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The good lord giveth and taketh away.
« on: 19 August 2010, 20:35:46 »
Went out for the first time for a week today. The Omega felt quite responsive. Hasn't felt like this for ages - nay years. The accelerator felt light not leaden. Haven't touched the car so it wasn't me.

Regular readers will know I put up with some inherent problem that I just cannot find and have learnt to live with. Vacuum leak? Stuck multi ram, sock in air filter, mouse in throttle body, pea germinated in EGR. Who knows.

On the way home we have a big hill so boot down to the boards and it roared away UNTIL all the gearchange lights came on and it was back to how it used to be. It may or may not actually make it up the hill................

Stopped at the top switched off and back on again. Seems fine again, couldn't reproduce the problem for rest of journey. Not going out again till Saturday  when I should be doing 100 miles round trip with plenty of hills. Oh joy or maybe not............. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: The good lord giveth and taketh away.
« Reply #1 on: 19 August 2010, 20:45:35 »
hope the trip goes well mate!!!! :y
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Re: The good lord giveth and taketh away.
« Reply #2 on: 19 August 2010, 20:53:36 »
Well I will just crib all the things from Lazydockers trip less LPG and I will only take one thirtieth  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: The good lord giveth and taketh away.
« Reply #3 on: 19 August 2010, 21:01:00 »
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Well I will just crib all the things from Lazydockers trip less LPG and I will only take one thirtieth  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

100 mile trip... Wouldn't even check the fluids on mine outside the normal weekly checks ::) ::) :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Re: The good lord giveth and taketh away.
« Reply #4 on: 19 August 2010, 21:38:12 »
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Went out for the first time for a week today. The Omega felt quite responsive. Hasn't felt like this for ages - nay years. The accelerator felt light not leaden. Haven't touched the car so it wasn't me.

Regular readers will know I put up with some inherent problem that I just cannot find and have learnt to live with. Vacuum leak? Stuck multi ram, sock in air filter, mouse in throttle body, pea germinated in EGR. Who knows.

On the way home we have a big hill so boot down to the boards and it roared away UNTIL all the gearchange lights came on and it was back to how it used to be. It may or may not actually make it up the hill................

Stopped at the top switched off and back on again. Seems fine again, couldn't reproduce the problem for rest of journey. Not going out again till Saturday  when I should be doing 100 miles round trip with plenty of hills. Oh joy or maybe not............. ;D ;D ;D ;D

Reads like a gear selector electrical problem... have you cleaned the gear selector ???...  thought about a replacement selector ???

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Re: The good lord giveth and taketh away.
« Reply #5 on: 20 August 2010, 00:38:41 »
Limp mode?
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« Reply #6 on: 20 August 2010, 08:11:38 »
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Went out for the first time for a week today. The Omega felt quite responsive. Hasn't felt like this for ages - nay years. The accelerator felt light not leaden. Haven't touched the car so it wasn't me.

Regular readers will know I put up with some inherent problem that I just cannot find and have learnt to live with. Vacuum leak? Stuck multi ram, sock in air filter, mouse in throttle body, pea germinated in EGR. Who knows.

On the way home we have a big hill so boot down to the boards and it roared away UNTIL all the gearchange lights came on and it was back to how it used to be. It may or may not actually make it up the hill................

Stopped at the top switched off and back on again. Seems fine again, couldn't reproduce the problem for rest of journey. Not going out again till Saturday  when I should be doing 100 miles round trip with plenty of hills. Oh joy or maybe not............. ;D ;D ;D ;D

Reads like a gear selector electrical problem... have you cleaned the gear selector ???...  thought about a replacement selector ???

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