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Omega General Help / Re: Still having crank shaft problems

« on: 06 July 2011, 22:49:10 »

Hi guys,

after a discussion with the missus and my mother, I've swapped the Omega for an Accord that the guy had in part ex.

TBF I'm surprised as its quite a bargain, tax till feb, test till oct/nov, new tyres, new rad, new battery (he's fitting this for me to help out, the other bits were already there) and 3/4 a tank of fuel.

I pick it up tomorrow, so much for my time in, or rather out of an Omega

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Omega General Help / Re: Still having crank shaft problems

« on: 06 July 2011, 20:19:06 »

If there is a first, with my luck as its been this year, it will be me

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Omega General Help / Re: Still having crank shaft problems

« on: 06 July 2011, 20:12:17 »

Sorry I should re-phrase that, the temp gauge wasn't working and the fuel gague dropped to nothing then back up with the ignition still on.

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Omega General Help / Re: Still having crank shaft problems

« on: 06 July 2011, 20:10:34 »

However I did notice when I got back in the temp gague wasn't working and the fuel level dropped to zero then came back up again after I tried to start it again.

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Omega General Help / Re: Still having crank shaft problems

« on: 06 July 2011, 20:08:38 »

Dunno didn't try, didn't have a paperclip.

The guy tested it before I left 20 minutes before and it didn't bring up a code.

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Omega General Help / Still having crank shaft problems

« on: 06 July 2011, 19:48:28 »

Hi All,

Still having crank shaft sensor problems, its deffinatly the right sensor. After fitting it ran fine and didn't bring up any codes, did a fairly long test drive and it didn't have a problem. Soon as I pulled into my road, stalls, won't start. Eventually got it to start and got it back to the garage where I had it fitted, stalled again.

The guy checked the connection, no problem and the part is a genuine and brand new. Reckons I need a new ECU, is that the same feeling on here?

Also (this is not me trying to sell it Mods) how much could I expect for scrap? Its just had the cam, aux belts and the water pump costing almost £600.00.

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Omega General Help / I hate mechanics

« on: 01 June 2011, 23:05:41 »

Hi Guys,

As you guys may have seen from a previous post my crank shaft sensor went, I didn't have the tools or time to fix it myself so I asked my father in law's mate to do it.

Just a bit of back ground, my father in law used to own his own courier company, so used this guy to maintain/fix the vans with no problems.

So gave him the car, told him whats wrong, sourced the part from Vauxhall (Deeside, good guys really helpful). The idiot went to a 3rd part aftermarket dealer and bought a non GM sensor.........

The business end is fine but where it connects to the loom isn't even close, they have wedged it in so after a while it lossens so I have the cut out problem again. Squeese the connectors together and it runs fine again, and so on and so on.

I'm fuming that he's completely ignored me and done his own thing. Same time I can't really go down there throwing my weight around as this would cause the father in law trouble.

I should have just bought the chuffing thing and waited till I could do it myself

end of rant...

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Omega General Help / Re: Fuel left?

« on: 27 May 2011, 09:11:02 »

I've filled mine when it's got to 30 miles and it took 59 ltrs, am I right in thinking the tank is 75 ltrs in total?

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Omega General Help / Re: Cut out

« on: 25 May 2011, 22:11:45 »

Did look oval to me, will check tomorrow to make sure, Andyc if you're looking you have PM

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Omega General Help / Re: Cut out

« on: 25 May 2011, 20:24:17 »

Hmm think I'll identify the plug, cheers for the help mate, most appreciated.

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Omega General Help / Re: Cut out

« on: 25 May 2011, 19:57:24 »

Cool nice one, thanks, I fing hate numbers!

Isn't there a guy on here who can get them from a dealer at a discount? Or do I have to go through some sort of random initiation ritual

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Omega General Help / Re: Cut out

« on: 25 May 2011, 19:27:21 »

Sorry I'm a complete pleb and can't work out how to read this chuffing code, so I took a video -

http://s121.photobucket.com/albums/o202/steve_wood_1982/?action=view&current=IMG_0215.mp4

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Omega General Help / Re: Cut out

« on: 25 May 2011, 18:46:12 »

Right did the paper clip (after I realized that the peddle trick isn't going to work, fail) It came up (after the starting sequence) with 3 sets of 9. Do you add them up? in which case its 27, high voltage on injector valve 3? Help

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Omega General Help / Cut out

« on: 25 May 2011, 18:08:12 »

Hi guys,

Just went to the shops and on the way back the car cut out. It started but was really groggy and cut put again. Tried again and gave it a bit of welly and it fired to life. I'm going to do the peddle trick to get the codes of it. Any thoughts?

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Omega General Help / Re: Brake Pad Warning

« on: 22 May 2011, 00:20:41 »

Ah okay cool I'll remember that for next time, thanks guys