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[medwaykent]

hi folks unsure if anyone can help but will give it a try my wife drives 3litre auto elite yesterday on way home from work tc light cae on and also auto trans warning light and then car power steering went much to wifes shock she managed to avoid three cars and pulled over she said car making awful noise unsure of what sort of noise AA man was called he thought cambelt had slipped manged to drive 100yards to our house  i have turned engine over tonight and it started very noisy as AA man has left off some air intake parts but i could hear slight ticking (valve hitting piston maybe ) AA man very keen to buy car off wife offered 200 pounds for it .. i was wondering if anyone knows of any other faults it could be ? thx paul p.s its a v6 model

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aa man want to buy it hu?? would think that abit odd my self. can you hear were the ticking is coming from?

[Marks DTM Calib]

Take the aux belt off.....then start it up and see if the awful noise has gone.

If pistons were hitting valves then it would not be running.

Also, cambelt failure would not result in power steering loss and warnings on gearbox etc if the engine was still running.....loss of alternator output (on a weak battery resulting in autobox and TC warnings) and pas pump which are all aux belt driven could....

[medwaykent]

thx gonna have a look at weekend and see if i can spot anything

[geoff]

probably find aux belt tensioner has started to fail if engine is still running sounds like aa bloke is trying to pull a fast one get good car for cheap money,tensioner has plastic pulley and are a big fail on v6 omega's,mine was rattling like mad when it failed 

[Brikhead]

...tensioner has plastic pulley and are a big fail on v6 omega's...

Sorry to butt in but my aux belt tensioner failed recently... the plastic pulley survived, it was the big springy part that pushed the pulley out of it's mount. Is this unusual...

[medwaykent]

had quick look at car yesterday a started it up running very rough and knocking at top of engine also appearsto be blowing back through airbox cambellt appears good and so does aux belt could the belt jump a tooth or two.... would engine still fire up ?

[Darth Loo-knee]

had quick look at car yesterday a started it up running very rough and knocking at top of engine also appearsto be blowing back through airbox cambellt appears good and so does aux belt could the belt jump a tooth or two.... would engine still fire up ?

I have driven a V6 Omega with bent valves to get it home
The revs needed to be kept on else it would stop plus the brakes didn't then work
It nearly got me home then seized up with borewash 
It made a terrible noise 

But answer to your question mate, if the valves are bent yes it could still start up, will sound terrible though..
You need to have a look and see what has happened, or see if someone would hae a look for you.
If the AA man has offered you £200 for it straight away I would smell a rat, may even phone and report him

[medwaykent]

thx for your replys will stick it on ebay for spares or repair unless someone on here wants it !"

[same #same#]

if engine is that bad just get another set off tops there some on the bay, and new one's on vx parts for £90 each as on sale or at least take tops off and see if the pistons are ok then decide. before putting in on the bay etc.

[Elite Pete]

had quick look at car yesterday a started it up running very rough and knocking at top of engine also appearsto be blowing back through airbox cambellt appears good and so does aux belt could the belt jump a tooth or two.... would engine still fire up ?

I have driven a V6 Omega with bent valves to get it home
The revs needed to be kept on else it would stop plus the brakes didn't then work
It nearly got me home then seized up with borewash 
It made a terrible noise 

But answer to your question mate, if the valves are bent yes it could still start up, will sound terrible though..
You need to have a look and see what has happened, or see if someone would hae a look for you.
If the AA man has offered you £200 for it straight away I would smell a rat, may even phone and report him

I remember that one youth, it was so funny, still the old girl nearly made it home before she gave up the ghost

[boyracadaz]

hi mate,

Sorry to hear about your car, have you managed to get it into a garage yet or you putting it on ebay?

similar thing happened to me in a corsa once on the motorway, lost power engine management light came on and very loud knocking sound, turned out the cam had snapped and bend a valve £650 later the car was back on the road.