Opel Omega 2.4i barn find. Parked since '03, it's been recovered but can we make it start and drive? 

Some cars deserve a second chance. What a great car.

That's a nice Beater with a heater. A pressure clean and a full valet and off you go. Awesome. 😃

Thanks for the memories... My father and paternal grandfather were both engineers at Opel when these vehicles were designed engineered and manufactured . My mother's family has owned several dealerships in Bavaria since the 1920's. My parents drove these for years.

It has been ages since I last saw one those old Omega's on the road, and it has been even longer for an estate version. It really deserves to be restored to former glory. As I think it is even more rare than a Manta , ...

Hi ! GLS is the ... well ... "not so fancy" generic version of the Omega. The 2.4 is derived from the old CIH-2.0 of the Opel Record D and E and has a casted block and head. Nearly indestructible. No wonders they used it for the offroad Frontera. This Omega may need a good wash, a little bit of interieur work, new filters, oil, some rust repair and some minor paintwork - and with a little over 200.000 kilometers it is viable for another 200K. The caravan is a good workhorse for small businesses. Trailer hooks are still available and it could do good for numerous years. :-)

What a gorgeous car.. needs a good clean up and to be saved. True soldier of a car.

That engine looks a lot like a larger version of the mk 1 Cavalier 2.0 engine. Worked as a mechanic at a Vauxhall Dealer in the late eighties. Loved the mk1 Cavalier. I owned a Firenza HP droop snoot for a few years. HWA 99N. Great videos, have spent the last couple of days going through them.

( the boat ).....Lol ....” bullseye prize winner “......lol....magic ...Good Luck Peter P

Dunno if you'll see this, but this is the most entertaining channel I've seen in ages. I was up most of the night binging the videos as I couldn't sleep. thank you for bringing a smile to my face for a love of Vauxhalls which I didn't think there was! looking forward to more

Great to see another Vauxhall enthusiast on RU-vid , keep up the good work 👍

These videos are so satisfying to watch, binge watching 2 in the morning thanks dougie 👍🏼

Great channel. I've been watching Furious Driving and HubNut which, no doubt, is why RU-vid directed me here. I drive an Astra K SRi and before that had an Astra J Sri. My first car was a 1976 Viva E (with electric screen washers and reclining seats, oh the luxury LOL) which was as rotten as a pear. Typical 70s steel I suppose. Keep up the good work.

I wish that will be saved! Is very rare indeed

Fire it in for a £10 MoT at a Halfords Autocentre for a laugh and see what they fail it on. In all seriousness though it would be good to see it live again.

Great video the carlton\omega was a very underated car back then served my time working in a vaux dealership in Glasgow and worked on plenty of these old girls 👍 Nice looking cavalier makes me think I need to get back to work on mine

Please, please, save it!! As you say it’s a rare car, don’t kill it for the running gear. I’ve owned 15 mantas and as much that is an easy conversion there’s way more tunable options. Surely you’d get more for the rare car complete than just the running gear. Nice video to watch - cheers

Auto thüllen is an opel dealer in aachen. Germany. Right next to the dutch border. Still exists. I cant believe some fuel conditioner was all it needed. These opels are tough. Respect

Lovely old thing that, would make someone a nice useful motor. I'll second the comment "Oh don't know what that is, let's poke it with something". Made my day that 🤣👍

I like the blue cavalier 👍 vauxhall, s are getting rearer these days glad your going out your way and getting them bk on the road 👍

Mega rare saab turbo x in the car park there 👌seen that cutting about Stirling a few times always wondered who had it. The old opel would be a great drifter for someone

Quote of the video "Ooh I dunno what that is.... let's poke it with something" 🤣🤣 Good work Dougie

Would be nice to see it restored

Ah, childhood memories. We used to have an Opel Omega, diesel, purple colour and with those spoke-like wheels. Rear wheel drive and took an afwul long time to pre-heat in winter.

Reminds me of an 89 G reg Carlton 1.8L my dad nearly bought back in ‘92.. this we even more povvo with non metallic blue paint, no sunroof, power nothing, a carby and tweedy cloth trim. So glad he went for the 88 F Cavalier 2.0GLi saloon instead in Aubergine Pearlescent.

This video was recommended by RU-vid, based on my viewing history. Liked and subscribed :) I've always been a fan of big RWD Vauxhalls and Opels, but have never got around to owning one. I'd love a Senator 24v one day.

2:49 - Ha! nice one! I do quietly enjoy doing the same when I get big modern flashy cars up my trumpet

Had a 2.0i Auto Carlton Estate was an ex New Zealand high commission car . It was brilliant had it for 5 years I had put loads of mileage. Serviced it myself so easy. Never let me down. Wish I had it now . Can honestly say the best car I have ever had.

cheers for these vids i love all the older vauxhalls from 80s n 90s

Just discovered the channel and subscribed. Been a huge Vauxhall fan myself from, Manta, Calibra, Astra, Vectra, Signum, insignia and now a Monaro. Looking forward to seeing more videos.

