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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / headunit question

« on: 16 December 2010, 20:35:53 »

looking at an omega that i believe has had satnav but the stereo has been removed and replaced with a single din fascia and blanking plate

can i assume that sticking a ccr2006 in place will make no difference unless the ncdc was un-paired properly??

also, is a non-working boot-release gonna be possibly down to a fuse?

thanks

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / NCDC2013

« on: 25 January 2009, 13:45:18 »

how useless is the headunit if bought completely on its own?

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Stereo system gone unexplainably faulty.....

« on: 02 May 2008, 21:26:35 »

2001 Elite bose NCDC 2013 with sat nav, I go to the pub last night, leave the sound system off while i have chatty passengers, on the screen is the screen saver if you will, date time and the bose logo, all's well! i get in the car to come home, leaving stereo off, drop passengers off on way then go to turn on stereo but notice the screen is completely turned off :-/ So when i actually turn the unit on, it just comes on to the radio, and i can adjust the volume, also i can adjust the volume using the steering wheel controls but i cant do anything else AT ALL with it, cant change station, cant change to CD, cant use sat nav and cant view computer stuff like trip distance and MPG stuff. Also i cant eject the sat nav disc and changer cartridge

any ideas at all? would love it to be just a blown fuse...

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Locking Help

« on: 24 January 2008, 20:03:22 »

i might answer my own theory with this but basically my elite doesnt like staying locked!!

the locks themselves dont seem to be sticking, but i opened all 4 doors, boot and bonnet, and made sure i closed everything properly, then locked the door with the key, central locking brought all the locks down, then they popped up again, a couple of times i managed to get them to stay down, then when i came out a few minutes later to see if they'd stayed locked, i'd be a couple of feet away from the car and they'd pop up!!

i have 2 keys, caught sight of the red light coming on, is it possible it could be faulty "open" buttons? (keys look well used)

if this is the case i'm gonna need a car pass cos i dont have one, would i then need to get two new fobs programmed, and if yes, can i put my existing blades on the new fobs?

got the keys in front of me, no red lights plipping tho, gonna go check the car (leaving keys here) to see if they've opened themselves again, that way i would think it might not be the key!

if something on the car itself is stopping it staying locked, would it still make the fob light flash without a button being pressed?

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Omega General Help / how much to set up cruise on my 2.6 mv6 auto?

« on: 26 February 2011, 17:27:30 »

Hi, my MV6 doesn't have cruise, and I personally wont bother to have it fitted but a potential buyer of my car wants to know whether a forum member could fit this to the car

with it being the 2.6 am i right to assume they only need to buy the correct 4 pin indicator stalk and have it Tech II'd?

if so, how much will a said tech 2 owner charge for enabling?

thanks in advance

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Omega General Help / oil leak, slight rough idle (and low water temp?)

« on: 02 January 2011, 12:05:17 »

what seems to be my only real problem with my car (2003 2.6) is that i noticed yesterday it was low on oil and had a slightly rough idle, so i topped up this morning, and took it for a good run, was out in it for about 80 minutes, motorway and town (mpg still pretty good by the way )

on returning home, i noticed this:



its not losing water at all, but i suspect rocker cover gasket needs replacing?? (and plugs cleaning out!) how much for a new set??

could there be any other contributing factors to the (very slight) rough idle?

also, it barely reached 75c on the water temp until after about an hour when i sat in a car park with it running for a few minutes, and it went up to 90c (about right i think). When i drove away it eased its way slowly down to 80 on the last 15 minutes driving home, town speeds. is this normal, accounting for outside temp of 1c?

thanks in advance

(might have to sell anyway soon if swmbo wants to change career )

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Omega General Help / test drove an elite i won on ebay last night.....

« on: 29 April 2010, 20:17:59 »

please click this to view, after you've read my post

Advertised as having a lot of the major work done, headgasket, rocker covers, cambelt, filters changed, plugs, leads and all the lot, 11 months MOT and 4 months tax still on

when i test drove it, it had a very lumpy idle, which was there when warm too, cruise control worked fine and kicked the gearbox down well but without cruise when i floored the pedal on the motorway it only kicked down one gear even with sport mode on, didnt rev too high either, and even at steady speeds 60+ and 40 or lower through town, just holding it lightly on the pedal still only gave low 20mpg on the instant consumption

any ideas why??

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Omega General Help / coolant mixture??

« on: 03 November 2008, 16:23:02 »

does anyone know, should the coolant be a slightly stronger mixture at this time of year?

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Omega General Help / URGENT SELF LEVELLING HELP REQUIRED!

« on: 21 August 2008, 17:05:37 »

how do i disconnect the self levellers? my car keep raising itself when it feels like it, when its locked up on the front with no keys in it

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Omega General Help / spontaneous noise from front of engine...

« on: 13 August 2008, 05:31:44 »

about 10 minutes ago my alarm started going off, car has been stood all yesterday since about dinner, but after i turned the alarm off i could hear a whirring noise coming from the front drivers side of the engine (near the air box?) which i would imagine is what it responsible for setting the alarm off, it stopped when i put the ignition on (not started)

i took the key out and came back in and a couple of minutes later it started again so i've been out to do it again but this time started it up and run it for a couple of minutes

anyone shed any light on why it came on so randomly, and what it is?

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Omega General Help / another from me

« on: 06 July 2008, 12:06:15 »

drove a short distance to the girlfriends house yesterday and heard what originally souded like en exhaust just lightly scraping the road, but on inspection, i could see nothing at all hanging down and could see nothing touching the wheels or brakes that could make that sound, nor anything that looked out of place under the car

anyone experienced similar?

the middle and the back exhaust sections are only 2 months old, back didnt need replacing

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Omega General Help / You are almost as sick...... (LPG)

« on: 18 June 2008, 23:12:57 »

of reading my help requests as I am of posting them

My car at the moment seems to be running perfect apart from throwing the o2 sensor codes (both banks) but ONLY while running on gas

is this purely to do with the richness of the gas?? would it make any difference that my exhaust isnt a genuine VX part (cos it was cheap and with a 3 year warranty)

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Omega General Help / Opinion on comment re my LPG

« on: 08 June 2008, 11:03:08 »

As some will know, my LPG injectors were refitted and my car now runs like a dream

however, a previous problem is that the mixture was running a little lean causing the EML to flicker on until i gassed it a bit, then it would go out, the mixture was enrichened which helped a bit, but since my injectors were resituated, it's like its running a little too rich so when i'm on the pedal it occasionally (not always) flashes the EML on again, and it goes out when i lift

it isnt storing any fault codes and the fella said its possible that a PETROL injector might not be closing properly and is possibly dripping a bit of petrol onto the cat (?)

could that cause the EML to flicker on, wouldnt it stay on?

although the car runs perfect again, it seems i'm not seeing an end to some sort of problem no matter how tiny, which is bloody frustrating when i need to sell the car

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Omega General Help / Fault Codes - O2 sensor...

« on: 08 June 2008, 20:43:38 »

Captain Zok just had a look at my car and hooked up his laptop to it (much appreciated) and the codes that came up are

38 - O2 sensor 1 circuit voltage low
98 - O2 sensor 2 circuit voltage low

anyone able to tell me where to go from here??

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Omega General Help / at the back of the plenum.......

« on: 26 May 2008, 11:52:13 »

What are these 4 pipes please? and how much to replace? as one is splitting! also can i have a part number please if anyone has one? thanks in advance!