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Title: 30 more posts and i'll be a full member :)
Post by: Del Boy on 06 September 2006, 10:38:41
Well u lot i'm getting close (about time)  ;D
Title: Re: 30 more posts and i'll be a full member :)
Post by: mr des on 06 September 2006, 10:41:22
well done ive got quite a lot of catching up to do must get internet at work
Title: Re: 30 more posts and i'll be a full member :)
Post by: Del Boy on 06 September 2006, 10:42:43
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well done ive got quite a lot of catching up to do must get internet at work

Hope u do m8 i'm off my 2 week holiday 2 moro so i gotta get posting 2 day  ;D
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Post by: mr des on 06 September 2006, 10:57:28
thats the spirit
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Post by: TheBoy on 06 September 2006, 10:58:33
Will you make it before holiday... :)
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Post by: Del Boy on 06 September 2006, 11:09:38
If i post like there is no 2 moro like someone we all know (tunnie) ;D
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Post by: Bo Bo on 06 September 2006, 11:17:41
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well done ive got quite a lot of catching up to do must get internet at work
Thank God I've got the internet at work or I'd die of boredom!  ::)
Title: Re: 30 more posts and i'll be a full member :)
Post by: Markjay on 06 September 2006, 12:33:11
Tip:

Break you posts....
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Post by: Markjay on 06 September 2006, 12:34:02
      ...into several....    

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Post by: Markjay on 06 September 2006, 12:34:47
...small parts!

Title: Re: 30 more posts and i'll be a full member :)
Post by: Markjay on 06 September 2006, 12:36:25
How do you think I became an 'Omega Expert'?  ;D
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Post by: TheBoy on 06 September 2006, 12:42:33
if i could be bothered, I would splice all thos posts back into 1, and your post count would drop accordingly... ;)
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Post by: Markjay on 06 September 2006, 12:55:13
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if i could be bothered, I would splice all thos posts back into 1, and your post count would drop accordingly... ;)

I've been caught by TheBoy's watchful eye....  :-[

don't you ever sleep, work, eat, or just take a break from this forum?  ;D
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Post by: Del Boy on 06 September 2006, 13:13:21
Good
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Post by: Del Boy on 06 September 2006, 13:14:03
Idea markjay  ;D by the way have fitted the break sensors and they work  :D
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Post by: Markjay on 06 September 2006, 13:17:05
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Idea markjay  ;D by the way have fitted the break sensors and they work  :D

Well I'm going to see the Vx dealer this afternoon, so if there is anything else you need that is small enough to send by post just shout....
Title: Re: 30 more posts and i'll be a full member :)
Post by: Del Boy on 06 September 2006, 13:20:54
Don't get an ashtray they are £60.00+ for facelit i'm going to scrap yard this week maybe next will ave a look see if he has 2  ;)
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Post by: Markjay on 06 September 2006, 14:05:22
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Don't get an ashtray they are £60.00+ for facelit i'm going to scrap yard this week maybe next will ave a look see if he has 2  ;)

Many thanks....

As of last night, I am also on look-out for fuel tank flap, but from a 'Midnight Black' car (I think pre and post facelifts have the same flap). Some idiot (me) ran into it while refueling yesterday at the local BP station.
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Post by: Auto Addict on 06 September 2006, 14:09:42
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Don't get an ashtray they are £60.00+ for facelit i'm going to scrap yard this week maybe next will ave a look see if he has 2  ;)

Many thanks....

As of last night, I am also on look-out for fuel tank flap, but from a 'Midnight Black' car (I think pre and post facelifts have the same flap). Some idiot (me) ran into it while refueling yesterday at the local BP station.

Why were you running along the side of your car? ;D
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Post by: Auto Addict on 06 September 2006, 14:16:06
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Don't get an ashtray they are £60.00+ for facelit i'm going to scrap yard this week maybe next will ave a look see if he has 2  ;)

Many thanks....