Wow hearing that turning over then starting reminded me of my old 1993 Vauxhall Frontera 2.4i LWB. I think this Omega should be saved and fully restored.

Your videos came up on my recommended feed and not stopped watching since......great channel deserves many more views. Keep up the good work. Still missing our Cav GSi 4x4 J18 MAM, long since dead but will never forget that noise :-D

I wouldn’t be inside that thing without a rated mask on. Gave myself a lung infection driving my Audi after it flooded out and got mouldy. (discovered an ozone generator will deactivate the mould spores and get rid of the smell though, might wanna get one if you’re planning on keeping it)

Great to see it running again. I was tuning a car at a remote farm, there was a Vauxhall Victor FE sitting in the corner. I asked him about the Victor, he said that his wife found it too big as she had just passed her test. He asked if I wanted it, I said, how much, he said take it away and it's yours! It was a rare 2300S and I had it for years, what a car.

Just found your channel and I love the Scottishness of it. 😁 Subscribed!

Found your channel buy luck, your now my guilty pleasure 👍

Love the winter tyre comment, use it myself when leaving newer, faster cars behind. 😁

I love will it start videos

Had me a Carlton and loved it. Apart from the tailgate, the body on that looks pretty; it would be nice to see that all cleaned up. Those old 2.4's has iron heads I think.

My dad had a Carlton - 93 K reg 2.3TDi GL - as his first company car. Not the fastest thing, especially below 2000rpm, but a great cruiser and so comfy. Loved it. Bullseye prize. Quality!

Just found this channel and love it! Subscribed and cannot wait for your next one! Hello from Canada 😀😀🇨🇦🇨🇦

Would look cool sat down on a set of early Carlton Gsi rims :) hope someone saves it.

Different class of vauxhall back.then, would have loved that engine for my manta back.in the day 😊

Good on you, the car just required someone to bring back to life, well done, Best regards, RichardA.

I follow several car channels but its great to find one local (west lothian) to me. Its great to recognise the areas you are driving in. Only owned 1 vauxhall a T reg corsa GLS 1.7D. Solid wee car. Think it might have been the Isuzu engine.

Glad I've found your channel. I love saving older cars and giving them an extra chance. Tends to be Volvos with me, nearest I've came to a Vauxhall so far are my two Saab 9-5s. Would love a Carlton and a Senator, some day.

Those CIH engines are fantastic things. I had the 2.5 straight six in my 1988 Senator years ago. Cracking video 👍🏻👍🏻

Great car... had one for ten years, a 1.8 GL. Still remember it!

Nice video and nice to see a fellow Scotsman oan the tube. Vauxhalls are great to buy 2nd hand, if you need something for it the local scrap yards usually have an abundance, mix n match as well, got a 1.7 cdti isuzu engine Corsa hopefully will get to the 200,000 miles mark which of course is not unheard of for that engine.

Great video mate, which like others, I came across completely by accident. So good to see you're giving older cars a second chance. I have one of these engines, ex Frontera, in my Manta Coupe, well its out atm but that's another story lol. Looking forward to seeing your CIH tuning tips :)

Dad had a 2.3D from 1989 (limousine), I learned to drive on that.

Subscribed ....I must make a confession I like Vauxhall's I feel better now Ive got that off my chest.

Loved these barges. My dad had a bright red 86 1.8GL saloon company car. After years in Austins it was dead posh with power steering, central locking and a sunroof. After the lease finished it became a taxi and appeared on the BBC show Casualty a fair few times.

Old vauxhalls don't die!!.. They just rot 😭😤

This video randomly popped up on my suggested and I'm so glad it did! Watched, enjoyed and subscribed to your channel. Fantastic stuff!

That nova will be one mint car finished mate

I have a newer omega (2001) but have a real soft spot for these old classic carlton/omega's and they fetch decent money nowerdays that'll probably go for £1500 as it stands.

As a kid my dad had a omega. Love those big old ships even the senator. En I got a weak spot for a calibra en astra gsi 1990 I am gonna follow you mate. Those old Vauxhalls are like tanks. Those engines are better than those modern 1.2 engines whit 2 turbo's

I was hoping this old Opel would come back to life, and it did. I had a 1975 Ascona A (the last year they were sold here in the USA). That one had Bosch L-Jetronic injection, and other than the design of the valve cover & the shape of the intake manifold and air cleaner housing, I would have felt right at home under the hood of this car. It was an easy car to work on, for sure. One time, when I needed a starter, I bought a used one from a wrecking yard and swapped it in during my lunch period during the work day. It was a good solid car for almost 200K miles, when I sold it, just because it was too difficult to find spare parts, which is a problem for a daily driver car. For some reason, I had to replace the water pump 2 times, and the fuel injectors 2 times.

