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Omega General Help / Re: powersounder

« on: 10 October 2011, 11:37:17 »

There is one alarm only

It had the horns, and the powersounder.

In normal operation, both sound together. (iirc, cant check cos I dont have any powersounders, it may be only the horn sounds normally)

The powersounder has its only electrics and batteries in it.
If power is disconencted, only the powersounder will sound because the horn has no power.

However, when they get old, the batteries can fail and leak, causing what you heard.

Disconnect it, and dispose of it ASAP.

They can and do set fire to themselves due to leakage!  it happened to us, and several other people.

not a nice way to lose your car.

let me make sure i got this correct. when i disconnect the powersounder BOTH the siren alarm and car horn alarm (even though they are one alram) will cease to go off? its just ive read on here that poeple have disconnected there powersounders and the car horn alarms have still gone off?

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Omega General Help / powersounder

« on: 10 October 2011, 11:26:58 »

hay all. just recently my car alarm has started to go off on its own accord, however it would seem that the omega is fitted with two alarms as mine both-

1. has a alarm via the car horns with the hazards flashing
2. has a 'siren' style alarm with no hazards flashing

ive never heard the siren one before until last night and reading up info on the powersounder on this forum i am a bit confused. when the powersounder is disconnected and removed (doing it tonight) which alarm are you disconnecting? the car horn with hazards one or the siren with no hazards one?

if it is disconnecting the car horn with hazards one then how do you go about disconnecting the siren with no hazards one?

in my opinion it is the alarm with the car horn that is much more annoying but i would like to disconnect BOTH the alarms (car is in a locked, alarmed garage).

im pretty sure that i read on here somewhere that someone had removed the powersounder and all the wiring associated with it?

thanks for advance for the advice.

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Omega General Help / Re: strange idle problem

« on: 18 September 2011, 21:45:18 »

anyone have any idears? might need to clean the egr? where is it on the v6?

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Omega General Help / Re: strange idle problem

« on: 18 September 2011, 17:08:13 »

right- im certainly not guna suggest that this should be taken as gospel but i tried it and this is what i got-

12
31 (engine was off)
132
12

turned the ignition off, then on and got the same sequence.

looked up the codes and it said it relates to the egr valve but surely that would not affect the idling problem i mentioned- i thought that would affect the engine at all rpm's?

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Omega General Help / Re: strange idle problem

« on: 18 September 2011, 16:46:37 »

paperclip test would be usless with me,. i read the guide and watched the video but they make no sence at all. for example in the video it does not flash 55 times yet underneath it says 55-ecu failure, i cant make head nor tale of it.

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Omega General Help / strange idle problem

« on: 18 September 2011, 15:55:35 »

hi all, i wish to share with you all a strange day ive had with my omega-

basically all has been well until i got in the car todrive to work this morning. started her up which she done reluctantly, was turning over but needed some gas to make her fire-never had to before. drove off on my way-lardy dar- got to a set of lights and the whole car started shaking and the idle was fluctuating between 350-650rpm(very approx tho). light goes green i drive off no problems.get to work and park up and the EML light comes on and again the revs start fluctuating between the aformentioned rpms. hold the revs at 4krpm and the light goes out, release gas anf the revs still wont stay still. i would like to add that its less then a 2 mile drive to work and the engine temp gauge had only moved a bit.

anyway after work i spray some WD40 round the engine bay-she fires up straight away but after the initial high rpm ones again it goes lumpy and fluctuates but this time no EML. decide to give her a blast on a different route home. get to a junction bowt 1/4 mile from my place of work and...nothing-she sits there smooth as a nut at a dead 500rpm-no shaking, no EML and no fluctuating.

seems very strange to me- anyone have any idears? idle control valve is starting to die? also are you suposed to hear air going through the big flat thing on top of the engine? (no i dont know what its called) i dont think its leaking but i can definately hear air inside it.

so people?   

forgot to add its a 2000 cdx 2.5 v6

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Omega General Help / Re: no heat on drivers side of car

« on: 16 September 2011, 20:24:24 »

its sorted!!!!!

after a bit of fiddling and jiggery-pokey the arm is now attatched and the heat is flowing throughout the car!!

spent a good 15-20 mins getting the misses to turn the dial up and down from HI-LOW to see if the arm would come off the spindle but fingers croossed it hasnt yet, still might aquire a spare motor though.

thanks for the advice all and this is my first diy fix on my new omega!!

