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General Car Chat / Re: Removing footwell trim panel on Vectra
« on: 02 September 2020, 12:53:03 »
Unclamp/disconnect the pipes from the engine side of the bulkhead. That should the allow them to move out of the way.

DO NOT force them as they are. Otherwise you will be pulling the dash to replace the pipes :-X
Already done, Haynes. The joint between pipes is still tight. Should I pull pipe while tapping the joint with a nylon hammer?

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General Car Chat / Re: Removing footwell trim panel on Vectra
« on: 02 September 2020, 11:42:02 »

Heater matrix pipes to matrix clamps are removed, but pipes are firmly attached, and it will take more force to separate them than I can apply by hand. How do I separate them?

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Omega General Help / Re: Engine noise @ 1 second frequency
« on: 01 September 2020, 12:53:38 »
Does the squeak frequency vary with engine speed?

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General Car Chat / Re: Removing footwell trim panel on Vectra
« on: 30 August 2020, 19:37:36 »


Thanks Doc. I could not have done it without your help.

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General Car Chat / Removing footwell trim panel on Vectra
« on: 29 August 2020, 12:57:31 »
2008 Vectra petrol manual 1.8 saloon

Changing the heater matrix on above car, Haynes says 'remove the footwell  trim panel on the driver's side, as described in Chapter 11.
I think Haynes then describes how to do this on the passenger side. Above pic shows the driver's side. There is a footrest in the way, and a clutch pedal.  How do I remove the footrest? Any more tips?

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Lexus models came out best and Land Rovers worst in a reliability survey of members in September 'Which' magazine. Least reliable individual car was the Volvo XC90.

 Vauxhall came out half way in the reliability table, three ahead of Volkswagen. 'Three years of largely fault free motoring ends suddenly in a rash of engine related issues that caused Vauxhalls to break down'. They surveyed two ages groups, first three years and next five years. I always buy cars at least ten years old, and I suppose all Omegas are now at least sixteen years old.

It also found that luxury cars are the least reliable, no surprise there.

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General Car Chat / Re: No heat in Vectra
« on: 25 August 2020, 15:59:59 »
Thanks for the advice. I imagine there must be a baffle in the tank between the pipes, otherwise there would be no flow at all through the matrix.
A quick search on e-bay finds this matrix 233597754637 at £28.60, and the same item elsewhere at £41.50.also listed elsewhere for the Vectra 2.2 and 3.2 at different prices.

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General Car Chat / Re: No heat in Vectra
« on: 25 August 2020, 14:48:56 »
Looking on e-bay, and in Haynes, I see you are right, Nick. What a funny arrangement. Inlet and return pipes are side by side in a tank at one end.
On e-bay there is a selection of used matrices, It seems a risky item to buy used, I might buy another blocked one.There is a new one for £35.99, looks like the one to go for.

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General Car Chat / Re: No heat in Vectra
« on: 25 August 2020, 14:22:42 »

And yet, when I refilled the system with coolant, I removed the passenger side hose under the bonnet until coolant flooded out of it, and it soon did so. That suggests heater matrix not blocked.


Why not? In a blocked non-crossflow radiator, water will flow in the inlet, straight along the tank, and out the outlet.That means it's bypassing  the core, and you're not getting the benefit of the heat.


My Omega one was a good example of this: I pried off the tank, and all but two of the cores were so badly silted up I couldn't poke some lockwire down them. No wonder that flushing it made very little difference to it's effectiveness.
I presumed the only way from the inlet pipe to the return pipe was via the core.

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General Car Chat / Re: No heat in Vectra
« on: 25 August 2020, 11:11:28 »
Running my two Vectras side by side, the saloon gets up to temperature much faster than the estate, but saloon cabin gets no heat, while the estate cabin soon warms up.  Both heater hoses get hot on the estate, on the saloon the upper (passenger side) pipe gets warm, but the bottom (driver side) remains cold.

Looks like blocked heater matrix, don't it?

Are they hard to change? Haynes makes it sound easy, unusual.

And yet, when I refilled the system with coolant, I removed the passenger side hose under the bonnet until coolant flooded out of it, and it soon did so. That suggests heater matrix not blocked.

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General Car Chat / No heat in Vectra
« on: 25 August 2020, 09:03:14 »

2008 1.8 Vectra saloon petrol manual
I broke the thermostat to throttle pipe on this car, could not get a new pipe due to lockdown, so stuck it in with high temp epoxy. Joint is fine, but now I find car has no cabin heat. Might the epoxy join be to blame?
Previously cabin heat was poor, now there is none. Please advise.

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General Car Chat / Re: North Coast 500
« on: 22 August 2020, 17:06:34 »
Daughter reports midges everywhere in Scotland. They parked their hired campervan in laybys overnight, not her cup of tea. Boy friend led her on 'scary' walks up mountains despite her protestations, assuring her there would be no midges at higher altitudes; he lied.

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General Car Chat / Re: North Coast 500
« on: 22 August 2020, 10:15:14 »
Lots of midges. Probably  :D

Didn't fancy hopping across on Suiters Lass then?

Although that would have been a lumpy crossing back then...
Now I wish I had visited the Orkneys. I imagine there are remains of the Royal Navy at Scapa Flow, blockships, etc. We did visit Dunnet Head, nothing there.

I reckon we should move all illegal immigrants to the Orkneys for sorting, like the Australians do. Or maybe the Shetlands.

 

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General Car Chat / Re: North Coast 500
« on: 21 August 2020, 15:48:26 »

I don't know anything about North Coast 500. In November 1969 I met the above comely lass ten pin bowling at Reading, and invited her to join me for a drive to Scotland; she agreed.

In November there was no trouble with midges, but there was ice, snow and fog. Hotels that looked closed for the winter chased after us as we drove away and dragged us inside. We did not go to Orkney, but we did cross to Skye by the ferry.

A week ago our 46 year old daughter went to Skye with her boy friend in a campervan. Tomorrow we shall hear how that went.

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Reverting to your original question - if you cannot lower a 21mm socket on 2 long wobbly bars on the head of the bolt, you can do it from below the car, as follows.
You will need a 21mm deep socket, on a hinged ratchet handle or socket bar. You manouevre the deep socket on to the bolt head, with the handle hanging down. Then you unscrew the nut, with the deep socket preventing the bolt from turning.

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