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[aaronjb]

Generally the same for just about anything - people who dislike BMWs probably never owned one, people who dislike smoking probably never smoked, etc etc

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Oh, no - I know plenty of people who don't like Fords and own them     

[05omegav6]

The thing is, the Omega has only a handful of common issues...

Crank sensor on the V6
Cam sensor on the 2.2
Wishbone bushes
Fussy geometry
Coilpack water/Oil ingress
Relatively short cambelt interval
2.2/2.5/3.0 headgaskets
2.2 dti fuel pumps if neglected
Abs ecu failure

Of that list the only terminal one is the dti fuel pump... Everthing else is perfectly doable at sensible costs.
Otherwise they do everything you might ever require of a car, and they do it all competently or better. Sure they could be more economical, but you need to be looking at 15+ year old S Class/BMW 7 series to get anything like the same value for money...

 

[Nick W]

The thing is, the Omega has only a handful of common issues...

Crank sensor on the V6
Cam sensor on the 2.2
Wishbone bushes
Fussy geometry
Coilpack water/Oil ingress
Relatively short cambelt interval
2.2/2.5/3.0 headgaskets
2.2 dti fuel pumps if neglected
Abs ecu failure

Of that list the only terminal one is the dti fuel pump... Everything else is perfectly doable at sensible costs.
Otherwise they do everything you might ever require of a car, and they do it all competently or better. Sure they could be more economical, but you need to be looking at 15+ year old S Class/BMW 7 series to get anything like the same value for money...

 

LS400 does that without the list of expensive(if you have to pay someone else to do them) built-in faults. Some of those, like the fussy geometry and the cam cover gaskets are design issues that should have been avoided. 40k cambelt interval is normal, and the procedure could have been simplified for no cost at the design stage. It could have been worse; Renault list their V6 cambelts as an engine out job and will quote around £1200, even though  the parts prices are comparable and the job is doable in place! Crank sensors are a common failure for a lot of cars not just Omegas, and the cure is always the same; only ever fit a genuine one. As for the ABS problem, it's common and readily fixed(A6 has the same part and faults). It's just a horrible job on the Omega due to access. Most of these 'problems' are, in my opinion, common to a lot of German design; fussy and over complicated for  no gain.


So why don't I have a Lexus? Simple, they don't do an estate and if I was going to have a big saloon as a fun car it would be a Jag.