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General Car Chat / Scrapped it!

« on: 09 August 2013, 16:14:38 »

Well so you all know the outcome after the under bonnet fire and after 7 years of ownership the Omega has gone,





I couldn't be assed to strip the bits off i fitted only a while ago so i weighed it in for scrap taking only the additional boot space light, K & N air filter and the radio/dash display out of it as they was all quite new and could be removed in seconds, local guy gave me £200 for it and im transferring the private plate to the new work car, a Nissan Stagea RSfour which should be a lot more fun to drive (soon to be 300HP) than the Omega, and if anyone don't know them there basically a Nissan Skyline estate with 4x4, im very pleased 



So that's me done on here as well i spose as im no longer an owner 

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General Car Chat / Re: Disgraceful behaviour!

« on: 10 July 2013, 13:03:11 »

Well what ever you lot "assumed" it wasnt a for sale thread, i wanted to know if anyone has had a similar experience and if so what was your outcome, did you decide to break it your self and over what time scale or just weight it in?

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General Car Chat / Re: Disgraceful behaviour!

« on: 10 July 2013, 00:21:56 »

But it wasnt a for sale thread you all just assumed it was without even asking, cheers!

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General Car Chat / Disgraceful behaviour!

« on: 09 July 2013, 23:29:36 »

My thread "whats it worth"

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=116294.0;topicseen

Was not a for sale thread, it didnt say for sale and to be honest i never even considered that either as how the hell am i going to sell a car in this state? my choices as i see it are to weigh it in complete or break it for spares my self, apparently i can get £250 to £300 by some breakers who will even take it away for that.

The point of the thread was what do you guys think its worth in scrap value or parts as im guessing some of you may have been here before, if so what did you do and how did you get on? for admin and other members to just assume without even taking the time and effort to ask me first is, i think, bloody disgraceful, none of you know me so how dare you make that assumption!

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General Car Chat / Re: Whats it worth

« on: 09 July 2013, 14:50:11 »

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General Car Chat / Whats it worth

« on: 09 July 2013, 14:42:44 »

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Any ideas on the most cost efficient way of getting rid?

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Traction control question

« on: 19 July 2012, 16:18:40 »

What velocity makes no difference, brakes are better over the whole speed range............... and when i say better i mean they are slowing the car better when exerting the same force on the brake pedal.

Im not talking about locking up the wheels or the tyres ability to grip the road surface or heat build up in the disc, thats going beyond what i mean, its simple physics, the smaller the diameter of the tread surface in comparison to where the brake friction material is located between tread and hub the less force required to slow or stop! i cant think of a simpler way of explaining it.

As i said i never fitted these tyres to gain better brakes or more direct steering, i never even considered it but once they fitted and i noticed the difference i came to the blindingly obvious conclusion, it was along these lines "oh yeah, i never thought of that" lol

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Traction control question

« on: 19 July 2012, 12:43:35 »

I just don't see how something so simple cant be understood?

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Traction control question

« on: 17 July 2012, 11:24:32 »

Its not different at all, its the reverse of moving, ever action has an equal and opposite re-action. its the same....

Brake pad/disc friction area moved nearer the tyre thread = less force required through pedal to stop! so applying the same force means better stopping. im not talking about locking up, im talking about slowing the forward movement of the car, its mathematically and physically the case. the law of physics being the longer the lever the less force required, well my lever is effectively longer and the lever of tyre tread distance from hub has been reduced.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Traction control question

« on: 16 July 2012, 23:25:12 »

Ok, imagine fitting bigger tyres to the rear, result? loss in acceleration, as the bigger wheel is harder to turn, so the smaller the wheel the easier it is to turn, and also stop.

Assuming all other variables remain the same smaller wheels are easier to manipulate as there inst as much leverage involved, this is the same for acceleration or deceleration. now if the braking diameter of the disc was also reduced there would be no difference in braking but its remained the same moving it closer to the outer edge of the tyre, meaning less effort is needed but as it has the same effort put into it the result is better braking.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Traction control question

« on: 16 July 2012, 23:13:20 »

ABS works fine, i had it in operation on a nice wet road the other day, seems no different to before...

And i only fitted these smaller tyres as they was free, i wasn't expecting to feel any difference in braking or steering but i noticed a few days after on my way to Portsmouth that the steering felt more positive and the brakes better.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Traction control question

« on: 16 July 2012, 22:11:29 »

By fitting smaller diameter tyres the friction area of the disc is now nearer to the outer diameter of the tyre, which would be the same equation as keeping the same size tyres and fitting bigger discs, either way it means the force required to slow/stop the wheel from turning will be less.

Now im not talking about increased friction area, although this will also improve braking, im talking about reducing the distance between the friction area and the tread of the tyre, by fitting larger diameter discs OR smaller diameter tyres which ever way you choose to do it it will yield the same results.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Traction control question

« on: 16 July 2012, 21:01:01 »

Oh god!

Yes im moving the tread nearer to the brakes friction area, its the same thing and if you cant see it? well i guess there's no point me keeping on.

one last thing, bear this in mind, if you say fitting smaller wheels has no effect on braking efficiency what would happen if you fitted much bigger wheels instead?

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Traction control question

« on: 16 July 2012, 20:42:58 »

I know my car and how the brakes was before and after, its not wish full thinking.

The most basic laws of physics apply here and i cant believe you don't see it? it really is so so simple, move the friction area nearer to the tyre tread and you will need much less pressure to brake as well as you did before so using the same pressure you will notice an improvement in braking efficiency.

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General Discussion Area / Re: London Olympics lanes

« on: 16 July 2012, 20:27:41 »

I cant belive the price of the tickets, its absolute madness, and someone mentioned the traffic light phasing being altered, well i kid you not last night coming home from work (Sunday night 6pm) traffic on the A13 London bound was tailing back maybe 4 miles from a set of lights just before Ripple road flyover and its been like this for the last week, in the evenings theres usually not a soul on it!

its only ever been a problem before during morning rush hour but for some reason the lights are now only green for about 5 seconds!

Seems someone wants to thin out the flow of traffic flowing towards east London so its quieter than usual and the rest of us are once again screwed!