I know it is not an Omega but I really am at the end of my teather today with my Vectra to the point that I have walked away from the car now.
First of all, it was running really lumpy, diagnosed as the coil pack, so I replaced the coil pack, and it started and ran worse than ever, the engine was hunting, so I took it for a 2 mile round drive, it drove PERFFECT, Most powerfull it has ever been since I have owned it, then we turned the engine off, took the air filter housing off and the pipe from the housing to the inlet, just to see if it was clogged up and to check that the butterfly was moving freely, Then put it back together, and tried to start it, at first it wouldn't start and then with a boot of the accelerator it went and made a horrible noise like something had caught on a pully and was grinding round and within 2 seconds of that noise I shut the engine off.
I then re traced my steps to see if I had maybe left something loose, and got a friend to double check everything I had touched, went to start it and it was turning over but not firing, we kept trying and trying to the point of flooding the engine, left it for about 10 minutes and tried again and then while having the key turned with foot flat to the floor trying to get it started it started back firing, every so often.
With no luck and a lot of swearing, I called my break down service who came out, scratched his head, fiddled with it, stuck a jump pack on it as the battery started to get low, and he severely flooded it and said he thinks that the engine is severely flooded and that I need to take the battery off and charge it. It is charging as we speak, and leave for 2 days, or take the battery off and take the coil pack off and spark plugs out to allow the petrol to evaporate, I have removed the coil pack and plugs and he said to leave it till tomorrow or Saturday and try again, I am now waiting until tomorrow, And to rule out the coil pack we tried putting the old one on too to see if it would start and no luck!
In case it doesn't start tomorrow, is there anything else that could be the problem? Maybe something I have missed?
Cheers
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Topic: Help with my Vectra not starting please? (Read 804 times)