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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: rob69 on 11 December 2010, 19:32:03
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Hi guys well i have had the car just over a week now and just yesterday when i came home from work and locked car as usual with remote i whent in doors and approx 30 mins later alarm was going off, i used remote to open and lock car again to silence alarm and then again in 30 mins it was goin again obviously i checked the obvious windows shut etc so i had to leave it unlocked for fear of waking up neihbours, and at work today i left it unlocked as its in a compound and didnt wanna finish work to a flat batterey lol.
I was hoping it was just a one night glitch!! but got home tonight set alarm and again 30 mins later off it goes any ideas peeps?????
also in the meanwhile can i lock the car without the alarm arming for security if so how ??
everything else seems fine no probs with radio or anything just been goin to work and back no starting issues either??
Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol ::)
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Check the cars battery is holding a full charge as if low or faulty it can trigger the alarm. To lock the car manually, lock both passenger doors, reach over the drivers seat through the offside back door & lock the drivers door, then check you have the keys in your hand (so you don't lock yourself out!) before you drop the button on the back door & close it :y
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Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol ::)
As philrich says for locking except you will lock all doors via the driver's when you reach through from the back door. ;)
A common trigger for the alarm is the bonnet switch, the bracket gets bent over when the car's being worked on. make sure the bracket is completely vertical or disconnect the switch, if all is then Ok, you've found your fault. :y
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Thanks guys for the help will get right on it !
Hey phil i had a couple of beers before i read your message "To lock the car manually, lock both passenger doors, reach over the drivers seat through the offside back door & lock the drivers door, then check you have the keys in your hand (so you don't lock yourself out!) before you drop the button on the back door & close it"
I had to read 5 times and still neraly got tied in a knot between the seats lol ;D sounds like a game of twister gone wrong ;D
Thanks
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Well i have disconnected the bonnet sensor and so far so good alarm has been set for a while and not gone off yet early days but fingers crossed ;) so if it turns out to have been the bonnet sensor i need to source a new one and fit it any help with that would be appreciated i.e price, source and is it just a straight unbolt plug and play job?
Also cant help wondering if it is that why is it that it never triggered the alarm as soon as it was set it was always like 30 mins an hour before it triggered alarm??? it would of made complete sense if it was the batterey issue as i would imagine that would take an hour or so to show a drop in current?? so i am pleased as it may be the cheaper option but still confused as to why if it was the sensor faulty why did it only fault after being set for 30 mins or more?? hope that makes some sense lol
once again fingers crossed thanks guys
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TheBoy might have one. He often seems to have a miggy in pieces.
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the bonnet switch is a simple on/off switch. It's normally closed, but the bonnet when shut will open the contact. What happens is, the bonnet will just about touch the switch cos the bracket is bent, as the sun comes round the front of the car it heats the bonnet, it gets hot the bonnet expends & moves and so the bonnet will come off the switch ..... alarm sounds.
there's probably nothing wrong with the switch on your car, it just needs its bracket bending straight! ;) ;) :y :y
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I dont know how old your car is, but the alarm(powersounder) batteries can decay with age and cause a short circuit than can set the car on fire.
If I were you I would remove the powersounder and forget about the alarm, these cars cant be stolen without the key anyway :y
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yikes!!! lol its a 2001
im up and down at the window now looking for smoke hehe is it easily accesable and is it poss to remove bats and check clean replace or just rip it out i hear what yur sayin about not bein stolen just wanna try and keep it all original if i can unless its gonna cost me hundreds lol
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yikes!!! lol its a 2001
im up and down at the window now looking for smoke hehe is it easily accesable and is it poss to remove bats and check clean replace or just rip it out i hear what yur sayin about not bein stolen just wanna try and keep it all original if i can unless its gonna cost me hundreds lol
although potentially a hazard don't panic too much, not all power sounders fail. There's one on both my T reg Omega & V reg Astra .......... so far! ;D ;D
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ok i disconnected bonnet catch yesterday and it didnt go off all night but today it went off again so i guess its not the bonnet catch :(
So whats next to try are you guys talking about the car batterey dropping current or is there another batterey somewhere i need to look at help lol
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The power sounder has it's own internal batteries.
It can be found under the scuttle on the driver's side. :y
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Ok guys thanks i have removed the power sounder and so far so good lets see if thats cured it thanks again fingers crossed :y
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i pressume i removed the right part lol it was a small black siren kinda sqaure shaped with one connector to it, i didnt touch the small metal horn sat next to it on the same bracket i pressume that one is ok to stay ??
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:y Job done.
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ok i disconnected bonnet catch yesterday and it didnt go off all night but today it went off again
Are you sure it was the bonnet switch you disconnected?
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yeppers im sure lol, i used the word "catch" but i meant switch lol the push switch sticking up near the oil filler with a rubber gaitor round it, which i have now reconnected in the hope that it was just the power sounder causing the problem.
I have a small list of things id like to do to the car now that i may need advise on 1.oil flush and change 2. coolant flush and change 3. i have noticed that the nearside front wheel appears to have a little to much + camber it leans in a little more than the others at the top only slightly but im sure it does, also in the history i see the car has had new track rod ends and the steering wheel is about an inch off of centre when going straight! so i would like to get a full alignment done somewhere that i can be sure they know what they are doing and wont pull my pants down id hate to have to go back and start breaking heads after being ripped off!!!
there is no real apparant tyre wear and drives ok maybe a little wonder sometimes when going over uneaven road not major but its there slighlty if that makes sense.
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im in lincoln, a good friend tells me he knows a good place near middlesex kinda north london just wondering what i should pay for this sort of thing and if any oofers know anywhere closer?????????????
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im in lincoln, a good friend tells me he knows a good place near middlesex kinda north london just wondering what i should pay for this sort of thing and if any oofers know anywhere closer?????????????
Tony here ...... http://www.blackboots.co.uk/blackboots-location.php is apparently the man that knows these things, obviously not local to all of us.
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Powersounder only goes off either through water getting into the plug, (rediculously its sits directly under scuttle drain!), or batteries playing up.
Been down this long road recently, replaced with new powersounder, still went off with no hazard warning lights flashing, so not bonnet switch or alarm system, could only then be one thing, water getting into plug, even though its got silicon type serated seals to supposedly stop water getting in. Went off when car was washed, especially when cleaning scuttle, or went it snowed last.
Eureka, spoke to my vaux dealer, who told me if they replace the powersounder they also put new wiring loom and plug on. Not a vaux part number, you have to ask especially for it, comes over from germany as a make your own loom kit, solder all joints and use shrink wrap to insulate the joints. I then used black silicon sealant to seal up around the scuttle seal grommet, then fitted large shrink wrap to the underside of the grommet tube to create an extended drain away pipe to do away with the water to the side of the suspension turret, instead of the water cascading onto the plug, now its bone dry, and siren not gone off since after heavy rain and melting snow.
Another essential omega mod.
Could also be confused with dodgey batteries, which maybe it isnt, definately worth looking at or considering.
If no hazard flash, its either siren batteries or water ingress in plug!!