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Lincs Robert

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In your cars previous ownership ...........
21. Mar 2011 at 20:30

Ok,

Of my Migs owned so far, the things that I've "inherited" are as follows:

On my old 2.5 CD Estate the instrument panel light wiring had been re-arranged/bodged to disguise a problem that brought the EML on. It was the Emissions Purge valve which is a pig to get at, but apart from that easy enoug to fix. As bodges go it was very clever.

On current Elite, the previous owners kids had managed to get an entire McDonalds happy meal under the back seat - complete with receipt. It had been there for 18 months before I bought the car! I discovered the "fosilised" remains when I took the back seat base out Sad

What have you found with yours Questioning

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omegod Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1389 liverpool Gender: Drives: 99 3.0 V6 Elite Auto,LPG, 98 728i sport, 04 Fiesta	Re: In your cars previous ownership ........... Reply #1 - 21. Mar 2011 at 20:43 Knickers!
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taxi al Senior Member Offline Posts: 772 sussex Gender: Drives: A rather rattly '54' v6 special estate.	Re: In your cars previous ownership ........... Reply #2 - 21. Mar 2011 at 20:48 My first Omega, ex Devon and Cornwall plod WA51YNG, came with its own personalised Shell fuel card, which expired the week before I bought the car. My second one, ex Thames Valley plod OU54AEW came with a bundle of unused TVP evidence tags. .
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Essex Big Al

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Re: In your cars previous ownership ...........
Reply #3 - 21. Mar 2011 at 21:01

Lincs Robert wrote on 21. Mar 2011 at 20:30:

Ok,

Of my Migs owned so far, the[highlight] things that I've "inherited"[/highlight] are as follows:

On my old 2.5 CD Estate the instrument panel light wiring had been re-arranged/bodged to disguise a problem that brought the EML on. It was the Emissions Purge valve which is a pig to get at, but apart from that easy enoug to fix. As bodges go it was very clever.

On current Elite, the previous owners kids had managed to get an entire McDonalds happy meal under the back seat - complete with receipt. It had been there for 18 months before I bought the car! I discovered the "fosilised" remains when I took the back seat base out Sad

What have you found with yours Questioning

With my previous mini-face lift, got it on a Sat morning from down Croydon way. Swmbo & me spent the afternoon cleaning it out although it was pretty tidy) in the boot we found a full colour picture of previous owners wife ... STARKERS ! Grin

Recognised her because she made me a cuppa when I went to pick it up that morning.

Thought about posting it back-- ended up putting it in the service history folder Grin

Thinking about it now, it could have been someones Missus from on here Embarrassed

Any SWMBO's match up to about 35years old, , 38 -24 -36, dark hair & with a Brazilian down belo. . . . .
(No couldn't be . . . could it Undecided

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a '61 Stratocaster - cooler than an Omega ? - Well no -but very close . . . !

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tonyyeb Junior Member Offline Posts: 240 Salisbury Gender: Drives: 2000 Elite 3.0 Saloon, 1995 2.5 GLS Estate (no longer, sadly), 2002 Mondeo 1.8 LX	Re: In your cars previous ownership ........... Reply #4 - 21. Mar 2011 at 21:22 About £18 in change from in / under the front seats in my old 406, formerly owned by Sainsbury's Head Office....
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plym ian Intermediate Member Offline Posts: 366 devon Gender: Drives: 2.0 CDX 16v 1997; like an old man!	Re: In your cars previous ownership ........... Reply #5 - 21. Mar 2011 at 23:02 found a replica gun in the boot of a scorpio i bought from an auction
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millwall Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1897 se london Gender: Drives: the mrs up the wall 3.2 elite and tddi mondeo	Re: In your cars previous ownership ........... Reply #6 - 21. Mar 2011 at 23:08 £210 in tenners in a previous car i bought
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: In your cars previous ownership ........... Reply #7 - 21. Mar 2011 at 23:10 With my current 2, I have inherited little more than decent, solid cars
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cem Omega King Offline Posts: 13920 Ankara/Turkey Gender: Drives: 97 2.5 V6 Manual CD- Clio Sport	Re: In your cars previous ownership ........... Reply #8 - 21. Mar 2011 at 23:16 fe*kin, worned crap tires on both of cars without an exception.. and I dont count other missing bits.. garbage people
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robbo299

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Re: In your cars previous ownership ...........
Reply #9 - 22. Mar 2011 at 01:03

Bought mine from a dealer and when checked pockets behind front seats i found previous owners bank details in a folder. It had a loan application for his business, business account details plus all his personal banking details. Sent it back to him by registered post with my contact details in case of any queries saying where i had found them and didn`t even get a reply to say he had received it ok Sad

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Hannah Judes Dad Omega Baron Offline Posts: 2024 Cleethorpes North East Lincs Gender: Drives: A 1996 2.5CDX Auto Estate with a list of faults	Re: In your cars previous ownership ........... Reply #10 - 22. Mar 2011 at 11:00 Only the customary 20p stuck on a seat runner and a lack of service.Loads of rust and tyres that had been down to the cord on the inside as the wishbones were knackered.The front tyres had also been put onto the rear axle rather than get it fixed as they were also down to the cord on the insides
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aaronjb

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Re: In your cars previous ownership ...........
Reply #11 - 22. Mar 2011 at 11:15

Nothing in the Omega (it came, valeted, from a dealer) .. but on previous cars:

Japanese coins and a packet of Japanese cigarettes (in a Japanese import car)
The cam angle sensor (so.. fairly important!) attached to the wiring loom with spade connectors & bits of wire just twisted together with the main loom..
CEL lamps removed (which reminds me, I know the CEL works on the Omega now as it just came on! d'oh)

All sorts, really Grin

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..and it went 'dugga dugga dugga dugga'..

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