The OMGa Thread

[Rocket88]

Get yer arse to Crail on Sunday then.

Working 11 hour night shifts at the moment.............so maybe a bit of a problem!

[Supernaut]

No doubt sometime in the future, you'll have another punter asking for the services. I hear LS430's are alot cheaper in the midlands than up these parts. 

 

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With regards to the grill, personally I keep telling him to badge it up as a Cadillac Catera...

Check that thing out! Quad fog lamps!

Also, the Cadillac grilles posted from the US are £stupid for a bit of plastic.

[omegod]

As a serial omega owner I can say that looks a good one. The alarmist side of me would advise you to take the sump off and thoroughly clean the oil pick up, in my experience the 2.6 particularly likes to get blocked and starve the crank bearing...ask me how I know      

[Supernaut]

That seems to be a common thing on Vauxhall engines then!

 

I remember hearing lots of stories of the 2.3 turbos used in Saabs doing that. I also know somebody with personal experience of that. 40 miles after buying it.

[17-Coffees]

 

If you make me put an LS430 on the drive it won't be leaving. I'll even build it its own machine-gun defended castle to stave off the northern invasion, I would.

 

That seem's like an idea for trying after I've done the yearly pilgrimage to the 'Classic Car show' at the NEC..."Capture LexBarge the 2nd". Sure Supernaut would lend a hand as well.

 

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Check that thing out! Quad fog lamps!
Also, the Cadillac grilles posted from the US are £stupid for a bit of plastic.

 

Admittedly, the price is silly for what it is. Surely getting a hold of a Cadillac badge and grafting it onto the Opel grill would be cheaper? Just as long as done well and not like the 300C-Come-Bentley's you see and a good job is done! 

[Supernaut]

LS430 piloting while on energy drinks! YAAAY!

 

But who will be buying it...? Dun-dun-duuuunnnnn...

 

Also, if you wanna help me graft a Cadillac badge onto my shitty Opel grille as a fun weekend arts and crafts activity, it's a goer!

[Guest Hooli]

Gotta love OMGas!

[rantingYoof]

That seem's like an idea for trying after I've done the yearly pilgrimage to the 'Classic Car show' at the NEC..."Capture LexBarge the 2nd". Sure Supernaut would lend a hand as well.

 

The only sub £2k LS430 on 'Trader at the moment looks and sounds like a complete nail.

 

There is this practically brand-new-looking one for around 3% of its "when-new" cost...

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201508256338490

 

Wobble.

[Supernaut]

This is my demonstration to RantingYoof of how silly it looks parked outside my house.

 

 

I'm no gardener, evidently.

[Supernaut]

Recharged aircon today. Seems to work. No more misting up. Yay!

 

Done in true AS fashion, with a DIY kit thing. Trigger mechanism with a pressure gauge on it that hooked up to a cylinder of pressurised gas. Didn't know you could DIY air con!

It was previously sitting at the borderline between 'low' and 'ok' on the gauge, but with the scraps left in the cylinder that was lying about my dad's shed, got it about a third of the way through the green zone.

[Supernaut]

H'okay.

 

I feel almost bad doing this, but... would people be interested in a roffle for this?

 

It's a very nice car, nothing wrong with it. I just can't seem to get along with the badermatic, and just want something torquey with a Spanish waiter instead.

 

£15 a ticket sound fair?

 

No massive rush to get rid, I'll happily pootle about in it in the meantime. It just doesn't sit right with me. I know there are plenty of people on here who enjoy badermatics though.

[Supernaut]

Awkward. Glossing over that...

 

I just de-chavved the number plates! Yaaaay!

 

 

 

These were actually the cheapest plates I could get on ebay. £10.49 for the pair including postage and the sticky pads. The plain ones cost more!

[Dave_Q]

Rofflez are best at sub £5 a ticket really, there have been 1 or 2 at that sort of price but they've taken a long time to sell.

 

Post it for sale on a vx licker forum with super hd widescreen photos of the wheel arches?

[rantingYoof]

Aye, the de-badged smooveness and Opel badges on the perfect wheels, with photographs of the doors and arches will have the Vauxhall forums oozing.

