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Title: bad luck
Post by: rosco on 01 June 2008, 19:17:55
i recently bought a 1999 v omega 2.5 elite auto from auction.It has 85,000 miles on the clock and fsh and as drove it home it started tapping and as it reached an incline it started dying so i gave it more power in kickdown it died.I was on a motorway so managed to get it on the hard shoulder.A little smoke came out of side of bonnet,it woud,nt start.Before temp was normal,no warnings etc.

I took cam cover off and turned key it just turns over, belt turns all cams and crank but sounds like it,s turning over to easily.

In the service pack there was a reciept for belt and tensioners by independent garage at 44,000 miles

Any answers to my problem as the car is immaculate with every luxury working like new

Title: Re: bad luck
Post by: MutantCav on 01 June 2008, 19:21:05
Do paperclip test...may be crank sensor...
Title: Re: bad luck
Post by: rosco on 01 June 2008, 21:35:02
Does the engine need to be running coz it happened on friday and unable to get it running since
Title: Re: bad luck
Post by: TheBoy on 01 June 2008, 21:58:18
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Does the engine need to be running coz it happened on friday and unable to get it running since
Not necessarily, but sometimes.  Report back what you get.
Title: Re: bad luck
Post by: VXL V6 on 02 June 2008, 08:44:00
[Note to self] Read the post properly next time  ;D
Title: Re: bad luck
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 02 June 2008, 09:02:00
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i recently bought a 1999 v omega 2.5 elite auto from auction.It has 85,000 miles on the clock and fsh and as drove it home it started tapping and as it reached an incline it started dying so i gave it more power in kickdown it died.I was on a motorway so managed to get it on the hard shoulder.A little smoke came out of side of bonnet,it woud,nt start.Before temp was normal,no warnings etc.

I took cam cover off and turned key it just turns over, belt turns all cams and crank but sounds like it,s turning over to easily.

In the service pack there was a reciept for belt and tensioners by independent garage at 44,000 miles

Any answers to my problem as the car is immaculate with every luxury working like new


Slightly worrying......has it got any oil in it?
Title: Re: bad luck
Post by: rosco on 02 June 2008, 19:17:42
car has plenty of oil,If the crank sensor had packed up would the managment light have come on coz everything was normal but when it stopped and i pulled over a bit of oily smoke came out of drivers side of bonnet but when i opened bonnet every thing was clean,no leaks or overheating
Title: Re: bad luck
Post by: Entwood on 02 June 2008, 19:47:34
Check the plug wells for oil .. if the cam cover gasket has failed and filled the plug wells with oil this can cause the DIS pack or the plugs/leads to fail .. :(


This does NOT give an EML light as the EML does NOT monitor the HT side of things

You say you took the cam cover off .. I believe you took the CAM-BELT COVER off ... different thing !!  Cam covers (you have 2) are a tad harder to get at !!
Title: Re: bad luck
Post by: rosco on 02 June 2008, 20:12:01
Done paper clip test,showed 12,144,129,57,31,12