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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / central locking

« on: 14 February 2007, 20:29:49 »

Hi......... Over the last few weeks i've noticed that the drivers door was reluctant to lock or unlock at times on the remote, I took it to be the cold frosty days we were having as it appeared to be when it was frosty i was having this issue, however to day ( no frost ) when locking car the doors locked then unlocked again, this was because the drivers door was refuseing to lock with remote.
After locking the car manualy and trying to unlock with remote only the drivers door refused to unlock and need the key to unlock drivers door.

Any ideas or do i have a dead motor in this door.

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Omega General Help / Occasional Non Start

« on: 16 April 2008, 17:13:37 »

About a month ago I filled car in petrol station and when I went to start car ........... turned over fine but non start, took key out tryed again and started but felt hesitant at first but ran fine (no missfires) from then on.

It did it again last week same carry on as above, but then 2 days ago stopped car at friends garage emptyed some stuff out boot an then no start, this time I all but drained the battery trying to get it to go, we then put it on the booster and the car fired first time.

So I thought at first it was battery as it seemed to drain fairly quickly and something to do with the immobiliser.
So this morning i went into local motor factors had battery checked but it shows as fine
My friend has a cheep tech 2 and for some reason the "My Naff Code Reader" demo software, which he has used on this car before said ....... no echo or kept flashing use line 7 but wouldn't go any further....... so no fault codes obtained
The car has behaved its self all day until I parked in town and yep no start again
This time though when I let all the lights on dash do there thing ........... but I had 1 lit that is a car with a spanner through it.

Sure enough the cavalry arrive I turn the key and it fired as if nothing was wrong, cant say I saw that warning light as the car started as normal and is not on when running

I've had a look about here and as I said thought it was the immobiliser, but could this be the crank shaft pick up?

will try again to get fault codes but any thoughts just now are welcome

It's a 02  Omega 2.6
many thanks

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Omega General Help / Fuel pick up

« on: 23 January 2007, 10:39:31 »

I tend to fill the Omega when the tank shows between a quarter and the red zone I've never had the low fuel light come on while driving, So i can't say it's really been a problem that i've noticed in the year i've had the car

I noticed a couple of times when below a quarter but nearer the red zone that when pulling out of a juction smartish that the car would lose power but, the TC light would not flash
However yesterday a friend and I were running late, the guage was showing just under a quarter and the car suffered several times as if the TC was cutting in, again no TC light showing but, did notice for a second or two that the car felt rough, though not quite a slight miss
This happened mostly at roundabouts and tighter corners with the TC switched both on and off
We did the business, stuck in £25 of fuel and blasted of back home just as briskly as we did on the way out and the car behaved as normal

And we did try
TC on:- TC light would flash as expected
TC off:- tyres would light up no loss of power

So i'm guessing i have fuel pick up problem when the tank is low and fuels sloshing about but, is fine when driving in pretty much a straight line

Any ideas or should i just keep the tank above the quarter mark

P.S. i don't think i've ever managed to put in more than 65ltr even when the guage was showing lower than this

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Newbie Welcome Area / Hi all guess what

« on: 17 September 2006, 21:06:56 »

Hi....
      If you haven't twigged yet ........ yes another Scotsman
My name is Russell .......had the omega a wee while now bought it because i love my big Vauxhalls and  they don't make senators any more either........ unless a Holden HSV Senator counts, but thats another story
Looking forward to start using some of the hints and tweeks i've read in here ........keep up the good work guys


Russ

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Omega Gallery / couple of photos my VXs

« on: 25 September 2006, 05:25:32 »

Thought i'd join in and add a couple of photos

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General Discussion Area / I felt the earth move

« on: 26 December 2006, 21:49:41 »

We had an earthquake this morrning measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale  .......... Epicentre was about a mile north of here,quite cool, but don't think i'd like to go through a real 1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/6209949.stm

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General Discussion Area / V8-Northstar-Motor

« on: 20 December 2006, 11:17:11 »

While in a german web site basically for senators (http://www.senatorman.de) i came across this





And did an auto translate

"2001 should actually transfer a V8-Northstar-Motor with 5,7 litres capacity in the omega the point of motorizing. Unfortunately it showed up that this V8-Motor was not to be gotten vollgasfest, since in particular the cooling water channels were too small dimensioned. The same problem had at that time already the V8-Motor diplomat of A and/or B. Opel stopped therefore this model few weeks before the planned introduction on the market"

Thing is is this the same engine that they use in the Monaro ETC............. if so how do the manage to keep it cool in Australia?