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Omega General Help / Another breakdown
« on: 30 October 2015, 17:08:22 »
Took the car in for its MoT recently – it needed wishbones, headlight polish and a replacement sidelight.  I asked the garage to do the work and also to replace a noisy wheel bearing.

On picking the car up, the battery was flat.  I asked why this was but just got a shrug, “don’t worry about it” and a jump start.  (Done incorrectly, of course.)

About three miles down the road, feeling cross because the wheel bearing was as bad as ever, the battery light comes on and the engine starts to clatter.  I stop instantly to find that the aux belt has shredded and the tensioner has seized and disintegrated.  No big deal except that parts of the belt have become sucked into the timing and shoved it out by a notch or two, hence the clatter.

In short, goodbye engine – since I can’t be horsed to re-valve both heads, even assuming the pistons are OK.

My question to you more learned folk is does the garage bear any share of the responsibility?  Clearly the seized tensioner is not their fault but they did return the car to me with an obvious problem that wasn’t present when I took it in.  And, when the flat battery symptom was pointed out to them, they didn’t bother to check for the obvious causes.  Is this a lack of competence or is it just the kind of sloppiness that is OK these days?

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Omega General Help / Re: HBV and crank sensor?
« on: 08 July 2015, 13:38:51 »
Oh, and cheers Tunnie, I dare say nimble hands can indeed manipulate the connector with the scuttle in place.  But my hands are fat and ugly.  And we'd best leave my face out of the discussion, if you don't mind.   ;D

But it makes life that little bit easier if the scuttle is off anyway for the HBV.


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Omega General Help / Re: HBV and crank sensor?
« on: 08 July 2015, 13:31:58 »
OK, just coincidence I suppose.

No, I wouldn't want to drive on a dying CS either, but I'm at home supposedly recovering from illness. All this has been my wife, who is trying to drive back home after a time away. So it's either drive or put it on a recovery truck.

She called Churchill Rescue out yesterday and, despite passing on my message that the ECU won't enable the fuel pump until it gets a valid signal from the crank sensor, he pronounced that she had a fuel supply problem. After topping up the fuel, the car started and he decided that she had in fact run out of petrol (tank was over 1/4 full).  Face palm!

You can lead a man to knowledge but you can't make him think.

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Omega General Help / Re: Popping and juddering help!!!!
« on: 08 July 2015, 13:15:49 »
Oops - sorry for cross post Tunnie

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Omega General Help / Re: Popping and juddering help!!!!
« on: 08 July 2015, 13:14:59 »
You don't need a code reader to get the basics from a 3.2, you can use the pedal trick here:
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90581.0.

Just lift the coil packs and any oil problem will be obvious. Driver's side is easy access, passenger side there is some furniture to move first.

Oil in plug wells will likely have toasted the coil pack on the affected side. See cleaning crankcase breathers here:
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90653.0

But check you codes first.

Best of luck!

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Omega General Help / HBV and crank sensor?
« on: 08 July 2015, 10:57:25 »
Hi Gentlefolk

Noticed the telltale red dribble down the bell housing a week ago and made mental note to replace the HBV.

Then, yesterday, engine cuts out dead and won't restart, then starts and runs perfectly a few minutes later.  A few hours later, the same story.  Sounds like crank sensor beginning to go, although I can't check anything as the wife is hogging the Omega today.

Fair enough, HBV and crank sensor will be replaced - at least the scuttle only has to come off once for both.  But is it coincidence or have you ever heard of coolant from the HBV causing the CS to become burgered?  I guess it could get in at either the top connector or the sensor itself.

Just musing...

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Omega General Help / Re: Real world MPG
« on: 12 June 2014, 00:36:59 »
Not that close!  I'm not suicidal  :)

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Omega General Help / Re: Real world MPG
« on: 12 June 2014, 00:00:41 »
2.6 auto - 17mpg London stop-start driving, 25mpg mucking about on country roads, 33mpg steady 70 on the motorway.  Subtract one or two with air-con.

