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Title: A first for me ... :)
Post by: Entwood on 19 March 2018, 14:44:58
28/01/2008

(https://dl.dropbox.com/s/vrdh8y6g50h24kp/DSC_3440-1.jpg?dl=1)

19/03/2018

(https://dl.dropbox.com/s/dm62yjv63496gu1/DSC_3438-1.jpg?dl=1)

and still happy .....    :)
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 19 March 2018, 14:58:55
Well done! :y :y

My Roger Budden Omega is still going strong, but I still only have 72K on the clock! 

I have some way to go :D ;)
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: Varche on 19 March 2018, 15:19:49
Excellent.

I do miss my Omegas but not the filling up every time I went out.  £23,500 in fuel?   £2,300 per year average?

(petrol at  say £1.2 x 4.5= £5.40 a gallon

Mine did 23 mpg so 100000 /23= 23,500) Think that is about right

Less if LPG'd of course. :y
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: Entwood on 19 March 2018, 15:40:43
Excellent.

I do miss my Omegas but not the filling up every time I went out.  £23,500 in fuel?   £2,300 per year average?

(petrol at  say £1.2 x 4.5= £5.40 a gallon

Mine did 23 mpg so 100000 /23= 23,500) Think that is about right

Less if LPG'd of course. :y

As you may note from the invoice.. I traded in a 1999 2.5 Omega to get this one, simple reason was I wanted the 3.2 elite and wanted it LPG'd ... the car was purchased on the 28th January, and had the LPG conversion done 6 weeks later, 15th March.

Some folks know this was NOT the car I went to view, the idea was to get the "newest" 3.2 I could, as it was "LPG and keep", so went to view a silver 03 reg, there was nowt wrong with it but it wasn't saying "buy me" ... but this one, complete with full irmscher bodykit, was sitting there smiling at me ... and I couldn't resist ... rest is history ... :)

The LPG "record" shows that my total "savings" from using LPG for 10 years are £10,137.67 to date, (38% saving) and that is after taking off the figure for conversion, repairs and servicing that have occurred in those 10 years ...   :)
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: Varche on 19 March 2018, 16:17:27
That is even more excellent :y Shows the value of LPG'ing if keeping the car.
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 19 March 2018, 17:53:56
Happy 100,000. :y
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: Kevin Wood on 19 March 2018, 18:34:10
Nice one!

Another year or so and mine will have clocked up 200,000 since I bought it. :o
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 19 March 2018, 18:43:11
Nice one!

Another year or so and mine will have clocked up 200,000 since I bought it. :o

Growing up in the sixties you would often see cars advertised for sale with a description such as.......45000 miles from new. Engine recently rebored and new pistons fitted. 
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 19 March 2018, 18:45:29
The body was often even worse.

We found newspaper and isopon holding the wing together on a 3 year old Austin 1100. :-\
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 19 March 2018, 19:23:55
100k miles and 10 years. It has served you well, and I imagine youve had your moneys worth from it.  :y
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 20 March 2018, 12:30:52
I imagine the 3.2 Elite is becoming pretty thin on the ground these days.
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: BazaJT on 20 March 2018, 18:41:37
Mine's getting to be a positive low miler.At 18yrs old it's covered approx. 135,000mls of which I've done about 5,000 of them in the 7yrs I've owned it.Mind you it has been off the road for 2 of those 7yrs!
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 20 March 2018, 19:02:54
Mine has just scrapped past 110k :o not that the bodywork would agree :-X
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 20 March 2018, 19:20:14
Mine is coming up to 180,000, but its in very nice condition, so its just a number to me.
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: neil74 on 20 March 2018, 19:41:17
The mileage on mine is coming up to 110,000  soon provided the speedo doesn't keep stopping and starting with the abs and traction control light.
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: ronnyd on 20 March 2018, 20:54:28
Mine has just scrapped past 110k :o not that the bodywork would agree :-X
Scrapped or scraped.  :-\
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 20 March 2018, 21:10:19
Scraped :D

Like the body work...
Title: Re: A first for me ... :)
Post by: ronnyd on 20 March 2018, 21:23:18
Scraped :D

Like the body work...
;D