RE: Shed Of The Week: Vauxhall Omega V6

[ajmcampbell]

Why do these always make me think of Tony Blair sheepishly shuffling around Westminster with a million protection officers after iraq?
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[Gandahar]

This is the sort of car you paint white with a tin of Weathershield and a brush, fit roof bars, put a couple of tins of custard up there with blue paper over one end and then drive down to Cornwall in the outside lane in double quick time compared to normal.

[vit4]

I had a sheddy 2.2 manual bought for buttons at auction. I was actually quite fond of the car, it was extremely comfortable but was let down by the engine & gearbox - I reckon a V6 auto would be great. It's a shame my one was so ropey (2-3 litres of oil per 1000 miles by the end ), I think it had been used and abused as a tow car. I'd have another one

[cannelldocam]

VolvoT5 said:

I learned to drive in the pre face lift version of the Omega.... a 3.0 manual but in police spec (white, cloth trim and very few toys). Bargetastic and a bit tail happy. Not sure I would want to downgrade to the 2.5/2.6 version to be honest. I normally vastly prefer autos to manual but the lazy manual seemed to suit this car.... wonder what happened to them all....... rusted to death probably?

I think the scrappage scheme did for a lot of these. I think they look much sharper, especially from the front end, in the pre-facelift shape.

I think I'll stick with my Senator 24v though - 204 BHP and more tail-happy. Despite the bloody annoying autobox fault that causes it to disbelieve that the selector is in P or N when starting from warm, so refuses to turn the engine over. Any ideas anyone? I'm assuming it's just a dead-ish sensor somewhere.

[RobinBanks]

E65Ross said:

My dad was given one of these 12 years ago when his BMW 330 went in for a service.

The omega was st then so I'm pretty sure it will be now, too.

They're better than a BMW 330 so at least he did ok there.

[anonymous-user]

RobinBanks said:

E65Ross said:

My dad was given one of these 12 years ago when his BMW 330 went in for a service.

The omega was st then so I'm pretty sure it will be now, too.

They're better than a BMW 330 so at least he did ok there.

Good joke!!!

[Gandahar]

St John Smythe said:

RobinBanks said:

E65Ross said:

My dad was given one of these 12 years ago when his BMW 330 went in for a service.

The omega was st then so I'm pretty sure it will be now, too.

They're better than a BMW 330 so at least he did ok there.

Good joke!!!

Perhaps he means they are worse than a BMW 330 till the Bimmer hits your wallet and it all ends in tears??

[RobinBanks]

St John Smythe said:

Good joke!!!

How is that?

The Vauxhall doesn't cripple driver and passenger alike. I consider that to make it better than the BMW.

[pSynrg]

MV6 is better sheding.

Had this one about 4 or 5 years ago. The spec I wanted. Factory fitted Irmscher pack (body, wheels, exhaust, carbon effect trim) Manual 3.0 and chipped to (a dynoed ) 236bhp. Absolutely loved it and it would carry anything!



Crashed it

Edited by pSynrg on Friday 10th July 16:44

[Coatesy351]

cannelldocam said:

I think the scrappage scheme did for a lot of these. I think they look much sharper, especially from the front end, in the pre-facelift shape.

I think I'll stick with my Senator 24v though - 204 BHP and more tail-happy. Despite the bloody annoying autobox fault that causes it to disbelieve that the selector is in P or N when starting from warm, so refuses to turn the engine over. Any ideas anyone? I'm assuming it's just a dead-ish sensor somewhere.

Knackered neutral safety switch?

[E65Ross]

RobinBanks said:

E65Ross said:

My dad was given one of these 12 years ago when his BMW 330 went in for a service.

The omega was st then so I'm pretty sure it will be now, too.

They're better than a BMW 330 so at least he did ok there.

That explains why he went on to buy an omega after. Oh wait.... No he didn't!

[ecs0set]

Bose <> sound quality. At least not always. Tried it in a Mito and a Leaf and it was beyond rubbish in both.

[B'stard Child]

cannelldocam said:

VolvoT5 said:

I learned to drive in the pre face lift version of the Omega.... a 3.0 manual but in police spec (white, cloth trim and very few toys). Bargetastic and a bit tail happy. Not sure I would want to downgrade to the 2.5/2.6 version to be honest. I normally vastly prefer autos to manual but the lazy manual seemed to suit this car.... wonder what happened to them all....... rusted to death probably?

I think the scrappage scheme did for a lot of these. I think they look much sharper, especially from the front end, in the pre-facelift shape.

I think I'll stick with my Senator 24v though - 204 BHP and more tail-happy. Despite the bloody annoying autobox fault that causes it to disbelieve that the selector is in P or N when starting from warm, so refuses to turn the engine over. Any ideas anyone? I'm assuming it's just a dead-ish sensor somewhere.

Absolutely nothing to do with your autobox selector - classic hot start issue

If you jump it from another car it will start straight away and that will prove it

Battery on my PC is about to die so will add more later

[kmack]

There still handsome looking cars and the facelift cars aged very well. Cant comment on reliability or drivability but I like it!

[leedsutd1]

I had 2 omegas a M and N reg , the cars would have been around 5 years old ,not very quick ,but very comfy ,and well built , had each car about a year ,

[anonymous-user]

RobinBanks said:

St John Smythe said:

Good joke!!!

How is that?

The Vauxhall doesn't cripple driver and passenger alike. I consider that to make it better than the BMW.

Agreed. That's why Omega's are worth naff all and 99% have probably been scrapped.

[shake n bake]

Troon said:

PLEASE don't advocate repeated re-gassing to keep a leaky A/C system working. The load of R134a in your car is equivalent to the same greenhouse effect as several thousand miles driving (it's 1300 times worse than CO2, so even at a heavy 255g/km an 800g A/C load is the same as 4100km driving).

Meh, go talk to china about there pollution before pointing your save the world fingers at an air con re gas.
I'm off out to do 12mpg quite happily now!

[LOOR13049]

I have one (my second)
Great cars.

[njw1]

I've only ever been in one Omega (a pre-facelift 2.5 auto, about 12 or 13 years ago) and remember being very impressed by it, I've liked them ever since but then again I like anything big, comfy, rwd and thirsty (there are not one, but two e39's on the drive at the moment!). In fact, I nearly bought a 3.0 manual MV6 a few years ago until I found out a 535i was cheaper to insure. I've always thought the pre-facelift ones look better too.

[daytona365]

I'm sure it's a very worthy motor for the price, but whenever I see something like this, I'm always reminded of the midlands or worse, for some reason. For that alone I'm ooot !