I've recently been to look at a vauxhall omega. http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/vauxhall-omega-2000/88124987 was a nice car new brakes new exhaust stacks of receipts pleasant people too. Just one problem the car pulls to the left and I've read up and its a common probelm. Has anyone had or could offer any good advice i would be grateful. It seems the garage we bought the saab from dont seem to have much in and the consensus is that they are after more money so were a bit stuck.

my mate has an 02 crash repaired astra sxi for sale, think he want's £900, taxed and tested

 

got to be better than a car with no tax and fault's

my mate has an 02 crash repaired astra sxi for sale, think he want's £900, taxed and tested

 

got to be better than a car with no tax and fault's

 

Mean's I have to sell my Saab first tho, not even one call about it so far and its advertised for cheap - hence us considering swaps....

oh i see, are all the problem's sorted on the saab then?

oh i see, are all the problem's sorted on the saab then?

 

No Allan or I'd be keeping it

Do not touch an omega, they are total crap.

Do not touch an omega, they are total crap.

 

How so?

my uncles have had omega's for year's they are great car's, part's are cheap as chips

my uncles have had omega's for year's they are great car's, part's are cheap as chips

 

cheers Allan, done some research online, there's a helpful forum and a local member offered to take a look for us. I guess if the rozzers use em as patrol cars they must have something relatively reliable about em.

Just getting fed up with the garage we bought the Saab from - they offered us a swap but don't have anything within our budget and want us to give them more money. I'd rather set fire to my own face than give them more of our hard earned cash....

i can understand that, stuck between a rock and a hard place

 

have you tried the car sale's, i know you need to sell the saab, but if you do get yourself along, my uncle's buy all their car's from there, they have had several omega's and carlton's between them over the year's and they swear by them, one uncvle still has one, the other has just bought an 07 jag s type diesel (lovely bit of kit)

i can understand that, stuck between a rock and a hard place

 

have you tried the car sale's, i know you need to sell the saab, but if you do get yourself along, my uncle's buy all their car's from there, they have had several omega's and carlton's between them over the year's and they swear by them, one uncvle still has one, the other has just bought an 07 jag s type diesel (lovely bit of kit)

 

Just sick of it Al, ans I start Uni full time tomorrow to do nursing, NEEED a reliable safe car as come the crap weather, I'm gonna be on placements all over Teesside - I don't fancy driving to say, Northallerton, in a car thats gonna die on me in the snow.....

rear wheel drive omega muight not be the best choice for winter lol

I had an Omega 2.5TD.

 

Great car, you could drive 600 miles in it and still feel fresh. My car was reliable right up until the day something major broke about 100m away from home (thank fook). Was probably a bottom end bearing of some nature - but I wasn't interested in finding out and flogged it on ebay 2 days later as a breaker. I'd done 50k in it and it didn't owe me a penny. I do know they have electric problems though (although mine didn't) and stay away from the petrol V6's if you're looking for reliability. The 2.0l is chronically underpowered however.

 

The other thing you should ba aware of is they are MASSIVE. I'm not sure a woman would be able to park such a beast! :lol:

I had an Omega 2.5TD.

 

Great car, you could drive 600 miles in it and still feel fresh. My car was reliable right up until the day something major broke about 100m away from home (thank fook). Was probably a bottom end bearing of some nature - but I wasn't interested in finding out and flogged it on ebay 2 days later as a breaker. I'd done 50k in it and it didn't owe me a penny. I do know they have electric problems though (although mine didn't) and stay away from the petrol V6's if you're looking for reliability. The 2.0l is chronically underpowered however.

 

The other thing you should ba aware of is they are MASSIVE. I'm not sure a woman would be able to park such a beast! :lol:

 

Lol, its smaller than my Saab, I can parallel park that :lol:

 

Thanks re the advice - like Al said, stuck between a rock and a hard place at the moment

women dont park, they just abanden lol

women dont park, they just abanden lol

 

And men don't converse, they just talk shite :lol:

Soooo back on topic, any suggestions re this car?

i know your in a prediciment, but your just buying another car with problem's, how do you know that there isnt more wrong with it

 

i would stay away