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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: long wave suppression....

« on: 19 July 2010, 18:32:45 »

I've had my Omega since Oct 95 and the LW and MW reception has always been totally useless unless stationary. So useless that the interference means that you can hear nothing at all of the broadcast

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Omega General Help / Re: Cambelt on a V6

« on: 23 July 2010, 18:57:41 »

Mine just cost me about £300 inc new water pump. Current Vauxhall dealer mechanic did it in my driveway about 15 miles from you. PM me if you want details.

Actually, now I remember he did a few others things as well for the £300 which did also involve some parts.

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Omega General Help / Re: Cambelt on a V6

« on: 22 July 2010, 18:56:17 »

Mine just cost me about £300 inc new water pump. Current Vauxhall dealer mechanic did it in my driveway about 15 miles from you. PM me if you want details.

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Omega General Help / Re: Paint work is flat

« on: 22 July 2010, 18:50:09 »

One thing. Are you using a high speed rotary polisher or a dual action polisher. The former are pretty vicious beasties and best only in the hands of experts.

On the latter, you can buy various grades of polishing pads, best to start of with a soft one and work towards harder if that isn't enough. if the paint is just flat a soft one will probably work, if you are trying to remove heavier swirls then use a harder one.

G3 can be pretty vicious. ensure you use LOTS of water. Most of the paint correction brands have a set of less abrasive compounds that you might like to start with.

As others have said, good idea to clay bar it first. gets rid of all the surface grott

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Omega General Help / Re: cruise control

« on: 22 July 2010, 18:52:52 »

Only time it happened to me one of the wires on the cruise control button unit had become unattached - the soldered joint had broken.

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Another new member

« on: 19 July 2010, 18:51:13 »

Unfortunately I have become rather "rotund" in my later years and I would need a rather large jack and oversized axle stands 

It's rather sad that in one's youth, when you have no idea what you are doing, you HAVE to do these things (cos of lack of dosh) then one can afford not to and don't due to lack of time, and then finally when you have time and knowledge you are physically incapable.

As I said - bodywork requires less gymnastics and is quite therapeutic.

"Hello" and welcome ...

We'll soon get you back to crawling under with spanner in hand ..

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Newbie Welcome Area / Another new member

« on: 19 July 2010, 18:08:06 »

Hi All

Just joined

I've had my Nautilus Blue Oct 95 Omega 2.5 CDX since new. It was was my company car till I was made redundant in 1999 and I decided to buy it from the company. At that point it had done just over 80K and now it's on 172K. So just run in!

My days of crawling under cars with spanners are long gone and I have a tame Vauxhall mechanic who comes and looks after the car in my drive. But I have recently quite enjoyed doing a bit of  bodywork repair and have just finished respraying (aerosol) a rear wing and door which had got a bit of rust. As a first time sprayer it took me a couple of goes to get it right but it's quite therapeutic really Now I am machine polishing it to get it back to a better state after I had rather let it go.

I came across this forum while looking for a cheaper source of parts (trackrods in this instance) as I got a bit of a shock when my guy fitted some lower suspension bushes a couple of weeks ago.

All in all the car has given me great service (been all over from Northern Germany to Italy and lots of other places in between). The evaporator on the AC packed up some years ago and the consensus was that it wasn't worth getting it sorted and the LCD readout display is now pretty well shot, but I will replace it if I can find one at a sensible price (or does anyone know where to get it refurbed? Lots of pixels missing). But other than that it is mechanically in pretty good nick and I've always spent what was needed to keep it that way.

I love the car and now being semi retired couldn't warrant spending the money on another large big engined petrol car, so it has to keep on going to keep me happy.

Looking forward to being part of this community.