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[ted_one]

It's all in hand....sort of,it might be a week or two until they can get round to it,but the only alternative was to scrap the car, and having just looked at the bills since I bought the car back in 2012, I will have just wasted the many hours of effort put in by Daz,James V6,Al {aka HTK} and Serek,plus the body repairs and full respray,the list is scary.If I hadn't had that reality check then it would have gone to Rob G's Omega recycling facility and may have netted me a couple of hundred quid,put that up against a running total of nearly 6 grand invested,then it's a no brainer really......me being the no brainer

[Diamond Black Geezer]

You shouldnt let the money side get to you, and you do right to carry on with the car, versus the usual 'ooh, this has cost me too much money sell it' philosophy.

At present, you have one 'big job' (not even a big bill, really) to sort. For your 6 grand you've got yourself -  presumably - 80, 90% the car you want. Go out to any garage forecourt and see what 6 grand can buy you, then see if it gives you electric everything, massive boot, comfort, smooth ride (what has a smooth ride these days?? everything's fidgety and 'sporty' to please motoring journalists) knowing this was the very best Vauxhall could do in the day, and their flagship model.

I wouldnt feel bad about your spending, of course it racks up to criminal levels that will make you/most of us cry, but it always does. Even my Eberneezer Scrooge spending has run into ofour figures in the last year and a bit. But again, don't let it get to you, sort this out, and no doubt a few other niggly jobs and you'll be there. Keep the faith 

[ted_one]

Agreed,and usually I never count the cost of running the Omegas,as anyone that knows me on here hopefully will agree. It was the fact that we looked at the viability of yet another repair and the potential sidelining of the car for at least two weeks and I would hazard an educated guess of more like a month,that was the point when cutting our losses was an option and of course we decided against that option in the end.  ;)So it's just a bit of a bummer that I'm going to lose the car for a while,and not the cost as I have a sort of rolling programme for all three cars and that car was due up at Serek's this coming Friday...so it sort of messed the plans up a bit

[VXL V6]

Any chance of photos of the area before and after?