Project Omega

Thanks for the reassurance.
The door lock is still in on an angle which will need sorting but fingers crossed its maybe been like that since I bought it and I've just never noticed until now.

Will see what tomorrow brings

No real progress other than a couple of times where my sensible head has kicked in and told me to sell it.
I've a new van on the way that I'm converting that the money could go towards and with plenty of other stuff on the driveway, it makes sense to.

But then I take it for a drive or get an offer to buy it and change my mind again



Tax is due for renewal end of this month and at £424, I've decided the best thing to do would be park it up and see what happens in the coming months. I may no longer "need" my Audi A3 in the not too distant future so could free up some money shifting that, although having been driving that for the past few days am reluctant to get rid of that either 

Long overdue update time.

Car got parked up November 22 when the tax expired.
Sold my A3 after having to replace rear pads, discs and calipers after my mum forgot to mention it had been making a scraping noise for a while 
The money I'd had to spend before selling it meant taxing the Omega would have to wait a month or 2.

Then a return to British Karting Championships and racing at Le Mans was keeping my bank balance sufficiently low enough to keep it untaxed on my mums driveway  

Then after realising I was never going to find the time to sort my Sprinter conversion myself, had to pay someone which then prompted the Omega going up for sale.
Had plenty of attention, messages and timewasters, but no sale after dropping the price a few times.

It hasn't been a total waste of a year though. I ordered a centre headrest off eBay to replace the missing one and actually got around to fitting the wheels I bought


Now my mums driveway is getting done, I need to get the car moved and it's given me the nudge I need to actually get the car back on the road again (hopefully)

Oohhh I like these

The number of times I hear this is one of the many reasons I love it

One day I'll find a way to combine marketing and sales and chop this in for a 5 series 

Cleaning stuff arrived, so gave it a proper bath on Sunday. Managed to have my old trusty washmit fall apart on me and one of my wireless earphones drop into the wash bucket, but apart from that, didnt turn out too bad. Claybar and polish next.





Brakes all round and a service on payday me thinks and maybe go nuts and buy the lowering springs that have been on my eBay watchlist for a considerable period of time now

Lowering springs arrived today. Just gone to put the box in the boot so they're out the way and splash, the new light seems to be holding even more water than the old one

Further investigation required to find out whether its maybe a boot seal or a water drain blocked somewhere that is channelling water into the light.

Thought I'd managed to track down an original carphone setup, but then the guy started ghosting me.

Had to make do with the latest fad that is bluetooth to make it a bit more practical if the car does become my new daily as of next week


Got the car into work to have a go at doing some more dirty bits myself (with a lot of help)


Oil and filter
Brake fluid change
Front and rear discs and pads

A new exhaust has always been on the list and having noticed a hole in the one on the car, I can justify this as a necessary expense rather than a modification which takes all the guilt away