Omega Owners Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Please check the Forum Guidelines at the top of the Newbie section

Author Topic: So what have you done to your car today?  (Read 5720464 times)

Migv6 le Frog Fan, Field Marshal Dr. Opti and 10 Guests are viewing this topic.

Migv6 le Frog Fan

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Online Online
  • Gender: Male
  • Essex / Suffolk border.
  • Posts: 13072
    • 3.2 Elite. Citroen C1.
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24195 on: 25 July 2022, 21:10:00 »
Thing is, if I bought replacement it might not be any better. Second hand cars are a lottery really. My judgement is usually pretty good, but this one became a bit of a dog after about a year.
Its on its last warning though.  :D
I have a pic somewhere of when I squeezed 70mpg out of it. Usually average around 63, with very little motorway type driving though.  :)

Hopefully, this is it.


https://i.postimg.cc/hjVrSLJ1/IMG-0640-1.jpg
« Last Edit: 25 July 2022, 21:14:00 by Migv6 le Frog Fan »
Logged
Its weird being the same age as old people !

STEMO

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 10232
    • Grandland 1.6 diesel
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24196 on: 25 July 2022, 22:03:38 »
Quote from: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 25 July 2022, 21:10:00
Thing is, if I bought replacement it might not be any better. Second hand cars are a lottery really. My judgement is usually pretty good, but this one became a bit of a dog after about a year.
Its on its last warning though.  :D
I have a pic somewhere of when I squeezed 70mpg out of it. Usually average around 63, with very little motorway type driving though.  :)

Hopefully, this is it.


https://i.postimg.cc/hjVrSLJ1/IMG-0640-1.jpg
Very good, Albs, welcome to Barnsley  ;D
Logged
Diesel till I die

Migv6 le Frog Fan

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Online Online
  • Gender: Male
  • Essex / Suffolk border.
  • Posts: 13072
    • 3.2 Elite. Citroen C1.
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24197 on: 25 July 2022, 22:04:38 »
ouldnt go there. They talk funny up there.  ;D
Logged
Its weird being the same age as old people !

Raeturbo

  • Omega Lord
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • South Wales
  • Posts: 8350
    • TouregR5Mitsi Evo2. XJ8
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24198 on: 26 July 2022, 00:05:49 »
Yes they’ve a lot of chops too🐑
Logged
Laying a rubber road.

Rangie

  • Omega Lord
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Lincolnshire
  • Posts: 6374
    • RRS TDV8 Yaris Cross
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24199 on: 27 July 2022, 17:14:32 »
Booked the Range Rover in for its service & MOT 17/08/22 only done around 4,000 miles over the last year, fingers crossed for a straight pass again.
« Last Edit: 27 July 2022, 17:16:12 by Rangie »
Logged
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level & beat you with their experience.

countrywoman

  • Senior Member
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Female
  • worcestershire
  • Posts: 963
    • skoda yeti
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24200 on: 27 July 2022, 17:39:04 »
Still rubbing filler!! So just for a change one of Ds (where I have my unit) customers came in with a sick Transit just as D had to go out. It was only a wire had come out of a bodged repair to the MAF? sensor so to help D out I did a proper soldered repair to all 4 wires with heat shrink and a larger bit of heat shrink over that . The bloke was "how much do I owe you" , nowt as just helping D out and he would have just bodge crimped it again!!!!
Logged

TheBoy

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Brackley, Northants
  • Posts: 107650
  • I Like Lockdown
    • Whatever Starts
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24201 on: 28 July 2022, 10:20:27 »
Put more electricity in it, due to lack of use  :-[
Logged
Grumpy old man

Sir Tigger KC

  • Get A Life!!
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • West Dorset
  • Posts: 25120
    • BMW 530d Touring
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24202 on: 28 July 2022, 18:27:35 »
Had lots of goodies turn up today!  :y

New bags and filters for my SEBO vacuum cleaner, fitted no problem and a quick and easy job!  :y

A pair of Bosch traditional style wipers for the V70. No more cheap flat things for me! A quick and easy job!  :y

A new button for the V70's gear shift. A very fiddly thing to fit but got there in the end.  ::)

A new cabin filter for the V70, but it was the wrong one and that's the second one I've bought that didn't fit.  >:(  Cleaned up the old one, put it back and there it will stay!  ::)
Logged
RIP Paul 'Luvvie' Lovejoy

Politically homeless ......

TheBoy

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Brackley, Northants
  • Posts: 107650
  • I Like Lockdown
    • Whatever Starts
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24203 on: 28 July 2022, 18:31:07 »
Ordered a pair of rear shocks for the XE
Logged
Grumpy old man

TheBoy

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Brackley, Northants
  • Posts: 107650
  • I Like Lockdown
    • Whatever Starts
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24204 on: 31 July 2022, 18:12:24 »
Changed the EGR filter, which was going well, right up to the point a bolt sheared.

Fortunately that nice Mr Gixer popped over, looking like he was sporting a decent hangover, with some left hand drill bits....    ...which did SFA.  So he drilled and retapped larger, job jobbed, so huge thanks to chrisgixer :y


Job should have only taken another 10 mins, but some stooopid Brackley Boy neglected to plug in a sensor, so had to get all the diags out to turn the eml back off, grrr


Went to do the shocks, but this car is suffering the standard wheel nut issue, so left them until new nuts arrive.
Logged
Grumpy old man

TheBoy

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Brackley, Northants
  • Posts: 107650
  • I Like Lockdown
    • Whatever Starts
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24205 on: 31 July 2022, 18:14:41 »
And Saturday was lost underneath a mates woodworm nest, trying to work out why the car sits pissed.  We need to have another go next weekend.  We got it sitting flatter, but still riding on the rebound bumpstop drivers side...
Logged
Grumpy old man

Rangie

  • Omega Lord
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Lincolnshire
  • Posts: 6374
    • RRS TDV8 Yaris Cross
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24206 on: 31 July 2022, 18:57:26 »
Lent the Subaru to our son as he needs an estate for a couple of days, he left us his 70 reg M3 in exchange taking it over to Oxford tomorrow to see the wife's cousin never driven one before so looking forward to it..👍
Logged
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level & beat you with their experience.

Raeturbo

  • Omega Lord
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • South Wales
  • Posts: 8350
    • TouregR5Mitsi Evo2. XJ8
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24207 on: 31 July 2022, 21:17:37 »
Watch the rear end if it’s slippery, otherwise give it hell👍
Logged
Laying a rubber road.

Rangie

  • Omega Lord
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Lincolnshire
  • Posts: 6374
    • RRS TDV8 Yaris Cross
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24208 on: 02 August 2022, 10:48:00 »
Quote from: Raeturbo on 31 July 2022, 21:17:37
Watch the rear end if it’s slippery, otherwise give it hell👍
. 


Went really well superb handling nice acceleration, don't think I activated any cameras, only time will tell, but in all honesty prefer the driving position & comfort of my RRS so a BMW is not on my list of must haves..
Logged
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level & beat you with their experience.

GastronomicKleptomaniac

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Teesside (the nice bit)
  • Posts: 4080
    • 3.2 plod, 2.6 MV6, etc
    • View Profile
Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #24209 on: 02 August 2022, 12:49:17 »
I'm forever moaning that BMW have lost their way but the latest 3 series is a lovely thing to look at. Interior is a bit high tech for me mind.

I am a fan of the estates, I just wish they still did big engined manuals.
Logged
Servicing and repairs done in NE. Special rates for OOFers! PM me.
 

Page created in 0.018 seconds with 17 queries.