Omega Owners Forum - Mileage counter

Omegadoha, Desert Member Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1357 Doha, Qatar Drives: 3.2 V6 2002	Mileage counter 20. Nov 2009 at 18:47 Is there any reason why Vaux/ Opel went for the old style mileage counter as opposed to the digital type? Just wondering is there was a reason behind it.
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STMO123 Ex Member	Re: Mileage counter Reply #1 - 20. Nov 2009 at 18:47 Omegadoha, Desert Member wrote on 20. Nov 2009 at 18:47: Is there any reason why Vaux/ Opel went for the old style mileage counter as opposed to the digital type? Just wondering is there was a reason behind it. Money.
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Omegadoha, Desert Member Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1357 Doha, Qatar Drives: 3.2 V6 2002	Re: Mileage counter Reply #2 - 20. Nov 2009 at 18:50 Do you mean to save money?
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STMO123 Ex Member	Re: Mileage counter Reply #3 - 20. Nov 2009 at 18:51 Omegadoha, Desert Member wrote on 20. Nov 2009 at 18:50: Do you mean to save money? Yep. Why else?
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Mantahatch Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1637 Gender:	Re: Mileage counter Reply #4 - 20. Nov 2009 at 18:53 And yet the Vectra had a type of illuminated mileomemter thingy.
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tunnie Over Active Poster Offline Posts: 22520 London, W3 Gender: Drives: 2.2 CD (LPG'd) & BMW R1200 GS	Re: Mileage counter Reply #5 - 20. Nov 2009 at 18:55 suspect because the Omega was too old up upgrade to CanDi
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Omegadoha, Desert Member Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1357 Doha, Qatar Drives: 3.2 V6 2002	Re: Mileage counter Reply #6 - 20. Nov 2009 at 18:59 Quote: Omegadoha, Desert Member wrote on 20. Nov 2009 at 18:50: Do you mean to save money? Yep. Why else? Sounds a bit tight. Why make such money saving measures in your supposedly flagship car.
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Reply #7 - 20. Nov 2009 at 19:06

Omegadoha, Desert Member wrote on 20. Nov 2009 at 18:59:

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Omegadoha, Desert Member wrote on 20. Nov 2009 at 18:50:

Do you mean to save money?

Yep. Why else? Grin

Sounds a bit tight. Why make such money saving measures in your supposedly flagship car.

As Tunnie said, it's not just a case of putting a new dial in. It has to be fed with a signal, which means upgrading the electronics etc. Money.

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Reply #8 - 20. Nov 2009 at 19:13

Omegadoha, Desert Member wrote on 20. Nov 2009 at 18:59:

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Omegadoha, Desert Member wrote on 20. Nov 2009 at 18:50:

Do you mean to save money?

Yep. Why else? Grin

Sounds a bit tight. Why make such money saving measures in your supposedly flagship car.

Although facelift had a huge update in spec and trim, don't forget its actually a 1993/4 design. (forgetting the 80's LCD Senator/Astra dashes) most had dials. When the facelift came in, was prob too big cost wise to upgrade some core leccy stuff

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Reply #9 - 20. Nov 2009 at 19:14

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Omegadoha, Desert Member wrote on 20. Nov 2009 at 18:59:

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Omegadoha, Desert Member wrote on 20. Nov 2009 at 18:50:

Do you mean to save money?

Yep. Why else? Grin

Sounds a bit tight. Why make such money saving measures in your supposedly flagship car.

As Tunnie said, it's not just a case of putting a new dial in. It has to be fed with a signal, which means upgrading the electronics etc. Money.

Fair enough. There still tight though. Grin

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STMO123 Ex Member	Re: Mileage counter Reply #10 - 20. Nov 2009 at 19:16 In the years before it went into bankruptcy, GM was burning through $6Billion a year. It's only the fact the the US government pumped billions into it, and cash for clunkers, that's kept it going this year. When everything settles, it will be in deep, deep sh!t again.
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Reply #11 - 20. Nov 2009 at 20:37

But dont forget that, with the exception of the sender unit, the Senny/Gsi24/Astra GTE dash units were digital replacements of analogue - i.e standalone units & not fully integrated.

The very last of the Mk2 Astra GTEs had analogue dash units as standard as there was a very high warranty failure rate. I had a B reg GTE and had 2 replacement dash units withn 6 months.

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Reply #12 - 20. Nov 2009 at 20:39

Lincs Robert wrote on 20. Nov 2009 at 20:37:

But dont forget that, with the exception of the sender unit, the Senny/Gsi24/Astra GTE dash units were digital replacements of analogue - i.e standalone units & not fully integrated.

The very last of the Mk2 Astra GTEs had analogue dash units as standard as there was a very high warranty failure rate. I had a B reg GTE and had 2 replacement dash units withn 6 months.

Yep, they were cr@p. So why put them into a miggy.

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Marks DTM Calib Administrator Offline Ex Member Posts: 25671 Northern Hemisphere Gender: Drives: Astra J, Mum Bus, Dexta Tractor, 108 DMU wip	Re: Mileage counter Reply #13 - 20. Nov 2009 at 20:40 Quote: Omegadoha, Desert Member wrote on 20. Nov 2009 at 18:47: Is there any reason why Vaux/ Opel went for the old style mileage counter as opposed to the digital type? Just wondering is there was a reason behind it. Money. Digital LCD odometer is cheaper than mechanical.
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Reply #14 - 20. Nov 2009 at 20:42

Marks DTM Calib wrote on 20. Nov 2009 at 20:40:

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Omegadoha, Desert Member wrote on 20. Nov 2009 at 18:47:

Is there any reason why Vaux/ Opel went for the old style mileage counter as opposed to the digital type? Just wondering is there was a reason behind it.

Money.

Digital LCD odometer is cheaper than mechanical.

Not if you've got 100,000 in stock.

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