Worth it for the low mileage?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Best allrounder, for me, is the 2.6

I'm sure you mean 2.5 manual

Like the 3.0 over the 3.2, the 2.5 is marginally quicker and a damn site more economical than the 2.6...    ...and as you're going for the smaller v6, so economy is a factor, I've suggested manual, despite the Omega manual box being bloody awful

No worse than the average lorry.

[TheBoy]

Best allrounder, for me, is the 2.6

I'm sure you mean 2.5 manual

Like the 3.0 over the 3.2, the 2.5 is marginally quicker and a damn site more economical than the 2.6...    ...and as you're going for the smaller v6, so economy is a factor, I've suggested manual, despite the Omega manual box being bloody awful

No worse than the average lorry.

You reckon? I've not driven any lorries with such a horrible box...  ...though the Omega box is simpler to understand than most larger lorries

[05omegav6]

Best allrounder, for me, is the 2.6

I'm sure you mean 2.5 manual

Like the 3.0 over the 3.2, the 2.5 is marginally quicker and a damn site more economical than the 2.6...    ...and as you're going for the smaller v6, so economy is a factor, I've suggested manual, despite the Omega manual box being bloody awful

No worse than the average lorry.

You reckon? I've not driven any lorries with such a horrible box...  ...though the Omega box is simpler to understand than most larger lorries

'04 Mercedes Actros artic with 800k under it's belt... needed both hands to change gear in low range when cold, and both hands and a foot on the dash to change gear in high range when hot... ideally would have used both feet, but you need one for the clutch...

[Nick W]

Best allrounder, for me, is the 2.6

I'm sure you mean 2.5 manual

Like the 3.0 over the 3.2, the 2.5 is marginally quicker and a damn site more economical than the 2.6...    ...and as you're going for the smaller v6, so economy is a factor, I've suggested manual, despite the Omega manual box being bloody awful

No worse than the average lorry.

You reckon? I've not driven any lorries with such a horrible box...  ...though the Omega box is simpler to understand than most larger lorries

Try a Mitsubishi Canter. It had 45miles on the clock when they gave it to me, and it ground the first 3 gear changes until the oil had warmed up which took about 5 miles. It was the same when the engine expired five years and 180,000 miles later.


We had a much older one that only one of us could actually drive; if you didn't get a down change exactly right, you had to stop and force it back up through the gearbox.


Omega gearboxes aren't slick, but then a high mileage BMW isn't any better.

[ronnyd]

If you want sh*t gear change, buy a Maxi.

[Kevin Wood]

If you want sh*t gear change, buy a Maxi.

Adequate only to get you as far as the dogging layby whereby you fold all the seats flat.. allegedly.

[Andy B]

Obviously no one has driven a Sherpa van ..... you knew the gear was in there ..... you just had to find it. It was like stirring a pan of porridge! 

[ronnyd]

Yeah, another BL pile of shite, and yes, the seats on the Maxi made a good bed. SWMBO and me camped out for a weekend in Sheringham, quite comfy but not much headroom.

[TheBoy]

Obviously no one has driven a Sherpa van ..... you knew the gear was in there ..... you just had to find it. It was like stirring a pan of porridge! 

I had a Sherpa luton type van briefly.  Whilst I recall its replacement (transit luton) a bit better, I don't recall the gearbox being bad.  Everything else was though