Seriously?

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by john.wigley

I didn't know that, 'L.S.'.

We (Linda) have a '95 Saab 3.0 V6 'Griffin' which she has owned since 2011 with no sign of H.G. problems. (We were looking for a late 964 or S90 at the time, but could not find one). The 3.0 'six' has a similar specific output to her earlier 2.3 FPT 'four', but is a much more pleasant car to drive.

It's one major failure, apart from the usual minor irritations which are a part of almost every 'old' car, was that of the water cooled oil cooler which sits deep down in the vee. It was of aluminum and was, I believe, the subject of a recall when the car was new. We obtained a stainless one from Sweden and to date that has proved entirely satisfactory.

Regards, John.

The 3.0 is nowhere near as susceptible John, it seems to have much better cooling on the heads. I don't think the Vectra ever got the 3.0 (might be wrong) but i know the Omegas did and generally was considered "the" engine to have if you were going to have a V6 Omega.
Obviously in a much lower state of tune if your 3.0 is a similar output to the 2.3 HPT so that will reduce stresses/temperatures etc as well.

[Clan]

Originally Posted by Roderick Plinge

The price of everything appears to be going up - and I mean everything. "Classic" cars (even those that are not remotely "classic") are listed at ridiculous prices that they probably never realise, however, I have just seen this on eBay and I have to say it's a total and utter pi**-take....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1993-Volv...kAAOSwyG1fWhWk

The 240 is undoubtedly a super car - I've had three and wish I'd kept at least two of them, however, this car just isn't worth this stupid price. If you list a car at this price you deserve to take the consequent flak for it....joker!

This is a trend on ebay at the moment , traders are buying forgotten classic cars and offer the owner a good price they cant refuse say £2000 , and clean it up and offer it for sale at say £7000 ... it's been happening for a couple of years now . people then see this and put their own cars up for sale at that price and it is deemed to be the value so people pay it ..

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

I suspect he probably aspired to Porsche ownership Alan but in the meantime, deicded if he couldn't enjoy one, neither could you. It's along similar lines to "if i can't have it, nobody else is going to have it".

Whilst incinvenient, i think a tyre is probably a small price to pay compared to what he could have done but also if you had gone to the police, i suspect they may have taken the view that you could have easily run over the nail and the guy was probably innocent.

... I think the CCTV would have been pretty convincing evidence Dave. No matter though, I didn't think the police would have been interested in £100 worth of damage and even if it ended up in front of the magistrate that would not have helped me recover the money (and the chap might have got a warning or a community sentence ... so what).

I think you are right, the chap was just envious and not used to living in a better off neighbourhood. If he had done any real damage I'd have been sharpening my divers' knife.

:-)

[Laird Scooby]

I didn't realise you'd caught him on video Alan, maybe a YouTube video of the oik perpetrating the crime would be good!

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

I didn't realise you'd caught him on video Alan, maybe a YouTube video of the oik perpetrating the crime would be good!

That was a year or so ago Dave. If I'd had any idea how to publish a You Tube video at that time I might have done it out of badness!

I wonder though - as you alluded to at the start, would attracting attention to my car (and its number plate) and house have backfired - perhaps I'd have had a few more oiks hanging around as a result? The culprit must have known about the CCTV, so he might have even reveled in the notoriety if I'd published it.

It is a slightly sad indictment on human society (the problem is not limited to this country) - that we have to protect nice things from envious hands and eyes. I suppose envy and greed are just human traits that people have not grown out of since the stone age.

No matter, I lock up the Porsche and my bikes (the bikes aren't worth much, but they are easy to steal and I'm too emotionally attached to all 3 to risk seeing them being ridden around the woods by some 15 year old oik). The Skoda is too wonderfully nondescript to be of interest to thieves, and no oik would be seen dead in the RB - so those two live on the drive.

Nearly time for Bob's midday walk, it is a lovely day out.

:-)

[Stephen Edwin]

Originally Posted by Othen

.... Although my NCB would not have been affected, I'm pretty sure my premium would have gone up for all my cars and bikes (x6). ...

True.

Thank you for that useful post. Some members might not be aware of that wrinkle re the oh so wonderful protected no claims bonus offered by insurers.

EDIT: oops but beware. There might be a disclosure obligation to at least tell the insurer. Hey noni noni ....

Comrade Stephen Edwin



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[Dippydog]

Omega V6 3L had a spate about the '98 model year of head gasket problems mainly for some reason on the n/s bank but no real problems in that regard before or after.The 3L omega was rated something around 208bhp[I have seen 211bhp quoted also.Early Vectras could be had with 2.5 V6 version while later Vectras could be had with a 3.2 V6 version.Oddly the short lived Signum could be had with a 2.8 turbo V6 version.Calibra also had a 2.5 V6 variant.

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Dippydog

Omega V6 3L had a spate about the '98 model year of head gasket problems mainly for some reason on the n/s bank but no real problems in that regard before or after.The 3L omega was rated something around 208bhp[I have seen 211bhp quoted also.Early Vectras could be had with 2.5 V6 version while later Vectras could be had with a 3.2 V6 version.Oddly the short lived Signum could be had with a 2.8 turbo V6 version.Calibra also had a 2.5 V6 variant.

That's very true about the 1998 3.0 Omegas, got them all a bad name at one point but it was soon cleared up. Can't remember the nature of the problem but i seem to recall it was an easy fix.
I think the 3.2V6 was the Izusu lump from the Trooper/Monterey (Vauxhalls badge-engineered Trooper) but i might be wrong, might have more Cadillac and Holden DNA than Izusu!
If memory serves the Calibra and Cavalier Mk3 2.5 V6 had a different version of the 2.5 engine used in the Omegas and Vectras but i'm too hazy on that one now to remember properly.

[Dippydog]

You could well be right about the Calibra/Cavalier engines although I think they all came under the Ecotec banner.The later 2.6/3.2 V6s used in the Omega were I believe tuned for more bottom end torque than the 2.5/3.0 and the 2.6/3.2 were "drive by wire" rather than cable operated throttle of the 2.5/3.0.

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Dippydog

You could well be right about the Calibra/Cavalier engines although I think they all came under the Ecotec banner.The later 2.6/3.2 V6s used in the Omega were I believe tuned for more bottom end torque than the 2.5/3.0 and the 2.6/3.2 were "drive by wire" rather than cable operated throttle of the 2.5/3.0.

I'd forgotten the EcoTech series, gutless wonders which is probably why i forgot them!

Took a 130bhp 2.0 8 valve and reduced it to a smidge over 100bhp with allegedly more torque low down but wouldn't pull your granny off the toilet.

The original Family II 1.6 carb engine (in 1981/2/3) was 90bhp, by the time they'd added injection and Ecotech is was struggling to 82bhp and was again, gutless.
They started faffing about with them from about 84 onwards until they'd destroyed the free-revving nature of the engine by about 1988.