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Omega General Help / Knocking from the left front when steering on MY 2000 omega

« on: 21 December 2014, 00:42:58 »

Hello everyone and merry christmas! 

Anyhow, there's been some knocking sound from my left front. Appears when steering. Had the car on a carlift yesterday and didn't find any dramatic looseness on any of the different joints in the front end when I tried to locate it.

droplinks seem fine, I changed them last year and the noise isn't similar to them.

Wheels turn with ease, maybe a little sound when going past some steering angle.

So, I have a feeling that the top bearings from the suspension strut(s) is (are) giving up. I have had this noise come and go intermittent earlier, but mainly when moving the car after a long stop.

Anyhow, am I on the right tracks here? Also, good advices on troubleshooting are more than welcome, might even help some other poor bastard out there with the same problem

If it's any use, the mileage is 230 tkm atm, might help narrowing down the culprit here 

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Omega Gallery / Just another B2 Omega out there

« on: 04 February 2014, 23:23:38 »

Hi all, my first Omega and so on. I was thinking to share my maintenance experiences and whatnot on this topic and I hope it's ok. Might help me to stay on the track with the car also 

No tuning and stuff like that yet. I might lower it a bit on the coming summer but we'll see. Anyways, here's some story of the car:

So, my Omegas story starts about ½ years ago, when I was driving to work with my old 190 Merc and noticed this car on the parking lot of a local car dealer.





It was actually the parking lot where they park the cars before they come to public trade, so I asked for an offer from the dealer and got a really really good one.

Anyways, as always, there is no free meal. ABS/TC lights where on, speedo not working etc. luckily there's this: http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90627.0

Other than that, the car felt pretty solid. Tires were completely shot, apparently the earlier owner changed shitty tires underneath her before swapping her. on the + side, car had a full service book (synthetic oils changed every 10 tkm and so on) and 220 tkm on the clock. Car had only had 3 owners before me. Last owner had keeped it for 8 years, so it can't be that bad, can't it

After the weekend I put the 190 to sale and bought Omega. On a closer inspection, there was some rust in the rear wheel arches and so on, but nothing alarming.

So, first things first. Had to get some wheels and tires for it in order to get it to running order. The old tires where horrific, when I took a closer look on them, I was horrified that I even took a test ride on the car 

After some searching on the local forum, I came up with a good set of wheels and tires and bought them, pictures related:





After getting the tires, it was time to repair the ABS control unit. Easy job with the maintenance guide presented here and refurbing it cost 145€ here in Finland. Took a couple of pictures taking the ECU out:





After taking care of that, I made some inspections on the brakes generally, and noticed that the rear brake discs where pretty shot. So where the front ones, they had gotten way too narrow. So, I ordered new brake discs + pads etc for every corner. While I was at that, I also ordered new spark plugs, plug wires and camshaft covers (aluminum from Vectra). Also painted them red just for the lols 









After getting her up to somewhat good running order, it was time to do some magic to that tired paintjob. Big thanks for my workmate on my summer work place for taking time to do this.

scratches part one:


part two:


side polished:


Front end polished:


getting there:


Done enough 


So, after those maintenances, winter got here too. It was time to downgrade to wintertires and so on  Some rather shitty off focus pics here, be warned. On the + side, winter + RWD, can't go wrong there 





Thanks for reading so far. Coming up next is the timing belt change and installing an electric pre-heater (had to start her up couple of time in -25 degrees celsius, don't want to do that anymore when there are solutions easier for the engine. Also consumption is skyrocketing on those starts as expected )

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Newbie Welcome Area / Hello from Finland

« on: 24 January 2014, 16:50:53 »

Hi all,

My name is Miro and I've been driving an Omega (my 2000, x25xe, caravan) for about a ½ year now. Allready used some of the great maintenance guides present here

Well, something about myself. I'm studying to be an automotive engineer at the University of Oulu and still have some studying left (2 years, give or take ). Been always somewhat fixated with Opels, mainly because my dad is quite an Opel fanatic. Got my first Opel at the age of 9, a marvelous Kadett C 1.2N. Used it to drive at ice all the weekends at winter and on gravel roads at summer. Used all of my earnings to get more fuel to it and it got quite a beating on those activities, but it still runs and it's waiting for a drive back at home . Those weekends left a mark at me and made me a true RWD fanatic, so Omega was really the only model from a bit more modern Opels/Vauxhalls that interested me.

That's me in a nutshell and I'm liking this site a lot. I'll probably make a topic of the Omega in the very near future and help other Omega enthusiast when ever I can

See you all on the forum!

-Miro