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Omega Help Area => Omega Electrical and Audio Help => Topic started by: Tetleysmooth on 04 June 2012, 09:12:50
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1999 T reg 2.0 CD.
Well, you can imagine the scene. Quarter to nine in the morning on a Bank Holiday Monday.
I heard a strange noise, a sort of low hum, which I thought was my pc tower, which changes note every so often. Then the low hum changed to a loud blahhhhhhhhh. To cut a long story short, it was my car. I have never disconnected a battery so fast. The noise stopped.
I thought the alarms on these cars gave an alternating note, but this was a constant single note racket, like a loud ships' horn. No amount of playing with the key fob shut it up. The car started immediately, but still the noise kept going, which was when I whipped the battery terminal off.
Powersounder or main alarm?
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don't know to be honest, but I would take the ps out and throw it away before it destroys itself could be a pre warning :y
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Can the powersounder be taken out completely and binned?
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Can the powersounder be taken out completely and binned?
Yes, it just unplugs, its underneath the scuttle, drivers side.
Its actually a fire risk, the batteries decade over time, its not fused so it can very easily start a fire. Many have been lost this way!
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Powersounder now out and plugs isolated. No more noise at the mo.
What a clever place to put it, right under the scuttle drain. Mine certainly showed signs of water ingress in the plugs.
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Hi guys, have just read this we have a 51 plate 2.6 & an 03 2.2 have had no problems as yet, are there still problems with these later cars? I have printed off the how to remove, seems straightforward enough what is the general opinion.
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Hi guys, have just read this we have a 51 plate 2.6 & an 03 2.2 have had no problems as yet, are there still problems with these later cars? I have printed off the how to remove, seems straightforward enough what is the general opinion.
Yes. Mine is a late 52 plate and it started chirping so I removed it. :y Actually, I kept meaning to remove it long before it started chirping but kept forgetting. ::) When it did chirp, I removed it within minutes. :y