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General Car Chat / Re: The Omega Replacement conundrum, Part 2

« on: 29 September 2016, 21:20:37 »

I replaced mine with a £111,000 Mercedes S class.

Its a pile of rubbish.  Every time you use it something goes wrong, the heated, vented, massaging seats with 22 separate lumbar points give me back ache, that needs a proper massage and week away from the car to fix.  The stereo is gutless rubbish, the steering wheel sits in front of the gauges.  It only has two good points the 368 bhp and active cruise control (that's not a patch on the BM system I had before).

As Kevin wouldn't help me place an ad here the omega is going in the bin.  A far better car than any trash merc build to fail...

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hello

« on: 17 October 2013, 20:23:30 »

Oh by the way...

anyone notice if you stop the self levelling suspension working and wait 3 years to it to drop 40mm the handling improves no end?

It was broken on my first '95  Omega 2.5td and I've since disconnected the compressor on my 3 ltr ... then in the last year I've gone from 93 to 99 load rated tyres (supposed to be 95 I think).  I never realised the first set of tyres dropped to 93 or understood the weaker sidewalls could have a detrimental effect (vague and understeery).

I think half the problem was during the first facelift when they went to 16" wheels and xenon's they played with bushes and (maybe) spring rates (am I right).  This later one never handled like the first one, but 99 rated has nearly got it back on track.

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hello

« on: 17 October 2013, 20:13:38 »

Welcome to OOF mate    - and read the rules mate - here - http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90684.0

ah ha, so that's why... thanks for pointing me in the right direction 

As omega's are getting really rare these days, are most members transitioning to something else in the GM range...  like a Holden commodore with a Vauxhall badge?  The silly Tax on big petrol's is a real shame 

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Newbie Welcome Area / Hello

« on: 16 October 2013, 18:39:45 »

Hello, I was going to offer both thanks for the great info here and to say does anyone want my Omega.

Over the years I've read here how to do a few jobs and its nbeen a great help but, I never really needed to register.

First off was changing a dash light, I'd put off for a year because I'd expected it to be a nightmare and then it was a 20 min job as easy as pie.

The next few weren't so much fun

The Heater valve with the silly clips took me about 3 hours with the wipers off and everything.  It went again the other day but because I'd used jubilee clips I did it start to finish in 15 mins with just one screw driver.

Then the ABS ecu.... I saw how to do it here and thought it'd be easy enough.... 2 hours later in the cold and dark I had it apart.  I was confident I'd be able to do it without draining the coolant wasted 50 mins trying that silly idea.

Reassembly after BBA fixed it, it started raining as I'd done the hard bit and I got lazy trying to rush things, I dropped a screw for the PAS bracket and spent 45 mins looking for that.  If the sun had been out and I'd done as you guys said.... I think start to finish in 3hr is easy enough on a 3 ltr elite.

Anyway can't see how to post and add for the car.

cheers

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