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[barclay03]

Having a few problems with the mig over the past day or 2.

1. The handbrake light keeps dimly flashing/staying on when im driving but the handbrake handle is fully down. Im going to check the switch but asking incase its a common thing that i dont know about 

2. My heaters dont seem very warm. They used to burn my eyeballs out when it was set to HI, now its just luke warm air thats comming through  :-/ the coolant was recently changed, engine temp sits fine at 95ish... any thoughts on what could be wrong?

thanks in advance!

[Jimbob]

Heaters,

you could try a servo rest - auto and off for 5 seconds.
did you get all the air out the system when you did a coolant change?
you could flush, and reverse flush the heater matrix...
pull the pipes off where they go into bulkhead, push on hose and run for 5 mins, both connectors.  I put another bit of hose on the other to drain under the car.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Top your brake fluid up

[barclay03]

thanks for the suggestions guys   

Will try the servo reset first before redoing the coolant.

Brake fluid was low, think it might be leaking some - advisory on MOT was corroded rear brake lines, so ill have to get under it and check just how bad they are then probably replace them. I knew the light flickering would be something like that lol

Cheers again 

[Jimbob]

you only lose a little coolant, your are only doing the matrix 

[barclay03]

Cool - will maybe give it a go this week if the reset doesnt do anything 

[barclay03]

whats the easiest way to get into those pipes to flush when the winter pack doodah is fitted?

also, is there any bleeding points in the system that i dont know about?

cheers

[RobG]

As Jimbob says ^^^^^ did you make sure there are no airlocks in the system :question
Engine idling, heater controls set to max, blowers on max, expansion cap off and "burp" the top hose

[barclay03]

Will give that a try 

first coolant change on an omega so unsure of the right protocol  im used to bleeding screws within the system (from working on french crap)

[Jimbob]

how to disconnect the heater matrix pipes :

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1185891036



how to flush all coolant :

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1167917774