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[Toledodude1973]

Migs have souls

[05omegav6]

True, but someone could have used it for a year first... even an MoT failure Omega would have been preferable...

[05omegav6]

Migs have souls

That they do, but I fear Nick belongs to the appliance school of daily motoring

[Nick W]

Migs have souls

That they do, but I fear Nick belongs to the appliance school of daily motoring

No, but I've spent far too much time trying to move actually useful stuff onto new, and appreciative homes. Often for free.


Put simply it is total and utter waste of time and effort that would have been better spent watching paint dry.


And those pictures are a good illustration on where the Omega is in its life cycle: many owners are glad to see the back of them.

[LFF64]

I know I was gutted I even asked if they would sell it to me I would have had it off of him to stop it being killed but they wouldn't have it I did do a deal for the wheels but they managed to squash one

[LFF64]

As Nick says that was the case with this one they had got fed up spending money on it the last straw was when it broke down coming back from the airport after a holiday recovery water pump and four tires
If you know the cars they are Ok and with the help of everyone on OOF they can be kept going

[STEMO]

Dans, in the for sale section, looks an absolute corker. If you did nothing to it and got a couple of years out of it, it would only cost £400 a year......£8 a week......

[zirk]

Dans, in the for sale section, looks an absolute corker. If you did nothing to it and got a couple of years out of it, it would only cost £400 a year......£8 a week......

Cost more to Tax and Insure it, and about double that again to fuel it, but yea your on the right lines.   

[STEMO]

Dans, in the for sale section, looks an absolute corker. If you did nothing to it and got a couple of years out of it, it would only cost £400 a year......£8 a week......

Cost more to Tax and Insure it, and about double that again to fuel it, but yea your on the right lines.   

Well, yeah...but that's the same with any car, I meant just the purchase price.

[EMD]

Could have put that on egay and got a few hundred 

[Nick W]

Could have put sthat on egay and got a few hundred 

Just as likely to get a mouth breathing timewaster who has no money to pay the £47.12 winning bid, and expects you to take it in installments.

[Diamond Black Geezer]

I'm always on the lookout for a 2.5 V6, ideally very low miles for parts... like that one.  There was one in my local scrappy for a while, but they crushed it before I had had all the bits off it I wanted.

Because the earliest FLs were 2.5, not 2.6, as we know, they can be a good source of bits which will drop straight onto a PFL. Crank sensor, alternator, air con piping, various bits n bobs in the engine bay that would be just 'nicer' or 'cleaner' than mine. I bet the header tank was creamy white. Spare set of vac pipes, HBV, the induction pipework between the airbox and the plenum, little fuse box above the battery, spare cam covers, spare coil pack, that's off the top of my head.

Now all that lot could easily come to hundreds if I had to pay the going rate piece-by-piece, but then you see it all go under a set of caterpillar tracks and you think 'well hang on, clearly the going rate is free! if they're in such abundance that they can be bought and destroyed like that'  That being the case why can't I find one? Ah well, be philosophical about it, I suppose. Plenty more fish in the sea etc... 

[henryd]

Migs have souls

That they do, but I fear Nick belongs to the appliance school of daily motoring

As do most of us who work in the trade

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Could have put sthat on egay and got a few hundred 

Just as likely to get a mouth breathing timewaster who has no money to pay the £47.12 winning bid, and expects you to take it in installments.

Sorry to say, however, that Nick's basically speaking the truth.  The only person that cares about your car, is you (and often not even he/she)

[EMD]

This is not the best place to show an omega being crushed  Although in reality i guess quite a few do at the breakers . Cant find any omegas around here at the scrappies and one scrap yard said never heard of an omega