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[johnnydog]

Brainwashed sheeple springs to mind and I would wager most are on PCPs

The vast majority of car 'ownership' today is on a PCP, Solutions, Options or however it is dressed up. Running a car without ownership.
Some are loyal to a brand, not necessarily because of PCP's, and that applies to all makes, but they are hardly ''brain washed".
I have never had a PCP on any car, but I don't really see the relevance of a PCP and your criticism of VAG products.
My daughter works on the front line with the North West Ambulance Service, and actually the Skoda Octavia is very well recieved.

[Doctor Gollum]

They obviously don't load them as heavily as SECAMB then... All the ones around here look to be dragging the rear bumpers.

Loaded, the Altea would ground on every speed hump and crest, as would the Octavia and Golf estates. The hatches only (just) get away with it by not being quite so commodious.

Again your confusing fact with opinion. Also, you clearly don't quite 'read' tongue in cheek. Take everything literally if you want, but it will only wind you up

My aversion to PCPs etc is hard won experience. And a mistake that I will endeavour to avoid. Permanently. If you require explanation of how making significant payments to drive a 'nice' new car/impress people is a bad thing then I will gladly point you towards some clarity on the subject.

The only reason Skoda taxis are so prolific is because they are cheap to buy, in no small part due to the purchasing power of a couple of taxi wholesalers who were able to retail new Octavia/Superb on 6-7 year leases for the 60% of the rrp. Main dealers had little choice but to price match or lose business. And suddenly everyone and their dog either drives a Skoda or aspire to Audis 

There are better cars, but people seem to be stuck on the whole budget VW marketing wank.

[Doctor Gollum]

To add, if I wanted to buy a newish appliance, then a Hyundai i40 ticks alot of boxes. But for significantly less its possible to buy, and run, much nicer cars with a bit of age on them.

And if I suddenly found that I had a spare £40k to spend on something fast and comfortable, then it would be enough to restomod something interesting without an S-line badge.

[johnnydog]

You do get a little 'touchy'.... Especially when
someone doesn't agree or go along with your opinions? You are very self opinionated, condesceding and obviously have more time on your hands than the majority of good members on here. Most of what you come out with is just your opinion, but you put it across as if it is gospel and dare anyine make judgement or have an opinion of their own or factul knowledge that differs from yours. Godforbid. As has been said before, I suspect many members on here have been driven away by your approach to their Omega problems and your belief that you are superior in your knowledge in subjects when quite often you talk quite frankly a load of 'dangle berries' a lot of the time.
Why don't you buy another Omega ( it is an Omega Owners Forum after all... ) so that you would have a bit more credibility and could further vent some of your frustrations keeping it on the road rather than being a tap room lawyer or coined another way - a back seat driver.
There is someone else on here going the same way as you which doesn't bode well - I think the majority know who that is. In fact I may just keep to other forums I visit that actually discuss topics and give helpful advice as, I believe, was the initial concept of them.
Nah, I think I'll stay. But you do talk a lot of shite the majority of the time. And you need to take a long hard look at yourself and they way you respond to Omega problems that you think are basic or trivial, but others think are worthy of seeking help or advice.
Nuff said....
Back to Kev8n 'Bloody' Wilson then.....

[henryd]

My own experience of VAG differs greatly DG, my Touareg was bought seven years ago with 130k on the dial but good history. its now on 175k and I have just had to fit an injector to it which is its first major repair  with me other than routine maintenance,probably half of the miles covered during my ownership have been pulling 1800 kg of pikey palace around which is why I bought it in the first place,it replaced a woefully unreliable Discovery 

[Doctor Gollum]

Eight Omegas is enough for one lifetime 

My 'approach' to Omega issues is based on personal experience either with my own cars or those of other people that I have worked on.

That such experience is different to someone elses doesn't make it wrong.

Besides life would be incredibly tedious if we all thought the same...

[Doctor Gollum]

My own experience of VAG differs greatly DG, my Touareg was bought seven years ago with 130k on the dial but good history. its now on 175k and I have just had to fit an injector to it which is its first major repair  with me other than routine maintenance,probably half of the miles covered during my ownership have been pulling 1800 kg of pikey palace around which is why I bought it in the first place,it replaced a woefully unreliable Discovery 

Can't argue with that 

It's obviously served you well.

