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Omega General Help / Re: Whats the best way to deal with a garage when they break something?

« on: 04 April 2012, 05:57:29 »

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Wouldn't have thought that would be tha :yr bad a job being a 4 pot   could have a look as work in Horsham, but not sure when it would be as I work nights 

Decent of you too offer Taxi Al  may well wait till sun is shiny everyday and take a look then,got the mot now so road legal for a good while again. Annoying its still noisy,but will have to from and near it for now, strange the mentality of you pay me to do a job and if I break anything its you problem lol wonder how that would hold up in USA ?

happy motoring 

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Omega General Help / Whats the best way to deal with a garage when they break something?

« on: 02 April 2012, 22:23:36 »

Hi OOF, 

Been off a while, had exhaust problems   got local garage to diagnose problem, needed new "cat" garage supplied and fitted new "cat",  so thought all fixed,    got another problem caused by garage,they broke a manifold bolt  thats what I mainly want advice on, also had flu    had mot, failed mot on nearside/offside front lower suspension arms    and suprise, 1 advisory,leaking exhaust at manifold    got parts,fitted parts (struggle) got mot    now want to deal with garage that broke my car before they mot'd it,when the new "cat " was fitted    

So heres the low down, car was ok but noisy,generally clanking about noise more than exhaust noisy.  When the garage looked,they said, needs new "cat" and generally tightening up,bracket missing/broken etc. So went with that,used them before and generally ok,never get the price right, but never had any major problems till now. So they fitted new parts,when I picked it up, they did tell me they broke a manifold bolt,but wasnt too bad, only one, lots of omega's running around with broken manifold bolts,all would be ok. But, after only one day it was noisy, couldnt get back to garage but then mot due,so went down that road. suprisingly they then told me, big job fixing the manifold but as it was only blowing slightly it was only an advisory. I had flu and couldnt be arsed to argue, but thought get the mot then argue, hoping I would be feeling better by then. Well as you can see, it failed and its taken me into the second week to get it fixed,not by the mot garage. Well the exhaust is blowing quite bad now, despite the new "cat",but not from the new cat obviously, but from top end   area,cant tell exactly.
Problem may be, only have my word the garage guy said he broke the manifold bolt when they did the exhaust, but not sure if he personally broke it or another guy did and they told him they broke it ?? They know its a bu*&er of a job to do, because they told me that,so obvious they dont want to do it without getting paid for the pleasure. Whats the best way to go here ? any advice helpful im sure
thx

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Ripspeed DV720 fitting issue

« on: 20 February 2012, 21:23:18 »

thx Dave DND for reply, I knew there must be a problem as this sorta job is usually quite easy 

Think I can take it back as a not compatible, dont really wanna pay £25 for the guy at Halfords to bodge it in, I already spoke to him the day I got it and he was saying then about cutting the conectors off and loosing the cables, I asked him what about if I want to take it out and put the old unit back he didnt seem to have an answer, said the cd stacker wouldnt work or the steering controls, though I thought I may loose the latter that so wasnt surprised. 
Anyway thx for that advice    will take back tomoz    will please the handbag she was moaning about spending the extra cash anyway lol 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Just had a letter off the insolvency service

« on: 20 February 2012, 18:39:41 »

I think its down to the judge how "lightly" you "get off" being declared bankrupt has its drawbacks anyway,as Im sure some people don't realise this, not just a case of you " getting away with it ", most people are in desperate financial crisis  to even consider going down that route.
 
Glad you can see the end of it M8, must be a relief for you and your missus

Careful what you put here or anywhere for that matter, spy's are every where 

 

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General Car Chat / Re: A phone call too late

« on: 20 February 2012, 18:13:33 »

 Bad luck M8 

Said it earlier 

You snooze....you loose...........

All in the lap of the gods, obviously your not meant to get that one, one will be along soon 

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General Car Chat / Re: What a fine looking car....

« on: 20 February 2012, 18:10:21 »

As you have admired its best side, here is the not so good side 



You can see the side impact bar in the door did its job...

Not a bad old car the rover, wife's got the 216 and loves it, cant think why they stopped making 'em 

your one looks a bit short 

thought it looked a bit short   

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General Car Chat / Re: Anyone guess what caused this?

« on: 20 February 2012, 18:05:29 »

Had the same mid life moment the other week, ended up paying a visit to RobG who put my embarrassed  moment back on track 

Can I blame that on mid life ? oh good 
did the very same thing after fixing the stupid climate lights in the first place the day before, 1 1/2 hrs it took me to replace them, then on the way home the next night stupid lights were off, took the drive home to find out there even was a dimmer fitted lol  no idea how I moved it 

been driving about with the front fogs for a few days after I bought it, didnt realise the green light on the dash was the fogs, thought it was telling me dipped beam was on, had that sort of indicator in another car, What are we like 

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General Car Chat / Re: VX classic

« on: 20 February 2012, 17:47:13 »

thats just mental lol 
dont talk to him about the insurance HAHA

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General Car Chat / Re: What a fine looking car....

