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forum_emoticons.html	[quote=ingo,41579]So. The rumination is going on. Today I drove with my Omega 140 km without bigger problems, just a little bit the squeeking sounds again on the last 30 km. My abler friend Carsten has checked it. The turbocharger is definetely gone. The shaft is redounded and oil is everywhere in the in- and outtake hoses and pipes. But the car still roadworthy and without any noticeable loss of power. After my wife (she works as a loss-accessor in a motor car insurance) told me, that she had sometimes customers, whose cars were burnt down due a defect turbocharger, I've put out all non-urgently need stuff of the car, as the CD's (@dsl: Andre Brasseur, Air, The Royal Highlanders, Fatboy Slim, ZZ Top and a Sampler with South African Folk Pop, mostly in Zulu). So what to do? Tomorrow Carsten will tell me, what would be the price for changing the turbocharger with a good used part. Or, as the car is still running with the same power, shall I driving it on, just with ignoring the sounds and the oil in the turbo-system? Or rather "increasing the blow count" (literally translated) with looking for a new car? In two weeks, some vacation-days are registrated for me. Despite the facts, that I was wrong with them -the Techno Classica Show is one week before- and I should use the days for our longer holiday-trip in September, the end on the Omega is forseeable. And the effort for purchasing a new car is a well-needed subterfuge :) Otherwise my parents-in-law are expecting, that I will come with them on vacations, as a substitute for my brother-in-law. A long weekend in a fucking uninteresting village-resort in the fucking uninteresting German East :( 1500 km driving for having "relaxed vacations", where my displeasure and fretfulness is already definetely expectable. :/ So a trip to the UK will be my best chance for avoiding all that :)[/quote]
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Gomsel

Rastrojero Conosur? really strange.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAME_Rastrojero_Conosur

Sandie

The V5 and V5C act as proof of title: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/BuyingAndSellingAVehicle/RegisteringAVehicl- e/DG_4022310

For checking for outstanding finance you should run a check (at a small cost) with HPI: http://hpicheck.com/ . These sites are not just for IMCDbers to check up what cars are ;).

ingo

What kind of papers has a UK-registrated car to have? What the real proof of property? How you can find out, if there's a leasing contract behind, or any debenture bond?

My activities to get a new car are increasing...

Nightrider

Chinese MGs? But, as far as sportier things go...you know Ingo's opinion.

Sandie

Yes. With the exception of the TF all MGs were just sportier versions of Rovers (ZR=25, ZS=45 and ZT=75).

Though now there is only MG in the UK (Indeed the MG 6 has just started production at the old Rover plant at Longbridge).

Nightrider

Wasn't MG basically same thing, as Rover?

chicomarx

MG been excluded yet?...

http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/oo124/marxbrosfan/imcdb/mg.jpg

ingo

No problem, I can find a Proton here, too. It's so cheap (resp.worthless), that it wouldn't make sense to travel to Britain for that - the costs for fuel, Channel/ferry-passage and accomodation (a one-day-tour would be too stressy) would be higher than the value of the car.

If you look ad the ads of mobile.de and autotrader.co.uk, it seems, that the biggest (or only remarkable) European markets of it were Britain and Germany.

antp

Reading comments about Proton in UK vs rest of Europe makes me think: why not a Proton as unusual cheap car to buy in UK?
And as you said, for the insurance statistics it is good :grin:

ingo

Most likely it will be a Vauxhall Vectra, I think. But I'm not really satisfied with its space inside. A few weeks ago we went for a test-seating at three local Opel-dealers. Strangely, they had no Vectra C's, but I took a Signum for that. Until the back doors it shall be identical, the salesman said.
He told me, that there is no actual Opel-model, which offers the same space as an Omega. There are other customers, who are complaining that - and keeping their Omegas.
The Zafira B is out of the discussion. Unbearable space-situation for the front passenger's bones. You re sitting there as in a VW T3-Bus, the seats are only a little bit removable. Forget it.

My wife was a bit bewildered, that I told the salesman, that I'm only there for test-seating and that I want to buy a car in Britain. It would make a strange impression, she said. But I told her "The prices here are so incredible overpriced, that it never will be the question to buy a car here. So why not telling the true intention?"

My friend is still on the eBay-search for the correct turbocharger. Maybe everything will going fine and I can ride around for many more kilometers with the Omega.