a second hand car and who knows if coolant is changed so hence my warning, as said the car I brought had VX service history and still let go and is a late 2002 and was not stainless steel.

[OmegaAnglesey]

Just remember the V6's have probs with the oil cooler,  and seeing as it is owned by an elderly gent and probably not been above 60mph with the low milage it may well soon need one. I say this because I brought my 3.2 from and elderly gent with 50,000 miles and after 2 weeks of me getting it the oil cooler let go, I wasn't too worried as I got the car for £450, got the cooler from vx and it is now as good as gold, and clean as a whistle. 

Do they? 

Only problem is when they are neglected by poor coolant maintenance, serviced right there is no fault with them. Even more so with later ones as they are stainless steel 

Yup But he is buying a second hand car and who knows if coolant is changed so hence my warning, as said the car I brought had VX service history and still let go and is a late 2002 and was not stainless steel.

i do believe this CDX has full service history he bought it from Vauxhall from 6 months old or there abouts and wealthy chap going by the house and land. Engine was as sweet as a nut... I've never heard a V6 Omega sounding so healthy whith a lot of poke from the engine it's definitely not been abused just got annoying body work issues I'm currently pricing up.

[kevinp58]

Just remember the V6's have probs with the oil cooler,  and seeing as it is owned by an elderly gent and probably not been above 60mph with the low milage it may well soon need one. I say this because I brought my 3.2 from and elderly gent with 50,000 miles and after 2 weeks of me getting it the oil cooler let go, I wasn't too worried as I got the car for £450, got the cooler from vx and it is now as good as gold, and clean as a whistle. 

Do they? 

Only problem is when they are neglected by poor coolant maintenance, serviced right there is no fault with them. Even more so with later ones as they are stainless steel 

Yup But he is buying a second hand car and who knows if coolant is changed so hence my warning, as said the car I brought had VX service history and still let go and is a late 2002 and was not stainless steel.

i do believe this CDX has full service history he bought it from Vauxhall from 6 months old or there abouts and wealthy chap going by the house and land. Engine was as sweet as a nut... I've never heard a V6 Omega sounding so healthy whith a lot of poke from the engine it's definitely not been abused just got annoying body work issues I'm currently pricing up.

Sounds a good car mate,  I just put it up so as you are aware of what happened to me, mine had all its history and sounded very quiet with no problems, hope you get it for the price you want to pay and there really isn't much difference between the CDX and the Elite apart from the suspension. 

[kevinp58]

Just remember the V6's have probs with the oil cooler,  and seeing as it is owned by an elderly gent and probably not been above 60mph with the low milage it may well soon need one. I say this because I brought my 3.2 from and elderly gent with 50,000 miles and after 2 weeks of me getting it the oil cooler let go, I wasn't too worried as I got the car for £450, got the cooler from vx and it is now as good as gold, and clean as a whistle. 

Do they? 

Only problem is when they are neglected by poor coolant maintenance, serviced right there is no fault with them. Even more so with later ones as they are stainless steel 

Yup But he is buying a second hand car and who knows if coolant is changed so hence my warning, as said the car I brought had VX service history and still let go and is a late 2002 and was not stainless steel.

i do believe this CDX has full service history he bought it from Vauxhall from 6 months old or there abouts and wealthy chap going by the house and land. Engine was as sweet as a nut... I've never heard a V6 Omega sounding so healthy whith a lot of poke from the engine it's definitely not been abused just got annoying body work issues I'm currently pricing up.

Sounds a good car mate,  I just put it up so as you are aware of what happened to me, mine had all its history and sounded very quiet with no problems, and I found this to be happening to a few others on this forum, I hope you get it for the price you want to pay and there really isn't much difference between the CDX and the Elite apart from the suspension and Bose   

Just modified 

[OmegaAnglesey]

Just remember the V6's have probs with the oil cooler,  and seeing as it is owned by an elderly gent and probably not been above 60mph with the low milage it may well soon need one. I say this because I brought my 3.2 from and elderly gent with 50,000 miles and after 2 weeks of me getting it the oil cooler let go, I wasn't too worried as I got the car for £450, got the cooler from vx and it is now as good as gold, and clean as a whistle. 

Do they? 

Only problem is when they are neglected by poor coolant maintenance, serviced right there is no fault with them. Even more so with later ones as they are stainless steel 

Yup But he is buying a second hand car and who knows if coolant is changed so hence my warning, as said the car I brought had VX service history and still let go and is a late 2002 and was not stainless steel.

i do believe this CDX has full service history he bought it from Vauxhall from 6 months old or there abouts and wealthy chap going by the house and land. Engine was as sweet as a nut... I've never heard a V6 Omega sounding so healthy whith a lot of poke from the engine it's definitely not been abused just got annoying body work issues I'm currently pricing up.

Sounds a good car mate,  I just put it up so as you are aware of what happened to me, mine had all its history and sounded very quiet with no problems, and I found this to be happening to a few others on this forum, I hope you get it for the price you want to pay and there really isn't much difference between the CDX and the Elite apart from the suspension and Bose   

Just modified 

There are a few more differences, Like the auto interior mirror, auto rain sensitive wipers, NCDC2013 / 15 , leather memory seats, umm cant think of much else from the top of my head. But most of this stuff could be retrofitted I'd have thought.

[kevinp58]

Just remember the V6's have probs with the oil cooler,  and seeing as it is owned by an elderly gent and probably not been above 60mph with the low milage it may well soon need one. I say this because I brought my 3.2 from and elderly gent with 50,000 miles and after 2 weeks of me getting it the oil cooler let go, I wasn't too worried as I got the car for £450, got the cooler from vx and it is now as good as gold, and clean as a whistle. 

Do they? 

Only problem is when they are neglected by poor coolant maintenance, serviced right there is no fault with them. Even more so with later ones as they are stainless steel 

Yup But he is buying a second hand car and who knows if coolant is changed so hence my warning, as said the car I brought had VX service history and still let go and is a late 2002 and was not stainless steel.

i do believe this CDX has full service history he bought it from Vauxhall from 6 months old or there abouts and wealthy chap going by the house and land. Engine was as sweet as a nut... I've never heard a V6 Omega sounding so healthy whith a lot of poke from the engine it's definitely not been abused just got annoying body work issues I'm currently pricing up.

Sounds a good car mate,  I just put it up so as you are aware of what happened to me, mine had all its history and sounded very quiet with no problems, and I found this to be happening to a few others on this forum, I hope you get it for the price you want to pay and there really isn't much difference between the CDX and the Elite apart from the suspension and Bose   

Just modified 

There are a few more differences, Like the auto interior mirror, auto rain sensitive wipers, NCDC2013 / 15 , leather memory seats, umm cant think of much else from the top of my head. But most of this stuff could be retrofitted I'd have thought.

Yes you can find it in scrappys and on fleabay and fit it wipers are sometimes not so good though. If you want an Elite that bad hold out there are alot of them around and at good prices, you could always buy one that is ready for scrap and take the parts off then scrap it.