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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Peters Omega on 25 May 2009, 13:17:37

Title: Bit of a weird one?
Post by: Peters Omega on 25 May 2009, 13:17:37

Starts fine, drives fine until it simply cuts out whilst driving, battery lights and engine light comes on and the engine switches off, sometimes it will start again immediately, others you have to walk away come back in an hour and it will start and drive and let you finish your journey. It's cutting out about once a journey now, sounds fine when it does go etc any pointers chaps would be appreciated as i'm bloody useless when it comes to a spanner!

Title: Re: Bit of a weird one?
Post by: Jimbob on 25 May 2009, 13:20:11

Sounds a bit like a crank sensor issue.

do the paperclip test, in one of the maint sections and post back any fault codes.

My guess is you will have a 19 for starters, which will be the route of the problem

Title: Re: Bit of a weird one?
Post by: albitz on 25 May 2009, 13:20:59

crank sensor springs to mind.do the paperclip test and look for a code 19. :y

Title: Re: Bit of a weird one?
Post by: Peters Omega on 25 May 2009, 13:24:42

Will do, many thanks for the steer, will come back when i've produce a paper clip,,,

Title: Re: Bit of a weird one?
Post by: TheBoy on 25 May 2009, 13:46:12

As others have said, sounds like crank sensor. Expect code 19.

One of the classic symptoms is car cutting out when hot. Levae it for a few hours, and it starts and runs OK for a bit longer before cutting out again.

I can say this from bitter experience ::)

Title: Re: Bit of a weird one?
Post by: Peters Omega on 25 May 2009, 19:37:10

Thanks for that guys, what's the fix, assuming its the crank sensor and is it a specialist job?

Cheers,

Peter

Title: Re: Bit of a weird one?
Post by: MutantCav on 25 May 2009, 19:59:52

Replace crank sensor...easy enough to do yourself :y

Title: Re: Bit of a weird one?
Post by: Markjay on 25 May 2009, 21:29:42

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