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General Car Chat / The good lord giveth and taketh away.

« on: 19 August 2010, 20:35:46 »

Went out for the first time for a week today. The Omega felt quite responsive. Hasn't felt like this for ages - nay years. The accelerator felt light not leaden. Haven't touched the car so it wasn't me.

Regular readers will know I put up with some inherent problem that I just cannot find and have learnt to live with. Vacuum leak? Stuck multi ram, sock in air filter, mouse in throttle body, pea germinated in EGR. Who knows.

On the way home we have a big hill so boot down to the boards and it roared away UNTIL all the gearchange lights came on and it was back to how it used to be. It may or may not actually make it up the hill................

Stopped at the top switched off and back on again. Seems fine again, couldn't reproduce the problem for rest of journey. Not going out again till Saturday  when I should be doing 100 miles round trip with plenty of hills. Oh joy or maybe not.............

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General Car Chat / I'm surprised this hasn't had any bids on Bay of E

« on: 14 August 2010, 18:04:40 »

3.2 with "blown engine". http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VAUXHALL-OMEGA-SPARES-REPAIR-2002-52-3-2-V6-ELITE-/290463400384?pt=Automobiles_UK

Must be a decent engine somewhere just waiting to go in this car?

Sorry if I have blown someones cover hoping to snipe it for £500 at last second!

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General Car Chat / The Boys's car lives on??

« on: 06 June 2010, 18:41:49 »

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VAUXHALL-OMEGA-CDX-2-6-V6-GOLD-SPARES-REPAIR-MOT-/120579179023?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item1c1314420f

It has had a lot of views!!!

I presume it isn't just a crank sensor then?!

I had a lovely VW Auto golf with the same problem. It went to loads of garages with no result. Got fed up of it being trailered home and then starting next day and being fine for a week or two.

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General Car Chat / One problem fixed and here comes another.

« on: 06 June 2010, 11:20:09 »

I recently sorted out my misfire. Two cylinders - fair bet it was DIS pack. Wrong. DIS for one cylinder and a faulty No5 cylinder plug lead.

Flushed with the excitement of being mobile, again went down to the big city (in this case Malaga). On cruise on the motorway, marvelous, then it died.......................... Recognised the problem instantly. Rev counter and engine still working but cruise had gone because the "ABS ECU" has gone faulty! ABS light on, no mileometer and thus no cruise control.

Second one to go on the car! Last time I changed it was three years ago. It is a great life if you don't weaken. At least it worked most of the way back.

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General Car Chat / Fed up with my Omega

« on: 08 May 2010, 14:23:31 »

Have had the car now over ten years and really like it as a car BUT there always seems to be something wrong with it. Over the years it has had lots spent on it and I know the cars history which should be a plus. However it has been gutless for ages(years) and has had a mysterious water loss for quite a while now. I spent a couple of hours this morning looking again for vacuum leaks and possible water leaks. It isn't the heater matrix as that is bypassed pending fitting the new one I bought thinking that was the problem.

Yesterday it developed a misfire which only goes after it is warmed up. head gasket? oil in plug wells(again) , DIS pack(again). I don't know whether I can take any more. If it was insured FIRE then who knows what might have happened however it isn't!!

I think the best thing would be to buy a donor car and transplant the known running well and healthily engine and gearbox. Wellung666 is keeping an eye out for such a car. Maybe I could donate my old engine and gearbox to the Omega Well Being Institute to be dissected in a class room. 

fed up El Varche

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General Car Chat / New VX uprated rear Omega shocks ontbay

« on: 01 May 2010, 15:15:49 »

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Omega-Rear-Shock-Absorbers-x2-BRAND-NEW-GENUINE-/230467475784?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item35a8ee9948

Not self levelling but "uprated"? bargain for someone

1327

General Car Chat / Anyone got a V6 breather box to rip open?

« on: 04 April 2010, 13:22:37 »

Following on from this thread

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1270310773

has anyone got a breather box that they could prise apart and let us all know just what is inside them? It would make cleaning them (possibly) easier.

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General Car Chat / So that is why the police omegas were so fast

« on: 08 March 2010, 16:03:07 »

This is mod that Police doid to their cars apparently.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vauxhall-Omega-Elite-performance-intake-manifold_W0QQitemZ150419540272QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item2305b40930

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General Car Chat / Frontera 3.2 limited

« on: 04 January 2010, 20:53:39 »

Do these have the same engines as the Omega?