« on: 20 February 2012, 17:39:08 »

Not a bad old car the rover, wife's got the 216 and loves it, cant think why they stopped making 'em 

your one looks a bit short 

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General Car Chat / Re: Another notch on the bedpost

« on: 20 February 2012, 17:29:10 »

Glad your ok M8  that is the most important thing after all 

Can say it is easy to get attached to cars, Ive had 37 cars and honestly most of em I was quite fond of, Only remember a few being really gutted too move on from, one was an old VX Ventura 3.3 was in A1 condition, Im sure I could have eaten my dinner off the floor, it was so clean, lent it too a M8 for a few days as his car packed up and he had a new job, seems the ciggy lighter thing blew a fuse and so he put a self tapping screw in the carrier  of course it caught light and that was the end of me VX        turns out he hadnt got a full license so I couldnt claim on the insurance    as he was me best man at my wedding I just left it, sad though.

was sad when me Omega  2.5 cdx went to the scappy, but got a new one now so all ok in the end, Im sure that will happen, and you wonder what all the fuss was about lol 

ps, we like pics 

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General Discussion Area / Re: insurance

« on: 20 February 2012, 17:08:09 »

I have 87 years ncd and my insurance company pays me to take a policy with them.

  LOL you wish,they probably charge you more cos you been driving too long   I have 34 years NCD and only ever had 9 recognised, damn rip-off merchants all of 'em    glad Im not in my 20's still wouldnt be able to afford to drive a moped 

As for Saga, never had a decent quote off them ever ? Gone with Tesco's again £280 with the credit charge over 10 months made it £320  last rip off brokers charged me £28 + for 1 week for the Omega while I sold my Volvo, then I found out the actual company charged £15 the rest was admin, lol. So I cancelled early one month to go, had £18 to come back but got £3, yeah you guessed, admin charge, no idea how they worked it out to be £18 for one month as my premium was £560 grrr      that reminds me gotta ring em up for an explanation 

I paid 174.00 in December to Aviva for the omega, and also received 85.00 cashback through Quidco.....thats me done for another year...deal or what!!

Blimey Jaykay thats the cheapest quote Ive ever seen lol Quidco is a good idea I heard someone else on about it too  tried aviva came back at £340 + no protected NCD  !! laughable 

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Ripspeed DV720 fitting issue

« on: 20 February 2012, 16:36:29 »

Just treated the car to a DVD player, got it from Hal with the ford guys on a refurb deal for £99  happy with that and it seems to work ok, BUT....I cant get the damn thing in the hole far enough lol, tried for 2 hours, given up now,it is in, but still proud of the actual facia     Think the problem is the connectors drop down into the recess as its pushed in, the new "box" it slides into is much shorter than the VX one and I think I may need to get a longer "box" or mod the new one some how?   

Anyone actually got one of these to fit in, I got too many cables and have "moved" some 

Also the old CD stacker in the boot keeps trying to access the cd's,as in click,clicking, but now the cartridge wont push in, seems to have been an issue only since started messing with the new one 

Any useful or useless suggestions welcome, gotta try em all or its back to Hal with the ford guys to fit @ £24.99

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 20 February 2012, 13:59:33 »

  Today I replaced the Rocker cover gasket and HT leads, 

after yesterdays run to London 140 mile round trip ( it ran so lumpy on tick over since I bought it anyway ) but after the trip I knew I needed to sort out the "cough.. cough.. splutter" at 2000 revs trying to accelerate,so last night looked on here and saw a pinking problem that sounded similar and went for the dis pack,plugs and leads, though I knew mine had an oil leak from the rocker cover, it was filled with oil in all the plug recesses,so decided to do that too, didnt use the dis pack as it looked almost new and didn't have a deep enough spark plug tool to do them either, not very well prepared lol.     anyway it seems to have cured the problem for now anyway    ticks-over and runs lovely  spark plugs will be a job for this weekend 

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General Car Chat / Re: Lost Key

« on: 20 February 2012, 13:45:58 »

Theres a moral somewhere here..........try not to lose keys 

or make sure there are two keys when you buy it! 

I got 3 keys with this Omega 

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General Car Chat / Re: Lost Key

« on: 20 February 2012, 13:09:17 »

was in the Vx dealer the other day and the bloke in front bought a key barrel, £89 I think he paid, then he asked the guy to book it in to be fitted and the reply was, "it takes about an hour and will be £104"   

maybe the car key insurance is starting too look good