Unofficial Opel Club! Calling all Opel Boys!

[mfo]

Welcome Mr. Frost, Good you have a tigra, we had an EB before, hope you could come in in our next EB. Regarding about the site construction, do we have to pay monthly or one time payment? Any idea on how much it would cost? Thanks

[localhost]

what I'm paying right now is somewhere $80... that is a yearly hosting, meaning we have to pay the whole lot in advance before they setup the web space. That is a 35GB bandwidth limit with 2GB harddisk space... and that is include domain name. There's is a cheaper package which I think bandwidth limit is 10GB gor about $60... I think that should be enough for now, you can upgrade anytime to a higher package if needed. For more info visit www.hasweb.com... they are the one who's hosting my site atm... I'll scout around for a more cheaper provider later on.

[localhost]

Hindi ko nabasa post ni frost (sorry bro)... welcome to our thread .. atin 'to...

btw, the amount that i posted above is in australian dollar current forex is Php. 37 to $1AUS

[mfo]

When do you guys wonna have our next EB?

[buknoy2002]

so overall...
ok ba opel??
tanong lang po...

[mfo]

so overall...
ok ba opel??
tanong lang po...

Mr. Buknoy2002, Opel is a quality car, well depende na rin po sa paggamit, . the Astra, Zafira and Tigra are good cars. So far so GooD

[localhost]

I'm happy with my ASTRA overall... responsive siya, handlings and features yun nga lang mas mahal ang piyesa kumpara sa mga Japs cars. Just yesterday, I bought a new NGK sparkplugs at doble ang presyo nito compare sa mga ginagamit ng Toyota. pero ok lang mas magada siguro naman ang sunog nito kasi dalawa din yung part na nasa dulo nito (don't what its called)


update nga pala, just replaced my ageing Blaupunkt Tape Car stereo (that comes with it) with a Pioneer CD/MP3/WMA player. gumanda yung tunog...

[guguly]

I'm happy with my ASTRA overall... responsive siya, handlings and features yun nga lang mas mahal ang piyesa kumpara sa mga Japs cars. Just yesterday, I bought a new NGK sparkplugs at doble ang presyo nito compare sa mga ginagamit ng Toyota. pero ok lang mas magada siguro naman ang sunog nito kasi dalawa din yung part na nasa dulo nito (don't what its called)


update nga pala, just replaced my ageing Blaupunkt Tape Car stereo (that comes with it) with a Pioneer CD/MP3/WMA player. gumanda yung tunog...

pano mo nakabit pioneer? ano model astra mo? the astra has a built-in dashboard display for the car stereo. kung papalitan ang built in car stereo, in my case, philips brand, what happens to the dashboard display and yung volume/tuning/cassete control na nasa steering?

[edl100]

Regarding a stereo upgrade.

I upgraded my stock GM blaupunkt tape deck to a Blaupunkt CD MP3 head unit.

If you change the head unit, the display on the dashboard would just be blank for the radio stations. The date, time and outside temp will still work. As for the steering controls; it will be useless.

I think there is some adaptor for some brands of head units from VDO and blaupunkt that can make it work as I saw those for sale at Ebay UK.

[localhost]

yeah bro... it's true. But I don't mind in my case kasi you can see the same info in the radio itself naman eh... sana lang hindi rin nawawala yung date kapag ini-on mo na yung radio...

[caloystermx5]

do any of the guys in this forum know the timing set up of the opel astra? when the casa does its PMS where do they set the timing? any help would be appreciated! tks!

[guguly]

has anyone experienced this problem with their astra?

yung gray cloth upholstery ng car ceiling, umaangat. it started about a year ago sa bandang harapan. maliit lang kaya hindi ko masyado pinapansin. but now, halos buong cloth ng roof ceiling, nakalaylay na.

for those na na-experience na ganito, san nyo pinagawa? any suggestion/s?

[triggerman]

the same thing happened to my Omega and I had to bring it to seatmate for re-upholstery. 4K yata. they told me that it happned for import cars not limited to opel but also bmw, mb, etc.

[guguly]

the same thing happened to my Omega and I had to bring it to seatmate for re-upholstery. 4K yata. they told me that it happned for import cars not limited to opel but also bmw, mb, etc.

so any good upholstery shop is okay?hindi naman siguro kelangan specialized with opels or import cars?pare-pareho naman yata ang mechanism ng pagkakabit ng upholstery sa car ceiling?

[edl100]

to Guguly:

When you replaced your coil pack (ignition coil)

What were the symptoms? palyado? parang mamamatay ang engine?

I saw the old post and you got the DELPHI brand. How is it running now if you still have your astra.

Para kasing pasira na yata ang coil pack ko (still original) at 58,000 kms.

Thanks.

[guguly]

to Guguly:

When you replaced your coil pack (ignition coil)

What were the symptoms? palyado? parang mamamatay ang engine?

I saw the old post and you got the DELPHI brand. How is it running now if you still have your astra.

Para kasing pasira na yata ang coil pack ko (still original) at 58,000 kms.

Thanks.

symptoms were parang mamamatay engine. parang nahihirinan specially pag accelerating. minsan nawawala pag steady na ang speed o mabagal ang takbo pero once nag accelerate, meron na naman.

so far, okay naman ang pinalit kong delphi replacement from thunder.no problem encountered. smooth ang takbo. sabagay, a few months pa lang ako nagpalit.

[edl100]

symptoms were parang mamamatay engine. parang nahihirinan specially pag accelerating. minsan nawawala pag steady na ang speed o mabagal ang takbo pero once nag accelerate, meron na naman.

so far, okay naman ang pinalit kong delphi replacement from thunder.no problem encountered. smooth ang takbo. sabagay, a few months pa lang ako nagpalit.

Thanks.

Called up thunder and P7,000 yung Delphi. OEM GM brand is P11,000. P17,000 daw ito sa Casa.

So far, parang biglang nawalan ng power yung car when I was overtaking. Feels like it was running on 3 cylinders. But after, it returned to normal. Yun lang nga, i feel na lumakas sa gas yung car and the idling is not that steady anymore.

Anyway, the coilpack easily gets ruined daw talaga since sobrang init dito sa Pilipinas. Imagine, lutuin mo yung coilpack sa taas ng engine to almost 100degrees boiling point. It has very thin cables inside that can be brittle.

If I can only find a coil pack for a few minutes to check if the idling improves


BTW
Palyado actually happens too when sobrang na-uubos yung gas and I run it with an almost empty tank. I read that running an ECOTEC engine with this ruins the oxygen sensor and the catalytic converter. It also fouls the spark plug too. Maselan talaga ang engine natin.

[guguly]

Thanks.

Called up thunder and P7,000 yung Delphi. OEM GM brand is P11,000. P17,000 daw ito sa Casa.

So far, parang biglang nawalan ng power yung car when I was overtaking. Feels like it was running on 3 cylinders. But after, it returned to normal. Yun lang nga, i feel na lumakas sa gas yung car and the idling is not that steady anymore.

nagmura na agad coil pack? 7,500 bili ko noon.

isa pa nga palang symptom yang na-mention mo. yung parang nag stall ang engine sandali then bigla magiging okay.

[edl100]

nagmura na agad coil pack? 7,500 bili ko noon.

P7,500?? tumawad ka ba?

Parang palengke kasi dyan sa thunder, pwede mag haggle ng presyo.

[nash]

hey guys! haven't been on for a while now... been really busy and just came back from HK... how was the last EB? didn't go.. was with the wifey hehehe.. anyways.. i'll try to make it to the next one