Are they any good? I'm thinking after 10 years of "leaving" the Omega fold. I reckon I have done my time.

Here is one but it is limited. Would it be faster if I took the limiter off?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1998-S-REG-VAUXHALL-FRONTERA-3-2-LIMITED-V6_W0QQitemZ140368243678QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item20ae996bde

V

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General Car Chat / exhaust manifold change in situ update

« on: 04 January 2010, 18:44:13 »

Quite pleased with myself and Mrs Varche. Despite it lashing it down with rain (three changes of clothes) we got the manifold off, cleaned up,  back on with new gasket, SAI pipes and heat shields back on, exhaust back on. What a load of fiddling about with no space.

Tomorrow the B***** bolt (dipstick tube, lifting eye and water pipe) and refill with coolant.

Not a nice job at all. Drinks all round.

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General Car Chat / What sort of things go wrong with Omega air con?

« on: 20 December 2009, 16:19:39 »

Mine seems to have been very reliable. Gives out cool air in summer and has never been re charged in its life.

Gave the mother in law a lift yesterday and she said that the fan was blowing cold air on the left central vent (and it was ) even though the climate was set to Auto 22 on both sides and the outside temp was around zero C.

I got to wondering if internal flaps or valves got stuck perhaps through not being used in a range of positions. I am not looking to tear the car to bits to fix it(far more important stuff to do on it) but just wondered what sort of problems you get with air con on Omegas hence posting in car chat.

varche

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General Car Chat / Can an ECU "learn"?

« on: 01 December 2009, 12:32:54 »

Can an engine ECU learn if a fault has been present long enough (say 200 dirty starts) and put up with a fault to the point where it isn't there when you do a paperclip test? i.e. accept it as "normal".

I am thinking about knock sensor and thus the engine runs badly but no codes are present. I just chose 200 as an arbitary figure. The stored codes disappear after 20 clean starts when a fault is fixed.

What do you think?

Varche

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General Car Chat / Engine change on an Omega - technical issues

« on: 21 November 2009, 12:54:18 »

It is coming up to MOT time for my Spanish reg car, 140k miles. It has all sorts of health issues, hopefully not too many that would fail an MOT. If I was in England I would scrap my car and get another one but here the costs of changing car ownership are truly ridiculous and so I am investigating possibilities.

One is to buy another similar UK Elite for spares and just swap the engine and gearbox complete into my car. Apart from having access to a serious tripod and hoist are there any issues with compatability of things like keys, ECUs, wiring harnesses etc. Do I have to for example look for a minifacelift car or will any 2.5 do the job.?

The health issues are wide and varied inc. Leaking ex manifold leftbank, long time gutlessness, uses water (head gasket? oil cooler?), small oil leak from above the oil filter, tatered oil drain plug. Putting aside the gutlessness which I have failed to cure despite the advice of the forum, I don't really fancy taking the heads off given the experience of other forum members. The car is our only form of transport.

Varche

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General Car Chat / Typical Omega suspension parts life expectancy

« on: 09 October 2009, 11:21:16 »

Thought I would start a thread on typical life expectancy of suspension parts as I have owned my car for over 9 years and before that it was a high mileage (48k in nearly two years) company car. Since new it has only had front shockers once and rear once but needs some more rear now. Steering arm replaced by me. It had a "Bush" replaced on the front end as it pulled to the left when we bought it. No idea what it was but suspect it was a wishbone. I keep having a poke ( gentle use of crowbar etc) at various components to see if there is any play. At 140k plus miles useage including unmade roads I would expect more things to need replacing. I am glad they don't though!

I realise it depends on type of use (roads, towing, loads etc) but what is the norm/expected replacement on? :-

1.Shock absorbers F/R
2.Springs F/R
3.Wishbones
4.Drop links
5.track rod ends
6.steering arms
7.Rear subframe bushes
8.Top front strut mounts
9.Anything I have missed

Varche

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General Car Chat / job lot for repair, 2 Omegas on Ebay

« on: 28 September 2009, 15:27:48 »

Not mine but wish they were at the current price.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1997-VAUXHALL-OMEGA-ELITE-V6-AUTO-GREEN_W0QQitemZ320426788620QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item4a9aecc70c&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Might appeal to someone on the forum if they aren't already bidding that is. Sorry if you were.

Varche