So, back again. Remembered the last oil change a bit wrong and did a 2000 km easter trip to northern Finland (born and raised there) first. Everything went quite smoothly, but once again Omega managed to surprise me
Wipers managed to f**k up on the way there, luckily there wasn't much rain. The wipers linkage had came loose from the wipermotors shaft, fixed it there. Took few minutes after a lot of wiggling to get the wiper arms out of the way. So far I've made two trips there and first time my outside temp sensor fubard on the way and now this, so maybe the car doesn't like going up north
On the + side, chancing the old water pump stopped my little coolant loss. It was making some noise already and there was a little play on the shaft, so no wonder.
Fuel consumption was quite ok, about 8,5 litres/ 100 km or about 27,7 mpg. Four grown men in the car + "some" stuff (lots and lots of beer hidden in there)
Went to the trip on winter tires, wanted to play it safe. Although summer tires would have been already justified, but you never know when some springstorm bites you up there.
And today I finally changed back to summertires and cleaned the car a bit. Now it seems to be just hard driving for a while, no big services in sight. Oils and similar light service only, and repair those rusty rear wheel arches also. Atleast I hope so
And, yeah, I know, would do some good to lower it a bit. Atm my budget doesn't allow me to do that, so I'll have to wait a bit. I would also like to change that original grill to an Irmscher grill, or something like that and some other "spoiler" to the rear door. Only aesthetics, so no hurry on those