As of last night, I am also on look-out for fuel tank flap, but from a 'Midnight Black' car (I think pre and post facelifts have the same flap). Some idiot (me) ran into it while refueling yesterday at the local BP station.

Why were you running along the side of your car? ;D

Sorry MJ, I shouldn't joke, I would have been ready to commit murder if someone did that to mine.
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Post by: nixoro on 06 September 2006, 14:26:38
You weren't having a petrol fight with someone across the forcourt was you, seen this before  ;D
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Post by: TheBoy on 06 September 2006, 14:46:46
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if i could be bothered, I would splice all thos posts back into 1, and your post count would drop accordingly... ;)

I've been caught by TheBoy's watchful eye....  :-[

don't you ever sleep, work, eat, or just take a break from this forum?  ;D
No.
Title: Re: 30 more posts and i'll be a full member :)
Post by: Auto Addict on 06 September 2006, 14:52:58
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if i could be bothered, I would splice all thos posts back into 1, and your post count would drop accordingly... ;)

I've been caught by TheBoy's watchful eye....  :-[

don't you ever sleep, work, eat, or just take a break from this forum?  ;D
No.

Make me an Admin, I'll stop the b*****s ;D
Title: Re: 30 more posts and i'll be a full member :)
Post by: Markjay on 06 September 2006, 15:05:01
It was the end of a very long day, where everything went wrong at the office... We needed to get some goods sent back to a supplier, which they shipped out by mistake in the first place and invoiced us for. Well they made a whole catalogue of errors and to top it all mistakenley rejected the goods when we sent it back - and when we complained again they said that the 5-day window for retruning un-wanted goods expired and according to their T&C there is nothing more they can do about it... what a load of BS.

Anyway, other things went wrong - as they do - and I left the office around 18:00 realising I was short on petrol. I couldn't get into the petrol station through the usual entrance because of roadwroks, so I drove-in from the opossite direction and ended up parked too close to the pump. While filling-up I put my hand in my pocket and discovered the wrapper from a snack bar I had earlier, so I made a sharp move froward to place it in the bin, while squeezing between the car and the pump - and heard the crack fo doom as the flap was being bent backwards on it's hinges, denting the paintwork behind it, and then ending up hanging on a thread.

And, at £1 per litre I can't risk not having the flap and let some nightly thief syphon out 70 litres of BP finest!

I took the whole thing off when I got home (only two Torx screws), poured on the broken bit large amount of Ardlite Epoxy (the thing that come in two tubes mixed together), left it until lunchtime today to harden and then put it back in place. It is sort of OK but still a bit limp when open, wouldn't mine having a new one.

Problem is that if I get one from Vx it will come un-painted, so I'll need to spray it and the surface is too large so it will never really look the same. The best bet is to find one from the scrappies - but I havn't seen many older Black Omegas, seems like all the black ones are facelifts, which are not that common at the braekers yet.

Incidentally, when fitting the flap back today, I was parked next to a M-reg blue Omega that had a white plastic flap... Strange coincidence, looks like he lost his falp as well and got a new one of Vx but didn't paint it.






Title: Re: 30 more posts and i'll be a full member :)
Post by: TheBoy on 06 September 2006, 15:09:53
I just put £20 of normal unleaded in TB1, and was pleased to noticed the price had dropped to 89.9 :)
Title: Re: 30 more posts and i'll be a full member :)
Post by: Markjay on 06 September 2006, 15:13:52
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I just put £20 of normal unleaded in TB1, and was pleased to noticed the price had dropped to 89.9 :)

Sadly not in London, and not for BP Ultimate... :(

I pay £1.02  >:(

Hey, let's start a fuel thread!  ;D
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Post by: Auto Addict on 06 September 2006, 15:18:20
MJ, if you buy a can of spray paint I think you could make a very good job of it yourself.

If you imerse the can into hot water before you spray, it will come out in a finer jet.

Rub down between coats with fine wet and dry (wet) and keep repeating the process.

Finish off with spray laquer, heating it again first.

