Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.

61

General Discussion Area / Old Omega site down link to gearbox switch broke

« on: 04 August 2019, 09:37:35 »

The old site is no longer available. But I was trying to access the maintenance link, that shows how to remove the selector switch and clean it, but the link to it in the maintenance part showing the pictures, doesn't work. Is there anyway to access it or add it to the new site please?

Thanks
Addy

62

Omega General Help / Camshaft sensor for 1995 x20xev omega

« on: 26 July 2019, 09:19:31 »

Does anyone know if there is a decent version of camshaft sensor, besides the dealers such as bosch for a 1995 X20XEV omega? I have been quoted £120+vat for one from the dealer with payment upfront and a weeks wait. Even the parts person said that was expensive for what it was.

If not will have to bite the bullet.

Thanks in advance for all help.
Addy

63

Omega General Help / How to unclip V6 HBV

« on: 24 July 2019, 19:57:53 »

I need to do HBV on my 2002 V6 Omega. Can anyone tell me how it unclips as mine looks like it is still clipped to the bracket? I have read the how2.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Addy

64

Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Wanted Front passenger door.

« on: 27 June 2019, 17:03:14 »

It might be a long shot, but is there anyone breaking or know someone breaking a Omega, near Darlington UK. I am looking for a passenger side front door. The car it is for is a 1995 estate, but I have been told the facelift doors work.
Thanks for any help.
Addy

65

Omega General Help / are Driver and passenger window winder motors the same for all years?

« on: 15 June 2019, 17:43:59 »

Sorry if in wrong section. Please could admin move it if it is. Thank you.

Could someone tell me if the window motors are the same drivers and passenger side front, through all the years? I have some later doors to fit on a 1995 Omega, and thought I might be able to use the motor on it, instead of having to take the one off the original doors. I have the wiring looms off the 1995 doors.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Addy

66

Omega General Help / New windscreen fitted using original rubber surrounds

« on: 21 May 2019, 16:47:11 »

Can anyone tell me if replacing the old windscreen with a new one, if the rubbers that go around the outside of the screen should be replaced?  It is on the wifes 1995 Omega Estate.  National Windscreens did it, as that is who her insurance company deal with.  They fitted the new screen, but said the gaps at the bottom are due to it having had a replacement screen sometime, also the bloke said it is slightly split due to age. The rubbers according to what I have read on here are original, as they are split into seperate pieces, not two pieces like the later ones.

The wife wants to contact the Insurance company to complain, but I thought if we had some confirmation that the work is not correct, we would have something to prove it.

I have attached some pics of the work done.

Thanks for any help.
Addy

Drivers side the rubber is buckled slightly and you can see in the bottom corner, the gap between the side rubber and the bottom rubber.



Gap on passenger side.



Masking tape used to hold rubber until the sealant sets.

67

Omega General Help / coolant leak loss but cannot see where from. 2.6 Engine

« on: 17 May 2019, 12:08:18 »

Hello I hope that someone can help me. I have a coolant leak in my 2002 2.6 omega. I have changed the radiator because it was cracked near the top hose, thanks to advice from on here. I have checked around the infamous HBV but cannot feel anything. I have tried driving the car with heaters off to see if it makes any difference, but it still loses coolant. I cannot see any drops of antifreeze underneath the car when parked up. Where are the obvious places that leaks occur on these. I feel like getting some K-seal for it. LOL

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Addy

68

Omega General Help / Cylinder Head Coolant Flange Gasket

« on: 12 May 2019, 16:31:54 »

Does anyone know where I can get one of these gaskets, or if one made from proper metal gasket paper can be used? The one I took off looked like the one in the picture, so I assume it is made of metal, due to heat from the area it is in. I found this one on ebay but it is sold out. It is for a 1995 Vauxhall Omega 2lt (X20XEV) engine

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/302606114465

Thanks in advance for any help.

