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Omega General Help / Re: poor power 2.5 td

« on: 17 May 2013, 22:46:57 »

I've had my 2.5 td (manual) for a few months now and I'd agree I was utterly disappointed with the sluggishness of the car. It wasn't inspiring at all, In fact I was g to move it on because it felt I couldn't hack how hard work it was to drive.
After a full service and some addition of diesel treatment I noticed very little difference.
And thought the only way I can remedy this is with a chip tune. Now I phoned a few local tuning centres and they couldn't get hold of the chip set needed to tune this car.
but I was given a number for a lad who does the chips for these.
I got a chip off him and my car is a world away from what I started with.
It boosts and pulls from around 1500 rpm. Rather than 2500 and i would recommend this route without hesitation. How ever you need to find someone who is willing to unsolder your chip and resolder a dill socket in to your ecu. Once this is done I'm sure you'll be a lot happier.

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Omega General Help / Re: Chip tuning my omega 2.5 td manual

« on: 17 April 2013, 16:07:26 »

I have finally had my ecu chipped. And I have to say it has made a massive difference my car now pulls much stronger in every gear. My turbo starts to spool around 1700rpm rather than 2400
Overtaking has become so much easier too. In short it has given me a fully drivable car again.
Beforer the re chip my trip computer was giving me readings of 20-22 round town and on a run it was 40-44. with this chip its reading 36sh round town and I averaged on a 180 mile round trip 58.6 mpg. not sure how accurate the trip is but that's a massive difference and the fuel gauge only moved 2 notches. I'm going to manually work it out next time I fill up to see if these figures are correct.
but I would recommend it to anyone.

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Turbo on its last legs

« on: 11 April 2013, 10:38:49 »

Hi all
My turbo seems to be on its last legs.
I was hoping someone on here has a good condition
Turbo they would like to sell me.
My car is 2.5 td X reg BMW engine 130hp

If this is in the wrong place would admin kindly move it for me please
Thanks

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Omega General Help / Re: Chip tuning my omega 2.5 td manual

« on: 04 April 2013, 18:22:23 »

Let us know how you get on I wouldn't mind it for mine but its a auto is this a bad Idea for a auto anybody

as soon as I'm in touch with a lad to do it (and get it done ill let you know no worries

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Omega General Help / Re: Chip tuning my omega 2.5 td manual

« on: 01 April 2013, 18:05:46 »

I can put you in touch with the guy who supplied mine, and a few other members.

I think he charges £70, so long ago, I can't remember 

If interested, PM me you contact details, gearbox type (I will forget again ), and the ECU type (probably 427, but you need to visually double check yours), and I will get the guy to contact you.

that would be excellent if you could do that cheers

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Omega General Help / Re: Chip tuning my omega 2.5 td manual

« on: 01 April 2013, 15:36:46 »

If anyone could give me a company name or recommendation I'd be very gratefull

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Omega General Help / Re: Chip tuning my omega 2.5 td manual

« on: 01 April 2013, 15:35:10 »

Auto or manual gearbox. Its important

Hi man it says in the subject it's manual :-)

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Omega General Help / Re: Chip tuning my omega 2.5 td manual

« on: 01 April 2013, 12:46:08 »

the only way to do it is via an ECU chip, and it's very worthwhile!

That would suit me fine. Do you know where I can get it done by any chance?

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Omega General Help / Chip tuning my omega 2.5 td manual

« on: 01 April 2013, 12:26:26 »

Hi all.m
Recently I have phoned a couple of tuning specialists here in the north east.
some say with mine being the 2000 model (xreg) it needs chip tuning. Instead of a remap
one of the company's said they can't get hold of the chip set for my car so they can't do it.
While the other said they'd fit a sort of plug and play box in and adjust thing through that but I would be better off getting one for cheaper off eBay.

now I'm confused with it all and need some help.

has anyone had one of these plug and play boxes fitted??
Which one did you buy? And did it fit to the fuel pump or did it plug into the common rail.
and lastly did it make your car more drivable?

Or does anyone know where I can get a chip set I can have installed into my ecu.
I think this would be a better way of changing the characters of my car that I need addressing.
Is there anyone on here who can point me in the right direction
Cheers Gary

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Omega General Help / Re: It's time I got more ponies out of this lump

« on: 23 March 2013, 19:55:42 »

what about the 2.2 dti - sure i could get more horses out of that one and more economy!

De-cat it, then get it remapped or fit a PBox.

I really don't want to mess around with de cat and then having to put it back on for mots then take it off all over again. I just want it to drive abit quicker. And pull a little stronger rather than feeling like its an ocean liner below turbo spool

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Omega General Help / It's time I got more ponies out of this lump

« on: 23 March 2013, 15:17:50 »

Hi all I have an omega 2.5 td Cdx estate with manual gearbox although its an excellent car.
If I was asked to describe it in 2 words I'd say
Big (and) slow
Big being exactly the reason I bought it but I did hope it would be a fair bit nippier
Mine is the 130ps 250nm version without maf sensor etc.
there are many companies that offer a remap,chip tune etc etc
And for around £250 on paper it would seem to be with it.

I have a mondeo 2ltr tdi that's 115ps with 300nm as standard
And that drives quite quickly as the turbo starts to spool and pull from around 1800 rpm

So what I'm asking is this

If I spend the money on a remap for my car will it be a lot quicker?
Will/can the turbo spool any sooner in the rev range?
Will fuel economy be better. As the map has removed all flat spots?
Do any of you guys have any recommendations?
All I really want out of this car is it to be able to accelerate decently without fear of dropping out of the turbo range and car becoming so flat I have to gear down to find any kind of pull.

Cheers all

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Omega General Help / Steering pulls violently to the right under heavy breaking.

« on: 22 March 2013, 14:09:27 »

Hi all. Just thought if offers little info on this issue as it seems to be a fair few cars have had the same problem.

A lot of people have checked brakes, callipers, wishbones etc etc to no avail
And at first I thought that too.

So I replaced brake pads and disks all round and still had this issue.

If the car is on the floor and you check the wishbone bushes they seem fine.
It's only when you have car on ramps and have power steering going turning from lock to lock that you notice the bushes are shot.

Replaced bushes and car feels like new again.

It could always be something else that caused the issue mind its just I'm letting ppl know about the bushes as how they can be deceptive when car is on the floor.
Hope it might help a couple if you out there :-)

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Wanted: Front headlamp levelling sensor

« on: 13 March 2013, 13:18:48 »

Moved and renamed for clarity

Thanks Kevin 

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hi all I'm new here

« on: 13 March 2013, 00:17:38 »

Thank you doz.
 I will be more than happy to take you up on that offer
This car is new to me and this auto levelling headlights I really don't have much of an idea as to what it should look like as Iv not seen one attached before
Cheers

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Low beam fld vision issue. Can someone please help me.

« on: 13 March 2013, 00:07:55 »

Thanks for the replies. Iv asked a moderator to move this post.
And secondly
I have no idea how the sensor is fitted on the front.
Iv been looking through here trying to find a couple of photos or something to explain where it attaches.
The rear one is still there though. Iv had to tie wrap it together but it's still there.