[johnnydog]

Eight Omegas is enough for one lifetime 

Eight. Very good. But when you enjoy a particular car, in this case Omegas, they do seem to breed..... .
I have just picked up another 3.2 Elite saloon (silver of course.. ) being sold for scrap but in reality just as the keys could not be located and haven't turned up in over 4 years, so it was offered to me for scrap value. A quick once over reveals it is very solid in all the right places, no wheel arch or rear sill rot, and solid chassis rails. Just short of 80k and a good previous MOT history. A very genuine and original car.
Some buffoon unfortunately has tried to gain access by removing the drivers door lock completely from the plate and partially damaging the door card, but then resorted to smashing the rear nearside quarterlight. Three doors are now unlocked but the drivers door remains locked so it appears the car was just locked, not deadlocked, so I am interested in the recent posts in another topic about unlocking the drivers door without a key....
I have established the ignition barrel is the same as the original, and got a plain key cut to the code which has released the steering lock. Need now to get a proper key, and get it coded etc. to progress it further.
That brings my total ownership upto 13 Omegas (not all at the same time!). Now could that be classed as an obsession - as my wife often comments on....?

[Doctor Gollum]

Three at once was my limit

If you have a spare 3.2, just swap the various parts over from that...

You need, from a single car:

Engine ECU
Transponder ring
Key with chip and remote
Drivers door lock barrel
Ignition barrel
Remote ecu

Alternatively, if you have the V5/Carpass, then you can get original coded keys/chips/remotes from VX.

If the door isn't deadlocked it should open. You may find that in the course of buggering about, they've disconnected the rods from the latch.

I don't understand why people think that breaking the quarterlight is a a good idea. It is twice the work than the main side glass as that has to come out to get the new quarter glass in

[johnnydog]

I have two options.
1) Ihave a 3.2 saloon as a breaker with all the bits you list and two keys.
2) A local key shop that specialises in replacement keys (recommended by the parts chap at VX) will do a new replacement blade to the original no/ horseshoe, case and chip with programming to the car for £100 all in. Would have to sort the door lock barrell out at some point though. Probably won't be a genuine VX case, but he has a good reputation, so may probably go with that. The replacement key I got to release the ignition (and to confirm it was on its original key) has a transponder chip in it so hopefully he may do that as well. Would have to trailer the car to him however, but he is local to the car  .
Going for the 2nd option means trailoring the car from where it is, back home to strip the parts off two cars and reassembly, then trailoring it back near to its current location to get it programmed etc. But would have two original keys and a door lock / barrell.
For the sake of £100? Plus replacing the door lock / barrell at some point..
The key / ecu set could probably be sold with all the other bits in the future to cover the outlay.
Time or cost? Decisions, decisions.....

[Doctor Gollum]

Fit everything you already have and attach the car pass from the donor (along with a picture of the V5 and chassis plate) to the car pass from the keyless car. Get a copy of the donor car pass if you don't have it.

Sell all the bits from the keyless car. Win win. Free repair and some cash for the bits.

[johnnydog]

Appreciate the info - that is the logical way I guess. More time consuming (due to where the car is) but unfortunately, I haven't got a great deal of spare time at the moment. May just try to unlock the door by pulling up on the exposed rod first; and / or assess what damage has been done by the hamfisted forced removal of the door lock, and then decide. I guess it should unlock relatively easily with no actual barrell in it. Fortunately no damage has been done to the door skin itself.

[Doctor Gollum]

An hours work to pull all the bits, and another hour later to swap them into the keyless car.

All you need to remove to access them is the lid to the engine fuse box, column trim (4mm allen key is the secret to removing the ignition barrel, and once the barrel is out the transponder falls off) driver kick panel, the door card and door handle (doesn't matter if the colour is different as you can swap the barrel into the existing one).

Just be organised and methodical use separate, labelled tubs for each car and write the donor reg on everything as you pull them. 

[Raeturbo]

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[Sir Tigger KC]

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Yeh it's like watching make up sex!