Addy

69

Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Wipers not working in wash screen and not parking in normal mode

« on: 18 April 2019, 13:54:53 »

When i pull the stalk to wash the screen, the jets work but the wipers don't move at all. When on other settings and you turn the wipers off they don't go down to the bottom of the screen, just stop where they are? Has anyone had or know the solution to this problem? It is a 2002 2.6 Omega Saloon.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Addy

70

Omega General Help / Help needed Gear Selector lights sometimes all on and Auto Gearbox seems to slip

« on: 05 April 2019, 11:34:48 »

Hi can anyone help me? Sometimes all the lights on the selector panel light up, it clears by moving selector back and forth.  The last few days, the revs on the car seem to stay high before changing gear. I have seen the Gearbox fluid which was the colour it should be red, as recently changed Main Coolant Radiator.

Does this all point to the selector switch on box?  If so is there anybody near Darlington who could have a look at it for me please, or recommend a garage around here, as I don't feel confident enough to sort it and adjust it after?

Thanks in advance.

Addy

71

Omega General Help / Omega 2.6 Throttle body O ring Gasket

« on: 28 March 2019, 08:39:38 »

I am wanting to clean the throttle body on my 2002 2.6ltr Omega. Please can anyone tell me if this is the correct part, for the throttle body to plenum, if not does anyone know the proper one.  Also is there anything I need to know before removing and cleaning the Throttle Body, with it being DBW?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VAUXHALL-THROTTLE-VALVE-BODY-TO-INDUCTION-MANIFOLD-GASKET-GENUINE-NEW/162366443644?epid=2237001322&hash=item25cdcb507c:g:qYcAAOSwOdNXPyuJ

Thank you in advance for any help.

Addy

72

Omega General Help / auto box pipes to radiator banjo torque value

« on: 17 February 2019, 19:28:27 »

Can anybody tell me the torque for the gearbox pipe banjo to radiator on a 02 2.6? Also can the same O ring be used? Last question can the bagpipes including vac tank come out as one, once the two black vac pipes that goto back of engine are undone?

Thanks
Addy

73

Omega General Help / 1995 2ltr 16V CONTITECH Timing belt problem

« on: 05 February 2019, 17:20:43 »

Can anyone tell me why the Contitech timing belt CT870, which came in the full Contitech kit CT870K1, will not fit on my Omega 2ltr, the kit is the right one for my model car. It is as if it is too small, the tensioner is set as it should be, Allen key piece at 7oclock pointer by waterpump. If I pull the right side as looking at front of engine tight, it seems as if the belt sits on the peaks on the cam but they are timed correct. If I fit it as per instructions clockwise, it will not go on, as too tight. It is driving me mad.

74

Omega General Help / Camshaft replacement

« on: 18 January 2019, 12:18:22 »

I am refitting the exhaust and inlet cams, Haynes manual says make sure No1 cylinder lobe is up, when I do that timing marks will be out The writeup off this Site for Headgasket replacement says put them at TDC, I cannot get them to stay at TDC. I never removed cam sprockets so they are correct. Also removed cams one at a time, along with carriers, and wrapped in seperate marked boxes, so not wrong way round. Here is a pic of exhaust Timing mark position now against rocker cover. Could it have something to do with me cleaning out the lifters, they do compress and spring, they also went back into the places they came from. Can anyone see anything I have missed or should it do this? Thanks for any help, it's driving me mad 

Exhaust timing marks.


No1 lobe of Exhaust cam


exhaust cam

75

Omega General Help / Headlight Query

« on: 12 January 2019, 18:28:36 »

I have been having problems with the drivers side dip beam, so decided to check it today. The circled one is what the query is about. Is this the correct one for Halogen, how does the H1 bulb fit and stay in if it is, I have a black ring but the bulb doesn't fit it falls straight through, so rigged up somehing to hold the bulb in it. There is a brown and yellow cable with spade connectors on. Brown for earth yellow live but nothing to fit the earth to, so had to make a patch cable up. The person who owned it before me did the bodge, The headlight switch has headlight height adjustment, not like the one I had on my old 2003 cdx which were self levelling. The previous owner had fitted a H1 Bulb into it I just tidied it up.

It is a 2002 CD
Thanks for any help.