 

I would sincerely hope you could make back the money spent on it. Sometimes you gotta take advantage of fanbooiiiizzzz.

[Supernaut]

I'm a philistine for not appreciating this car sooner.

 

I drove it up to Huntly and back this evening along some back roads I know like the back of my hand.

 

Bloody hell. It handles far better than it should. I think I was genuinely driving it quicker than I drove the Audi down the same roads. It has that combination of waft and handling I haven't seen anywhere else this side of a 1990s Peugeot.

The auto box means I don't give a shit about what gear I'm in, I just go 'meh, this feels about the right speed for this corner', pitch it in then stomp it out the other side. All while in quiet comfort listening to my favourite music.

 

I also think it's quicker than the figures on autotrader suggest. It definitely feels it when I select sport mode on the 'box and bury my right foot.

 

I've covered probably somewhere between 800-900 miles in it already in the past two and a bit weeks. It's absolutely filthy on the outside but still looks like a BAWS and it genuinely feels like it's loosening up more as I drive it.

I may be imagining things but it felt like the gearbox is learning my driving style for a bit. On some back roads it would stay in 3rd and only change up to 4th once I hit 60 and properly lifted off. This isn't in sport mode either.

 

The highlight of the return journey was screaming up Tyrebagger hill (locals to the area should be familiar with it) in sport mode at, ahem, 90-odd, then going round the sweepers at 85 solid as a rock. All while it held onto 3rd like a lunatic. V6s can make a lovely noise!

 

The auto box still has its stupid moments now and then, but I guess they all do that.

 

TLDR: I'm stupid and I actually like this car now.

[Supernaut]

Cleaned up the slightly misty headlights with some light scratch repair polish.

[Supernaut]

Update on the headlights.

 

They're definitely better. They're HIDs and were always a tiny bit yellow before. Not any more!

 

Full beam is basically a case of "HELLO, I'D LIKE TO SEE INTO NEXT WEEK PLEASE."

 

 

Today while at the farm I also helped Fathernaut with the brakes on the Land Rover (more in the relevant thread), cleaned up some glue remnants from around the leccy window switches (seems to have been some trim around them at some point) and gassed the air con some more.

I suspect the air con might have a minor leak though. After I ran the engine for a few minutes, the air con pressure (according to the gauge on the re-gas kit) dropped a few psi again.

[17-Coffees]

The auto box means I don't give a shit about what gear I'm in, I just go 'meh, this feels about the right speed for this corner', pitch it in then stomp it out the other side. All while in quiet comfort listening to my favourite music.

 

Now you know how I grew to 'hoon' the LexBarge. Just mind and look at the speedo before hand sometimes or it can lead to some interesting moments...

 

Knew you'd come around to enjoying the barge life.

[rantingYoof]

Vauxhalls haven't been able to do air-conditioning right since forever. SnrYoof got his Signum when it was just under 3yrs old and the air-con was ker-knackered on that.

 

He's had it re-gassed a few times and it'll work briefly. It never tends to fail completely - it just runs ever so slightly colder than the coldest setting on the fan, but it's never eye-ball-freezingly cold.

[Supernaut]

Yeah, that's what mine does. Ah well.

[Supernaut]

It now has an extra 2000bhp* after fitting the best mod in the world.

 

 

(curved rear screen makes it look like it's falling off!)

 

I find myself considering adding another eleventy billion bhp with another mod. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VAUXHALL-OMEGA-B-4-doors-1994-2003-2-pc-wind-deflectors-HEKO-Tinted-/171951354475?hash=item280919726b:g:n~IAAOSwsB9WCT~z

[Supernaut]

Wind deflectors ordered.

 

Giffer-look and practical! Practical because they're cheaper than a single canister of air con re-gas stuff.

[Supernaut]

I went out for a drive today and ended up in Glen Shee, then took a tiny back road across to Tomintoul because why not?

 

Sport mode is amusing while going up the A93.

 

I haven't washed it since I bought it, so it's somewhat grimy after 1000+ miles.

 

 

 

 

 

In other news, the Autoshite sticker... well, doesn't. It fell off and ended up on the parcel shelf within 24 hours. Well, what the fuck do I expect from an Autoshite sticker?!