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Omega General Help / Re: door buttons and wider wheels 3.2 2002

« on: 19 May 2014, 11:04:36 »

Yep, the two switches for the front windows rattled, drove me mad going over our wonderfully smooth roads with disappearing top layer!!

Switches were obviously used a lot even though the car hasn't done that many miles, still fixed for nowt and are perfic now....along with the lock buttons.

Great thing is when you take the switch apart nothing falls apart (springs and things etc) so it really is an easy fix.

I can live with the engine clatter but not rattles inside the cabin!!

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Omega General Help / Re: door buttons and wider wheels 3.2 2002

« on: 18 May 2014, 23:50:40 »

Yep drove me crazy too!!

Took door cards off (all four) and put cheap draft excluder (cos I had some) cut long enough to fit around the inside of the door pin hole. Put it all back together and has been fine ever since. Then found the window switches rattled on the drivers door so that came apart as well and 5mm slivers of insulation tape went in the across the bottom of the buttons to shut that up. Seems facelifts like to rattle, my pre facelift never did!

But all can be fixed with a bit of perseverance.

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Omega General Help / Re: Real world MPG

« on: 18 May 2014, 23:39:48 »

My 2.2 DTI saloon averages over a daily run (up and down some big hills) a princely 39.3 (with air-con on) and the best I have seen is on a run up the A12 to Lowestoft when I first reset the computer of......Wait for it...49.1. That was cruising at or around 70 ish. I knew there was a reason I bought a tractor. My old 2.5td estate used to do on the same runs 31 and 43. Which I thought was pretty good at the time.

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Omega General Help / Re: Elite saloon boot closing

« on: 02 May 2014, 22:03:53 »

Yep, that's what I thought.......the struts are knackered.

it does pop open slightly when the lock is released but is pretty heavy to lift and drops like a stone when let go if its not all the way up.

Thought the was something amiss as the bonnet is lighter than the bootlid to open and the tailgate on my last Omega was nice and light to open.

Struts are cheap enough and easy to do so will get some new ones.

Cheers guys.

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Omega General Help / Re: new frnt and rear discs

« on: 02 May 2014, 19:16:58 »

I have used Pagid disc's and pads for many years on different cars (and they are on mine now) and they are fine as long as your not racing. For the road they are very good and they supply many manufacturers so I personally would not bother with the O.E stuff unless it was heavily discounted.

Look Pagid up on the net and you will see their history and who they supply.

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Omega General Help / Elite saloon boot closing

« on: 02 May 2014, 18:06:56 »

Hi guys,

Can anyone advise me on the boot closing of their saloon. Mine feels real heavy to lift (though it stays up) and closes real hard unless you let it go from only a couple of inches open. I am thinking this can't be right (not had a saloon Omega before) and that one or both of the gas struts are knackered. I take it the boot is not meant to open right up when the buttons pressed but surely it should not be really heavy to open either.

Any advises?

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Omega General Help / Re: Estate spoiler

« on: 30 April 2014, 13:14:21 »

Get yourself on a footstool and rub it down, mask and paint in situ. Trying to get the spoiler off is probably going to cause more hassle than it worth. Easy job to repair when its on and you also have no worries about marking it when trying to put it back on.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: light units

« on: 17 April 2014, 23:44:24 »

I rubbed down my headlights with 1200 wet n dry (wet) then gave them a coat of "2k" lacquer (that was not 2 pack) and they looked like new and have remained that way for about 3 or 4 years now. Total cost nothing as I had the stuff sitting in the garage after painting my bikes.

It feels like a job well done after getting some sparkle back in the old girls front end and is one of the easiest jobs I have done on the car to be honest and you get to actually see the result of the work put into it unlike fixing the mechanical stuff!!

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Omega General Help / Re: setting the front camber and 2.2 dti egr blanking

« on: 19 March 2014, 22:15:09 »

You may be right as it was one of the older spirit level type camber gauges although it is a proper workshop piece of kit as it is part of a full (although old fashioned) 4 wheel geo kit. I adjusted the knuckle all the way out and it still would not come down to -1.10 even with a bit of levering so I left it at -1.15 (which was a lot better than before!) and did the tracking. The car does feel a lot more planted on the road now and is perfectly drivable but I just don't fancy forking out for 17" front tyres to often if I can help it. My old 2.5td estate used to wear out the inner edge of the front tyres really quickly until I messed with the geo on the front end but that was sorted by trial and error as there were no "tweaked" specs available to give any data to start from.

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Omega General Help / setting the front camber and 2.2 dti egr blanking

« on: 19 March 2014, 21:29:18 »

Today I tried to set the front camber at -1.10 or thereabouts and found it would not quite get there and I got to around -1.15 (gauge didn't seem very accurate!) in an effort to get the camber figure lower without filing/grinding I was thinking of using these "5.81250K EIBACH Front Camber Bolts Vauxhall Omega 87-03". Has anybody used these and if so are they worth getting? The cost of these delivered (£21.95) and is a lot less than the cost of front tyres so at first glance they seems well worth the cost and effort involved.

On a different note I have been in contact with a company that produces egr valve blanking kits and eml cheaters (so the light doesn't come on) and although a kit is not available at present for the Omega 2.2 dti they hope to have one listed on fleabay by the end of the month (or thereabouts) so that may well be worth looking into to help us keep some of the crud out of the inlet manifold on one of these.

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Omega General Help / Re: Aux belt tensioner assy for 2.5td

« on: 23 February 2014, 14:06:18 »

Yep, know that now, wow very fragile! Mind you I had to try and get it moving as it was pretty much solid and not putting any tension on the belt unless I forced it, then it would back of after a while. The tensioner spring didn't have enough force to overcome the friction of the mount.

I have found a P38 breakers with one but that requires postage but I hoped there may be one a bit more local that I could get one from quicker.

Cheers for the reply though.

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Omega General Help / Aux belt tensioner assy for 2.5td

« on: 22 February 2014, 14:15:46 »

Would anybody have or know where to get a aux belt (fan belt) tensioner assembly second hand in or around the South London/ top end of Kent area for a 2.5td?

Mine had seized solid and in trying to get the thing to move I broke it!!

I can travel as still got the motorbike but prefer not to far.

Cheers

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: RIP my power sounder

« on: 24 October 2013, 21:23:52 »

Hi guys,

Thanks for responding, yes it does have an alarm and the internal sensor deactivation switch. Yes it also has the IR remote. Mines one of the very early ones I think!!

I did have a good look around under the scuttle on the offside and if you are saying they haven't got a power sounder then that would make sense as there ain't nothing there!

At least if there's nothing there it's not going to catch light!!!

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: RIP my power sounder

« on: 23 October 2013, 23:14:12 »

Hmm interesting, so where is the power sounder supposed to be on a 95 CDX diesel estate then?

I did look under the scuttle but it doesn't seem to be there and no wiring either!

I better have a look at mine as there battery is fairly new and drops quite a bit of charge after standing for a while.

Its never gone off when I have been doing various things to the car so I would assume its knackered.

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Omega General Help / Re: Opel Omega 2.5TD 12.1999 problem

« on: 04 October 2013, 21:53:18 »

Try swapping the rear wheels to the front and trying again. I know it sounds odd but sometimes the carcasses of the tyres wear odd and this can cause this very problem.

I knew some who spent a fortune on bushes etc before I stuck my twopenneth and fixed it, he was happy it was fixed but not that he spent so much money fixing nothing!

Jacking the car up and looking at the tyre doesn't always show it.

Try it, it won't cost you anything but time.

Let me know how you got on.