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Omega General Help / Re: Idling problems - Help!

« on: 07 November 2013, 09:32:41 »

Thanks to all for the advice, fitted replacement part last night and car runs great. Took it out for an hour after fitment and drove on various different roads and no cutting out or stalling! Also runs better as there was an increasing smell of petrol over the last few weeks or so from the exhaust so I guess the forty quid I paid for the replacement should pay for itself in petrol?!!

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Omega General Help / Re: Idling problems - Help!

« on: 06 November 2013, 17:43:52 »

Thanks Steve,

I have the replacement part and will fit it when I get home. If I need Tech 2 is this a Network Q job or will a local garage be able to do this?

Cheers

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Omega General Help / Re: Idling problems - Help!

« on: 06 November 2013, 09:38:08 »

Thanks for the advice all, I will report back this evening on how I get on

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Omega General Help / Re: Idling problems - Help!

« on: 06 November 2013, 09:00:30 »

I will try and get a replacement from the breaker today and try fitting along with the pedal trick tonight when I get home. Guess I could have been unlucky and got a duff replacement part. Would have bought a genuine new one, but the cheapest I could find on line was £170.00!! Just a question, do you have to reset / erase any fault codes after fitting the new MAF? I didn't have to do this the last time I changed it.

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Omega General Help / Idling problems - Help!

« on: 06 November 2013, 07:52:12 »

Hi all,

Have a 2001 2.6 V6 with only 68,000 on the clock which we have owned for a couple of years. About four months ago it started running rough (hunting) at times from cold and I was advised to change the air flow meter. An aftermarket replacement was sourced (I have since been warned these don't last long or even work at all sometimes)which seemed to solve the problem. A week ago started having problems with the rough running and even to the point of cutting out! I sourced a guaranteed second hand part from a vauxhall breakers and fitted it last night - the car runs even worse with the new one. I will obtain a replacement part from the breaker today and see if that helps. In terms of diagnosing that it is the air flow meter I pulled the lead off it and the car seems to run sweet as a nut without it connected. Problem is could this be something else? Would it be worth running the paperclip test?

Help appreciated