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Omega General Help / Re: Water leak / spare pipe
« on: 30 June 2020, 19:54:54 »
To check HBV; with engine idling and hot, set temp to MAX and check for drips above gearbox; if no drips, set heat to MIN and check again.
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Omega General Help / MOT extensions
« on: 30 June 2020, 14:13:59 »
The MOT extension scheme appears to be ending early. So in this unjust world my cars whoe MOTs expired in April and May will be OK until September and October, my car whose MOT expires on August 15th will need a new MOT on August 16th. Can't this gevernment get anything right?
I quote:
'The changes affect any vehicle with a MOT due to expire on or after August 1. Drivers with a vehicle due an MOT before August 1 will still be granted the six-month extension but are being reminded that they must still keep their car in a roadworthy condition or face a fine and possible prosecution.What happens if I already have an exemption?
The changes affect any vehicle with a MOT due to expire on or after August 1. Drivers with a vehicle due an MOT before August 1 will still be granted the six-month extension but are being reminded that they must still keep their car in a roadworthy condition or face a fine and possible prosecution.What happens if I already have an exemption?
The changes affect any vehicle with a MOT due to expire on or after August 1. Drivers with a vehicle due an MOT before August 1 will still be granted the six-month extension but are being reminded that they must still keep their car in a roadworthy condition or face a fine and possible prosecution.What happens if I already have an exemption?
The changes affect any vehicle with a MOT due to expire on or after August 1. Drivers with a vehicle due an MOT before August 1 will still be granted the six-month extension but are being reminded that they must still keep their car in a roadworthy condition or face a fine and possible prosecution.What happens if I already have an exemption?
The changes affect any vehicle with a MOT due to expire on or after August 1. Drivers with a vehicle due an MOT before August 1 will still be granted the six-month extension but are being reminded that they must still keep their car in a roadworthy condition or face a fine and possible prosecution.'
I quote:
'The changes affect any vehicle with a MOT due to expire on or after August 1. Drivers with a vehicle due an MOT before August 1 will still be granted the six-month extension but are being reminded that they must still keep their car in a roadworthy condition or face a fine and possible prosecution.What happens if I already have an exemption?
The changes affect any vehicle with a MOT due to expire on or after August 1. Drivers with a vehicle due an MOT before August 1 will still be granted the six-month extension but are being reminded that they must still keep their car in a roadworthy condition or face a fine and possible prosecution.What happens if I already have an exemption?
The changes affect any vehicle with a MOT due to expire on or after August 1. Drivers with a vehicle due an MOT before August 1 will still be granted the six-month extension but are being reminded that they must still keep their car in a roadworthy condition or face a fine and possible prosecution.What happens if I already have an exemption?
The changes affect any vehicle with a MOT due to expire on or after August 1. Drivers with a vehicle due an MOT before August 1 will still be granted the six-month extension but are being reminded that they must still keep their car in a roadworthy condition or face a fine and possible prosecution.What happens if I already have an exemption?
The changes affect any vehicle with a MOT due to expire on or after August 1. Drivers with a vehicle due an MOT before August 1 will still be granted the six-month extension but are being reminded that they must still keep their car in a roadworthy condition or face a fine and possible prosecution.'
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General Car Chat / Re: Automatics
« on: 29 June 2020, 15:48:26 »
I passed my test in 1956, in an A40 Somerset. Not a big car, it had pretensions of being a 6 seater, able to accommodate three in the front, so had a remote control gear change beneath the steering column and an umbrella handle style hand brake beneath the dashboard. Neither made driving any easier. On the test I drove using hand signals, even though the car had semaphore indicators.
In 1958 I took my motorcycle test on a Cotton 250cc Villiers twin, again using hand signals, no choice in those days. I was sent round and round a city block while the examiner wandered about, until suddenly he sprang from behind a parked car, hand raised, for the emergency stop test. I suppose it's much the same today.
The Highway Code in the 1950s had a section for drivers of horse drawn vehicles. I don't think they needed a licence to do so, but it described how they should signal, using the whip.
In 1958 I took my motorcycle test on a Cotton 250cc Villiers twin, again using hand signals, no choice in those days. I was sent round and round a city block while the examiner wandered about, until suddenly he sprang from behind a parked car, hand raised, for the emergency stop test. I suppose it's much the same today.
The Highway Code in the 1950s had a section for drivers of horse drawn vehicles. I don't think they needed a licence to do so, but it described how they should signal, using the whip.
