Omega Owners Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Please play nicely.  No one wants to listen/read a keyboard warriors rants....

Pages: 1 [2]  All   Go Down

Author Topic: High mileage Omega  (Read 2375 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Lizzie_Zoom

  • Guest
Re: High mileage Omega
« Reply #15 on: 27 September 2014, 10:43:07 »

Apart from a slight incontinence problem, and more bodywork issues due to be older, my 218k 3.0l is a far better car than my 90k 3.2l


That is THE crucuial issue on a high mileage car. Our Senator had 240k+ miles on it when I traded it in for an Omega, and we only did that due to the rear arches showing the usual curse! My 19 year old Toyota Carina II I kept going from 160K to 250k and it would have done another 50k at the very least, but the bodywork was starting to let it down, so back to an Omega!

Modern engines are not like those of 40 years ago when we reckoned one doing 100k was basically over the hill, and of course then the bodywork would quickly follow in those days pre-rust underbody treatment. Today engines seem to run and run if well serviced, and it IS the bodywork that leads so many good engines to the scrapper! :'( :'(

 :y
Logged

Keith ABS

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Maldon Essex
  • Posts: 2931
    • View Profile
Re: High mileage Omega
« Reply #16 on: 27 September 2014, 10:52:57 »

  Service history helps if its been reguarly maintained. Sold my Carlton GSI manual with 375k on it and still driving perfectly. It made way for the superior FL model Omega I bought
keith B
Logged

tooleater

  • Senior Member
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Rickmansworth,  Herts
  • Posts: 558
    • Go faster Black MV6 Man
    • View Profile
Re: High mileage Omega
« Reply #17 on: 27 September 2014, 17:02:11 »

Scrapped my 350,000+ Carlton Cdi Manual and it was used as a mini cab, but Morris semi synthetic + filter every 5000 miles,engine still sounded great, but the diff was another matter :y
Logged
Pages: 1 [2]  All   Go Up
 

Page created in 0.011 seconds with 17 queries.