But here's one to give you a laugh.  Couple of years back when my thermostat failed stuck open, the temperature would drop off the cold end of the scale at motorway speeds with correspondingly poor mpg .  Looking for a way to reduce air flow over the rad I tried tucking in behind HGVs and the temp did indeed rise to around normal.  But, with speed restricted to 57mph and getting the air tow from the wagon ahead, I could get 45mpg!  The boredom quickly does your head in but definitely the way to go if you're trying to make it to the next filling station on an empty tank.

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General Car Chat / AllGermanParts service
« on: 11 June 2014, 23:28:06 »
When the rattle from the drop links suddenly went from irritating to frightening, the excuses had to stop and I had to get the finger out.  The previous ones were Contitech and lasted just under 20,000 miles - not brilliant in my view.  So, based on their good reputation here on OOF, I decided to go for Febi Bilsteins from the AllGermanParts website.  Not quite as cheap as the no-name Chinese Ebay specials but a very good price for a decent brand that should last.

Unfortunately there was a glitch and the order didn't get through right away - I think it was a PayPal foul-up.  I called Jason at AllGermanParts and, even though the delay wasn't his fault, he instantly upgraded standard delivery to overnight courier free of charge and I had the parts in my hands the next morning.  Now that's what I call service!

Most impressed - I'll definitely be using AllGermanParts again.

Thanks Jason!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Recommended suppliers
« on: 10 January 2012, 02:10:31 »
Need to get the OOf shop in there too - plenty of folk don't seem to realise it exists.   :o

Unless it's not recommended, of course  ;)

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Car battery
« on: 07 January 2012, 20:00:07 »
As many as you like - the car won't know the difference as long as it's a 12V battery.  The limiting factor is that larger batteries won't physically fit in the battery bay. 

Out of curiosity, why do you need a bigger battery?  Thinking of running a fun-fair from it?   ;)

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Bulbs are dead easy to replace - pop the boot open, pull the cover off each side, unclip the bulb holder from the light unit. Push and twist to remove the old one, pop the new one in, clip it all back together.

You need stop/tail lamps, go to VX or somewhere to get decent branded ones.

ok mate thanks. so the fact that theyre both still working now but had the warning yesterday means theyre on their way out and i should replace both sides?

i have halfords bulbs that are the right size. will they be ok?

 :y

You may be lucky - I wasn't.  The message kept coming back intermittently on mine when using Halfords bulbs.  Problem solved by using genuine Vx from the stealer's - cost me 67p or thereabouts if I remember correctly.   :y


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General Discussion Area / Re: Teachers wanted
« on: 04 January 2012, 01:17:22 »
Rhyming slang is only really used in a small part of southern England (near London) so if I was you, I'd just concentrate on learning 'normal' English  ;) ;) ;)

Good advice but there is also Glasgow rhyming slang.  Frinstance corned beef = deaf and Mick Jagger = lager, as in "Three pints o' Mick wi' yer thumb in it, big man."

And hats off to you, Laszlo!  You can be proud of your English and of your willingness to learn.   :y


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Omega General Help / Re: 25.8 MPG......Why?
« on: 02 January 2012, 11:40:30 »
Thermostat sticking open?


Possible.

 Ticking over on the drive the fans will eventually cut in. In normal driving the temperature needle barely gets off it's stop......especially with the AC working.

Thats not going to help, you need a new thermostat for a start :y

Definitely.  In my very recent experience a dead thermostat wipes off 4 or 5 mpg straight away.  Keep the A/C off - as you imply, the extra cooling caused by the heater matrix trying to warm the cooled cabin air is enough to push the engine temperature down noticeably this weather. 


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Omega General Help / Re: 2.6 auto- how many gears
« on: 01 January 2012, 19:59:42 »
Yep, TC locks up in 4th giving what seems like a 5th gear.  You can check this by easing off the gas a little.  If the engine revs drop slightly the TC isn't locked.  If the revs hold steady WRT road speed the TC must have locked. 

The other aspect of this that puzzled me until someone on here lightened my darkness is why the box seems to drop two gears if you accelerate at motorway speed.  It doesn't - the box won't change gears with the TC locked so it unlocks the TC first, allowing revs to rise as if it has changed gear, then it drops a gear for real.   

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