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General Car Chat / Re: CV boot clip question
« on: 28 June 2020, 14:33:44 »Ours has a number of annoying design features. Chief among which are the most uncomfortable seats I've ever say in, and that includes several ride on lawn mowers and at least one Ryanair plane seat.At that price you cannot grumble, good that it has turned out to be useful and reliable. My CX was cheap, quirky, useful and reliable. I eventually sold it to a friend running a taxi business, who got many more years out of it. I replaced it with a Peugeot 504 family estate, again cheap and big, but lacking power steering so a handful to drive fast.
It also has a semi automatic gearbox that's so dim whitted it's borderline dangerous. This has been all the more noticeable of late due to the number of lycra clad morons riding children's toys around the local roads since the bat flu struck, mostly very slowly with much wobbling.
But. It was free,and it is unparalleled when it comes to moving loads of cr@p from one place to another. So far it's saved us a solid couple of grand in skips, and so far, touch wood, it's been very reliable.
In those days,cars had coil ignition and carburretors, worked perfectly well.
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General Car Chat / Re: CV boot clip question
« on: 27 June 2020, 22:09:29 »Sorry Terry, I was referring to our Citroen Berlingo.A Citroen! That takes me back 40 years, to when I had a young family. I bought a CX family estate, and drove my family, plus my parents, on several holdays, in UK and France. Car was big, comfortable, fast and reliable.
It's a particularly horrible vehicle, but not overly demanding in the suspension and drive train department.
It had an annoying design fault. It took a minute of cranking to restart a hot engine after a 20 minute shut down. most embarrassing on the Isle of Wight ferry. Eventually I did cure it, it involved soldering the carburretor float chamber needle valve.
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General Car Chat / Re: CV boot clip question
« on: 27 June 2020, 20:00:35 »
I don't know what you mean by a bingo. I have changed gaiters on a Meriva and an Astra and managed well enough with cable clips. Is the bingo particularly demanding?
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Omega General Help / Re: Emissions fail 2l 16v
« on: 19 June 2020, 10:46:12 ».Are you meaning that the new NTK sensor has an air leak in it's barrel? If so that's very odd. NTK is a reputable company, part of NGK. Are you sure it's not leaking around the crush washer? Either because the crush washer is missing, the sensor is not properly tightened into the socket, or the sensor has been over tightened damaging the washer.
For the record, who supplied the downpipe and cat with the bad welding?
Yes NTK sensor was leaking definitely from rubber grommet where wires go in. could i have knacked it with compressed air but didnt put huge amount of pressure in only sealed by hand and mole grips and a piece of tin over manifold connection. The cat was from All Car Parts (ACP) brand EEC . not got around to M.O.T. but now I dont need one? Thanks Covid 19. Its confusing because on 25 march government said " All cars, vans and motorcycles which usually would require an MOT test will be exempted from needing a test from 30 March 2020" https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vehicle-owners-to-be-granted-mot-exemption-in-battle-against-coronavirus But now they say only if MOT ran out post 30th March .
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f your car has been tested and issued with a failure sheet then it has to pass the test before it can be used no matter what date it was done
[/quote]Makes sense, and is a good reason not to volunteer for an unnecessary test. My local test station rang me up recently inviting me for a test. I thanked her for the invitation, and declined. I appreciate they are short of custom now, and there may be a rush for tests eventually, but I will cross that bridge when I come to it. We live in strange times.
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General Car Chat / Re: Occasional chirrup from reversing sensor when not in reverse gear
« on: 18 June 2020, 16:15:59 »
I have just discovered these sensor kits are not all identical. The displays all look similar, but the display unit on this car has a switch on the beeper with three positions, left off, right on, and central. Set centrally, it beeps when near, but not when bulb testing. I'll settle for that.
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Omega General Help / Re: Omega 2.5TD Propshaft Removal
« on: 18 June 2020, 16:07:49 »
It might be the differential low on oil, check that first. Otherwise, it could be a noisy diff, support rear of car securely, get under the car and listen. I have a pit, and have traced half a dozen noisy diffs that way. You can pick up a used diff for £30. Anything else is not worth doing on a 20 year old car.
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Omega General Help / Re: Omega 2.5TD Propshaft Removal
« on: 17 June 2020, 21:43:28 »OK FellasThat sounds like sticking clutch, i.e. not disengaging with pedal fully depressed. Could be sticking splines, or failing slave cylinder. Either way, it's a gearbox off job to rectify.
Stemo,
I must admit I’d not thought about the gearbox being under load, thank you for suggesting it.
