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philsteward

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Engine cut out!
« on: 26 August 2011, 09:45:12 »
Hi,

Nothing major yet, but driving into work today the engine just slowly died whilst sat in queuing traffic.  Started straight away (once I put it back into Park) and was fine the rest of the journey.

It had just turned over onto gas a few minutes before, so wasn't the switch over.  Might have been because the thermostat had just opened and so the temp of the coolant did it's normal drop and the vaporiser didn't heat the LPG sufficiently so it cut out, only noticed it today as I was queuing, don't normally use the car for commuting.

Only reason I am mentioning is if anyone has any previous experience of a dying engine at idle being an early warning sign of a bigger issue.  I am going camping this weekend and expecting over 500miles to be covered, and would prefer not to have an issue!

Cheers in advance
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Re: Engine cut out!
« Reply #1 on: 26 August 2011, 09:48:30 »
clean your  idle control valve would prob be a good start...

and check fault codes, and hope youve nothing for crank sensor
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Re: Engine cut out!
« Reply #2 on: 26 August 2011, 10:24:21 »
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clean your  idle control valve would prob be a good start...

and check fault codes, and hope youve nothing for crank sensor
Thanks for the speedy response, have just had a read of this http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1194007453 I assume this applies to my 2.2 as well?

If there was a fault code for the crank should the engine management light come on?  I checked the car a week or so ago with my reader and it displayed that there were no faults.  The engine management light has not come on so assume it will still say no faults!

Hope that makes sense?
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Re: Engine cut out!
« Reply #3 on: 26 August 2011, 10:28:38 »
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Re: Engine cut out!
« Reply #4 on: 26 August 2011, 10:34:59 »
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This is the one you need Phil
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1162397695
I was going to ask if my car was Drive By Wire!  I am a bit confused though, that link is for cleaning the throttle body, not the ICV?  Am I missing something?
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Re: Engine cut out!
« Reply #5 on: 26 August 2011, 15:38:58 »
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This is the one you need Phil
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1162397695
I was going to ask if my car was Drive By Wire!  I am a bit confused though, that link is for cleaning the throttle body, not the ICV?  Am I missing something?

Yep, an ICV.  Drive by Wire Omegas don't have one as far as I know. 
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