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Omega General Help / Re: no heat on drivers side of car

« on: 16 September 2011, 17:57:05 »

right then. tried the buttons hold and only passenger side servo moved. the motor on the drivers side is very easy to fibd and as per the guide the dangly thing behind had come off. now the question is how was it held on in the 1st place? was there a screw through it as from what i can see it looks like unless it was screwed on then the plastic part it pushes onto has snapped off...................any idears? anyone know roughly how much 4 a new one? mind you if it gets any colder ill just tie the 'dangly handle' in the 'heat on' position. any thoughts???

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Omega General Help / Re: no heat on drivers side of car

« on: 15 September 2011, 20:55:18 »

have a read though this lot ....... 

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1196616207

would this be relevant as the lack of heat is on the other side of the car? so as there is no glovevbox on the drivers side there would be no trim under the glovebox to remove..........

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Omega General Help / no heat on drivers side of car

« on: 15 September 2011, 19:25:52 »

hi all, anyone know how to fix this problem? the heat only works on the passenger side of the car and with winter approaching i need to fix this problem asap.

if anyone local can fix it for me they will be handsomely rewarded........................

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Omega General Help / heater vent control motor part no.

« on: 16 September 2011, 18:26:42 »

as above does anyone know the part number for the little motor in the drivers footwell that has a arm attatched to it for opening and closing the hot/cold air valve. my side of the car is freezing and ive checked the motor and the arm has came off due to the part it clips to snapping off.

or just its official name would help..........

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Omega General Help / Re: Lower arms and tyres

« on: 09 September 2011, 20:45:48 »

Thanks Chris - I will heed this advice on camber. Will ask re toe adjusters but think they looked at all this. No harm in asking again though.

Kevin - you posted a few months ago on WIM local to me and you - did you have good experience there or did you go further afield??

hi there, is WIM just one place in chesham or is there more then one branch?  there bowt a hundread miles away from me. if poss i would like to visit a branch closer. the link on my original query shows a website called black boots which lists companys that do the geometry set-up but there all called different names, theres a couple that are very close to salisbury, wiltshire but can anyone advise wether they would recommend the other comapnys or just bite the bullet and travel to wheels in motion in chesham?

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Omega General Help / Re: how do you know when to replace a wishbone?

« on: 11 September 2011, 10:24:00 »

ok guys- update.
just had alook through the old mot cetificates (only bought the car 4 days ago) and last year (oct 2010) it failed for having an imcomplete offside coil spring and also

'nearside front lower suspension arm rubber bush deteriated resulting in excessive movement'

looking through the reciepts the coil has been replced and the arm was also replaced.

aloso looking through the reciepts (mountains of reciepts came with the car)  in june thuis year the car had a new lower arm (dosent say which side but presumebly it must have been the o/s if the n/s was done last year?)

2 days after the mot failure last year it passed so im thinking, also bearing in mind that another arm was replaced this year, and this is just a hunch, that they have changed the arms and springs and not done the camber afterwards? there is a receiept for tracking done in june this year but as ive read on this forum, that does nowt on a omega. 

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Omega General Help / Re: how do you know when to replace a wishbone?

« on: 11 September 2011, 09:59:02 »

my mechanicaL knowlege in non-exsistant so i dont have a clue but thanks for the advice anyway people. its just past a mot so it they should be ok? i dont think there is play in the bush, the wheel feels solid so i think its ok.

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Omega General Help / how do you know when to replace a wishbone?

« on: 10 September 2011, 22:53:45 »

as above, is there a easy way to tell if the wishbones need replacing? reason being is that the camber is massively out on the front o/s eheel on my omega 2.5 cdx and im hoping it just needs realigning. ive got the car booked in at WIM in 2 weeks and i dont want to get there and be told that the wishbone needs changing before steering geometry can be set up......