Doctor Gollum,
I did check the oil level and it was ok, I wished it wound have been as simple as that.
To be truthful we’ve been having issues of getting the box into first and reverse gear, more so when the weather is cold.
I thought maybe the clutch was the problem, stupid thing is it doesn’t slip and if I stick the handbrake on and try to drive away the car will stall rather than the clutch slip.
What we’ve had to do is put it into first or reverse with engine not running depress the clutch and then start it up and its happy with that.
Once the engine/car has warmed up if we park up to do a bit of shopping for an hour or so, there doesn’t seem to be an issue getting it into gear.
I gave up with that one
Robson,
I agree with you about lying under the car with it running, I don’t think I’d be too excited about the idea
Johnnydog,
You suggested chatting to my friendly mot man, oddly enough I found this on the RAC website:
RAC 2018
Rumbling noise coming from the gearbox
You might be forgiven for thinking that any strange noises coming from your car would automatically fail your MOT. But the test doesn't actually cover the condition of the gearbox, clutch or engine (apart from emissions), so a growling sound in the gearbox wouldn't affect it.
Right guys I’ve just finished doing a wise thing put the bolts back into the propshaft and dropped the car off the axle stands
I’ll get in touch with the garage where I get it mot’d and see what they have to say.
To be truthful if it is the gearbox, I think it will be the end of the road for it as I’m finding it a bit of a maul now, doing things as heavy as that especially trying to do it lying on one’s back.
Just out of curiously, are any of you still running around in Omega’s??
Clive
I am still running an Omega, 2000 petrol manual 2.5 estate; mine is noisy too, blowing exhaust manifold, MOT due April 24th, but extended thanks to coronavirus.
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General Car Chat / Re: Occasional chirrup from reversing sensor when not in reverse gear
« on: 17 June 2020, 08:04:58 »Vx or Haynes?Thank you both. I did not appreciate bulb checking imvolved occasional pulses, this seems exactly like that. On the 2008 saloon. sensing before the RH bulb, I would expect 6 volts; sensing before both bulbs I would expect 12 volts. Now I understand my problem.The estate has the facility to automatically switch light sources between the wing and tailgate should a brake light fail. The hatch doesn't aiui due to being a different arrangement
It's in the manual iirc
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General Car Chat / Re: Occasional chirrup from reversing sensor when not in reverse gear
« on: 16 June 2020, 20:20:20 »
Thank you both. I did not appreciate bulb checking imvolved occasional pulses, this seems exactly like that. On the 2008 saloon. sensing before the RH bulb, I would expect 6 volts; sensing before both bulbs I would expect 12 volts. Now I understand my problem.
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General Car Chat / Occasional chirrup from reversing sensor when not in reverse gear
« on: 16 June 2020, 11:26:04 »
2007 petrol Vectra manual 1.8 estate
I have fitted all my Vauxhalls with £10 reversing sensor kits, powering them from reversing light leads in RH wings. It works fine in my 2008 Vectra saloon, which has CANbuss wiring.
The Vectra estate reversing lights are in the tailgate, so I took the power from the rear fuse box, depicted above; they work well. However, when not in reverse gear they chirrup occasionally and the lights flash. The reversing lights do not flash. I have checked the earthing of the sensor controller, it is to the earth connector on the rear panel.
I blame the CANbuss system, yet all is well on the 2008 saloon. Please advise.
I have fitted all my Vauxhalls with £10 reversing sensor kits, powering them from reversing light leads in RH wings. It works fine in my 2008 Vectra saloon, which has CANbuss wiring.
The Vectra estate reversing lights are in the tailgate, so I took the power from the rear fuse box, depicted above; they work well. However, when not in reverse gear they chirrup occasionally and the lights flash. The reversing lights do not flash. I have checked the earthing of the sensor controller, it is to the earth connector on the rear panel.
I blame the CANbuss system, yet all is well on the 2008 saloon. Please advise.
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Omega General Help / Re: Spare Connector
« on: 15 June 2020, 11:32:18 »
Might be to the fan. Before I move my 2.5 above the pit, please advise if it's driver's side or passenger side, and if male or female (pins or sockets). Also advise length of lead.
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Omega General Help / Re: Omega overheating and then fine again. Z22XE
« on: 11 June 2020, 22:49:41 »
Bad luck. Release the spring hose clips, move them along the hoses, take the hoses off the new HBV again, grease the pipes of the HBV, then replace the hoses on the HBV, and move them around until they are all relaxed and you can replace the vacuum hose. Then replace the hose clips to hold the hoses on the HBV.