You will be surprised at the result.
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Post by: TheBoy on 06 September 2006, 15:19:55
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I just put £20 of normal unleaded in TB1, and was pleased to noticed the price had dropped to 89.9 :)

Sadly not in London, and not for BP Ultimate... :(

I pay £1.02  >:(

Hey, let's start a fuel thread!  ;D
I think the 98 ron stuff (this was tescos) was 93.9
Title: Re: 30 more posts and i'll be a full member :)
Post by: Auto Addict on 06 September 2006, 15:24:15
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I just put £20 of normal unleaded in TB1, and was pleased to noticed the price had dropped to 89.9 :)

Sadly not in London, and not for BP Ultimate... :(

I pay £1.02  >:(

Hey, let's start a fuel thread!  ;D

I had a mate a long time ago who had a Mark II Cortina, always a bad starter, so he used to take the airfilter off put a few drops of Ronson Lighter Fuel into the carb.

Started first time.


Title: Re: 30 more posts and i'll be a full member :)
Post by: Markjay on 06 September 2006, 15:28:43
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MJ, if you buy a can of spray paint I think you could make a very good job of it yourself.

If you imerse the can into hot water before you spray, it will come out in a finer jet.

Rub down between coats with fine wet and dry (wet) and keep repeating the process.

Finish off with spray laquer, heating it again first.

You will be surprised at the result.

Thanks AA, now that you mention it I actually have the Vx kit consisting of a paint spray can and clear laquer can (bought it with the car 5 years ago, never used it and forgot all about it!), but come to think of it I might as well simply get any-colour flap from the breakers - dark colour preferably - and then rub off the old paint and re-spray. No point in exercising this on a new Vx flap... So does anyone have a dark-coloured Omega breaking...? I'll post also in the 'bits wanted' forum. Thanks for the advice...



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Post by: Auto Addict on 06 September 2006, 15:36:55
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MJ, if you buy a can of spray paint I think you could make a very good job of it yourself.

If you imerse the can into hot water before you spray, it will come out in a finer jet.

Rub down between coats with fine wet and dry (wet) and keep repeating the process.

Finish off with spray laquer, heating it again first.

You will be surprised at the result.

Thanks AA, now that you mention it I actually have the Vx kit consisting of a paint spray can and clear laquer can (bought it with the car 5 years ago, never used it and forgot all about it!), but come to think of it I might as well simply get any-colour flap from the breakers - dark colour preferably - and then rub off the old paint and re-spray. No point in exercising this on a new Vx flap... So does anyone have a dark-coloured Omega breaking...? I'll post also in the 'bits wanted' forum. Thanks for the advice...




PM tunnie, he's always down at the breakers yard.
Title: Re: 30 more posts and i'll be a full member :)
Post by: Del Boy on 06 September 2006, 15:48:43
Super unleded at sainsburys in ashford is 91.9 :o
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Post by: nixoro on 06 September 2006, 16:12:57
Theres a silver petrol flap on Ebay at the moment might be of some use to you.

Here is the link:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VAUXHALL-OMEGA-CAP-DOOR-FLAP_W0QQitemZ250026143687QQihZ015QQcategoryZ10404QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Post by: Markjay on 06 September 2006, 16:17:47
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Theres a silver petrol flap on Ebay at the moment might be of some use to you.

Here is the link:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VAUXHALL-OMEGA-CAP-DOOR-FLAP_W0QQitemZ250026143687QQihZ015QQcategoryZ10404QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Thanks for this, the hinge looks different than mine, I guess that pre-facelift and facelift are not the same after all... :(
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Post by: nixoro on 06 September 2006, 16:36:52
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Theres a silver petrol flap on Ebay at the moment might be of some use to you.

Here is the link:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VAUXHALL-OMEGA-CAP-DOOR-FLAP_W0QQitemZ250026143687QQihZ015QQcategoryZ10404QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Thanks for this, the hinge looks different than mine, I guess that pre-facelift and facelift are not the same after all... :(

Good Luck with your search I shall keep an eye out for you  :)