My father had an '89, it was a daily untill about 2018, but then regulations changed, and because of that it was becoming very expensive to have it, so he sold it. Nothing was 100% good on that car anymore, but it was still doing 6-700km trips without any problems till the last day of ownership. Awesome cars, their only problem is their age, but if they are looked after, they go till the end of time. As far as the heater core goes, opel made a design flaw there, there is no valve before the inner radiator, and after 30 years its flow capacity is extremely reduced. It gets clogged up easily, because its always circulating water. So in winter they are not the best heating cars unless you fix it

Brilliant video as always m8 thanks again really appreciate it 👍😎

They mostly run these with twin webers or throttle body's on the continent, with some head work and a different camshaft they put out some decent power. There pretty sought after here on the continent. They even run them with shortened 24V heads so you get a 2.4 16V. Nice video, would be nice to keep it in the omega, because most of them have already ended up in manta's, ascona's and kadetts

An engine sitting for nearly 20 years so lets rev the shit out of it on it's first start. Well done.

Loving the name of the boat

Great again Dougie!

The CIH engines are tough things. The only indicator of a tired one is the smoke a bit.

Glad to see it burst into life. Watch that mould mate seriously bad stuff if that gets in your system

Did a check on it hasn't been taxed sinse July 2003 And the last logbook was issued 23rd of October 1995 Cool video for sure mate👍🏼 Oh and total vauxhall was all I read about 10 years ago at 15 and prompted me to buy a 2000 corsa b 1.4 sport👍🏼

You're not wrong about that engine having more power in it than they rolled out of the factory with in that application. That bottom end is basically what the Manta 400 used and pretty much that whole engine is what the Manta i240 used. I think by that time there may have been a few top end improvements over the old Manta-spec solid rocker engine but that is probably only an advantage... I'll bet that's got a lot more torque in it than the 2.0 8 valve that was the standard petrol lump in the UK which always felt a little weak in the Carlton, especially the estate... GLS was the basic trim for the Omega in Germany, equivalent to the L on the Carlton so, on an early model like that, about all you'd have got was central locking as standard...

Great story . Thank you .

My 4x4 Gsi 2000 came originally from Germany as a left hooker bought by a squaddie based in Germany. He had it converted to rhd when he returned. I ended up buying it from a bloke in falkirk, G145 VSP. It went to china a looong time ago but I've still got the full body kit!

Another car saved do love a vectra/ Opel

Always loved the shape of the Mk2 Carlton/Omega A - very typical 80s aero styling. Heavily influenced by the Opel Tech 1 concept car of 1981

Opel knew how to build cars back then. Try getting an Insignia started after 20 years 🤣

Very nice car, hopefully it gets put back on the road and not chopped for parts.

Good job.

The Berg Cup folk use the engines. They do crazy stuff like saw the last two cylinders off the 24v head to fit to these 4cyl CIH engines.

Popped up in my recommendations and subbed love Vauxhalls had a few last one was vectra b gsi sold to lad from Scotland he travelled from Glasgow to Bolton , really didnt want to sell checked and not been on road since mot ran out years ago W268VNV. Moved onto SAAB 9-3 and 9-5 AERO now , great videos will catch up on others now.

I think i would have put in some fresh oil before starting it 😁. Anyways it does not sound too bad! Quality motors back then hehe

Cracking video, interesting vehicle. Keep them coming.

Would be a nice project for someone... The Omega/Carlton estate were a very fine/handy car...

Back to life brilliant

Fuel pump relays can be a pain on these I remember a 91 2.0lt I had moons ago it’d run for several miles then stall and wouldn’t start for 10 mins or so try again it’d be fine a new relay cured it 🙉 very solid car of its time, I had a few cavaliers back in the days, I had fond memories of them first Cav I had was a Red GL saloon on a H plate.

Hurry up and get some new video's up really enjoyed them.

I love how straight and original the old girl looks it would be such a shame to use it as a parts donor.

Another cracking video mate👌👌 .. but you need to change the fan blade alloys on the gsi to gsi wheels on your home page picture. maybe it's my OCD kicking in 🤣

Love Carletons! Hardly any left now, shame.

The 2.4 CIH is quite sought after here in Germany. They weren't all that common to be honest - just the Omega and Frontera had them IIRC. They are reputed to be good for around 275bhp, but I can't confirm that!

When Bleeding the coolant system you shoud alway put the heaters on full first :)

Just found your channel and i am loving your videos and i have just subbed to your channel

U should always check everything over before just putting a battery on it and turning it over. Am enjoying the videos though

my bro in law had an astra estate j531fab your cav reg reminded me of it

Great vid 👍

So weird to see an LHD Omega with UK plates.

nice Car

Liked and subscribed mate

Do a cleaning video on it bet alot of people be surprised on what it turns out like

Well, I have the same engine in my car, "tweaked" by Sevdalis SuperFlow (Greek engine builder) and we produced 240 BHP @7.154 rpm on the dyno with 260 Nm of torque (yes, good old N/A). Just because you mentioned at some point that "We checked and it doesn't look like there is but someone in Germany must tweak these". Send me a message if you want more info on how to tweak this engine. :)

Love Scottish people 👍🏾

I think throttle bodies and four branch manifold head ported polished skimmed that would be flying machine in ascona or manta .think there was guy called bill blystein he done those engines . my dad had his dealer tuned manta gte that was rapid car

In Australia the Holden Commodore VN series is similar to this.