bluehawk wrote on 10. Nov 2009 at 12:55:
where are you getting one for that price as i am after one as well
Luckily I get on well with our local Vauxhall garage (they are also Suzuki dealer and I have had 4 new cars off them since 2006), so they are very helpful with my endless Omega questions and supplied a new header tank for under £30.
I spoke to the service guy about buying a replacement cat and asked for genuine VX price......£644.51+vat.....!!
He advised that it would be much better to buy a good used cat off a broken Omega than to buy a cheap new one, as they have had terrible experiences with cheap new cats upsetting the Omega sensors and engine management etc. One client returned four different cats and ended up fitting a secondhand one, another had a cheapo fitted by a chain and had to take it back to Vauxhall for the genuine part.
I note that any cat fitted to a March 2001- registered car must be R103 certificated, but parts appear identical...look into this before ordering a more expensive R103 certed one unnecessarily...
I have no idea about this, but the friendly advice from the VX garage chap was to source a good secondhand genuine part. I have now done this through a club memeber who is fitting it for me on Saturday.
Hope this helps you choose
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