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Omega General Help / Re: No central locking

« on: 08 September 2006, 07:28:17 »

....update

....all was well for three days and now fuse 20 has popped again.  

As it's a 20 Amp there is clearly a lot of current flowing somewhere it shouldn't
.
Before I start taking the covers off the doors do you know where in the loom the wiring from all the door servos comes together - and is that easy to get at? ....or do you think the problem is more likely to be with the heated seats?

thanks

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Omega General Help / Re: No central locking

« on: 03 September 2006, 12:34:25 »

Many thanks to The Boy - it was fuse 20 so all is now well. I should have found it before but as I was holiday in France at the time I must have been suffering from too much of the wine and Ricard...
Cheers
Mark
 

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Omega General Help / Re: No central locking

« on: 02 September 2006, 16:12:34 »

...everything else works but the red lamp on the alarm switch does not come on....

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Omega General Help / Re: No central locking

« on: 02 September 2006, 10:28:29 »

thanks...I should have said that I'm sure it's not the plipper or battery as it happened suddenly one day.... I opened the car as usual, drove a few miles and then couldn't lock it again remotely or centrally. Same thing with the spare plipper/battery.

M

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Omega General Help / No central locking

« on: 01 September 2006, 19:26:17 »

Hello
My central locking has just died completely. Neither the remote or using the key works the locks althought the lights flash when they are supposed to. I can only lock the car manually, ie all the passenger doors by pushing down the buttons and then the drivers door with the key.
I presume there is a fused circuit between the infra red receiver and whatever it is that controls the servo motors on the locks but I can't find any blown fuses. Has anyone any thoughts on this please?

tks

Mark

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Omega General Help / Re: AIr Con!!!

« on: 29 July 2006, 09:07:06 »

I can recommend this company;

http://www.readerair.co.uk/home.html

based in Woking - not a million miles from Slough....

they recently sorted the pump on my 3 litre. They will do a free diagnostic first....

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Omega General Help / Re: approx drive in price for V6 exhaust system

« on: 27 July 2006, 18:58:17 »

...a decent system for my 3 litre estate; ie both silencers after the cat's and the back box cost me £316 at Humphries in Bracknell  last week. That came with a 3 year guarantee. I had to shop around to find that as there aren't many after market back boxes made apparently....

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Omega General Help / Re: Permanently on engine management warning light

« on: 27 July 2006, 18:23:03 »

 [smiley=laugh.gif] BRILLIANT!! SUCCESS!! that's the answer - the connectors were swapped over - I assume when I had the air-con worked on but can't think why as the pump is on the other side of the engine but never mind....it's fixed and I much appreciate all your help.

Mark

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Omega General Help / Re: Permanently on engine management warning light

« on: 26 July 2006, 21:03:14 »

thanks for doing that - mine's now reading 1.7k at 25degC which doesn't seem wildly different to yours but yes - the values I looked up are clearly well out. Next stage is definitely to check the wiring loom.......oh joy.....

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Omega General Help / Re: Permanently on engine management warning light

« on: 26 July 2006, 19:13:58 »

thanks all for your replies....

James - do you know what the resistance of the sensor should be at say 20 to 30 deg C. ?
I read somewhere that it should be around 4 to 6kohm and so I tried a 5k fixed resistor across the connector pins - that made no difference so I'm now thinking it could be the wiring.... I shall have a further play with it later.

I don't think the connectors have been mixed up as no work has been done on the car in that area to necessitate removing the wiring.

I was coming up with codes 69 and 13 using the paperclip method....

regards

Mark

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Omega General Help / Permanently on engine management warning light

« on: 25 July 2006, 23:03:13 »

Hello....help please to solve a permanent engine mgt alarm on my 3 litre Elite estate, 1996, 75k miles.

A professional checker indicates the air inlet temperature sensor. Testing it reveals no problems - the resistance varies with temperature OK.
The paperclip test shows the same thing plus an oxygen sensor issue.
I've just MOT'd the car. The emissions readings were OK but the lambda reading is 1.028 [ie only just inside the upper limit of 1.03]. This is a change from previous year's readings which were virtually 1.
The car starts and runs fine - no issues at all and no change to the performance as far as I can tell.
I've just had lots of other expense on it [air-con pump, exhaust, tyres...] so I don't want to be buying lambda sensors from Vauxhall quoted at £125 each unless I am very sure they are at fault. I have also found that the connectors are very, very difficult to get at - at least with my mitts....
I'm off on holiday in it soon so I want to fix this quickly - preferably without recourse to the pro's and lot's of cost...

Any ideas please?