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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Timw976 on 04 January 2013, 12:25:18
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Hi all
After some serious consideration and following the epic in my previous posts....http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=110676.0 I have decided my course of action will be to do the following.....
Change cam sensor (again
Change crank sensor
Change Transmission control module
Change Selector switch on gear box
Change gearbox oil and filter
Hopefully once this lot has been done and over a grand spent, the starting problems could be sorted. If the problem are still there after all this then i'll be posting here asking for a can of petrol and some matches!!!!
Cheers
Tim
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No....stop.
Whoever is doing this work clearly has no clue.....any monkey can change parts randomly.
Starting issues will be engine related and nothing else.
The only possible way the auto could cause an issue is IF it was applying some additional load whilst cranking.
There is also nothing lika a grands worth of parts there.
Plus, there are a number of other 'service' type jobs which should be done way before any of this.
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Crank Sensor was 96 quid
Cam sensor 92 quid
TCM 690
Selector Switch 182
All plus VAT from Pentagon Vauxhall this morning!!!!
No other codes showing, auto sparkie is ex Vauxhall Master Tech who works alone. He said the TCM would probably have survived the water but I decided if I was gonna do it properly I might aswell. If this fails I'll be down at the Volvo dealers in the morning lol
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I hope it works for you, if not have you heard of my special snake oil? It fixes everything car related and even better it's on special at the moment at only £500/litre (was£1000)
;D ;D ;D ;D
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Guffer
I may take you up it!!! No good at fixing these things but I am good at throwig cash at em till they work properly lol
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For a grand MarksDTM would probably have washed and hoovered it for you, having first fixed it ::)
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That's an awful lot of money to spend on nothing more than the hope that it might fix it. :o
Cancel the order, and get someone who knows what they are doing to diagnose it properly. I have never heard of a gearbox ECU failing, and to spend that sort of money on one is madness.
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Well there will be an end to the saga this afternoon, one way or another anyway!!!!
I'm not going any further with it after this and if it aint fixed then there will be a 2.2 up for spares and repairs
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I hope it works for you, if not have you heard of my special snake oil? It fixes everything car related and even better it's on special at the moment at only £500/litre (was£1000)
;D ;D ;D ;D
Given that the Omega is such a large and rarified beast, it will require 1.007 litres, so you'll have buy two bottles. It also has the shelf life of a month old aubergine ;D
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The way this omega is causing me stress at the minute ill buy double and drown myself in the stuff!!!!
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The thing is, its no the car thats the issue, its the person working on it.
As a quick overview, there has never been a Vx dealer in Nottingham I would trust and that stands even to this day.........
As for the selector switch (which can be easily cleaned and then checked with tech 2) and the transmission control module, you could probably have got these from Megavaux for a ton plus the TCM's just dont fail.
Where is the car in Nottingham?
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On my drive in Long Eaton
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On my drive in Long Eaton
I would take that very expensive shopping back of car bits back to dealer now & get full refund.
Let MarkDTM take a look, bet you he resolves problem & its less than 3 figures ;) :)
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On my drive in Long Eaton
I would take that very expensive shopping back of car bits back to dealer now & get full refund.
Let MarkDTM take a look, bet you he resolves problem & its less than 3 figures ;) :)
your wasting your time tunnie
Question to the OP; What was your reason for joining this forum
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On my drive in Long Eaton
I would take that very expensive shopping back of car bits back to dealer now & get full refund.
Let MarkDTM take a look, bet you he resolves problem & its less than 3 figures ;) :)
your wasting your time tunnie
Question to the OP; What was your reason for joining this forum
To spend money needlessly ::)
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Well, the car is finished. The car fired up on the key first time, we drove it a few miles with no MIL light coming on, started it about 12 times and it appears to be working as it should.
Time will tell over the next couple of days I suppose but the mechanic did a live data test and everything was showing as ok
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In response to the comments about taking it to Marks DTM and why join the forum etc.... the reason for joining was advise, the advise I was given was cam sensor and crank sensor. Both of these have now been changed after reading the posts on OOF. The transmission control module and the selector switch were changed as the selector switch was water logged and the TCM was not working correctly. Admittedly from what I can gather this is unusual but it needed doing.
I would of taken the car to Marks DTM but it was on axle stands with bits hanging from it so I was unable to get the Omega there. Again you are right that taking it to Marks DTM, from what I understand would of been the best option and it would of probably been cheaper to do that but by that time it would not run because parts had been disconnected and I dont have a low loader on hander to take it to him.
Thanks to everyone who has offered information and advise and hopefully the fault is rectified.
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Dont suppose your mechanic changed one part at a time....so he and us would have known which part actually did fix the problem :-\ ;)
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Ye, he changed the cam sensor and fault still present, changed the crank sensor and starting fault cured but still had MIL light on for TCM, changed the selector switch and still same so change TCM and light now out.
Will report back over next few days
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Tim, next time pop it round :y
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Mark
Deffo will do chap thanks for the advice buddy
Tim
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I would go to a dealer and pay for 1 hour of diagnosing. If I am not smart enough to diagnose a problem, I have to pay a smart guy.
Make sure, you let mechanic know, that you will not pay him for repair.
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Hi all
After some serious consideration and following the epic in my previous posts....http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=110676.0 (http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=110676.0) I have decided my course of action will be to do the following.....
Change cam sensor (again
Change crank sensor
Change Transmission control module
Change Selector switch on gear box
Change gearbox oil and filter
Hopefully once this lot has been done and over a grand spent, the starting problems could be sorted. If the problem are still there after all this then i'll be posting here asking for a can of petrol and some matches!!!!
Cheers
Tim
ahhh.. if I was wise enough I would do this in the first place ;D :-X